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Nov 29, 1949 Sjenica, Zlatibor District, Serbia 74 years old
Serbian footballer
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About Radojko Avramovi
- Radojko "Raddy" Avramovic (Serbian Cyrillic: ??????? ?????????; born 29 November 1949) is a Serbian former football coach who played for Yugoslavia as a goalkeeper.
- He was the former head coach of Singapore and Myanmar.
- As of July 2019, he was appointed as Home United coach. Avramovic discontinued his law studies two years into university to become a footballer.
- He began his playing career with FK Borac Cacak in the Yugoslav Second League in 1969.
- He signed for Yugoslav First League club HNK Rijeka in 1974.
- As a 1977–78 Yugoslav Cup winner with Rijeka, he played in the 1978–79 Cup Winners' Cup.
- He won his only international cap with Yugoslavia in a Balkan Cup match against Greece on 15 November 1978.
- He was scouted by Notts County manager Jimmy Sirrel, who signed him for a club record £200,000 in 1979 and would later regard Avramovic as one of his best players.
- He contributed with 16 clean sheets as the club was promoted to the First Division in 1981 in their return to the top flight after 54 years.
- He made a total of 167 appearances for Notts County before moving to Coventry City for the 1983–84 season.
- In 1984, he returned to Yugoslavia with OFK Belgrade where he played his final season, helping them to the Second League East Division title before retiring as a player at the age of 35. Avramovic was placed in charge of Oman's age group teams from 1993 to 1998.
- In August 1998, he was appointed as assistant coach to Kuwait, and as coach of their Olympic squad a year later.
- He guided the under-23 team through the Asian qualifiers to the 2000 Summer Olympics.
- Following the departure of Berti Vogts in February 2002, Avramovic took over as national coach of Kuwait.
- He led the senior team to their first West Asian Games title in April, and the under-23 team to the quarter-finals of the 2002 Asian Games in October, which they lost 1–0 to eventual silver medalists Iran.
- His contract was however terminated in December after a poor performance at the 2002 Arab Nations Cup.
- He led Oman outfit Muscat Club to the 2002-03 Omani League title during a six-month stint from February 2003.
- In July 2003, Avramovic was unveiled as coach of the Singapore national team.
- He led them to their first international title in the 2004 ASEAN Football Championship, completing a hat-trick of tournament wins with further triumphs in 2007 and 2012.
- After a decade in Singapore, Avramovic stood down as national coach in December 2012.
- In February 2014, he was appointed as coach of the Myanmar national team. On July 2019, He returned to Singapore as Home United head coach.
- But less than 2 months back in Singapore, he suffers lung cancer and ended his managerial career.
