Luka Kostic

Luka Kostic
Personnel
birthday	1958
position	Defender midfielder
Men's
Years	station	Games (goals) 1
1979-1989	NK Osijek
1991-1993	ÍA Akranes
National team
Years	selection	Games (goals)
1983	Yugoslavia amateurs	2 (0)
Stations as a trainer
Years	station
1994-1995	UMF Grindavík
1996-1997	KR Reykjavík
1998-2000	Víkingur Reykjavík
2001	KR Reykjavík
2002	Víkingur Reykjavík
2003–	Iceland U-17
2006–	Iceland U-21
1 Only league games are given.

Luka Kostić (* 1958 ) is a former Yugoslav - Icelandic football player who now works as a coach. The two-time Yugoslav amateur national player, who later took on Icelandic citizenship , was named Iceland's Footballer of the Year in 1992 .

Career

Player career

Kostić started his career at NK Osijek . With the club he played as a defensive midfielder in the first Yugoslav league and was appointed to the Yugoslav amateur national team in 1983.

After Kostić emigrated to Iceland, he started playing for ÍA Akranes in 1991 . With the club he made it to the Landsbankadeild in his first year . With the club, he was Icelandic champion in 1992 and the first foreign player to be named Iceland's Footballer of the Year in the same year. In the following season the championship title was defended and won the double by a 2-1 win over Keflavík ÍF in the cup final.

Coaching career

After the end of his active career, Kostić led UMF Grindavík for the first time to Landsbankadeild in 1994. He also reached the Icelandic Cup final with the club, which ended, however, with a 0-2 defeat against KR Reykjavík . In 1996 he took over the coaching position at KR Reykjavík. With the club he was runner-up behind his former club ÍA Akranes in his first season. After a fifth place in the following season he moved on to the second division Víkingur Reykjavík . With the club he rose to the Landsbankadeild, but missed relegation. In 2001 Kostić returned as an assistant coach to KR, but moved again to Víkingur after a season.

In 2003 Kostić accepted an offer from the Knattspyrnusamband Íslands , the Icelandic football association. At first he only trained the U-17 team, but from 2006 he also took over the U-21 national team . As the coach of the U-17 national team, he made it possible for an Icelandic national team to take part in an international tournament for the first time when the team qualified for the U-17 European Football Championship in Belgium in 2007 .

In parallel to his coaching career, Kostić studied at the University of Iceland . In 2008 he completed his studies in business management and nutrition and health.

Achievements and Awards

• Icelandic champion: 1992, 1993
• Icelandic Cup Winner: 1993
• Iceland's Footballer of the Year: 1992

Web links

• CV Kostić (PDF file; 28 kB)