| Velika Kopašnica | |
|---|---|
| Town | |
  Velika Kopašnica | |
| Coordinates: 42°53′19″N22°01′35″E / 42.88861°N 22.02639°E | |
| Country |  |
| District | Jablanica District |
| Municipality | Leskovac |
| Population (2002) | |
| • Total | 676 |
| Time zone | CET (UTC+1) |
| • Summer (DST) | CEST (UTC+2) |
Velika Kopašnica is a village in the municipality of Leskovac, Serbia. According to the 2002 census, the village has a population of 676 people. [1]
A village is a clustered human settlement or community, larger than a hamlet but smaller than a town, with a population ranging from a few hundred to a few thousand. Though villages are often located in rural areas, the term urban village is also applied to certain urban neighborhoods. Villages are normally permanent, with fixed dwellings; however, transient villages can occur. Further, the dwellings of a village are fairly close to one another, not scattered broadly over the landscape, as a dispersed settlement.
Leskovac is a city and the administrative center of the Jablanica District in southern Serbia. According to the 2011 census, the city urban area has 60,288 inhabitants, while the city administrative area has 144,206.
Serbia, officially the Republic of Serbia, is a country situated at the crossroads of Central and Southeast Europe in the southern Pannonian Plain and the central Balkans. The sovereign state borders Hungary to the north, Romania to the northeast, Bulgaria to the southeast, North Macedonia to the south, Croatia and Bosnia and Herzegovina to the west, and Montenegro to the southwest. The country claims a border with Albania through the disputed territory of Kosovo. Serbia's population is about seven million. Its capital, Belgrade, ranks among the oldest and largest citiеs in southeastern Europe.
Serbian international football (Association football) goalkeeper Saša Stamenković, current goalkeeper of Neftchi Baku and previously Red Star Belgrade was born in Velika Kopašnica in 1985.
Association football, more commonly known as football or soccer, is a team sport played with a spherical ball between two teams of eleven players. It is played by 250 million players in over 200 countries and dependencies, making it the world's most popular sport. The game is played on a rectangular field called a pitch with a goal at each end. The object of the game is to score by moving the ball beyond the goal line into the opposing goal.
Saša Stamenković is a Serbian football goalkeeper who plays for Sabah in the Azerbaijan Premier League.
Fudbalski klub Crvena zvezda, commonly known in English as Red Star Belgrade or simply Red Star, is a Serbian professional football club based in Belgrade, the major part of the Red Star multi-sport club. They are the only Serbian and ex-Yugoslav club to have won the European Cup, having done so in 1991, and the only team to have won the Intercontinental Cup, also in 1991. With 28 national championships and 24 national cups between Serbian and the former Yugoslav competitions, Red Star was the most successful club in former Yugoslavia and finished first in the Yugoslav First League all-time table, and is the most successful club in Serbia. Since the 1991–92 season, Red Star's best results are in the UEFA Champions League group stage and UEFA Europa League knockout phase.
