Svetozar Popović

Svetozar Kika Popović (Serbian Cyrillic: Светозар Поповић; 6 February 1902 – 26 October 1985) was a Yugoslavia and Romania national football player and coach.

He began his playing career while being a refugee in Rome, Italy, while the Kingdom of Serbia was fighting World War I.

[1] Then, as an employee of the Commercial Bank Italia, he moved to Bucharest, Romania.

[2] On 1 May 1925, he played one match for the Romania national team as Svetozar Popovici,[3] against Turkey.

[6] He coached on three occasions the Kingdom of Yugoslavia national football team between 1937 and 1941.