Dražen Besek
| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Date of birth | 10 March 1963 | ||
| Place of birth | Varaždin, Croatia | ||
| Position(s) | Midfielder | ||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| 1980.–1984. | Varteks | 31 | (2) |
| 1984.–1985. | Olimpija Ljubljana | 17 | (2) |
| 1985.–1991. | Dinamo Zagreb | 130 | (17) |
| 1991.–1992. | Stade de Vallauris | ||
| 1992.–1993. |
Ikast FS | 17 | (1) |
| 1994.–1996. | Varteks | 53 | (5) |
| 1996.–1997. | Casino Salzburg | 11 | (0) |
| 1997.–1999. | Varteks | 33 | (2) |
| Managerial career | |||
| 1998.–2000. |
player-manager ) | ||
| 2000.–2001. | Čakovec | ||
| 2001.–2002. | Slaven Belupo | ||
| 2002.–2003. | Varteks | ||
| 2003.–2005. | Zagłębie Lubin | ||
| 2006.–2007. | Drava Ptuj | ||
| 2007.–2009. | Varteks | ||
| 2010.–2011. | Shanghai Shenhua (assistant) | ||
| 2011. | China U23 (assistant) | ||
| 2011.–2012. | Shanghai Shenhua | ||
| 2012.–2013. | NK Zagreb | ||
| 2013.–2014. | Hunan Billows | ||
| 2014.–2015. |
Wuhan Zall | ||
| 2015. |
Tianjin Songjiang | ||
| 2015. | Osijek | ||
| 2015.–2016. |
Birkirkara FC | ||
| 2018.–2020. |
Shanghai Shenhua (adviser) | ||
| 2022.–2023. | Maghreb de Fès (general manager) | ||
| *Club domestic league appearances and goals | |||
Dražen Besek (born 10 March 1963) is a Croatian football coach and a former professional football midfield player. As a player he spent most of his career playing for Croatian teams Varteks and Dinamo Zagreb before moving abroad and appearing for clubs in France, Denmark and Austria. After his playing career ended he went into management, and had several coaching spells at his hometown football club Varteks, before moving abroad again and joining Polish side Zagłębie Lubin, Chinese side Shanghai Shenhua and many others.
Club career
In Croatia, Besek played for
Coaching career
Besek started his coaching career in his hometown football club of
After that Besek joined Polish club Zagłębie Lubin where he promoted the club to the first Polish league[4] and reached a runner-up place in Polish Cup.[5]
In 2006, Besek joined top tier Slovenian club Drava Ptuj for a brief period before returning to Varteks for the third time as a manager.[6] On 26 December 2009 Besek decided to leave the club after accepting a position from top tier Chinese Super League club Shanghai Shenhua where he was an assistant coach to Miroslav Blažević. After his one-year contract with the club expired he followed Blažević to become an assistant coach for the China U-23 team.
On 10 August 2011 he returned to Shanghai Shenhua but this time as the head coach to replace Xi Zhikang for the rest of the season.[7] After leaving Shenhua at the end of 2011, Besek took over NK Zagreb in March 2012.[8] Besek would return to China with second-tier club Hunan Billows F.C. for the start of the 2013 China League One campaign.[9]
In China he managed two more clubs,
References
- ^ Dražen Besek at hrnogomet.com
- ^ 2001/02 Zagreb at rsssf.org
- ^ Aston Villa vs Slaven Belupo at scorespro.com 21 January 2011. Retrieved 26 April 2013
- ^ 2003/04 Polish football results at rsssf.org
- ^ 2004/2005 Polish Football Cup at 90minut.pl
- ^ Dražen Besek at worldfootball.net. Retrieved 26 April 2013
- ^ 申花快讯：克罗地亚人拜塞克出任申花新主帅 Archived 1 September 2011 at the Wayback Machine at shenhuafc.com.cn. Retrieved 26 April 2013
- ^ Piršljin, Josip (27 March 2012). "Dražen Besek novi trener Zagreba". Sportnet.hr (in Croatian). Retrieved 27 March 2012.
- ^ Dražen Besek u kineskom drugoligašu Hunan Xiangtau at evarazdin.hr. 11.12.2012. Retrieved 26 April 2013
- ^ "Heart of Midlothian 1-2 Birkirkara (1-2)". BBC Sport. Retrieved 3 March 2023.