Milan Galić

Milan Galić
Milan Galić in 1966
Personal information
Date of birth (1938-03-08)8 March 1938
Place of birth Bosansko Grahovo, Kingdom of Yugoslavia
Date of death 13 September 2014(2014-09-13) (aged 76)
Place of death Belgrade, Serbia
Position(s) Second Striker
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
1955–1958 Proleter Zrenjanin ? (?)
1958–1966 Partizan 148 (74)
1966–1970 Standard Liège 84 (33)
1970–1973 Stade de Reims 55 (18)
National team
1959–1965 Yugoslavia 51 (37)
Honours
Men's Football
Representing  Yugoslavia
Olympic Games
Gold medal – first place 1960 Rome Team
European Championship
Silver medal – second place 1960 France Team
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only

Milan Galić (Serbian Cyrillic: Милан Галић; 8 March 1938 – 13 September 2014)[1] was a Serbian footballer. He scored 37 international goals in 51 matches for the Yugoslavia national football team.[2] He participated in the 1960 Summer Olympics, winning the gold medal, the 1960 UEFA European Football Championship, where Yugoslavia finished second (despite his goal in the final), and the 1962 FIFA World Cup, where Yugoslavia finished fourth.

Galić died in Belgrade, Serbia, aged 76.

Career statistics

Club

Club League Season League Continental Total
Apps Goals Apps Goals Apps Goals
Partizan Yugoslav First League 1958–59 10 7 0 0 10 7
1959–60 22 10 0 0 22 10
1960–61 21 14 0 0 21 14
1961–62 21 7 4 0 25 7
1962–63 25 16 1 1 26 17
1963–64 20 4 6 4 26 8
1964–65 24 15 0 0 24 15
1965–66 5 1 3 2 8 3
Total 148 74 14 7 162 81
Standard Liège Belgian First Division 1966–67 22 9 5 2 27 11
1967–68 14 2 4 0 18 2
1968–69 23 5 1 1 24 6
1969–70 25 17 6 2 31 19
Total 84 33 16 5 100 38
Reims French Division 1 1970–71 36 14 0 0 36 14
1971–72 16 3 0 0 16 3
1972–73 3 1 0 0 3 1
Total 55 18 0 0 55 18
Career total 287 125 30 12 317 137

International

National team Year Apps Goals
Yugoslavia 1959 2 1
1960 14 14
1961 11 7
1962 10 8
1963 3 2
1964 5 2
1965 6 3
Total 51 37
List of international goals scored by Milan Galić
No. Date Venue Opponent Score Result Competition
1 31 May 1959 Belgrade, Yugoslavia  Bulgaria
1–0
2–0
1960 European Nations' Cup qualifying
2 24 April 1960 Athens, Greece  Greece
4–0
5–0
1960 Summer Olympics qualifying
3 11 May 1960 London, England  England
1–0
3–3 Friendly
4
2–2
5 22 May 1960 Belgrade, Yugoslavia  Portugal
5–1
5–1
1960 European Nations' Cup qualifying
6 6 July 1960 Paris, France  France
1–0
5–4
1960 European Nations' Cup
7 10 July 1960  Soviet Union
1–0
1–2
1960 European Nations' Cup Final
8 6 August 1960 Belgrade, Yugoslavia  Tunisia
4–0
7–0
Friendly
9 26 August 1960 Pescara, Italy  United Arab Republic
2–0
6–1
1960 Summer Olympics
10 29 August 1960 Florence, Italy  Turkey
2–0
4–0
11 1 September 1960 Rome, Italy  Bulgaria
1–0
3–3
12
2–0
13
3–1
14 5 September 1960 Napoli, Italy  Italy
1–0
1–1
15 10 September 1960 Rome, Italy  Denmark
1–0
3–1
1960 Summer Olympics Final
16 25 June 1961 Chorzów, Poland  Poland
1–0
1–1
1962 FIFA World Cup qualification
17 8 October 1961 Belgrade, Yugoslavia  South Korea
5–1
5–1
18 21 September 1961 Seoul, South Korea
1–0
3–1
19
2–0
20 7 December 1961 Jakarta, Indonesia  Indonesia
2–1
5–1
Friendly
21 14 December 1961 Tel Aviv, Israel  Israel
1–0
2–0
22
2–0
23 16 May 1962 Belgrade, Yugoslavia  East Germany
1–0
3–1
24
3–1
25 2 June 1962 Arica, Chile  Uruguay
2–1
3–1
1962 FIFA World Cup
26 7 June 1962  Colombia
1–0
5–0
27
3–0
28 30 September 1962 Zagreb, Yugoslavia  West Germany
1–0
2–3 Friendly
29
2–3
30 14 October 1962 Budapest, Hungary  Hungary
1–0
1–0
31 31 March 1963 Brussels, Belgium  Belgium
1–0
1–0
1964 European Nations' Cup qualifying
32 18 September 1963 Malmö, Sweden  Sweden
1–0
2–3
33 20 September 1964 Belgrade, Yugoslavia  Luxembourg
3–1
3–1
1966 FIFA World Cup qualification
34 23 September 1964 Europe XI
2–5
2–7
Friendly
35 18 April 1965  France
1–0
1–0
1966 FIFA World Cup qualification
36 19 September 1965 Luxembourg City, Luxembourg  Luxembourg
1–0
5–2
37
2–0

Honours

Club

Partizan

Standard Liège

International

Yugoslavia

Individual

References

  1. Yugoslav great Galic dies Archived 2015-09-24 at the Wayback Machine, FIFA (13 September 2014)
  2. "Milan Galic - Goals in International Matches". www.rsssf.com.
  3. "1960 team of the tournament". Union of European Football Associations. 1 February 2011. Retrieved 14 May 2020.