Danilo Popivoda

Danilo Popivoda (Serbian Cyrillic: Данило Попивода; 1 May 1947 – 9 September 2021) was a football player and manager.

Danilo Popivoda

Popivoda in the 1970s
Personal information
Full name	Danilo Popivoda
Date of birth	(1947-05-01)1 May 1947
Place of birth	Lovćenac, PR Serbia, Yugoslavia
Date of death	9 September 2021(2021-09-09) (aged 74)
Place of death	Bijela, Montenegro
Height	1.71 m (5 ft 7 in)
Position(s)	Forward, right winger
Youth career
1964–1965	Olimpija Ljubljana
Senior career*
Years	Team	Apps	(Gls)
1965–1975	Olimpija Ljubljana	226	(58)
1975–1981	Eintracht Braunschweig	129	(30)
1981–1982	Olimpija Ljubljana	1	(0)
Total		356	(88)
International career
1972–1977	Yugoslavia	20	(5)
Managerial career
1998–2002	Slovenia (assistant)
* Club domestic league appearances and goals

On the international level he played for the Yugoslavia national team (20 matches and five goals)^[1] and was a participant at the 1974 FIFA World Cup. He also participated at the UEFA Euro 1976, where he scored a goal in a match against West Germany.^[2] His final international was a November 1977 World Cup qualification match against Spain.^[3]

During the 1945–1990 period, Popivoda was among a handful of Slovenian players, along with Branko Oblak and Srečko Katanec, who managed to get into the Yugoslavia national team.