Slavko Petrović (football player)

Slavko Petrovic

Slavko Petrović (born August 10, 1958 in Belgrade ) is a former Yugoslav soccer goalkeeper and active soccer coach .

Originally from the former Yugoslavia, Petrović was in the goal of the national team of his home country seven times during his active football career and was twice Yugoslav champion and cup winner with Red Star Belgrade (from 1972 to 1979). After losing the UEFA Cup final in 1979 to Borussia Mönchengladbach , he left Belgrade and moved to Fortuna Düsseldorf (1979/1980) in Germany. He ended his active career in Rot-Weiss Essen (1980/1981), Wormatia Worms (1981/1982), Olympia Lampertheim (1982–1987) and TSV Amicitia Viernheim (1987–1990).

At the beginning of his now following coaching career he was in charge of FC Alemannia Groß-Rohrheim (1992–1996) and Amicitia Viernheim (1996–1997) before he gained a foothold in professional football as an assistant coach at Karlsruher SC (1997/1998). He took over his first higher-class head coach position in 1998 at SV Darmstadt 98 in the Oberliga Hessen . Here he succeeded in winning the championship and thus the resurgence of the "Lilien" in the Regionalliga Süd. After his dismissal in October 1999, Petrović took over a month later as a coach at the then Northeast regional division FC Carl Zeiss Jena . He reached a 4th place in the 1999/2000 season, but was dismissed in May 2001 when the relegation of Carl Zeiss Jena was certain. This was followed by engagements as a trainer at Fortuna Düsseldorf (7/2002–5/2003) and SV Waldhof Mannheim (1/2005–12/2005). In the 2007/08 season Slavko Petrović was a coach at the Hungarian first division club Zalaegerszegi TE FC . From the 2010/2011 season he coached the traditional Serbian club FK Borac Čačak and from the 2011/2012 season FK Rad Belgrade and again FK Borac Čačak. In the Bosnian Premijer League he also coached FK Radnik Bijeljina , FK Željezničar Sarajevo and FK Sloboda Tuzla . At the moment he is a trainer at Radnik Bijeljina.

Web links

Commons : Slavko Petrović  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Slavko Petrović in the database of weltfussball.de
• Slavko Petrović at fcc-supporters.org