IN MEMORIAM - Milan Galić

Milan GALIĆ – “Gale”, legendary name of Serbian football, legal adviser in our Association for many years now, passed away on 13. September 2014.

He was a great player, attack leader, fast, alert, aggressive, good playmaker and excellent scorer – one of the best scorers in the history of Yugoslav football.

His beginnings were in 1953 in FK Proleter from the town of Zrenjanin. He became popular while playing in FK Partizan, Belgrade. In the period from 1959 to 1966 he played for FK Partizan 281 official matches, scored 165 goals and won four titles of national champion. He participated in the finals of the Cup of European Champions in 1966 when an excellent generation of FK Partizan lost against Real FC from Madrid with 2:1. In the period from 1966 to 1970 he performed for the Belgian Standard de Liege and won with them two titles of national champion and the Belgian Cup. From 1970 -1973 he played for  Stade de Reims.

He played in 51 matches of the Yugoslav National Team and scored 37 goals, which still makes him the second best scorer in the matches of the national team. With the Yugoslav National Team he won title of the European vice-champions (1960, Paris – match against Soviet Union 1:2), gold medal at the Olympic Games in Rome in 1960, and in 1962 at the World Cup in Chile he was a member of the team that won 4th place.

He graduated from the Belgrade Faculty of Law in 1973 and shown that top sport and high education can go hand in hand. Since 1979 he worked in the national Football Association, where he used his law school education and experience from football pitches to successfully work in administration of the FA and improve football of our country.