Slavko Kovačić

Slavko Kovačić
Personnel
birthday	May 14, 1950
place of birth	Đurđevac ,  SFR Yugoslavia
position	striker
Men's
Years	station	Games (goals) 1
	NK Graničar Đurđevac
0000-1973	Dinamo Zagreb	4 00(1)
1974-1982	NK Zagreb	252 (144)
1982-1985	SV Austria Salzburg	61 0(17)
1985-1990	FC Puch
Stations as a trainer
Years	station
1985-1990	FC Puch
1991-1999	SV Austria Salzburg (assistant coach)
1999-2000	SC Fortuna Cologne
2000	SC Black and White Bregenz
2001	Vasas Budapest
2002-2005	Austria (assistant coach)
2005	Austria
2005-2006	Austria U-21 (assistant coach)
2006-2007	Albania (assistant coach)
2008-2009	KS Flamurtari Vlora
1 Only league games are given.

Slavko Kovačić (born May 14, 1950 in Đurđevac , SFR Yugoslavia , today Croatia ) is a former Yugoslav football player on the position of a striker and today's football coach .

Player career

Kovačić began his football career with NK Graničar Đurđevac and played for Dinamo Zagreb and NK Zagreb in the 1970s and 1980s . In the summer of 1982 he moved to the Austrian Bundesliga for SV Austria Salzburg for the club he scored 17 goals in 67 games. After three years in Salzburg, he moved to FC Puch as a player- coach . Under his leadership, FC Puch was promoted to the third-class Regionalliga West .

Coaching career

After the end of his career, he returned to SV Austria Salzburg as an assistant coach under Hans Krankl . After a short interlude as a trainer for Fortuna Cologne , he was in charge of SC Schwarz-Weiß Bregenz in 2000 . In 2002 he was again assistant coach under Hans Krankl for the Austrian national team . After the end of the Krankl era, Kovačić became assistant coach of the Austrian U-21 national team . In autumn 2006 he became assistant coach of the Albanian national team , where Otto Barić was coach. His last engagement as club coach of KS Flamurtari Vlora ended in 2009.

ÖFB international matches under Slavko Kovačić, together with Willibald Ruttensteiner and Andreas Herzog

Legend

• H = home game
• A = away game
• green background color = victory of Austria
• yellow background color = tie
• red background color = defeat

Games	Victories	draw	Defeats	Gates	TD
2	1	0	1	2: 1	+1

No.	date	Result	opponent		venue	occasion	comment
647	10/08/2005	0: 1	England	A.	Manchester ( ENG )	2006 World Cup qualification	First international match under interim coaches Willibald Ruttensteiner , Andreas Herzog and Slavko Kovačić
648	10/12/2005	2-0	Northern Ireland	H	Vienna	2006 World Cup qualification	Last international game under the interim coaches Ruttensteiner , Herzog and Kovačić Austria does not qualify as third party for the World Cup

Private

Slavko Kovačić is married and has two children. His son Luka was also a footballer and played in the Salzburg regional league (4th level in Austrian football).

successes

• Yugoslav Cup finalist 1972 (with Dinamo Zagreb)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Austria Salzburg Archives Slavko Kovacic
2. ^ Biography of Slavko Kovacic
3. ^ Coaching stations Slavko Kovacic