Slobodan Čendić

Slobodan Čendić
Personnel
birthday	August 28, 1938
place of birth	Kragujevac ,  Yugoslavia
position	goalkeeper
Men's
Years	station	Games (goals) 1
1962-1964	FK Radnički Kragujevac
Stations as a trainer
Years	station
1966-1967	Tasmania Berlin
1967-1969	FC Schalke 04 (assistant coach)
1970-1971	FC Schalke 04
1971	FC Augsburg
1972	Tasmania Berlin
1972-1974	SC Preußen Münster
1974-1976	1. FC Saarbrücken
1977-1988	SV Waldhof Mannheim
1978-1980	1. FC Saarbrücken
1980-1982	Stuttgart Kickers
1982-1983	Alemannia Aachen
1983-1984	SC Charlottenburg
1985-1986	Rot-Weiß Oberhausen
1988-1989	FC 08 Homburg
1989	Hannover 96
1990	SV Darmstadt 98
1995-1996	SC Brühl St. Gallen
1996-1997	FC Kreuzlingen
1 Only league games are given.

Slobodan Čendić (born August 28, 1938 in Kragujevac , Kingdom of Yugoslavia , now Serbia ) is a former Yugoslav football coach . He began his career in 1970 in the Bundesliga with FC Schalke 04 . He spent a few years at 1. FC Saarbrücken , which he once led to the Bundesliga.

career

From 1962, at the age of 24, to 1964, Slobodan Čendić was an active player on the position of goalkeeper at his home club, the Yugoslav second division club FK Radnički Kragujevac , who was relegated to the third division in 1963. He had his first coaching post in Germany when he took over the regional division Tasmania Berlin, who had just been relegated from the Bundesliga , for the 1966/67 season . From 1967 to 1969 he was assistant coach at Bundesliga club FC Schalke 04 for two seasons under Karl-Heinz Marotzke , then Günter Brocker and finally Rudi Gutendorf .

After a year break that followed, Čendić began his professional coaching career when he replaced Gutendorf at FC Schalke 04 after the fourth match day of the 1970/71 season . He led the young team with Klaus Fichtel and Klaus Fischer, among others, to sixth place, which was the Gelsenkircheners' best Bundesliga placement to date, as well as to the semi-finals of the DFB Cup , which after a 2-0 half-time lead 2: 3 against 1 FC Köln was lost. Formally, Ernst Kuzorra , star of the 1930s Schalke championship team, was the coach at that time, as Čendić did not yet have a valid coaching license. At the sports university in Cologne, he obtained the football teacher diploma in 1970 together with fellow course colleagues Sigfried Held , Uwe Klimaschefski , Otto Rehhagel and Hans Tilkowski .

After that, Ivica Horvat was obliged as coach of Schalke for the following season and led them to runner-up and cup victory, while Čendić initially remained without a club. In October 1971 Čendić took over FC Augsburg in the then third-class Bayernliga, the highest amateur league. However, he was unable to give the team any impulses and was exchanged for Kurt Schwarzhuber in December of that year . In the further course of the season he took over from January 1972 again the second division Tasmania Berlin, who finished the season in second, but did not impress in the promotion round to the Bundesliga.

In the next two years, Čendić Preußen Münster coached in the second-class Regionalliga West . At the end of the 1972/73 season , the team was still in 13th place, but was able to improve to fifth in the following season , the last season before the introduction of the 2nd Bundesliga , which safely qualified for the new second-rate league . Čendić had not been coach of the team since March 1974 and was replaced on an interim basis by club chairman Günter Wellerdieck.

For the 1974/75 season , 1. FC Saarbrücken signed him in the southern season of the newly created 2. Bundesliga. There the team with the young Felix Magath , Egon Schmitt and the Traser twins Ernst and Heinz achieved a respectable seventh place. In the following year, he even achieved first place and thus promotion to the Bundesliga. After the ninth matchday, 1. FC - in which the future national defender Bernd Förster made his debut in professional football but had since left Magath - was in 16th place in October, and the impatient board replaced Čendić with Manfred Krafft . Saarbrücken finally finished the season in 14th and held the class.

A year later, from October 1977 , Čendić trained as the successor to Anton Rudinsky in Mannheim, at that time after the sponsor Chio , SV Chio Waldhof 07 in the 2nd Bundesliga South and led it to eighth place. In November 1978 , just one year later, with SVW in 12th place, he was temporarily replaced by Waldhöfer veteran Ludwig Günderoth , who in turn made way for Georg Gawliczek a month later . At the end of the season, SV Waldhof was 16th, only two points above a relegation zone.

Čendić himself took over the relegated Bundesliga 1. FC Saarbrücken a month after his replacement at the Waldhof, where he succeeded the former national player Hans Cieslarczyk . At the end of the season, the team was in a conciliatory eighth place and was even able to improve to fifth place in 1979/80 . In the following season , a place in the top ten was necessary in order to qualify for the now single-track 2. Bundesliga. 1. FC started the season catastrophically with nine defeats in the first eleven games, and after the 13th matchday Čendić was finally replaced by Erich Jordens at the end of October 1980 , but that did not change the fact that the Saarbrücken were third class. Čendić immediately found a place on the bench of league rivals Stuttgarter Kickers , who finished third at the end of the season and thus qualified for the single-track league , just two days later . In the next season 1981/82 he was with the Kickers seventh in the new league. Then he left the club.

In the following season he was employed by Alemannia Aachen for a few months from November 1982 to March 1983 . In the second half of 1983/84 he came to the promoted SC Charlottenburg , whose immediate relegation he was unable to prevent.

After a season without any employment, an engagement at Rot-Weiß Oberhausen followed in October 1985 as the successor to Friedel Elting . He led the Rhinelander, who had started the season badly, from penultimate to eleventh place. In the following season he won the first game with the red-whites, but three defeats in the next three games ensured his dismissal in August 1986, and János Bédl took his place.

On the 20th match day of the 1987/88 season , Čendić was the third season coach of the previous year's climber to Bundesliga FC Homburg , his first Bundesliga station in 12 years, but could not change the fact that the team was relegated four points behind . At that time, FC Homburg was threatened by the DFB with a point deduction in the event that it would compete as a jersey sponsor with a condom brand . Čendić had commented: "What kind of points do you want to deduct from us?" The former international Jimmy Hartwig , in the final stages of his career at Homburg, once called Čendić years later as an "unsuspecting choleric". The following season he was 32nd with the Saarlanders Match days in the 2nd Bundesliga in first place; after a 0-1 defeat at SC Freiburg in the final spurt of the season, there was a separation.

At the beginning of the 1989/90 season he coached Hannover 96 , which had just been relegated from the Bundesliga, but started with five defeats in six games, which led to his early departure and at the same time meant his last stop in top German football.

In 1990 he trained with SV Darmstadt 98 for a few days from June 1st to 13th (almost two months before the start of the season) . Jürgen Sparwasser followed him with his only major job as a trainer. In the mid-1990s, Čendić was still in Switzerland with the third and fourth class SC Brühl St. Gallen and FC Kreuzlingen , for the first time outside of Germany, on the bank and has lived in Switzerland ever since.

Web links

• Slobodan Cendic in the Kickers archive
• Slobodan Čendić in the database of weltfussball.de
• Slobodan Čendić in the database of footballdata.de

Individual evidence

1. ↑ October 16, 2004: Ernst Kuzorra was born 99 years ago , 100 Schalke years, 2004 (accessed on May 10, 2011)
2. ↑ Ludwig Günderoth WikiWaldhof, (accessed on May 23, 2011)
3. ↑ Elmer Ihm: Tricot advertising for condoms causes a stir ( Memento from February 1, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) , Echo Online, December 22, 2010 (accessed on May 10, 2011)
4. ↑ Sebastian Zenner: Jimmy Hartwig: From FC Homburg to the jungle camp , Saarland Online, January 10, 2011 (accessed on May 10, 2011)
5. ↑ Erik Garin: Switzerland - Trainers of First and Second Division Clubs , Rec.Sport.Soccer Statistics Foundation , June 20, 2007