Jovan Hajduković (8 January 1943 – 7 November 2013Kako je iz Crne Gore lansirana sovjetska raketa ka Engleskoj
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online, 22-3-2015, retrieved 8-6-2016 ) was a Hungarian-born Montenegrin former

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goalkeeper.

Club career

Born in

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, capital of Hungary,Od Zone do Zone
by Radiša Dragićević, page 87 in 1943 during

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, Hajduković spent most of his career in Yugoslavia, with a spell as well in Colombia. He started playing at Serbian giants

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, but he debuted as senior with Montenegrin side

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He played with Budućnost in the

Yugoslav Second League Yugoslav Second League ( Bosnian: ''Druga savezna liga,'' Croatian: ''Druga savezna liga'', Serbian: ''Друга савезна лига'', Slovenian: ''Druga zvezna liga'', Macedonian: ''Втора сојузна лига'', ''Vtora sojuzna l ...

between 1963 and 1967, and while there, he was also the goalkeeper of the Montenegro team that played against Soviet Union national team on April 1, 1966, in

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, in Soviet Union's preparation matches for the

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, where they will achieve their greatest result in a World Cup ever, fourth place. In 1967, he moved to ambitious

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which was playing same league as Budućnost, the Second League, however Bor was building a strong team aiming for higher goals, and that season, with Hajduković as main goalkeeper, FK Bor won the league and achieved promotion to the

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. Hajduković stayed with Bor until 1977, almost a decade, because in between he had a spell abroad, in Colombia, with

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in 1975. Hajduković entered the strict group of greatest players of FK Bor of all time, as recorded by the club monograph "Od Zone do Zone". In January 1974, América de Cali was already trying to bring Hajduković to their squad, but Bor refused to release him Bor will allow the move in following summer and by January 1975 he was already back in the squad. However, by then FK Bor had been relegated from the first league and Hajduković was allowed to return to Colombia. Since then, he played in the Yugoslav Second League until the end of his career, first between 1977 and 1980 with RFK Majdanpek and then in the season 1980–81 with

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. He died in October 2013.

International career

Hajduković also played two games for the

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in 1971 and 1972.Jovan Hajdukovic
at 11v11.com

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Hajdukovic, Jovan 1943 births 2013 deaths Footballers from Budapest Hungarian people of Montenegrin descent Men's association football goalkeepers Yugoslav men's footballers Hungarian men's footballers FK Budućnost Podgorica players FK Bor players América de Cali footballers RFK Majdanpek players FK Radnički 1923 players Yugoslav Second League players Yugoslav First League players Categoría Primera A players Yugoslav expatriate men's footballers Expatriate men's footballers in Colombia Yugoslav expatriate sportspeople in Colombia 20th-century Hungarian sportsmen