Ivan Ćurković had a professional goalkeeping career and was the president of the
FK PartizanFudbalski klub Partizan is a professional football club based in Belgrade, Serbia. In its long history, FK Partizan won as many as 37 trophies. The club is the holder of 23 national championships, 12 national cups and 1 national supercup, and has also won the Mitropa Cup in 1978...
and of the
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. He is also a former co-coach of the Serbia and Montenegro national football team.
Ćurković was a goalie of outstanding quality who played for
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during the 1970s and early 1980s and was instrumental in the successful runs of Saint-Étienne's football club to the top of the
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and to the finals of the European Cup in the 1975–76 season. He played alongside French legend
Michel PlatiniMichel François Platini is a former French football player, manager and current president of UEFA. Platini was a member of the French national team that won the 1984 European Championship, a tournament in which he was the top goalscorer and voted the best player. He participated in the 1978, 1982...
from 1978 to 1981.
Administrative career
From 1989 until 2006, Ćurković was president of
FK PartizanFudbalski klub Partizan is a professional football club based in Belgrade, Serbia. In its long history, FK Partizan won as many as 37 trophies. The club is the holder of 23 national championships, 12 national cups and 1 national supercup, and has also won the Mitropa Cup in 1978...
. He was the president of the
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until February 2009, when he withdrew from the re-election race in favor of former
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player
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.
On 23 December 2009, Ćurković was named vice-president of the
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, working under president
Tomislav Karadžić TOLE LOPOVE JEBEMO TI SVE TOLE LOPOVEEE TOLE LOPOVEEE JEBEMO TI SVEEE is a Serbian businessman and football administrator of Montenegrin origin. Since 2008 he is in his second stint as the president of Serbian Football Association...
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