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Full name | Mitar Mrkela | ||||||||||||||||
Date of birth | 10 July 1965 | ||||||||||||||||
Place of birth | Belgrade, SFR Yugoslavia | ||||||||||||||||
Height | 1.76 m (5 ft 9 in) | ||||||||||||||||
Position(s) | Midfielder | ||||||||||||||||
Senior career* | |||||||||||||||||
Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) | ||||||||||||||
1981–1983 | OFK Beograd | 45 | (4) | ||||||||||||||
1983–1990 | Red Star Belgrade | 154 | (30) | ||||||||||||||
1990–1992 | Twente | 61 | (10) | ||||||||||||||
1992–1993 | Beşiktaş | 23 | (4) | ||||||||||||||
1993–1994 | Cambuur | 18 | (2) | ||||||||||||||
International career | |||||||||||||||||
1982–1986 | Yugoslavia | 5 | (1) | ||||||||||||||
Medal record
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*Club domestic league appearances and goals |
Mitar Mrkela (Serbian Cyrillic: Митар Мркела; born 10 July 1965) is a retired Serbian footballer, who was a member of the Yugoslavian team that won the bronze medal at the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles, California.
Playing career
[edit]He started his senior pro career with OFK Beograd in 1981 at only 16 years and 16 days of age (at that time the youngest ever in the Yugoslav First League), before moving on to Red Star Belgrade in 1983 where he stayed until 1990. After appearing in one league game for Red Star in 1990/91 season, he transferred to Dutch club FC Twente and stayed there for two seasons. He played several matches for Beşiktaş J.K. in the 1992-1993 season and scored 4 goals, before returning to the Netherlands with SC Cambuur.
Mrkela holds distinction as the youngest player ever to play for SFR Yugoslavia national squad. He was only 17 years and 130 days old when he made his national team debut on 17 November 1982 during a Euro 1984 qualifier versus Bulgaria in Sofia. Head coach Todor Veselinović brought him on in the 17th minute in place of injured Zvonko Živković. However, despite a lot of early promise, Mrkela would go on to make only 5 national team appearances, scoring 1 goal.
Post-playing career
[edit]For a time in early 2000s, Mrkela was the president of City of Belgrade Football Association. He then became the youth coach in the OFK Beograd system.
In July 2005, soon after Dragan Stojković took over as club president from Dragan Džajić, Mrkela became the director of Red Star Belgrade youth academy - a job up to that moment performed by Goran Đorović.
After leaving his post at Red Star in December 2008, he became the sporting director at OFK Beograd.
Personal life
[edit]During the early 1990s Mrkela married actress Lidija Vukićević. The couple divorced in 2000. They have two sons, Andrej Mrkela, born in 1992, who is also a professional footballer and currently plays for Spartak Subotica and David, born in 1997.
For a while, Mrkela was politically active in the Serbian Renewal Movement (SPO).[1]
External links
[edit]- (in Serbian) Profile on Serbia national football team website
- Mitar Mrkela at National-Football-Teams.com
- Mitar Mrkela – FIFA competition record (archived)
- TFF
- 1965 births
- Living people
- Yugoslav men's footballers
- Yugoslav expatriate men's footballers
- Yugoslavia men's international footballers
- Serbian men's footballers
- Footballers at the 1984 Summer Olympics
- Olympic footballers for Yugoslavia
- Olympic bronze medalists for Yugoslavia
- OFK Beograd players
- Red Star Belgrade footballers
- FC Twente players
- SC Cambuur players
- Beşiktaş J.K. footballers
- Yugoslav First League players
- Eredivisie players
- Süper Lig players
- Expatriate men's footballers in the Netherlands
- Expatriate men's footballers in Turkey
- Men's association football midfielders
- Footballers from Belgrade
- Olympic medalists in football
- Yugoslav expatriate sportspeople in the Netherlands
- Serbian expatriate men's footballers
- Serbia and Montenegro expatriate men's footballers
- Serbia and Montenegro men's footballers
- Serbia and Montenegro expatriate sportspeople in the Netherlands
- Serbia and Montenegro expatriate sportspeople in Turkey
- Medalists at the 1984 Summer Olympics
- Serbian people of Croatian descent