1935 - 2020
Vladimir "Vladica" Popović (Serbian Cyrillic: Владимир "Владица" Поповић; 17 March 1935 – 10 August 2020) was a Serbian professional footballer and manager. The biggest success in his coaching career was winning the Intercontinental Cup with Red Star Belgrade in 1991. Born in Zemun, Popović started playing at local side Jedinstvo but his talent was spotted while he was still very young and giants Red Star Belgrade brought him to their youth team where he will later play for more than a decade becoming team captain and also regular member of the Yugoslavia national team. He was part of the team that won the silver medal at the 1956 Summer Olympics.Popović began coaching football in Venezuela in the 1970s, leading Portuguesa FC, Caracas F.C. Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Vladica Popović has received more than 61,715 page views. His biography is available in 21 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 19 in 2019). Vladica Popović is the 1,483rd most popular soccer player (down from 355th in 2019), the 177th most popular biography from Serbia (down from 69th in 2019) and the 21st most popular Serbian Soccer Player.
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Among soccer players, Vladica Popović ranks 1,483 out of 16,880. Before him are Gerrie Mühren, Eduard Markarov, Daniel Van Buyten, Gustavo Peña, Shojiro Sugimura, and Diego Lugano. After him are Luis Miró, Alfred Körner, Ernst Lehner, Javi Martínez, Marcelo Gallardo, and Jan Oblak.
1946 - 2013
HPI: 49.45
Rank: 1,477
1942 - Present
HPI: 49.43
Rank: 1,478
1978 - Present
HPI: 49.43
Rank: 1,479
1942 - 2021
HPI: 49.43
Rank: 1,480
1905 - 1975
HPI: 49.42
Rank: 1,481
1980 - Present
HPI: 49.42
Rank: 1,482
1935 - 2020
HPI: 49.41
Rank: 1,483
1913 - 1991
HPI: 49.41
Rank: 1,484
1926 - 2020
HPI: 49.40
Rank: 1,485
1912 - 1986
HPI: 49.40
Rank: 1,486
1988 - Present
HPI: 49.39
Rank: 1,487
1976 - Present
HPI: 49.39
Rank: 1,488
1993 - Present
HPI: 49.39
Rank: 1,489
Among people born in 1935, Vladica Popović ranks 243. Before him are Fortunato Baldelli, Velasio de Paolis, Johnny Pacheco, Ervin Zádor, Hillel Furstenberg, and Doug McClure. After him are Alfrēds Rubiks, Richard M. Karp, Dinkha IV, Ronald Graham, Fernando del Paso, and Rusty Schweickart. Among people deceased in 2020, Vladica Popović ranks 288. Before him are Sonja Edström, Paul Goma, Hédi Baccouche, Karin Lindberg, Joseph Vilsmaier, and Jimmy Cobb. After him are Alfred Körner, Johnny Nash, Sisavath Keobounphanh, Juan Giménez, Nina Bocharova, and Gudrun Pausewang.
1935 - Present
HPI: 49.49
Rank: 237
1935 - 2017
HPI: 49.48
Rank: 238
1935 - 2021
HPI: 49.46
Rank: 239
1935 - 2012
HPI: 49.45
Rank: 240
1935 - Present
HPI: 49.43
Rank: 241
1935 - 1995
HPI: 49.42
Rank: 242
1935 - 2020
HPI: 49.41
Rank: 243
1935 - Present
HPI: 49.39
Rank: 244
1935 - Present
HPI: 49.27
Rank: 245
1935 - 2015
HPI: 49.20
Rank: 246
1935 - 2020
HPI: 49.17
Rank: 247
1935 - 2018
HPI: 49.08
Rank: 248
1935 - Present
HPI: 49.05
Rank: 249
1930 - 2020
HPI: 49.52
Rank: 282
1935 - 2020
HPI: 49.51
Rank: 283
1930 - 2020
HPI: 49.50
Rank: 284
1929 - 2020
HPI: 49.49
Rank: 285
1939 - 2020
HPI: 49.46
Rank: 286
1929 - 2020
HPI: 49.46
Rank: 287
1935 - 2020
HPI: 49.41
Rank: 288
1926 - 2020
HPI: 49.40
Rank: 289
1940 - 2020
HPI: 49.39
Rank: 290
1928 - 2020
HPI: 49.37
Rank: 291
1943 - 2020
HPI: 49.36
Rank: 292
1924 - 2020
HPI: 49.31
Rank: 293
1928 - 2020
HPI: 49.30
Rank: 294
Among people born in Serbia, Vladica Popović ranks 177 out of 564. Before him are Laza Kostić (1841), Stevan Sremac (1855), Branislav Ivanović (1984), Porfirije, Serbian Patriarch (1961), Mateja Kežman (1979), and Slavica Đukić Dejanović (1951). After him are Bora Đorđević (1952), Jovan Ristić (1831), Aleksandar Tišma (1924), Želimir Žilnik (1942), Laza Lazarević (1851), and Momčilo Vukotić (1950).
1841 - 1910
HPI: 49.65
Rank: 171
1855 - 1906
HPI: 49.60
Rank: 172
1984 - Present
HPI: 49.60
Rank: 173
1961 - Present
HPI: 49.56
Rank: 174
1979 - Present
HPI: 49.54
Rank: 175
1951 - Present
HPI: 49.45
Rank: 176
1935 - 2020
HPI: 49.41
Rank: 177
1952 - Present
HPI: 49.30
Rank: 178
1831 - 1899
HPI: 49.29
Rank: 179
1924 - 2003
HPI: 49.26
Rank: 180
1942 - Present
HPI: 49.23
Rank: 181
1851 - 1891
HPI: 49.19
Rank: 182
1950 - 2021
HPI: 49.14
Rank: 183
Among soccer players born in Serbia, Vladica Popović ranks 21. Before him are Bora Kostić (1930), Ivan Bek (1909), Blagoje Marjanović (1907), Dragiša Binić (1961), Branislav Ivanović (1984), and Mateja Kežman (1979). After him are Momčilo Vukotić (1950), Milovan Rajevac (1954), Đorđe Vujadinović (1909), Milutin Ivković (1906), Slobodan Santrač (1946), and Ivan Toplak (1931).
1930 - 2011
HPI: 51.49
Rank: 15
1909 - 1963
HPI: 51.17
Rank: 16
1907 - 1984
HPI: 50.09
Rank: 17
1961 - Present
HPI: 49.91
Rank: 18
1984 - Present
HPI: 49.60
Rank: 19
1979 - Present
HPI: 49.54
Rank: 20
1935 - 2020
HPI: 49.41
Rank: 21
1950 - 2021
HPI: 49.14
Rank: 22
1954 - Present
HPI: 48.95
Rank: 23
1909 - 1990
HPI: 48.90
Rank: 24
1906 - 1943
HPI: 48.33
Rank: 25
1946 - 2016
HPI: 48.23
Rank: 26
1931 - 2021
HPI: 48.11
Rank: 27