Ratomir Dujković

Ratomir Dujković (born February 24, 1946 in Borovo , Yugoslavia ) is a football coach and former goalkeeper of Serbian nationality. He is currently training the Chinese Olympic team.

Goalkeeping career

He started his career as a goalkeeper in Osijek, not far from his hometown. Because of his outstanding performance, the leadership of Red Star Belgrade , the leading Yugoslav soccer club, soon became aware of him and brought him to the capital club. From the end of the 1960s until his departure in 1974 he was able to celebrate four Yugoslav championship titles with Red Star and a place in the semi-finals of the European Cup. During his time in Belgrade he also played four times for the national team of Yugoslavia with only one goal conceded. In 1974 he was drawn to Real Oviedo in Spain for three seasons . From 1977 to the end of his career in 1982 he played for the smaller Belgrade club FK Zemun .

Coaching career

Even after his active career, he stayed with FK Zemun, first as co-coach and later as head coach, until he switched to the coaching staff of Red Star in 1986, where he was able to win the European Cup in 1991 as an assistant coach. 1992/93 Dujković was the first national coach of a FIFA member association; he led the Venezuelan national soccer team through qualifying for the 1994 World Cup in the United States, but was dismissed from eight games with only one win. After stints as junior coach of Yugoslavia in 1995 and as coach of the Myanmar national team in 1996 , he coached two clubs in Venezuela one after the other , with Atlético Zulia winning the championship in 1998. The Venezuelan clubs ULA FC and Estudiantes de Mérida are named as his employers without any precise chronological order .

His next stop was Rwanda , the selection of which led him to qualify for the 2004 African Championship .

From December 2004 he was the national coach of Ghana , which under his leadership was able to qualify for a world championship for the first time. On July 16, 2006, he announced that he was resigning from his post due to health problems.

In October of the same year he accepted an offer from China to train the team there in order to prepare them for the Olympic Games in their own country . Three weeks before the start of the Olympic Games in Beijing on August 6, 2008, the Dujković was surprisingly replaced by Yin Thiesheng as coach. Dujković should then act as an advisor to the Chinese team. Most recently, Dujković coached the Serbian U-21 team until they were eliminated from the World Cup in 2010. Ratomir Dujković lives in an apartment on the Venezuelan island of Margarita that he bought in the 1990s. According to himself, Dujković has health problems that prevent him from wanting to work as a trainer or similar in Venezuela again.

Individual evidence

1. ^ Ratomir Dujković in the database of National-Football-Teams.com (English). Retrieved February 13, 2016.
2. ↑ Técnicos y Jugadores Mundialistas que pasaron por el fútbol nacional ( Memento of the original from February 27, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (Spanish) on balonazos.com from June 17, 2014, accessed February 27, 2015 
3. ↑ FOCUS Online: China starts with a new selection trainer in Beijing. In: FOCUS Online. Retrieved February 13, 2016 . 
4. ↑ Ratomir Dujkovic: "Aún espero la llamada de la FVF". (No longer available online.) In: www.el-nacional.com. Archived from the original on February 13, 2016 ; accessed on February 13, 2016 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
5. ↑ Ratomir Dujkovic ya no es opción para la Vinotinto. In: Líder en Deportes. Retrieved February 13, 2016 .