Veselinovich, Todor

Gaming

Todor Veselinovich began his career in the club “ Syllable ” (later renamed “Vojvodina”) from his native Novi Sad . There he played for 13 years with a break for military service, which was held in Partizan , scoring 50 goals for the Belgrade team in 53 matches. For Voyvodina, Veselinovich spent more than 190 games and scored more than 120 goals, which is still a record for the team. Veselinovich 4 times became the top scorer of the first league of the championship of Yugoslavia and is 6th in the total number of goals in the national championship - 145 goals.

In 1965, Veselinovich left the country and went to Italy , where he spent the season at Sampdoria , then played in Austria for First and Austria from Klagenfurt and Belgium for Union . He completed his career as a football player Veselinovich in his homeland, in the club " Proleter " from Zrenyanin .

Veselinovich played for the Yugoslav national team from May 14, 1953 (the game with Belgium , which ended with the score 3: 1) to June 4, 1961 (the match with Poland ). Veselinovich achieved the greatest success in 1956, when the Yugoslavs reached the finals in the 1956 Olympics , in which they lost the USSR national team 0: 1, and Veselinovich himself became the top scorer of the tournament with 4 goals in 3 games, two of which are in France . In total for the national team, Veselinovich scored 28 goals in 37 matches, made “hat-tricks” three times in the shirt of the national team.

Coaching

After the player’s career ended, Veselinovich did not work for long at the headquarters of Vojvodina, and then went to Colombia , where he coached the Independente Santa Fe club, making the team the Colombian champion in 1971, after which he headed the Colombian national team . Then Veselinovich coached Vojvodina, Olympiacos and the Yugoslav national team, with which he entered the European Championship in 1984, but in the final part of the tournament the national team “failed”, losing all three matches with a total score of 2:10.

After the failure with the national team of Yugoslavia, Veselinovich went to Turkey , worked with the clubs Gaziantepspor , Bakirkoyspor and Karshiyaka , and the most successful period of Veselinovich’s Turkish career was two championships obtained with the Fenerbahce club.

As a player

• The best scorer of the championship of Yugoslavia : 1956 (21 goals), 1957 (28 goals), 1958 (19 goals), 1961 (16 goals)

As a trainer

• Champion of Colombia : 1971
• Champion of Greece : 1980
• Champion of Turkey : 1984/85 , 1988/89

• Biography and statistics on the website of the national team of Serbia on football (Serb.)