SOCCER PLAYER

Dejan Savićević

1966 - Today

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Dejan Savićević (Cyrillic: Дејан Савићевић, pronounced [dějan saʋǐːtɕeʋitɕ]; born 15 September 1966) is a Montenegrin former footballer who played as an attacking midfielder. Since 2001, he has been the president of the Montenegrin Football Association (FSCG), currently in his fifth term at the post. Savićević was considered one of the best players in the world during the 1990s, and is regarded as one of the greatest Yugoslav footballers of all time. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Dejan Savićević has received more than 943,117 page views. His biography is available in 43 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 41 in 2019). Dejan Savićević is the 445th most popular soccer player (up from 544th in 2019), the 19th most popular biography from Montenegro (up from 22nd in 2019) and the most popular Montenegrin Soccer Player.

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Among SOCCER PLAYERS

Among soccer players, Dejan Savićević ranks 445 out of 21,273Before him are Ahmed Faras, Felice Borel, Daniele Massaro, Nereo Rocco, Jan Ceulemans, and Adolf Scherer. After him are Noritaka Hidaka, Miguel Ángel González Suárez, Thibaut Courtois, Ally McCoist, Miloš Milutinović, and Hans-Peter Briegel.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1966, Dejan Savićević ranks 38Before him are Kiefer Sutherland, Gianfranco Zola, Emmanuelle Seigner, Yoshihiro Togashi, Jeffrey Dean Morgan, and Abu Musab al-Zarqawi. After him are Jan Železný, Cecilia Bartoli, Stefan Edberg, Oleksii Reznikov, John Cusack, and Christian Lorenz.

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In Montenegro

Among people born in Montenegro, Dejan Savićević ranks 19 out of 142Before him are Danilo I, Prince of Montenegro (1826), Leopold Mandić (1866), Princess Anastasia of Montenegro (1868), Milo Đukanović (1962), Princess Helen of Serbia (1884), and Petar I Petrović-Njegoš (1748). After him are George, Crown Prince of Serbia (1887), Radola Gajda (1892), Predrag Mijatović (1969), Veljko Bulajić (1928), Danilo I, Metropolitan of Cetinje (1670), and Princess Anna of Montenegro (1874).

Among SOCCER PLAYERS In Montenegro

Among soccer players born in Montenegro, Dejan Savićević ranks 1After him are Predrag Mijatović (1969), Željko Petrović (1965), Tomislav Crnković (1929), Milovan Jakšić (1909), Zoran Filipović (1953), Stevan Jovetić (1989), Mirko Vučinić (1983), Stefan Savić (1991), Anto Drobnjak (1968), Zoran Simović (1954), and Budimir Vujačić (1964).