Slobodan Pavković
Slobodan Pavkovic is the current Football Association of Singapore (FAS) technical director. The 52-year-old officially started work at FAS on 1 April 2008 and takes over the role vacated by current Home United coach P N Sivaji.
Pavkovic comes with vast experience having coached at the highest levels with the Kuwait National Team, the Serbia U-19 Team, as well as top club sides in Egypt, Kuwait, Oman, Sweden and his native Serbia.
Prior to coaching, he had an illustrious playing career with local clubs FK Novi Sad and FK Partizan as well as Swedish club Degerfors IF. He was also capped at both U-19 and U-21 levels for the Yugoslavia national football team with the highlight coming in 1978 where they were crowned champions in the UEFA U-21 Championship 1978.
As the Technical Director, he will be responsible for the systematic implementation of player development and coaching education programmes to improve the overall standard of play in Singapore. He will also lead technical study groups to assess the level of play in Singapore and make recommendations to the Football Excellence Committee of FAS.
Pavkovic also authored a comprehensive syllabus, due to be published before the end of the year, for the development of Singapore football.
FAS general secretary Winston Lee told MediaCorp yesterday: "He has put in place a good programme and we like to see him implement it. It is based on the best practices of the world's leading football nations.
"But Slobodan has done other important things like creating centres of excellence for those aged eight, 10 and 12 to complement our existing structure that will take us from competing with Asean's best to Asia's top teams.
"We want him to stay and hopefully we can work this out soon."