Andreja Kojić

Andreja Kojić

Personal information
Date of birth	28 August 1896
Place of birth	Belgrade, Kingdom of Serbia
Date of death	7 July 1952 (aged 55)
Place of death	Belgrade, SFR Yugoslavia
Playing position	Forward
Youth career
1907–1911	Srpski mač
Senior career*
Years	Team	Apps	(Gls)
1911–1914	BSK Belgrade
	Olympique de Marseille
	Aix-en-Provence
	Bordeux
1918	Soko Pro Roma
1918–1923	BSK Belgrade
1923–192x	Vojvodina
	Sinđelić Niš
	Mačva Šabac
	Lešnica
0000–1937	Krupanj
National team
1920	Kingdom of Yugoslavia	1	(0)
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only.

Andreja "Andrica" Kojić (Serbian Cyrillic: Андреја Којић), (28 August 1896 – 7 July 1952) was a Serbian footballer. He was part of the first generation of Serbian footballers and was a forward known for his technical skills, strong shot with both legs and extreme elegance in his playing style.^[1]

Born in Belgrade, he started playing football in the youth team of SK Srpski mač which was one of the first football clubs in Belgrade. In 1911 he moved to the newly formed BSK Belgrade and became part of the first generation of players to represent the "Blues" which would dominate Serbian and Yugoslav football during the following decades. At the end of 1915, with World War I fully under way, he leaves Serbia and moves to France where he will play with Olympique de Marseille, Aix-en-Provence and Girondins de Bordeux in the following years. In 1918 he moves to SK Soko Pro Roma which was a club formed by exiled footballers from Serbia in Rome, Italy. At the end of the war, he returned to Belgrade, now capital of the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes (kingdom later renamed to Yugoslavia in 1929) and plays with BSK until 1923.^[1] Later that year, as an employee of the National Bank, he was transferred to Novi Sad, and he continued his career by playing there with FK Vojvodina. Afterwords he also played with FK Sinđelić Niš and FK Mačva Šabac, and already with health problems, with Lešnica and FK Krupanj.^[1]

He played 7 matches for the Belgrade Football Subassociation team, and he was part of the first Yugoslav national team squad which was gathered to play in the 1920 Summer Olympics.

He retired at the age of 41 playing with FK Krupanj and domestic football analists say that he played over 700 official matches throughout his career. He died in Belgrade on July 7, 1952 and is buried in the Novo groblje cemetery in the capital.^[1]

References

1. "Kojić Andreja" (in Serbian). reprezentacija.rs. Retrieved 2014-10-29.