Miroljub Stojkovi?

Dr Miroljub Stojković is a recently retired physician, a former basketball player and coach, sports official, administrator, journalist, writer, editor and publisher who was born in Belgrade, Yugoslavia (now Serbia) in 1945. He received his medical degree from Belgrade University Medical Faculty in 1972. Having a special interest in sports medicine and exercise physiology, he worked as a chief consultant at Yugoslav Institute for Physical Education and Sports Medicine (1978-82).

During and after completing his studies Dr Stojković was also a modest first-team basketball player at Red Star Belgrade BC (KK Crvena zvezda), later on a notably successful head coach. He led Voždovac Belgrade women᾽s senior team to their first Yugoslav championship and national cup title as well to the European Cup of Cups᾽ winners final (1971-72), so becoming the youngest coach in the history of teams sport in the country who achieved this success.

Between 1975 and 1979, Dr Stojkovic was a deputy General Secretary of Red Star Belgrade Football Club, the most successful and prominent club in the country at that time and one of the leading clubs in Europe.

In the early eighties of last century, he contributed significantly to the development of Strata Sports Management, one of the pioneering companies in sports promotions and marketing in the United Kingdom.

A decade later Dr Stojković acted as a founder and managing director of Red Star Belgrade S.A. Sports Medicine Centre, at that time probably the most advanced of its kind in Serbia.

As a sports journalist and author he wrote for a number of publications, including Politika, NIN, Nova Borba, Reporter, Sport, Sportski žunal. He was a columnist for Tempo, contributor of World Soccer, founder and editor-in-chief of both Zvezdina revija (Red Star Belgrade Sports Association official monthly magazine) and FIBA Basketball Monthly (International Basketball Federation official monthly magazine).

Four years ago, Dr Stojković published his first book under the title The English-Serbian-English Football A-Z. This guide for coaches and players, with 12,000 terms and idioms, has become later not only the best-selling book of its kind in Serbia (3,000 copies sold), but also accepted as the Coaches' School of the Football Association of Serbia official manual.