Petar Radenković (Serbian Cyrillic: Петар Paдeнкoвић; born 1 October 1934) is a retired Serbian football goalkeeper who also played for the Yugoslavia national team.[1] He also goes by the name Perica. He is mostly known for his spell with TSV 1860 Munich in Germany, during which he participated, among others, in the inaugural season of the newly formed Bundesliga.
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| Date of birth | 1 October 1934 | ||||||||||||||||
| Place of birth | Belgrade, Kingdom of Yugoslavia | ||||||||||||||||
| Height | 1.87 m (6 ft 2 in) | ||||||||||||||||
| Position(s) | Goalkeeper | ||||||||||||||||
| Youth career | |||||||||||||||||
| 1949–1951 | Šumadija | ||||||||||||||||
| 1951–1952 | Red Star Belgrade | ||||||||||||||||
| Senior career* | |||||||||||||||||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) | ||||||||||||||
| 1952 | Red Star Belgrade | 1 | (0) | ||||||||||||||
| 1952–1960 | OFK Beograd | 96 | (0) | ||||||||||||||
| 1961–1962 | Wormatia Worms | 13 | (1) | ||||||||||||||
| 1962–1970 | TSV 1860 Munich | 245 | (0) | ||||||||||||||
| Total | 355 | (1) | |||||||||||||||
| International career | |||||||||||||||||
| 1956 | Yugoslavia | 3 | (0) | ||||||||||||||
Medal record
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| *Club domestic league appearances and goals | |||||||||||||||||
Radenković is also known for recording the song Bin i Radi — bin i König in 1965; the record sold more than 400,000 copies in West Germany.[2][3] His younger brother Milan Radenković was a musician in the United States. His father was also a singer in the U.S., performing as Rasha (or Rascha) Rodell.[3][4]
The player is currently the last living member of the Yugoslavia national football team of the 1956 Summer Olympics.[citation needed]
Honours
editReferences
edit- ^ "Petar Radenković". Olympedia. Retrieved 1 December 2021.
- ^ "Radi: "Ich habe meine Pflicht getan"" [Radi: "I carried out my duties"] (in German). tz. 30 September 2009. Retrieved 3 January 2013.
- ^ a b Hesse, Uli (2023). The Three Lives of the Kaiser. Simon and Schuster. ISBN 9781471189111.
..this was really 1860 Munich's year, especially that of their charismatic Belgrade-born goalkeeper Petar 'Radi' Radenković... Bin i Radi — bin i König.. it sold more than 400,000 copies in West Germany, rose to number five and stayed in the charts for fourteen weeks.. his younger brother was having some success in the United States as a wild garage rocker using the moniker Milan the Leather Boy..
- ^ Hesse, Uli (29 September 2014). "Petar Radenkovic: The original Bundesliga superstar". ESPN.
External links
edit- Petar Radenković at fussballdaten.de (in German)
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