SFRJ ZA POČETNIKE - Džaja

Описание: For many Yugoslav football fans, you can argue all day about who was the best striker or goalkeeper – but when it comes to the greatest player of all, the conversation always comes back to one name: Dragan Džajić. Born in Ub in 1946 and raised in Red Star Belgrade’s youth system, Džajić exploded onto the scene as a teenager and never really left the spotlight.
A left winger by position but an artist by vocation, he spent almost his entire career in the red and white shirt, playing 590 games and scoring 287 goals for Red Star, winning five league titles and four Yugoslav Cups along the way. With that famous number 11 on his back, he turned the left flank into his personal stage: long, gliding runs, effortless dribbles, and crosses that seemed guided by GPS long before satellites. His left foot was so precise that defenders joked the only way to stop his centres was to turn off the floodlights.
Džajić was just as brilliant in the blue of Yugoslavia: 85 caps, 23 goals, and the unforgettable Euro 1968, where he scored the legendary 87th‑minute winner against England in the semi‑final and then scored again against Italy in the first final match. He finished the tournament as top scorer and earned third place in the Ballon d’Or voting that same year. For a country that often felt in the footballing shadow of its bigger rivals, Džajić proved that a boy from a small Serbian town could dribble his way into the European elite. Today, for many across the former Yugoslavia, he isn’t just a legend of Red Star or the national team – he is the benchmark by which all other players are quietly measured.