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Bogie moving the ball up field playing with the NY Cosmos
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Career Honors:
| | European FC Red Star team Captain | | NASL all-star selection |
| | Yugoslavian National Team Captain | | World and European Cup player |
| | NASL's New York Cosmos Team Captain | | World team all-star selection |
| | Voted North American Soccer League's Top Midfielder | | Professional Coaching license |
| | Second top scorer in NASL history | | Hall of Fame Inductee |
| | Yugoslavian National Team Coach, Middle East, Portugal, and USA Coach | | NASL all-time assist leader |
Bogie, who was the hub of some of the New York Cosmos' greatest teams,
and perhaps the most outstanding midfielder in the North American Soccer League's history.
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Bogicevic played for the Cosmos from 1978 to '84 and was a star in the Cosmos NASL champion teams
in 1978 and '82, playing in the title game in each of those three years, plus 1981. Those three NASL
championships supplemented five Yugoslav first-division titles that Bogicevic had won in his 13 seasons
with Red Star Belgrade.
Bogicevic played a total of 236 NASL games. The man known to Cosmos fans as "Bogie," scored only 39 goals,
but he had 166 assists, leading the NASL in that category in 1981, '82 and '83. Many of Giorgio Chinaglia's
goals were scored from assists by Bogicevic. Bogicevic was an NASL all-star every season that he was in the
league. He was a second-team choice in 1978 and '79, and then a first-team all star in 1980, 1981, 1982, 1983 and 1984.
Bogicevic, who was retired from the Yugoslav national team by the time he joined the Cosmos, even though he was only
27 at the time, played for Yugoslavia 47 times. Those included five of Yugoslavia's six games in the 1974 World Cup.
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