Goran Đorović

Goran Đorović
Personal information
Date of birth	11 November 1971 (age 53)
Place of birth	Pristina, SFR Yugoslavia
Height	1.83 m (6 ft 0 in)
Position(s)	Defender
Youth career
	Priština
Senior career*
Years	Team
1989–1993	Priština
1993–1997	Red Star Belgrade
1997–2001	Celta
2001–2004	Deportivo La Coruña
2003–2004	→ Elche (loan)
Total
International career
1994–2001	FR Yugoslavia
Managerial career
2017–2019	Serbia U21
2021–	Serbia (assistant)
	*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Goran Đorović (Serbian Cyrillic: Горан Ђopoвић; born 11 November 1971) is a Serbian former professional footballer who played mainly a central defender but also as a left-back.

In his country, he played for Priština and Red Star. He spent the rest of his career in Spain after arriving there in 1997, representing Celta, Deportivo and Elche.

Đorović went into coaching upon retiring, serving as the manager of the Serbian national under-21 team.

Club career

Đorović was born in Pristina, Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia. Having initially played for his hometown club FK Priština, he joined Red Star Belgrade in 1993. He went on to appear in exactly 100 league matches and, aged almost 26, moved abroad after signing with Spanish club RC Celta de Vigo.

Soon, interest arose from major teams, such as UC Sampdoria and Arsenal. However, he decided to stay at least for the 1998–99 season at Celta, where he would eventually share teams with his brother Zoran (who had absolutely no impact for the Galicians)^[1] and play 126 competitive games, his La Liga debut coming on 31 August 1997 in a 2–1 home win against Real Zaragoza.^[2]

Having had one attempt to sign the player previously rebuffed, Deportivo de La Coruña manager Javier Irureta signed Đorović in 2001, having already bought him from Red Star four years earlier. However, the player's career at Depor would be constantly marred by injuries as he earned over €2 million per season, one of the highest in the squad.^[3]

For 2003–04, Đorović was loaned alongside Dani Mallo, Roberto Acuña and José Manuel, to Elche CF in the second division. After featuring rarely throughout the campaign he returned to Deportivo, and was immediately released despite still having one year in his contract.^[4] He retired shortly after.

International career

Đorović made his debut for the Serbia and Montenegro national team on 23 December 1994, playing the second half of a 0–2 friendly loss in Brazil in Porto Alegre. He won 48 caps more in the next seven years, being part of the setups at the 1998 FIFA World Cup (playing in all the matches and minutes during the tournament, as the nation bowed out in the round-of-16) and UEFA Euro 2000.

Career statistics

Appearances and goals by national team and year^[5]
National team	Year	Apps
FR Yugoslavia	1994	2
	1995	6
	1996	9
	1997	7
	1998	10
	1999	4
	2000	6
	2001	5
Total		49

Managerial statistics

As of match played 23 June 2019^[6]

Managerial record by team and tenure
Team	From	To	Record
Team	From	To	P	W	D	L	Win %
Serbia U21	18 August 2017	2019	17	10	2	5	058.82
Total			17	10	2	5	058.82

References

^ "El Celta ataba a los Djorovic hace veinte años" [Celta snapped the Djorovics twenty years ago]. La Voz de Galicia (in Spanish). 8 June 2016. Retrieved 3 January 2019.
^ Conde, J. B. (1 September 1997). "Pachi Salinas resuelve la puesta de largo del Celta" [Pachi Salinas decides Celta's rentrée]. ABC (in Spanish). Retrieved 4 January 2019.
^ Conde, J. (13 June 2012). "De celestes y blanquiazules" [Of sky blue and white-and-blue]. La Opinión A Coruña (in Spanish). Retrieved 4 January 2019.
^ "Room for Bent at Everton". UEFA. 23 June 2004. Retrieved 30 May 2010.
^ "Goran Đorović". European Football. Retrieved 3 January 2019.
^ Goran Đorović coach profile at Soccerway

External links

Goran Đorović at BDFutbol
Celta de Vigo biography (in Spanish)
Deportivo archives
Goran Đorović at Reprezentacija.rs (in Serbian)
Goran Đorović at National-Football-Teams.com
Goran Đorović – FIFA competition record (archived)
Goran Đorović at WorldFootball.net

[1] "El Celta ataba a los Djorovic hace veinte años" [Celta snapped the Djorovics twenty years ago]. La Voz de Galicia (in Spanish). 8 June 2016. Retrieved 3 January 2019.

[2] Conde, J. B. (1 September 1997). "Pachi Salinas resuelve la puesta de largo del Celta" [Pachi Salinas decides Celta's rentrée]. ABC (in Spanish). Retrieved 4 January 2019.

[3] Conde, J. (13 June 2012). "De celestes y blanquiazules" [Of sky blue and white-and-blue]. La Opinión A Coruña (in Spanish). Retrieved 4 January 2019.

[4] "Room for Bent at Everton". UEFA. 23 June 2004. Retrieved 30 May 2010.

[5] "Goran Đorović". European Football. Retrieved 3 January 2019.

[6] Goran Đorović coach profile at Soccerway

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