Dragan Stojković
Dragan Stojković as the manager of Guangzhou R&F
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| Full name | Dragan Stojković | |||||||||||
| Date of birth | 3 March 1965 | |||||||||||
| Place of birth | Niš, SFR Yugoslavia | |||||||||||
| Height | 1.75 m (5 ft 9 in) | |||||||||||
| Playing position | Midfielder | |||||||||||
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Current team
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Guangzhou R&F (manager) | |||||||||||
| Senior career* | ||||||||||||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) | |||||||||
| 1981–1986 | Radnički Niš | 70 | (8) | |||||||||
| 1986–1990 | Red Star Belgrade | 120 | (54) | |||||||||
| 1990–1994 | Marseille | 29 | (5) | |||||||||
| 1991–1992 | → Hellas Verona (loan) | 19 | (1) | |||||||||
| 1994–2001 | Nagoya Grampus Eight | 184 | (57) | |||||||||
| Total | 422 | (125) | ||||||||||
| National team | ||||||||||||
| 1983–2001 | Yugoslavia | 84 | (15) | |||||||||
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| 2008–2013 | Nagoya Grampus | |||||||||||
| 2015– | Guangzhou R&F | |||||||||||
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Honours
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| * Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only. |
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Dragan Stojković (Serbian Cyrillic: Драган Стојковић, born 3 March 1965 in Niš, Serbia), also known under the nickname Piksi (Пикси), is a Serbian former footballer who played as a midfielder, and current manager of Guangzhou R&F.
Stojković was long time captain of the Yugoslavia national football team and Red Star Belgrade, and is considered one of the best players in the history of Yugoslavian and Serbian football. He starred for Yugoslavia at the 1990 FIFA World Cup (where he was named in the World Cup All-Star Team) and 1998 FIFA World Cup where he captained the team.
He is one of the five players to be awarded the title Star of the Red Star. He is widely considered to have never shown his true potential in Europe as injury prevented him from establishing himself at Marseille over the long term. Despite this, there is consensus among critics that he displayed an extraordinary ability throughout his career in spite of his chronic injuries, being most renowned in Japan.
Born to father Dobrivoje and mother Desanka in Niš, SR Serbia, SFR Yugoslavia, Stojković took to football very early while growing up in Pasi Poljana community near Niš. He has been nicknamed Piksi after Pixie, one of the characters from the cartoon Pixie and Dixie and Mr. Jinks.
A 175 cm, 73 kg midfielder and occasional forward, Stojković began his professional playing career with Yugoslav First League and hometown side Radnički Niš in 1981–82 when he made one first-team appearance. The next four seasons, Stojković appeared in 69 matches for Radnički and scored eight goals.
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