Death during a match. Football players in tears, a tragedy in the football premier league
A shock in the world of football. Coach Mladen Zizović died during a top league match in Serbia. The FK Radnicki 1923 club suffered a huge loss.
The tragic event took place on Monday (November 3). It was on this day that a match of the local Serbian football league was played. FK Mladost Lucani and FK Radnicki 1923 faced each other. The visitors changed the coach less than two weeks ago, and the team was taken over by Mladen Zizović.
Death during a match. Tragedy involving coach Mladen Zizovic
The new coach of FK Radnicki 1923 was known in the world of football. He is a former representative of Bosnia and Herzegovina, for whom he played in the national team in 2018. Zizović won, among others: the national championship and the national cup of Bosnia and Herzegovina twice. He ended his football career in 2016.
Zizović took more and more confident steps as a coach. In the 2024/25 season, he was the coach of Boruca Banja Luka, with whom he won promotion to the league stage of the UEFA Conference League. He also played for this club as a player.
The tragedy involving Zizovic took place on Monday evening, during a league match. At the stadium in Lucani, the visiting coach fainted in the 22nd minute of the match. The coach of the team, which was already leading 2-0 on the field and was doing very well, was immediately taken to hospital. Unfortunately, as it turned out, his life could not be saved. The information was provided during the first half of the match. The match referee immediately stopped the fight.
Players, fans and coaching staffs of both teams burst into tears.
Zizović was only 44 years old. His death is a huge tragedy not only for the world of football in Bosnia and Herzegovina and Serbia, but for the entire world of football – looking at the reactions to the videos on social media – immediately after the tragic events on Monday evening.
