Rade Bogdanovic
Encyclopedia
Rade Bogdanović is a Bosnian Serb football manager and former player.
, came in 1987. The promising forward stayed there until 1992, which is when he left Sarajevo as the Bosnian War
broke out. The 22-year-old fled to Belgrade
along with several other Željo players such as Simo Krunić
, Gordan Vidović
, Suvad Katana
, Siniša Nikolić
, and Srećko Ilić
. Once there, they were accommodated by FK Partizan
's technical director Nenad Bjeković
and general secretary Žarko Zečević
who took care of their basic living needs and allowed them to train at the club facilities in order to maintain fitness while looking for new clubs even though they weren't on Partizan's roster.
, signing with Korean
POSCO Atoms from Pohang
. Playing in the modest league consisting of only six teams, Bogdanović quickly established himself as one of its best players.
After spending four and a half seasons at the club he signed in October 1996 with Japan
ese JEF United Ichihara
. Two months later he got a dream offer from Louis van Gaal
's Ajax Amsterdam
and, seeing it as a chance to finally come back to Europe, Bogdanović signed with them in late December 1996 without making them aware that he was under contract with JEF. This created problems, so the UEFA arbitration committee got involved. Bogdanović was hoping to come to some sort of compensation agreement with JEF that would allow him to go to Ajax, but in the end he was forced to stay in Japan where he spent five months, playing the first part of the J. League season.
finally came true as compatriot Radomir Antić
signed him to a contract with Atlético Madrid. He made his debut for the club at home versus Valladolid
on 6 September 1997, scoring two first half goals as los Colchoneros routed the visitors 5–0 by the end. The dream start prompted Atlético's impulsive president Jesús Gil
to buy Bogdanović a brand new BMW 316i as a reward. However, the presence of Christian Vieri
and Kiko meant few starting opportunities for Bogdanović though he still managed four more league goals by January 1998. During the winter transfer window he got loaned out to Dutch
NAC Breda
.
, Atlético sold Bogdanović to Werder Bremen
for a fee of around €1,350,000. He stayed at the German
club for four years. In the 2002–03 season, he played for Arminia Bielefeld
, and then went to Al-Wahda from United Arab Emirates
. After that, he retired from professional football.
|1992||rowspan="3"|POSCO Atoms
||rowspan="3"|K-League
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|1993||27||9
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|1994||33||22
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|1995||rowspan="2"|Pohang Atoms
||rowspan="2"|K-League
||31||8
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|1996||39||16
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|1997||JEF United Ichihara
||J. League 1||16||8
|-
|1997–98||Atlético Madrid||La Liga
||14||6
|-
|1997–98||NAC Breda||Eredivisie
||13||6
|-
|1998–99||rowspan="4"|SV Werder Bremen
||rowspan="4"|Bundesliga
||23||8
|-
|1999–00||22||4
|-
|2000–01||11||3
|-
|2001–02||0||0
|-
|2002–03||Arminia Bielefeld
||Bundesliga
||19||0
147||50
16||8
14||6
13||6
75||15
265||85
|}
. He was asked to play for national team of Bosnia-Herzegovina
, but he chose to play for FR Yugoslavia (Serbia and Montenegro
).
|1997||3||2
|-
!Total||3||2
|}
and BASK
.
Since early 2011 he owns and runs a football recreation facility called POSCO (after his Korean team) in Belgrade.
In April 2011, Bogdanović caused controversy in an interview for Belgrade daily newspaper Sport
with a claim that Atletico's last match of the 1997–98 La Liga season on 15 May 1998 away at Racing Santander was fixed by Atletico president Jesus Gil because Atletico needed three points to ensure the UEFA Cup spot for the following season. Bogdanović said: "Gil walked into the dressing room before the match and said that each player has to set aside DM25,000 out of the DM150,000 bonus in order for the win to be bought". The match ended 0–1 for the Madrid visitors.
Bogdanović and his family reside in Belgrade though they also spend time in Marbella
where he owns an apartment.
Bogdanović's nephews Vladimir Jovančić
and Darko Jovančić are also football players currently with FK Rad
and BASK
, respectively.
Yugoslavia
Bogdanović began his career in hometown Željezničar. His debut for the club, playing at the time in the Yugoslav First LeagueYugoslav First League
The Yugoslav First League was the premier football league in the Kingdom of Yugoslavia and socialist Yugoslavia...
, came in 1987. The promising forward stayed there until 1992, which is when he left Sarajevo as the Bosnian War
Bosnian War
The Bosnian War or the War in Bosnia and Herzegovina was an international armed conflict that took place in Bosnia and Herzegovina between April 1992 and December 1995. The war involved several sides...
broke out. The 22-year-old fled to Belgrade
Belgrade
Belgrade is the capital and largest city of Serbia. It is located at the confluence of the Sava and Danube rivers, where the Pannonian Plain meets the Balkans. According to official results of Census 2011, the city has a population of 1,639,121. It is one of the 15 largest cities in Europe...
along with several other Željo players such as Simo Krunić
Simo Krunić
Simo Krunić is a Bosnian Serb football manager and former player.He is currently the head coach of FK Inđija in the Serbian SuperLiga....
, Gordan Vidović
Gordan Vidovic
Gordan Vidović is a former football player who played for the Belgium national team.His first club was FK Igman from Ilidža, suburb of Sarajevo. He was spotted there in 1988, by FK Željezničar Sarajevo and soon moved to this top division club. When the War in Bosnia-Herzegovina started, he went to...
, Suvad Katana
Suvad Katana
Suvad Katana was a Bosnian football player.This intelligent defender started playing football in FK Željezničar as a youngster. He made his league debut for the club in 1987. against Red Star Belgrade . Although still a teenager, he was a regular starter in the squad in following seasons...
, Siniša Nikolić
Siniša Nikolić
Siniša Nikolić is a former Yugoslav football player. Nikolić played for Željezničar Sarajevo and later, after the war broke out, he emigrated abroad where he played for several clubs.- External links :* * * * *...
, and Srećko Ilić
Srećko Ilić
Srećko Ilić is a former Yugoslav football player. Ilić played for Željezničar Sarajevo and later, after the war broke, he emigrated to Slovenia where he played for several clubs.- External links :*...
. Once there, they were accommodated by FK Partizan
FK Partizan
Fudbalski klub Partizan is a professional football club based in Belgrade, Serbia. In its long history, FK Partizan won as many as 37 trophies. The club is the holder of 23 national championships, 12 national cups and 1 national supercup, and has also won the Mitropa Cup in 1978...
's technical director Nenad Bjeković
Nenad Bjekovic
Nenad Bjeković is a Serbian footballer of the late 1960s, 1970s who was very successful with OGC Nice in French Division 1...
and general secretary Žarko Zečević
Žarko Zecevic
Žarko Zečević is a Serbian retired basketball player, former football administrator, and current businessman...
who took care of their basic living needs and allowed them to train at the club facilities in order to maintain fitness while looking for new clubs even though they weren't on Partizan's roster.
Far East
Soon afterwards Bogdanović made a jump to the Far EastFar East
The Far East is an English term mostly describing East Asia and Southeast Asia, with South Asia sometimes also included for economic and cultural reasons.The term came into use in European geopolitical discourse in the 19th century,...
, signing with Korean
South Korea
The Republic of Korea , , is a sovereign state in East Asia, located on the southern portion of the Korean Peninsula. It is neighbored by the People's Republic of China to the west, Japan to the east, North Korea to the north, and the East China Sea and Republic of China to the south...
POSCO Atoms from Pohang
Pohang
Pohang is a city in North Gyeongsang Province, South Korea, and a main seaport in the Daegu-Gyeongbuk region. The built-up area of Pohang is located on the alluvium of the mouth of the Hyeongsan River...
. Playing in the modest league consisting of only six teams, Bogdanović quickly established himself as one of its best players.
After spending four and a half seasons at the club he signed in October 1996 with Japan
Japan
Japan is an island nation in East Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean, it lies to the east of the Sea of Japan, China, North Korea, South Korea and Russia, stretching from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to the East China Sea and Taiwan in the south...
ese JEF United Ichihara
JEF United Ichihara Chiba
is a Japanese professional football club that plays in J. League Division 2. On February 1, 2005, the club changed its name from JEF United Ichihara to the current name after Chiba city had joined Ichihara, Chiba as its hometown in 2003. The club name, JEF -taken from JR East and Furukawa Electric-...
. Two months later he got a dream offer from Louis van Gaal
Louis van Gaal
Aloysius Paulus Maria "Louis" van Gaal OON is a Dutch football manager formerly in charge of Ajax, Netherlands, Barcelona, AZ and Bayern Munich...
's Ajax Amsterdam
Ajax Amsterdam
Amsterdamsche Football Club Ajax , also referred to as AFC Ajax, Ajax Amsterdam or simply Ajax , is a professional football club from Amsterdam, Netherlands...
and, seeing it as a chance to finally come back to Europe, Bogdanović signed with them in late December 1996 without making them aware that he was under contract with JEF. This created problems, so the UEFA arbitration committee got involved. Bogdanović was hoping to come to some sort of compensation agreement with JEF that would allow him to go to Ajax, but in the end he was forced to stay in Japan where he spent five months, playing the first part of the J. League season.
Return to Europe
During summer 1997, his wish of returning to EuropeEurope
Europe is, by convention, one of the world's seven continents. Comprising the westernmost peninsula of Eurasia, Europe is generally 'divided' from Asia to its east by the watershed divides of the Ural and Caucasus Mountains, the Ural River, the Caspian and Black Seas, and the waterways connecting...
finally came true as compatriot Radomir Antić
Radomir Antic
Radomir Antić is a Serbian former football defender and former football manager for the Serbian national team.Following a 17-year playing career he found his true calling in coaching....
signed him to a contract with Atlético Madrid. He made his debut for the club at home versus Valladolid
Real Valladolid
Real Valladolid Club de Fútbol, S.A.D. is a Spanish football club based in Valladolid, in the autonomous community of Castile and León, from where the nickname Pucela is derived....
on 6 September 1997, scoring two first half goals as los Colchoneros routed the visitors 5–0 by the end. The dream start prompted Atlético's impulsive president Jesús Gil
Jesús Gil
Gregorio Jesús Gil y Gil was a Spanish businessman and politician. He served as Mayor of Marbella, between 1996 and 2002, and was also known for his 16-year stint as president of Spanish football club Atlético Madrid....
to buy Bogdanović a brand new BMW 316i as a reward. However, the presence of Christian Vieri
Christian Vieri
Christian Vieri is a retired Italian footballer who played as a centre forward.Vieri was named in the FIFA 100, a list of the 125 greatest living footballers selected by Pelé as a part of FIFA's centenary celebrations...
and Kiko meant few starting opportunities for Bogdanović though he still managed four more league goals by January 1998. During the winter transfer window he got loaned out to Dutch
Netherlands
The Netherlands is a constituent country of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, located mainly in North-West Europe and with several islands in the Caribbean. Mainland Netherlands borders the North Sea to the north and west, Belgium to the south, and Germany to the east, and shares maritime borders...
NAC Breda
NAC Breda
NAC Breda , simply often known as NAC, is a Dutch professional football club, based in Breda, Netherlands. NAC Breda play in the Rat Verlegh Stadium, named after their most important player, Antoon 'Rat' Verlegh. They play in the Dutch Eredivisie and are known by the fierce and fanatic support of...
.
Werder Bremen
After playing out the 1997–98 season in EredivisieEredivisie
The Eredivisie is the highest football league in the Netherlands. The league was founded in 1956 two years after the start of professional football in the Netherlands. It is currently ranked the ninth best league in Europe by UEFA....
, Atlético sold Bogdanović to Werder Bremen
SV Werder Bremen
SV Werder Bremen is a German sports club best known for its association football team playing in Bremen, in the northwest German federal state of the same name. The club was founded on 4 February 1899 as Fußballverein Werder by a group of sixteen vocational high school students who had won a prize...
for a fee of around €1,350,000. He stayed at the German
Germany
Germany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a federal parliamentary republic in Europe. The country consists of 16 states while the capital and largest city is Berlin. Germany covers an area of 357,021 km2 and has a largely temperate seasonal climate...
club for four years. In the 2002–03 season, he played for Arminia Bielefeld
Arminia Bielefeld
DSC Arminia Bielefeld is a German sports club from Bielefeld, North Rhine-Westphalia. Arminia offers the sports of football, field hockey, figure skating and cue sports. The club has 11,394 members and the club colours are black, white and blue...
, and then went to Al-Wahda from United Arab Emirates
United Arab Emirates
The United Arab Emirates, abbreviated as the UAE, or shortened to "the Emirates", is a state situated in the southeast of the Arabian Peninsula in Western Asia on the Persian Gulf, bordering Oman, and Saudi Arabia, and sharing sea borders with Iraq, Kuwait, Bahrain, Qatar, and Iran.The UAE is a...
. After that, he retired from professional football.
Club
Pohang AtomsPohang Steelers
Pohang Steelers are a South Korean professional football club based in Pohang, Gyeongsangbuk-do. They were originally called POSCO, after the Pohang Iron and Steel Company that owned it...
- K-LeagueK-LeagueThe Korea Professional Football League is South Korea's only fully professional association football league. At the top of the South Korean football league system, it is the country's highest and most prestigious level of football competition currently contested by 16 clubs.-Establishment:The...
- Winners (1): 1992
- Runners-up (1): 1995
- K-League CupK-League CupThe K-League Cup or Korean League Cup is a Korean professional football competition.The origin competition is the Professional Football Championship.This tournament played in 1986 can be seen as a forerunner of this competition....
- Winners (1): 1993
- Winners (1): 1996
Individual
Pohang AtomsPohang Steelers
Pohang Steelers are a South Korean professional football club based in Pohang, Gyeongsangbuk-do. They were originally called POSCO, after the Pohang Iron and Steel Company that owned it...
- K-League Cup Top ScorerK-League Top Scorer AwardThe K-League Top Scorer Award has been awarded since the 1983 season to K-League regular season and K-League Cup leading scorer.-K-League Regular Season Winners:- K-League Cup Winners :- R-League Winners:-References:* * - See also:...
(1): 1994 - K-League Top Assistor (1): 1996
- K-League Best XIK-League Best XIThe K-League Best XI is an acknowledgement of the best eleven players in the league in a given season for K-League-Winners:- See also:* K-League MVP Award* K-League Players' Player of the Year* K-League Top Scorer Award* K-League Top Assistor Award...
(2): 1996K-League 1994-League table:...
Club career statistics
|-|1992||rowspan="3"|POSCO Atoms
Pohang Steelers
Pohang Steelers are a South Korean professional football club based in Pohang, Gyeongsangbuk-do. They were originally called POSCO, after the Pohang Iron and Steel Company that owned it...
||rowspan="3"|K-League
K-League
The Korea Professional Football League is South Korea's only fully professional association football league. At the top of the South Korean football league system, it is the country's highest and most prestigious level of football competition currently contested by 16 clubs.-Establishment:The...
||17||3
|-
|1993||27||9
|-
|1994||33||22
|-
|1995||rowspan="2"|Pohang Atoms
Pohang Steelers
Pohang Steelers are a South Korean professional football club based in Pohang, Gyeongsangbuk-do. They were originally called POSCO, after the Pohang Iron and Steel Company that owned it...
||rowspan="2"|K-League
K-League
The Korea Professional Football League is South Korea's only fully professional association football league. At the top of the South Korean football league system, it is the country's highest and most prestigious level of football competition currently contested by 16 clubs.-Establishment:The...
||31||8
|-
|1996||39||16
|-
|1997||JEF United Ichihara
JEF United Ichihara Chiba
is a Japanese professional football club that plays in J. League Division 2. On February 1, 2005, the club changed its name from JEF United Ichihara to the current name after Chiba city had joined Ichihara, Chiba as its hometown in 2003. The club name, JEF -taken from JR East and Furukawa Electric-...
||J. League 1||16||8
|-
|1997–98||Atlético Madrid||La Liga
La Liga
The Primera División of the Liga Nacional de Fútbol Profesional , commonly known as La Liga or, for sponsorship reasons, Liga BBVA since 2008, is the top professional association football division of the Spanish football league system...
||14||6
|-
|1997–98||NAC Breda||Eredivisie
Eredivisie
The Eredivisie is the highest football league in the Netherlands. The league was founded in 1956 two years after the start of professional football in the Netherlands. It is currently ranked the ninth best league in Europe by UEFA....
||13||6
|-
|1998–99||rowspan="4"|SV Werder Bremen
SV Werder Bremen
SV Werder Bremen is a German sports club best known for its association football team playing in Bremen, in the northwest German federal state of the same name. The club was founded on 4 February 1899 as Fußballverein Werder by a group of sixteen vocational high school students who had won a prize...
||rowspan="4"|Bundesliga
Fußball-Bundesliga
The Fußball-Bundesliga is a professional association football league in Germany. At the top of Germany's football league system, it is the country's primary football competition. It is contested by 18 teams and operates on a system of promotion and relegation with the 2. Bundesliga...
||23||8
|-
|1999–00||22||4
|-
|2000–01||11||3
|-
|2001–02||0||0
|-
|2002–03||Arminia Bielefeld
Arminia Bielefeld
DSC Arminia Bielefeld is a German sports club from Bielefeld, North Rhine-Westphalia. Arminia offers the sports of football, field hockey, figure skating and cue sports. The club has 11,394 members and the club colours are black, white and blue...
||Bundesliga
Fußball-Bundesliga
The Fußball-Bundesliga is a professional association football league in Germany. At the top of Germany's football league system, it is the country's primary football competition. It is contested by 18 teams and operates on a system of promotion and relegation with the 2. Bundesliga...
||19||0
147||50
16||8
14||6
13||6
75||15
265||85
|}
International
Bogdanović also played three times and scored two goals for national team of Federal Republic of YugoslaviaSerbia national football team
The Serbia national football team represents Serbia in association football and is controlled by the Football Association of Serbia, the governing body for football in Serbia. Serbia's home ground is Stadion Crvena Zvezda in Belgrade and their last head coach was Vladimir Petrović...
. He was asked to play for national team of Bosnia-Herzegovina
Bosnia and Herzegovina national football team
The Bosnia and Herzegovina national football team is the national football team of Bosnia and Herzegovina, governed by the Football Association of Bosnia and Herzegovina...
, but he chose to play for FR Yugoslavia (Serbia and Montenegro
Serbia and Montenegro
Serbia and Montenegro was a country in southeastern Europe, formed from two former republics of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia : Serbia and Montenegro. Following the breakup of Yugoslavia, it was established in 1992 as a federation called the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia...
).
International career statistics
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|-
!Total||3||2
|}
International goals
- Results list FR Yugoslavia's goal tally first.
Date Venue Opponent Score Result Competition 12 June 1997 Seoul SeoulSeoul , officially the Seoul Special City, is the capital and largest metropolis of South Korea. A megacity with a population of over 10 million, it is the largest city proper in the OECD developed world...
2 goals 3–1 Korea Cup 1997 Korea CupKorea Cup was a football competition held annually in the South Korea from 1971 to 1999. The cup, hosted by the Korea Football Association, was contested between South Korea and guest teams....
Post-playing
Bogdanović tried his hand at coaching and football administration with a few low-profile stints, most notably at FK RadFK Rad
FK Rad is a football club from Belgrade, Serbia. It plays at Stadion Kralj Petar I, which is located in the southern part of the city's Banjica neighbourhood....
and BASK
Bask
Bask, bred at the Albigowa State Stud in Poland and foaled in 1956, was a bay Arabian stallion who was imported into the United States in 1963 by Dr. Eugene LaCroix of Lasma Arabians and became a major sire of significance in the Arabian breed....
.
Since early 2011 he owns and runs a football recreation facility called POSCO (after his Korean team) in Belgrade.
In April 2011, Bogdanović caused controversy in an interview for Belgrade daily newspaper Sport
DSL Sport
Sport is a Serbian daily sports newspaper. Тhе first edition was published on 5 May 1945 under the name Fiskultura...
with a claim that Atletico's last match of the 1997–98 La Liga season on 15 May 1998 away at Racing Santander was fixed by Atletico president Jesus Gil because Atletico needed three points to ensure the UEFA Cup spot for the following season. Bogdanović said: "Gil walked into the dressing room before the match and said that each player has to set aside DM25,000 out of the DM150,000 bonus in order for the win to be bought". The match ended 0–1 for the Madrid visitors.
Personal
Bogdanović and his wife Aleksandra have three children, the oldest daughter is Kristina (born 1 June 1994 in South Korea), the second is called Marija (born 17 October 2000 in Germany) and the third is Sofija (born 26 July 2007 in Spain).Bogdanović and his family reside in Belgrade though they also spend time in Marbella
Marbella
Marbella is a town in Andalusia, Spain. It is situated on the Mediterranean Sea, in the province of Málaga, beneath the La Concha mountain. In 2000 the city had 98,823 inhabitants, in 2004, 116,234, in 2010 approximately 135,000....
where he owns an apartment.
Bogdanović's nephews Vladimir Jovančić
Vladimir Jovančić
Vladimir Jovančić is a Bosnian Serb footballer who plays for FK Partizan in the Serbian SuperLiga.-Club career:...
and Darko Jovančić are also football players currently with FK Rad
FK Rad
FK Rad is a football club from Belgrade, Serbia. It plays at Stadion Kralj Petar I, which is located in the southern part of the city's Banjica neighbourhood....
and BASK
Bask
Bask, bred at the Albigowa State Stud in Poland and foaled in 1956, was a bay Arabian stallion who was imported into the United States in 1963 by Dr. Eugene LaCroix of Lasma Arabians and became a major sire of significance in the Arabian breed....
, respectively.