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Kosta Papić

Serbian football manager

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJun 25, 2026
Entity authorityQ6433449 ↗
Source-derived summary

Kosta Papić (Serbian Cyrillic: Коста Папић; born 17 July 1960) is a Serbian football coach.

Coaching career

In December 2008, Papić moved to Ghana and coached Accra Hearts of Oak SC and left the club on mutual consent, due to what he termed managerial interference. He worked last as head coach by Accra Hearts of Oak SC up to July 2009. He was later signed as head coach of Young Africans FC under a two-year contract. He then coached Royal Eagles. He became coach of the Eswatini national team in December 2018. He left the role in December 2019.

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This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “Kosta Papić” as serbian football manager. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.

Editorial reviewA dependable orientation record for establishing vocabulary, names and a first evidence trail. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1960, 2008, 2009, 2018—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1960-06-17. The account is most persuasive where Kosta, Papić and Serbian can be independently traced.
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The subject matters to the general reference register because the source frames it as serbian football manager. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.

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The citation trail is more important than the brevity of the summary: it shows where individual claims can be examined in context. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jun 25, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q6433449. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1960, 2008, 2009 and 2018.

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This entry incorporates text from “Kosta Papić” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.