Ante Čačić

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Ante Čačić
Ante Cacic in charge of Dinamo Zagreb.jpg
Čačić, as coach of Dinamo Zagreb in 2011
Personnel
birthday September 29, 1953
place of birth Zagreb ,  SFR Yugoslavia
Men's
Years station Games (goals) 1
NK Prigorje Markuševac
Stations as a trainer
Years station
1986-1987 NK Prigorje Markuševec
1988-1989 TPK
1989-1992 NK Zadar
1992-1993 NK Dubrava
1993-1995 Inter Zaprešić
1994-1998 Croatia U-21 ( assistant coach )
1995-1996 NK Osijek
1996-1997 NK Zadar
1998 NK Slaven Belupo Koprivnica
1998-2000 NK Croatia Sesvete
2002-2003 Inter Zaprešić
2003-2006 Libya ( assistant coach )
2005-2006 Libya U-21
2006-2007 NK Kamen Ingrad Velika
2007 Inter Zaprešić
2011 NK Lokomotiva Zagreb
2011–2012 Dinamo Zagreb
2013 Radnik Sesvete
2013 NK Maribor
2014-2015 NK Slaven Belupo Koprivnica
2015 NK Lokomotiva Zagreb
2015-2017 Croatia
2019– Pyramids FC
1 Only league games are given.

Ante Čačić (born September 29, 1953 in Zagreb , Yugoslavia ) is a Croatian football coach who coached the Croatian national team from 2015 to 2017 .

Career

As a trainer

societies

Čačić coached various partly lower class clubs in Croatia, where he succeeded in advancing with Dubrava and Inter Zaprešić. He achieved his greatest success in the 2011/12 season when he led Dinamo Zagreb to the Croatian championship and cup victory . As champions, Dinamo qualified for the second qualifying round of the 2012/13 UEFA Champions League . In this, his team prevailed against Ludogorez Razgrad , who had become champions for the first time in Bulgaria , with a last-second goal. In the third round, the champions from Moldova Sheriff Tiraspol was eliminated without conceding a goal. After the Slovenian champions NK Maribor were eliminated in the playoffs, Dinamo was in the group stage. Here Dinamo could only get a point in the last game against Dynamo Kiev , but lost all other games and was last in the group behind Paris Saint-Germain , FC Porto and Kiev. After the league was lost to city rivals NK 0-1, Čačić was dismissed. This was followed by shorter coaching positions at other Croatian clubs and in Slovenia at NK Maribor. With Maribor he won the Slovenian Super Cup.

National team

From 1994 to 1998 he was assistant coach of the Croatian U-21 national team - partly at the same time as his job as a club coach - and from 2003 to 2006 he was assistant to his compatriot Ilija Lončarević in the national team of Libya .

After the Croatian national team had only reached 0-0 in qualifying for the 2016 European Championship against Azerbaijan and lost 2-0 to Norway , qualifying for the European Championship finals was in jeopardy. The Croatian Association therefore dismissed national coach Niko Kovač on September 9, 2015 and appointed Čačić, who had already coached the U-21 team a few years earlier, as his successor. Under Čačić then the last two qualifying games were won, so that Croatia qualified as group runner-up for the finals. The Croatians also remained undefeated in the following five friendlies under his leadership and were able to warm up to the final round on June 4, 2016 in the final test match before the European Championship finals against San Marino with ten goals and the highest win in their international match history won the opening game against Turkey 1-0. After a 2-2 win against the Czech Republic , they managed a 2-1 win against defending champions Spain , who had already qualified for the quarter-finals , which meant that the Spaniards lost another European Championship game 12 years after their last European Championship defeat and Croatia moved into the second round as group winners. Here they met the eventual European champions Portugal , who had qualified for the knockout round with three draws as one of the best thirds in the group. After 90 uneventful minutes without a goal, it went into extra time, in which the Portuguese scored the winning goal three minutes before the end of the game after a counterattack. In the subsequent qualification for the 2018 World Cup , the Croatians started with a draw and five wins, but then lost two of the next three games - in Iceland and Turkey - and were only able to win 1-0 against newcomer Kosovo , so they before the last two games only because of the better goal difference before Iceland .

After only a 1-1 draw against Finland on the penultimate match day of the World Cup qualifying and slipping from the direct qualifying place, he was dismissed shortly before the decisive game against Ukraine.

At the end of December 2019, he became the coach of the Egyptian club Pyramids FC .

Success as a trainer

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ fifa.com: "The Master Coronations in Eastern Europe"
  2. ↑ fifa.com: "Old records are falling"
  3. ↑ fifa.com: "Zagreb is still unstoppable"
  4. ↑ siol.net: "Čačić: Ponosen sem, ker sem v Mariboru"
  5. ↑ siol.net : " Super Cup Mariborčanom, v Celju pometli z Olimpijo"
  6. ↑ Niko Kovač released. In: fussball-em-total.de. FOOTBALL EM-total, September 9, 2015, accessed on September 9, 2015 .
  7. ↑ tagblatt.ch: Croatia dismisses national coach Cacic (October 7, 2017) ( memento of October 7, 2017 in the Internet Archive ), accessed on October 7, 2017
  8. ↑ sportnet.rtl: Ante Čačić ima novi angažman, bivši izbornik preuzeo egipatski Pyramids
personal data
SURNAME Čačić, Ante
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Croatian football coach
DATE OF BIRTH September 29, 1953
PLACE OF BIRTH Zagreb , Yugoslavia