Miljan Miljanić

Miljan Miljanić

Miljan Miljanić (Serbian Cyrillic: Миљан Миљанић; 4 May 1930 – 13 January 2012) was a Yugoslav and Serbian football administrator, coach and player who played as a defender. Born in Bitola, Vardar Banovina, Kingdom of Yugoslavia, to a family originating from the Banjani clan in the Nikšić municipality in Montenegro, Miljanić spent the first years of his life in what would later become SR Macedonia within SFR Yugoslavia and eventually present day North Macedonia. During his colourful career, Miljanić coached Red Star Belgrade (won 10 trophies), Real Madrid (won back-to-back La Liga titles, including a League/Cup double in the 1974–75 season), Valencia CF (disappointing stint that lasted three quarters of the 1982–83 season when he got sacked with the team in 17th place in the league), and the Yugoslavia national team, of which he was a head coach in the 1974 and 1982 World Cups. He is equally known as the all-powerful president of the Football Association of FR Yugoslavia (FSJ), a post he occupied for years before leaving in 2001. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Miljan Miljanić has received more than 121,238 page views. His biography is available in 24 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 22 in 2019). Miljan Miljanić is the 97th most popular coach (down from 92nd in 2019), the 19th most popular biography from North Macedonia (down from 18th in 2019) and the most popular Macedonian Coach.