Spasoje "Paja" Samardžić (

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: Спасоје Паја Самарџић; born 20 May 1942) is a Serbian retired football winger and

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Playing career

Club

Paja Samardžić joined Dutch club

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from

OFK Beograd OFK Beograd ( sr-Cyrl, ОФК Београд – Омладински фудбалски клуб Београд, English language, English: ''Belgrade Youth Football Club''), also known in English as OFK Belgrade and currently referred to as OFK ...

in 1966 and later controversially moved to fellow

Eredivisie The Eredivisie (; "Honour Division" or "Premier Division") is a professional association football league in the Netherlands and the highest level of the Dutch football league system. The league was founded in 1956, two years after the start o ...

side

Feijenoord Feijenoord () is a borough of Rotterdam in the Netherlands, south of the Nieuwe Maas. Feyenoord football club was formed there, but now play in the neighbouring township of IJsselmonde. It was a centre of shipbuilding in the nineteenth century, ...

. He finished his career at French top-tier outfit

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International

With two games for the young team (1959) and one for the Under-21 team (1963), he capped 26 games for the best selection of

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, scoring three goals. He debuted against

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(1–2) in

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on 16 September 1962, then he played in the Olympic tournament in

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. He played his last national team game on 19 October 1966 against

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(0–3) in

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Coaching career

Following his playing career, Samardžić worked as a coach for Srem Jakovo and FK Beograd. He also served as

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of OFK Beograd.

Honours

;OFK Beograd *

Yugoslav First League The Yugoslav First League ( Bosnian: Prva savezna liga u fudbalu, sr-Cyrl-Latn, Прва савезна лига у фудбалу, Prva savezna liga u fudbalu, , , , , ) was the premier football league in the Kingdom of Yugoslavia (1918–1941) ...

: Runner-up 1963–64 *

Yugoslav Cup The Yugoslav Cup (; ; , ), officially known between 1923 and 1940 as the King Alexander Cup (; , and between 1947 and 1991 as the Marshal Tito Cup (; ; ; ), was one of two major association football, football competitions in Socialist Federal Re ...

: 1961–62, 1965–66 ;Feyenoord *

: 1968–69 *

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: 1968–69 *

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1967 Events January * January 1 – Canada begins a year-long celebration of the 100th anniversary of Canadian Confederation, Confederation, featuring the Expo 67 World's Fair. * January 6 – Vietnam War: United States Marine Corps and Army of ...

1968 Events January–February * January 1968, January – The I'm Backing Britain, I'm Backing Britain campaign starts spontaneously. * January 5 – Prague Spring: Alexander Dubček is chosen as leader of the Communist Party of Cze ...

;Saint-Étienne *

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: 1969–70 *

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: 1969–70

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* * * 1942 births Living people Sportspeople from Skenderaj Footballers from the District of Mitrovica Kosovo Serbs Men's association football wingers Yugoslav men's footballers Yugoslavia men's under-21 international footballers Yugoslavia men's international footballers Olympic footballers for Yugoslavia Footballers at the 1964 Summer Olympics OFK Beograd players FC Twente players Feyenoord players AS Saint-Étienne players Yugoslav First League players Eredivisie players Ligue 1 players Yugoslav expatriate men's footballers Expatriate men's footballers in the Netherlands Yugoslav expatriate sportspeople in the Netherlands Expatriate men's footballers in France Yugoslav expatriate sportspeople in France Yugoslav football managers {{serbia-footy-forward-stub