Vladimir Skočajić

Vladimir Skočajić
Personal information
Date of birth (1954-10-14)14 October 1954
Place of birth Mostar, PR Bosnia and Herzegovina, FPR Yugoslavia
Date of death 11 December 2024(2024-12-11) (aged 70)
Position(s) Winger
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
Lokomotiva Zagreb
Velež Mostar
Igman Konjic
Stolac
1977–1979 Čapljina
1979–1983 Velež Mostar 153 (48)
1983–1985 Apollon Kalamarias 28 (4)
1985–1987 Velež Mostar
Managerial career
2000 Zrinjski Mostar
Branitelj
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Vladimir Skočajić (14 October 1954 – 11 December 2024) was a Bosnian football player and manager. A winger,[1] he played for FK Velež from Mostar, where he scored 48 goals in 153 matches.[2] Skočajić died on 11 December 2024, at the age of 70.[3]

Playing career

Skočajić started his career in FK Velež Mostar. He is known for scoring four goals against Dinamo Zagreb on 9 February 1980 in a game that ended 9–2. He is one of the two Velež players, the other being Vladimir Matijević, who won the Yugoslav Cup twice, in 1981 and 1986. Nicknamed Taramba, he moved to Greece to play for Apollon Kalamarias.[4]

His career ended due to a serious car accident[when?]; his recovery took four months.[citation needed]

References

  1. ^ Vladimir Skočajić at WorldFootball.net
  2. ^ "AUDIO: Vladimir Skočajić Taramba : Da sada zaigram, prvo bih nabavio savjetnika | Studio 88". www.studio88.ba. Archived from the original on 6 July 2011.
  3. ^ Umro Vladimir Skočajić (in Serbian)
  4. ^ Skočajić: Mnogo je novca, a malo vica i duha - SportSport (in Bosnian)