Branko Okić

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Branko Okić
Personnel
birthday 16th February 1969
place of birth Kreševo ,  SFR Yugoslavia
size 173 cm
position Midfielder ( playmaker )
Men's
Years station Games (goals) 1
1986-1991 FK Sarajevo
1991-1994 RAA La Louvière
1994-1995 VfL Sindelfingen
1995-2002 VfR Aalen 209 (36)
2002-2004 FC Rot-Weiß Erfurt 69 0(9)
2004 Heidenheimer SB 1846 0 0(0)
2005-2009 VfR Aalen 117 (14)
Stations as a trainer
Years station
2009-2011 VfR Aalen II (assistant coach)
2011–2012 VfR Aalen U-19
2017 TuRa Untermünkheim
2019– DJK-SG Schwabsberg book
1 Only league games are given.

Branko "Brane" Okić (born  February 16, 1969 in Kreševo , SFR Yugoslavia ) is a former Bosnian football player . From 1995 he belonged to VfR Aalen with a two-year break and moved there to the coaching staff in 2009 after the end of his playing career, most recently he was the coach of the U-19 juniors until 2012. He is currently working as a trainer at DJK Schwabsberg-Buch.

Career

As a player

Branko Okić was born in Kreševo in what is now Bosnia and Herzegovina . In the mid-1980s, the 1.73 m tall, two-footed midfielder in the playmaker position as a 32-time junior national player was one of the most promising talents in Yugoslav football. In 1986, when he was 17, he signed a three-year contract with the first division club FK Sarajevo . With the beginning of the civil war, Okić was drafted as a soldier.

Through the contacts of a friend to the RAA La Louvière , Okić signed a three-year contract with the Belgian second division club. In 1994 a move to the German second division club TSV 1860 Munich failed . Okic was initially without a club and then joined VfL Sindelfingen in the fifth-rate association league Württemberg .

Meanwhile married and living in Heidenheim an der Brenz , he moved to VfR Aalen in the Oberliga Baden-Württemberg for the 1995/96 season . There he quickly became a regular and key player as well as a crowd favorite. In 1999 he rose with the club in the third-class Regionalliga Süd . In the summer of 2002 he moved to the league competitor Rot-Weiß Erfurt , where he became a crowd favorite. In the 2003/04 season, which ended with promotion to the Second Bundesliga , he shone as a playmaker in 34 games with five goals and 25 assists and was voted the second best player in the league by the coaches at the end of the season. Because of his advanced age of 35 years, Okić was sorted out by promotion coach René Müller for the new season .

About a stopover at the upper division Heidenheimer SB 1846 , he returned to VfR Aalen during the winter break of the 2004/05 season. Here he was able to build on his old achievements and thus had a significant share in the sporting success. With increasing age he was considered less and less, in the 2008/09 season in the newly created third division , at the end of which the VfR relegated one point behind the saving 18th place in the table, he was under the coaches Edgar Schmitt , Jürgen Kohler , Kosta Runjaic and Petrik Sander only twice on the starting grid. Only Rainer Scharinger , who took over the team as the fifth coach of the season four game days before the end of the season , put his trust in the 40-year-old, who was the oldest professional footballer in Germany before Michael Tarnat and Jens Lehmann , and put him in all four remaining games from the beginning. At the end of the season, Branko Okić ended his professional career.

As a trainer

Although he still had a contract with VfR Aalen that ran until 2010, Branko Okić ended his professional career in 2009. He fulfilled this by coaching the VfR amateur team in the sixth class association league Württemberg as an assistant coach (in the role of a player 's coach ) .

In 2011 Okic moved within the club and was coach of the A-Juniors (U-19) of the VfR, who played in the second-rate A-Juniors league. A year later, however, the club ended the cooperation when the youth division had to be reorganized after the promotion of the professional team to the second Bundesliga. Okić then left the club after a total of 15 years of membership.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ DJK-SG Schwabsberg book
  2. ↑ a b c Werner Röhrich: Germany's oldest football professional. Branko Okić from VfR Aalen celebrates his 40th birthday on Monday. In: Schwäbische Post , February 12, 2009
  3. ↑ Achim Pfeifer: The history of VfR Aalen. The long way up. Verlag Sport und Historie, Bielefeld / Aalen 2008, page 89
personal data
SURNAME Okić, Branko
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Brane
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Bosnian soccer player
DATE OF BIRTH 16th February 1969
PLACE OF BIRTH Kreševo , SFR Yugoslavia