Velibor Vasović

Simultaneous with starting gymnasium studies, Vasović got introduced to the game of football at FK Novi Beograd, a small local lower-league outfit.

Partizan

In 1955, youngster's footballing talents got spotted by FK Partizan youth coach Florijan Matekalo, initiating fifteen-year-old Vasović's transfer across town to the big club's youth system where he came in alongside additional talented teenagers such as right back Fahrudin Jusufi and central midfielder Vladica Kovačević, brought in from Prilep and Ivanjica, respectively. Others already on the youth team were twin brothers Srđan and Zvezdan Čebinac as well as Branko Pejović. The entire talented generation soon came to be known as "Matekalo's Babies". In June 1958, eighteen-year-old Vasović got moved up to the full squad. He spent five seasons at FK Partizan in this stint (June 1958 – June 1963) before controversially transferring to archrivals Red Star Belgrade during summer 1963.

Six months at Red Star Belgrade

In the summer of 1963, twenty-three-year-old Vasović was coming off another stellar season for Partizan in which he greatly contributed to the crno-beli winning their third consecutive league title. However, his contract with Partizan was set to expire. In a 1986 interview for Duga magazine, Vasović recalled how his transfer to Red Star came about: Both my and Jusufi's contracts were expiring in the summer of 1963. And in addition to being key members of the Partizan team, both of us were also…

In the Yugoslavia national team Vasović appeared from 1961 until 1966 in 32 fixtures and scoring two goals. His final international was a June 1966 friendly match away against Sweden.

Scores and results list Yugoslavia's goal tally first, score column indicates score after each Vasović goal.

After ending his career as a player in 1971, he coached FK Partizan (second part of 1971–72 season, full 1972–73, and the first part of 1973–74), Angers SCO (1975–1976), Paris Saint-Germain (first part of 1976–77 and the first part of 1978–79 seasons). He also managed Egyptian club Zamalek SC (1982–1983), Ethnikos Piraeus (1983), Red Star Belgrade (1986–1988), and AC Bellinzona (1989) before returning home to Belgrade and working as a lawyer. During his coaching career, he managed to win one French Division 2, in [[1975–76 French Division 2 |1975–76]] season, with Angers, and one Yugoslav Championship, in 1987–88 season, with Red Star.

Born on 3 October 1939, in Požarevac, on the eve of World War II, to parents hailing from Montenegro—tax office clerk Živojin Vasović and homemaker Jelena "Jelka" Laušević—young Velibor was the couple's ninth child. He had four older brothers and three older sisters, while another one of his sisters died before he was born. With the Nazi German invasion and subsequent dismemberment of the Yugoslav kingdom in April 1941, Vasović's father got taken prisoner by the Germans, spending four years in captivity, while his oldest siblings joined the Partisan resistance movement. The youngster completed primary education in his hometown before moving to capital Belgrade along with his entire family courtesy of his maternal uncle David Laušević who in the meantime rose to high post with the Directorate for State Security (UDB). Vasović began his secondary studies by enrolling at the First Belgrade Gymnasium.