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Vujadin Boškov
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Vujadin Boškov (Serbian : Вујадин Бошков, born May 16 , 1931 ) is a retired Serbian football player and coach .
Boškov was born in the village of Begeč near Novi Sad , Danube Banovina , Kingdom of Yugoslavia ). He played with FK Vojvodina for most of his career (1946-1960). He also won the became a playing member of the Yugoslavia national team , and was part of the team that won the silver medal at the 1952 Olympic football tournament .
In 1961 he moved to Italy to play for Serie A club Sampdoria for one season (1961/62), before accepting a stint as a player/coach at Swiss side Young Boys (1962-1964). Boškov then returned to the club that made him as a player - FK Vojvodina - and coached it for 7 seasons (1964-1971) winning one Yugoslav league championship in 1965-66 .
He soon developed a successful international coaching career with stints in Dutch Eredivisie (FC Den Haag (1974-1976), and Feyenoord (1976-1978)), Spanish La Liga (Real Zaragoza (1978/79), Real Madrid (1979-1982), and Sporting de Gijon (1983/84)), Italian Serie A (Ascoli Calcio 1898 (1984-1986), U.C. Sampdoria (1986-1992, 1998/99), A.S. Roma (1992/93), S.S.C. Napoli (1994-1996), and A.C. Perugia (1999)), and Swiss league (Servette Geneva (1996/97)).
Arguably his greatest achievement as a coach came in 1991, when he steered Sampdoria to the Serie A scudetto . The following season, he got them to the European Cup final, where they lost 1-0 to Barcelona at Wembley .
He also coached Yugoslavia at Euro 2000 , where they famously lost 4-3 to Spain in Brugge and later went out to Holland in the quarter-finals.
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