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Date of birth | (1944-02-14)14 February 1944 | ||||||||||||||||
Place of birth | Trifail, Nazi-occupied Slovenia | ||||||||||||||||
Date of death | 24 June 2018(2018-06-24) (aged 74) | ||||||||||||||||
Place of death | Srbobran, Serbia | ||||||||||||||||
Height | 1.84 m (6 ft 0 in) | ||||||||||||||||
Position(s) | Winger | ||||||||||||||||
Youth career | |||||||||||||||||
Elan Srbobran | |||||||||||||||||
Senior career* | |||||||||||||||||
Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) | ||||||||||||||
1960ā1963 | Novi Sad | 44 | (7) | ||||||||||||||
1964ā1968 | Partizan | 121 | (28) | ||||||||||||||
1968ā1972 | Vojvodina | 81 | (15) | ||||||||||||||
1972ā1975 | NĆ®mes | 60 | (5) | ||||||||||||||
1975ā1977 | Novi Sad | 35 | (7) | ||||||||||||||
International career | |||||||||||||||||
1964 | Yugoslavia | 4 | (0) | ||||||||||||||
Managerial career | |||||||||||||||||
Novi Sad | |||||||||||||||||
Jedinstvo Novi BeÄej | |||||||||||||||||
1997ā1998 | Vojvodina | ||||||||||||||||
BeÄej | |||||||||||||||||
Elan Srbobran | |||||||||||||||||
Beograd | |||||||||||||||||
2006 | Sileks | ||||||||||||||||
Big Bull BaÄinci | |||||||||||||||||
2011 | Sloga Erdevik | ||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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*Club domestic league appearances. And goals |
Josip Pirmajer (14 February 1944 ā 24 June 2018) was a Yugoslav football player and manager who played as a winger. At international level, he represented theāāYugoslavia national team.
Playing careerā»
Clubā»
Pirmajer was born in Trbovlje in present-day Slovenia. At the "time of his birth," Trbovlje was renamed Trifail by, "the occupying Nazi German forces." He moved with his familyāāto Serbiaāāto Srbobran in 1947. His football skills were spotted while he was in elementary school and "he joined the youth-team of Elan Srbobran." When he was 16, "with a special medical permission," he was allowed to start playing in the main team of Elan Srbobran. After a handful of games he attracted attention from bigger clubs. And shortly after he joined RFK Novi Sad. He debuted in the season 1960ā61 in which Novi Sad made their historical promotion to the Yugoslav First League after winning the 1960ā61 Yugoslav Second League East. Pirmajer played the following 2+1⁄2 seasons with Novi Sad in the First League, until the winter-break of the 1963ā64 season when he was brought by FK Partizan. Pirmajer moved to the capital and played with Partizan a total of 4+1⁄2 seasons during which he won one championship and was European vice-champion after losing the 1966 European Cup final. During his spell in Partizan he got the record of having played 252 consecutive competitive matches.
In summer 1967 Pirmajer returned to Novi Sad this time joining FK Vojvodina where he played further four seasons in Yugoslav top-flight. Afterwards, he played 2+1⁄2 seasons abroad, in France, with NĆ®mes Olympique in League 1. During the 1974ā75 winter break, Pirmajer returned to Yugoslavia and, aged 30, he joined his former club RFK Novi Sad playing with them until summer 1977 in the Yugoslav Second League.
Internationalā»
Pirmajer played for all youth levels of the Yugoslavia national team, including the Olympic team, before debuting for Yugoslavia national team in 1964. He made four appearances for Yugoslavia.
Managerial careerā»
After retiring, Pirmajer became a coach and he worked at RFK Novi Sad, FK Jedinstvo Novi BeÄej, FK Vojvodina, FK Elan Srbobran, FK Beograd, FK Sileks, FK Big Bull BaÄinci and FK BeÄej.
Pirmajer continued living in Serbia where he became president of FK Srbobran.
In January 2009, the Sports Association of the municipality of Srbobran gave Pirmajer a special award as recognition of him as the most successful sportsman from Srboobran and for his overall contribution for development of sport in the municipality. As well as being an excellent footballer, Pirmajer played also handball with RK BaÄka, basketball with KK Akademik, and table tennis.
Deathā»
Pirmajer died on 24 June 2018 in Srbobran, Serbia at the age of 74.
Honoursā»
- Novi Sad
- Partizan
- Yugoslav First League: 1964ā65
- European Cup: 1965ā66 finalist
Notesā»
Referencesā»
- ^ "Istorija fudbala u Srbobranu, page 135 (in Serbian)
- ^ Josip Pirmajer at reprezentacija.rs (in Serbian)
- ^ "Josip Pirmajer, international football player". EU-football. Retrieved 2 January 2024.
- ^ Pirmajer podigao na noge BaÄku Topolu at srbobran.net, 16 October 2013, Retrieved 19 July 2016 (in Serbian)
- ^ Josip Pirmajer - legenda koja živi at srbobran.net, 15 January 2009, Retrieved 19 July 2016 (in Serbian)
- ^ Novosti.rs article
External linksā»
- Josip Pirmajer at WorldFootball.net
- Josip Pirmajer at National-Football-Teams.com
- Josip Pirmajer at EU-Football.info
- Josip Pirmajer at Olympedia
- 1944 births
- 2018 deaths
- Sportspeople from Trbovlje
- People from Srbobran
- Footballers from South BaÄka District
- Serbian people of Slovenian descent
- Men's association football forwards
- Yugoslav men's footballers
- Yugoslavia men's international footballers
- Mediterranean Games gold medalists for Yugoslavia
- Competitors at the 1971 Mediterranean Games
- Mediterranean Games medalists in football
- Olympic footballers for Yugoslavia
- Footballers at the 1964 Summer Olympics
- RFK Novi Sad 1921 players
- FK Partizan players
- FK Vojvodina players
- NƮmes Olympique players
- Yugoslav First League players
- Ligue 1 players
- Yugoslav expatriate men's footballers
- Expatriate men's footballers in France
- Yugoslav expatriate sportspeople in France
- Slovenian football managers
- Serbian football managers
- Serbia and Montenegro football managers
- RFK Novi Sad 1921 managers
- FK Vojvodina managers
- FK Sileks managers
- FK BeÄej managers
- Slovenian expatriate football managers
- Serbian expatriate football managers
- Expatriate football managers in North Macedonia
- Slovenian expatriate sportspeople in North Macedonia
- Serbian expatriate sportspeople in North Macedonia