Radomir Antić

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Radomir Antić
Radomir Antić.jpg
Personnel
birthday November 22, 1948
place of birth Žitište ,  FVR Yugoslavia
date of death April 6, 2020
Place of death Madrid ,  Spain
position Defense
Juniors
Years station
FK Red Star Belgrade
Men's
Years station Games (goals) 1
1967-1968 FK Sloboda Užice ? (?)
1968-1976 FK Partizan Belgrade 181 (9)
1976-1988 Fenerbahçe Istanbul 28 (2)
1978-1980 Real Zaragoza 58 (7)
1980-1984 Luton Town 100 (9)
National team
Years selection Games (goals)
1973 Yugoslavia 1 (0)
Stations as a trainer
Years station
1985-1988 FK Partizan Belgrade (assistant coach)
1988-1991 Real Zaragoza
1991-1992 real Madrid
1992-1995 Real Oviedo
1995-2000 Atlético Madrid
2000-2001 Real Oviedo
2003 FC Barcelona
2004 Celta Vigo
2008-2010 Serbia
2012-2013 Shandong Luneng Taishan
2015 Hebei China Fortune
1 Only league games are given.

Radomir Antić ( Serbian - Cyrillic Радомир Антић ; born November 22, 1948 in Žitište , Yugoslavia ; † April 6, 2020 in Madrid , Spain ) was a Yugoslav football player and later Serbian football coach .

Career

Player career

Antić's parents got to know each other during the partisan struggle against the German occupiers during World War II and came to Žitište from Bosnia in 1948 as so-called colonists. The father was from Šipovo near Jajce , the mother came from the Grmeč region . At the age of six the family moved to what was then Titovo Užice . After excursions to amateur boxing , chess and basketball , he began playing football at FK Sloboda Užice and was under contract there until 1968. That year he joined FK Partizan Belgrade as a defender . He was once Yugoslav champion in 1976. In the championship season, Antić scored a header goal despite sustaining a skull fracture in a tackle.

After the championship in Yugoslavia, the Serb moved to Fenerbahçe Istanbul in Turkey, and during the two years in Istanbul the defender at the time won the Turkish championship once.

In 1978 he went to Spain for Real Saragossa for the first time , where he was active for another two years, then the then Yugoslav went to England to Luton Town , where he ended his playing career with a total of 100 games in four years. At Luton Town he scored the most important goal of his career, four minutes before the end of the last match day from 16 meters against Manchester City . So he ensured the relegation of his club.

Coaching career

1985 Antić returned to Yugoslavia and was assistant coach at his former club as a player FK Partizan Belgrade until 1988 . In 1988 he went back to Spain to his former club Real Saragossa , where he became head coach. He held the reins for three years before being signed by Real Madrid as head coach in 1991 .

Antić replaced Alfredo Di Stéfano for the last twelve games of the 1990/91 season. He finished third and made it to the UEFA Cup with Los Blancos . He brought stars like Robert Prosinečki and Luis Enrique to the capital. After relatively good success he was kicked out and replaced by the Dutchman Leo Beenhakker .

In 1992 he went to Real Oviedo . He managed to stay with the Asturians. His Real Madrid star Robert Prosinečki followed him to the city on the Camino de Santiago in 1994 . In 1995 he left Oviedo and moved to Atlético Madrid .

He coached Atletico between 1995 and 2000 with two breaks. In his first season as head coach he was able to win the Spanish double in 1995/96 with the Madrilenians. In the 1996/97 season he was with Atletico, for the first time in club history, in the UEFA Champions League . The team was eliminated in the quarter-finals against Ajax Amsterdam . In the summer of 1998 the Serb was replaced by the Italian Arrigo Sacchi . In 1999 he returned to the Vicente Calderón Stadium as the successor to his successor . This year the cup final could be reached. At the end of the season Antić was again replaced by an Italian, this time Claudio Ranieri . From February 2000 he was allowed to experience a third term at Atletico, again he lost the cup final with the team.

In the summer of 2000 Antić returned to Real Oviedo. With the Asturians he had to relegate from the Primera División .

After a year and a half of unemployment, Antić joined FC Barcelona in January 2003 . He is the only coach who coached Real Madrid, Atlético Madrid and Barça. At the end of the season he was replaced by Frank Rijkaard .

In 2004 Antić came to Celta Vigo , but this time he did not make it through to relegation.

On August 19, 2008, after four years without a coaching job, he took over the national team of his home country Serbia . Under his leadership, the Serbian national team qualified for the 2010 World Cup in South Africa. There, the Serbian eleven were eliminated after the group stage despite a 1-0 win against later World Cup third party Germany. From 2012 to 2013 and in 2015 Radomir Antić trained in China Shandong Luneng Taishan and Hebei China Fortune respectively .

successes

As a player:

  • 1 time Yugoslav champion (1976)
  • 1 time Turkish champion (1978)

As a trainer:

  • 1 time Spanish champion (1996)
  • 1 time Spanish cup winner (1996)

Private

Radomir Antić died on April 6, 2020 at the age of 71.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Süddeutsche Zeitung: freedom of fools for artists. Retrieved April 9, 2020 .
  2. ↑ Politički intervju - Radomir Antić: Imam taktiku za bolju Srbiju , on pressonline.rs, accessed on April 9, 2020
  3. ↑ Roki dobio spomenik, a Antić bilbord , on sport.blic.rs, accessed on April 9, 2020
  4. ↑ JI Garchia-Ochoa: Muere Radomir Antic. April 6, 2020, accessed April 6, 2020 (Spanish).
personal data
SURNAME Antić, Radomir
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Serbian soccer player and coach
DATE OF BIRTH November 22, 1948
PLACE OF BIRTH Žitište
DATE OF DEATH April 6, 2020
Place of death Madrid