Ante Čović

Ante Covic was a redirect to this article. For the Australian soccer goalkeeper of the same name, see Ante Covic (Soccer Player, June 1975) .

Ante Čović
Ante Čović in July 2019
Personnel
birthday	August 31, 1975
place of birth	Berlin ,  Germany
size	180 cm
position	midfield
Juniors
Years	station
1988-1991	Hajduk Split
1991-1992	Hertha BSC
1992-1994	VfB Stuttgart
Men's
Years	station	Games (goals) 1
1994-1995	VfB Stuttgart	13 0(2)
1995-1996	1. FC Nuremberg	24 0(1)
1996-2000	Hertha BSC	74 0(8)
2000-2001	VfL Bochum	5 0(0)
2001-2002	1. FC Saarbrücken	20 0(2)
2003-2010	Hertha BSC II	161 (31)
National team
Years	selection	Games (goals)
1993	Croatia U17	1 (0)
1993	Croatia U18	1 (0)
1993-1994	Croatia U19	4 (3)
1995	Croatia U20	1 (0)
1995-1997	Croatia U21	7 (1)
Stations as a trainer
Years	station
2010–2012	Hertha BSC (youth)
2012	Hertha BSC (assistant trainer; interim)
2013	Hertha BSC U19
2013-2019	Hertha BSC II
2019	Hertha BSC
1 Only league games are given.

Ante Čović (born August 31, 1975 in Berlin , Germany ) is a former Croatian football player and current coach .

Career as a player

The midfielder , who grew up in Germany as the son of a guest worker family, began his career at Hajduk Split . In 1991 he and his parents fled back to Berlin before the Croatian War, where he found accommodation in the Hertha BSC youth department . In 1992 he moved to VfB Stuttgart , where he signed his first professional contract two years later, parallel to his employment in the VfB fan shop. In his first season, he played under coach Jürgen Röber primarily as a substitute for the temporarily injured Giovane Élber 13 games and scored twice. Čović spent the following season at the then second division club 1. FC Nürnberg and moved - the transfer rights were with VfB Stuttgart - back to Hertha BSC in Berlin in the summer of 1996, where Röber was now a coach and his parents lived. In his first season for Herthan he played 28 times and was promoted to the first Bundesliga with the team . Until 2000 Čović played for Hertha; in his last season, however, he came only to six missions. Even with league competitor VfL Bochum , to whom he switched in the summer of 2000, he was only left with the reserve role. That is why the Croatian moved to the second division club 1. FC Saarbrücken after just one season .

After a season in Saarbrücken, he returned to his native Berlin . There he played in the second team of Hertha BSC in the Regionalliga Nord. Due to the shortage of personnel among the professionals, coach Falko Götz called the midfielder into the squad for the Bundesliga game on February 17, 2007 against 1. FSV Mainz 05 .

Career as a coach

Beginnings with Hertha youngsters

In 2010 Čović ended his active career and became the new U15 coach for Hertha BSC . On February 14, 2012, he temporarily took over the professional team of Hertha BSC as René Tretschok's assistant coach . Michael Skibbe had been released two days earlier . After Otto Rehhagel was signed as the new head coach, Čović became his assistant coach together with Tretschok. Their engagement ended with the relegation to the 2nd Bundesliga after the lost relegation against Fortuna Düsseldorf .

In the 2012/13 season, Čović focused on the football teacher training of the DFB , which he passed in March 2013.

For the 2013/14 season , Čović took over the A-youth (U19) from Hertha BSC. After 11 games in the A-Junioren-Bundesliga , he took over the second team at the end of November 2013 , which was at the bottom of the table in the fourth-class Regionalliga Nordost , as the successor to Jörg Schwanke . Under Čović, the team finished the 2013/14 Regional League season in 12th place in the table and held the class. In the 2014/15 season , the team finished 6th. This was followed by 10th place in the 2015/16 season , 9th place in the 2016/17 season , 8th place in the 2017/18 season and 4th place in the 2018/19 season .

Head coach of the Hertha professionals

For the 2019/20 season , Čović took over the Bundesliga team from Hertha BSC as the successor to Pál Dárdai . After a promising 2-2 draw at the start of the season at the reigning champions FC Bayern Munich , he and the team scored only 11 points from the first 12 games of the championship . On November 27, 2019, Hertha BSC, in 15th place on the table just ahead of the relegation places, announced the immediate separation from Čović and named Jürgen Klinsmann as his successor. However, his contract as a youth coach is indefinite, so that he could stay with the club in another function.

family

His son Maurice (* 1998) is also a soccer player.

Web links

• Ante Čović in the database of the German Football Association
• Ante Čović (player profile) in the database of transfermarkt.de
• Ante Čović (coach profile) in the database of transfermarkt.de
• Ante Čović in the database of weltfussball.de
• Overview of international matches on hns-cff.hr

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Neue Zürcher Zeitung of September 20, 1994, p. 60: "Fairy tales, dreams and talents bloom in Stuttgart"
2. ↑ Der Tagesspiegel NR. 15659 of June 20, 1996: "Hertha BSC gets Covic - and Kovac leaves."
3. ↑ Tretschok and Covic take over ( Memento from February 15, 2012 in the Internet Archive )
4. ↑ The participants of the 59th course (2012/2013) , dfb.de, March 21, 2013, accessed on May 7, 2019.
5. ↑ Ante Covic takes over U23 , herthabsc.de, accessed on May 7, 2019.
6. ↑ Ante Čović is the new head coach! , herthabsc.de, May 12, 2019, accessed on May 12, 2019.
7. ↑ Mutual separation from Ante Covic , herthabsc.de, November 27, 2019, accessed on November 27, 2019.
8. ↑ Covic no longer a Hertha trainer - Klinsmann takes over , kicker.de, November 27, 2019, accessed November 27, 2019.
9. ↑ See the profile of Maurice Čović on transfermarkt.de, accessed on May 7, 2019.