Dragoslav Stepanović
| Dragoslav Stepanović | ||
 Dragoslav Stepanović (2005)
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| Personnel | ||
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| birthday | August 30, 1948 | |
| place of birth | Rekovac , SFR Yugoslavia | |
| size | 183 cm | |
| position | External defense | |
| Juniors | ||
| Years | station | |
| -1962 | Sibnica | |
| 1962-1966 | OFK Belgrade | |
| Men's | ||
| Years | station | Games (goals) 1 |
| 1966-1973 | OFK Belgrade | 201 (11) |
| 1973-1976 | Red Star Belgrade | 30 (2) |
| 1976-1988 | Eintracht Frankfurt | 63 (5) |
| 1978-1979 | Wormatia worms | 33 (0) |
| 1979-1981 | Manchester City | 15 (0) |
| 1981-1982 | Wormatia worms | 16 (0) |
| National team | ||
| Years | selection | Games (goals) |
| 1970-1976 | Yugoslavia | 34 (1) |
| Stations as a trainer | ||
| Years | station | |
| 1982-1985 | FV Progres Frankfurt | |
| 1985-1987 | FSV Frankfurt | |
| 1988-1990 | Rot-Weiss Frankfurt | |
| 1991 | Eintracht Trier | |
| 1991-1993 | Eintracht Frankfurt | |
| 1993-1995 | Bayer 04 Leverkusen | |
| 1995-1996 | Athletic Bilbao | |
| 1996 | Eintracht Frankfurt | |
| 1998 | AEK Athens | |
| 1999 | VfB Leipzig | |
| 2000 | Stuttgart Kickers | |
| 2000 | Kickers Offenbach | |
| 2001 | Rot-Weiß Oberhausen | |
| 2003 | Shenyang Jinde | |
| 2004 | Zamalek Cairo | |
| 2007-2008 | FK Čukarički Stankom | |
| 2009 | FK Vojvodina Novi Sad | |
| 2010-2014 | FK Laktaši | |
| 2014 | FK Radnički Niš | |
| 1 Only league games are given. | ||
Dragoslav "Stepi" Stepanović (born August 30, 1948 in Rekovac ) is a former Serbian football coach and football player .
Career
Stepanović was one of the world's best full-backs in the late 1960s and early 1970s. In 1976 he was appointed to a world eleven. He played 34 times for Yugoslavia's national team. In Germany, he played for Eintracht Frankfurt and Wormatia Worms .
After the end of his active career, Stepanović, who is only called "Stepi" by many, initially worked as a bar host and did not make a significant contribution as a coach. With Rot-Weiss Frankfurt he failed in the Oberliga Hessen in the 1989/90 season with his player Jürgen Klopp on promotion to the second division . Nevertheless, it surprised many that in April 1991 he was hired by his former teammate Bernd Hölzenbein , the manager of the Bundesliga club Eintracht Frankfurt, as a coach for the Bundesliga. “Stepis” friendly manner and his relaxed tone quickly made him popular with players, fans and the media, but when his success waned, it also led to doubts about his authority and professional competence.
In the 1991/1992 season , Eintracht Frankfurt led the table for a long time with coach Stepanović. However, after a highly dramatic season finale, the club narrowly missed the German championship due to a defeat at Hansa Rostock .
In the following season he was increasingly questioned as a coach. Immediately after the 3-0 home defeat against Bayer 04 Leverkusen in the semi-finals of the DFB Cup , he announced his immediate resignation with the words “That's it” in a live television interview. His departure from Frankfurt at the end of the season was already certain long after he had signed a contract with Bayer Leverkusen. Since Leverkusen had already parted ways with Reinhard Saftig prematurely , Stepanović took up the post of head coach in the current 1992/1993 season and also looked after the team at the DFB Cup final against the amateur team from Hertha BSC in Berlin's Olympic Stadium . This led to the paradoxical situation that Stepanović won the DFB Cup as a coach, although he had already been eliminated in the current competition.
During his second engagement at Eintracht Frankfurt, he could not prevent relegation from the Bundesliga in the 1995/1996 season. At Kickers Offenbach , whose training he took over on August 6, 2000 as the successor to Peter Neururer , he resigned as a trainer on September 28, 2000 due to a poor record. Under the title Lebbe geht weider , Stepi also moderated a weekly call-in show from October 2005 to April 2007 on the metropolitan area broadcaster rheinmaintv .
From May 1, 2006, he was the manager of TuS Koblenz . Since he was unable to meet the expectations that had been placed on him, especially in the areas of marketing and sponsoring, Stepanović was released from his duties on July 26, 2006 and dismissed on August 31, 2006.
Most recently Stepanović was at the Serbian club FK Vojvodina Novi Sad as a coach, but was released in October 2009 because of sporting failures. In 2014 he worked for FK Radnički Niš .
Trivia
In the press conference after the lost game in the Bundesliga season finale in 1992 against Hansa Rostock , Stepanović coined the now legendary bon mot "Lebbe geht weider", which has become a kind of trademark for him.
Dragoslav Stepanović is the father-in-law of former professional footballer and current coach Slobodan Komljenović .
Manager stations
- 05 / 2006-07 / 2006 TuS Koblenz
literature
- Peter C. Moschinski, Martin Thein : Lebbe goes weider. The life of Dragoslav Stepanović , Verl. Die Werkstatt, Göttingen 2013, ISBN 978-3-7307-0016-7 (biography)
Web links
- Profile at the Serbian Football Association
Individual proof
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Stepanović, Dragoslav |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Stepanović, Stepi (nickname) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Serbian soccer player and coach |
| DATE OF BIRTH | August 30, 1948 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Rekovac |