Toni Savevski is a Macedonian former professional footballer who played as a midfielder.
11 Facts About Toni Savevski
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Toni Savevski started his career in Pelister Bitola and then played for Vardar Skopje, where he won the league in 1987, but due to a point deduction punishment of Partizan was overturned, the title eventually was awarded to the latter.
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Toni Savevski quickly developed into one of the team's consistent players and, alongside Stelios Manolas, became the permanent leaders of the great AEK of the 90s.
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Toni Savevski combined very well and assisted all the great strikers that played in the club during his era, such as Batista, Dimitriadis, Alexandris, Kostis, Nikolaidis.
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Toni Savevski scored some very important goals, the most important of all being this against Rangers in Glasgow, for the UEFA Champions League qualifiers in the summer of 1994.
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Toni Savevski served AEK for 13 years winning the league four times and the Greek cup three times.
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Toni Savevski urgently stopped football in the yellow-black jersey in January 2001 and within a few days he became the coach of the team, as a "duo" with Eugene Gerards, a position in which he remained until the end of the season.
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Toni Savevski made his senior debut for Yugoslavia in an August 1988 friendly match away against Switzerland and earned a total of 2 caps for the team, scoring no goals, before debuting for Macedonia in an October 1994 European Championship qualification match against Spain.
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Toni Savevski earned another 8 caps and his final international was a September 2000 FIFA World Cup qualification match against Slovakia.
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In January 2001, after the then coach AEK Athens, Giannis Pathiakakis resigned, Toni Savevski retired as a footballer overnight, in order to take the position of coach on the yellow-black bench, with Eugene Gerards as technical advisor.
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Toni Savevski later moved to Athens, Greece after his first son, Victor was born.