Zlatko Čordaš

Zlatko Čordaš ( German  Slatko Tschordasch , Serbian Златко Чордаш , born September 26, 1948 in Kragujevac , Serbia ) is a former Yugoslav table tennis player and coach. He won bronze three times at team world championships, twice he was runner-up in doubles at the European youth championships. Later he was the team supervisor of the German Table Tennis Association DTTB .

player

Čordaš grew up in Zagreb, SR Croatia. As a teenager he joined the Postar Zagreb association and later moved to Vjesnik Zagreb.

At the age of 14 he was appointed to the youth national team of Yugoslavia. At the European Youth Championships in Prague in 1965 he was second in doubles (with Darko Klevisar). A year later he repeated this success in Szombathely together with Antun Stipančić .

At the same time, he also played in the men's national team. From 1965 to 1973 he was nominated for all five world championships . In 1969 and 1971 he was third with the Yugoslav team. At the European Championship in 1970, the Yugoslav team won silver. Čordaš was invited to international matches a total of 151 times.

From 1979 to 1982 Zlatko Čordaš played for the TTC Heusenstamm in the German Bundesliga . Then he became active for ASV JOOLA Landau in the regional league, with which he achieved promotion to the 2nd Bundesliga. In 1990 he played his last games here.

Trainer

After finishing his international career as an active player, Čordaš worked as a trainer. At the 1975 World Cup and 1977 World Cup, he was in charge of the Canadian national team, and in 1979 he was assistant coach of Yugoslavia. From 1982 he worked as an assistant trainer at ATSV Saarbrücken .

From 1986 to 1997 he worked as a team coach at the German Table Tennis Association DTTB . In particular , he looked after Rosskopf / Fetzner when they won the World Cup in 1989.

In 1997 he became "Competition Manager for Europe" in the service of the ITTF and ETTU . Čordaš has been Technical Advisor to the National Olympic Committee (NOK) of Qatar since 2003 .

Private

Čordaš studied sport for two years at the University of Sarajevo. He is married to the Yugoslav national table tennis player Irena Čordaš and has two sons, Sascha and Sinischa. From 1982 to 1997 he was Promotion Director at the table tennis company JOOLA . In November 1994 he received German citizenship.

Results from the ITTF database

Association	event	year	place	country	singles	Double	Mixed	team
YUG	Balkan Championship	1972	Ankara	DOOR	Semifinals	gold		1
YUG	Balkan Championship	1971	Brasov	ROU	gold			1
YUG	Balkan Championship	1970	Sofia	BUL	gold	gold		1
YUG	Balkan Championship	1968	Skopje	YUG	silver			1
YUG	Balkan Championship	1966	Brasov	ROU				1
YUG	European Championship	1970	Moscow	URS	last 16	Quarter finals		2
YUG	European Youth Championship (Juniors)	1966	Szombathely	HUN		silver
YUG	European Youth Championship (Juniors)	1965	Prague	TCH		silver
YUG	EURO TOP12	1971	Zadar	YUG	12
YUG	World Championship	1973	Sarajevo	YUG	last 32	last 16	last 32	6th
YUG	World Championship	1971	Nagoya	JPN	last 32	no participants	no participants	3
YUG	World Championship	1969	Munich	FRG	last 32	Agony	Agony	3
YUG	World Championship	1967	Stockholm	SWE	Rd 1	last 32	no participants	7th
YUG	World Championship	1965	Ljubljana	YUG	Agony	last 32	last 64

swell

• Manfred Schäfer: Interview with Zlatko Čordaš, DTS magazine , 1988/2 pages 10 - 11
• 75 years of the German Table Tennis Association - A game for life, ISBN 3-00-005890-7 , page 206

Individual evidence

1. ^ Chronicle of the TTC Heusenstamm ( Memento from October 8, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) (pdf)
2. ↑ Chronicle ASV JOOLA Landau (accessed on September 25, 2012; PDF; 1.7 MB)
3. ↑ DTS magazine , 2002/11 page 7
4. ↑ DTS magazine , 1995/1, page 39
5. ↑ Zlatko Čordaš Results from the ITTF database on ittf.com (accessed on September 5, 2011)