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Milovan Jakšić - Wikipedia

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Milovan Jakšić
Personal information
Jakšić with Kingdom of Yugoslavia in 1930
Full name	Milovan Jakšić
Date of birth	(1909-09-21)21 September 1909
Place of birth	Kolašin, Principality of Montenegro
Date of death	25 December 1953(1953-12-25) (aged 44)
Place of death	Alexandria, Republic of Egypt
Height	1.76 m (5 ft 9 in)
Position(s)	Goalkeeper
Senior career*
Years	Team	Apps	(Gls)
1930–1939	BASK
1934–1935	→ Slavia Prague (loan)
1931–1932	→ Ilirija
	SK Ljubljana
International career
1930–1934	Kingdom of Yugoslavia	9	(0)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Milovan Jakšić (Serbian Cyrillic: Милован Јакшић; 21 September 1909 – 25 December 1953) was a Serbian football goalkeeper.

Remembered mostly as El Grande Milovan, the nickname he earned for his excellent saves in the game that Yugoslavia won against Brasil in the First World Cup in Uruguay 1930 FIFA World Cup. He is considered one of the major contributors for Yugoslavia reaching the semi-finals in that tournament.

Club career

Being of medium stature, but very strong physically, Jakšić's main characteristics were his bravure and excellent reflexes. Jakšić spent most of his career playing in FK BASK, named SK Soko before 1931, where he played until 1939. The only exceptions were the Czechoslovak SK Slavia Praha, where Jakšić played a few months of the 1934-35 season, and SK Ljubljana and ND Ilirija at the end of his career.

International career

Jakšić played a total of nine matches for the Yugoslavia national football team. His debut was on 13 April 1930, in a friendly game against Bulgaria in Belgrade, a 6–1 win, and his fairway match was on 2 September 1934, another friendly game, this time in Prague, against Czechoslovakia, a 3–1 loss.^[1] Despite all the competition that he faced for the national team goalkeeping place, Jakšić was selected to be the main goalkeeper at the 1930 World Cup. Having displayed magnificent exhibitions in all the matches at the tournament, it is specially remembered by his contributions in the match against Brazil, and it was after that match, that the delighted journalists started calling him by his new nickname: "El Grande Milovan".

Post-playing career

After retiring, Jakšić stayed connected to football. After the World War II, in March 1945, he established Red Star Belgrade football club, and was the club's Technical Director. Jakšić was also the President of the Football Coaching Federation of Yugoslavia, from 1950 until the winter of 1953, when he died unexpectedly of a heart-attack during the football tournament in Cairo, Egypt, where he accompanied Red Star Belgrade.

References

^ "Milovan Jakšić, international football player". EU-football.info. Retrieved 24 August 2024.

External links

Milovan Jakšić at Reprezentacija.rs (in Serbian)
Milovan Jakšić at National-Football-Teams.com
Milovan Jakšić at Soccerway
Milovan Jakšić at FIFA.com (archived)

1930 FIFA World Cup Team of the Tournament

Media's team

Goalkeeper	Enrique Ballestrero Milovan Jakšić
Defenders	José Nasazzi Milutin Ivković
Midfielders	Luis Monti Álvaro Gestido José Andrade
Forwards	Pedro Cea Héctor Castro Héctor Scarone Guillermo Stábile Bert Patenaude Manuel Ferreira

v t e Kingdom of Yugoslavia squad – 1930 FIFA World Cup fourth place
MF Arsenijević FW Bek MF Đokić MF Hrnjiček DF Ivković (c) GK Jakšić FW Marjanović FW Marković DF Mihajlović FW Najdanović FW Sekulić MF Spasojević MF Stefanović GK Stojanović FW Tirnanić DF Tošić FW Vujadinović Coach: Simonović

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