Dragoslav Stepanović
Personal information | |||
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Full name | Dragoslav Stepanović | ||
Date of birth | 30 August 1948 | ||
Place of birth |
PR Serbia, Yugoslavia | ||
Position(s) | Defender | ||
Youth career | |||
Mladi Proleter | |||
1962–1966 |
OFK Belgrade | ||
Senior career* | |||
Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
1966–1973 |
OFK Belgrade | 201 | (11) |
1973–1976 | Red Star Belgrade | 30 | (2) |
1976–1978 | Eintracht Frankfurt | 49 | (3) |
1978–1979 | Wormatia Worms | 33 | (0) |
1979–1981 | Manchester City | 15 | (0) |
1981–1982 | Wormatia Worms | 16 | (0) |
Total | 344 | (16) | |
International career | |||
1970–1976 | Yugoslavia | 34 | (1) |
Managerial career | |||
1982–1985 | FV Progres Frankfurt | ||
1985–1987 | FSV Frankfurt | ||
1988–1990 |
Rot-Weiß Frankfurt | ||
1991 | Eintracht Trier | ||
1991–1993 | Eintracht Frankfurt | ||
1993–1995 | Bayer Leverkusen | ||
1995–1996 | Athletic Bilbao | ||
1996 | Eintracht Frankfurt | ||
1998 | AEK Athens | ||
1999 |
VfB Leipzig | ||
2000 | Stuttgarter Kickers | ||
2000 | Kickers Offenbach | ||
2001 | Rot-Weiß Oberhausen | ||
2003 |
Shenyang Jinde | ||
2004 | Zamalek | ||
2007–2008 | Čukarički | ||
2009 | Vojvodina | ||
2010 | Laktaši | ||
2014 | Radnički Niš | ||
*Club domestic league appearances and goals |
Dragoslav Stepanović (Serbian Cyrillic: Драгослав Степановић, pronounced [drâɡoslaʋ stepǎːnoʋitɕ]; born 30 August 1948) is a Serbian retired football player and coach.
Club career
Stepanović made his name with
Stepanović's first stop abroad was Bundesliga with Eintracht Frankfurt where he became affectionately known as Steppi. He played in Frankfurt for two seasons (1976–1978). Next came a one-season stint with Wormatia Worms.
In July 1979 he joined English club Manchester City F.C. for £140,000, and spent two seasons there.
He finished out his career back in Germany with Wormatia Worms in 1981–82 season.
International career
Stepanović is a former Yugoslav international, and used to be a favourite of national team head coach Vujadin Boškov.
International goals
- Scores and results list Yugoslavia's goal tally first, score column indicates score after each Stepanović goal.
No. | Date | Venue | Opponent | Score | Result | Competition |
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1 | 14 June 1972 | Estádio Belfort Duarte, Curitiba, Brazil | Venezuela | 7–0 | 10–0 | Friendly
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Coaching career
Stepanović went on to become a successful football coach in Germany. He made a managerial name for himself in Germany with
He was idolized in the US and finally came to Columbus, Ohio, in 2002 to coach the youth soccer club Blast FC. He has since returned to Germany, where he for a brief spell was team manager at TuS Koblenz.
In December 2006, Stepanović was a short-list candidate for the Bosnia-Herzegovina national team coaching spot, but the job went to Fuad Muzurović instead.
On 24 August 2007, Stepanović was named the head coach of Serbian SuperLiga club Čukarički. His appointment came two weeks into the 2007–08 season during which Čukarički already played the Serbian powerhouses Red Star Belgrade and Partizan, managing a draw and a loss respectively,[2] On 8 December 2008, he was fired by Čukarički.
During the summer 2009 off season on 8 June 2009, he was named FK Vojvodina head coach for the upcoming 2009–10 season[3] but he was released on 2 October 2009.
References
- ^ "1992/1993". bayer04.de. Retrieved 2 December 2019.
- ^ "Dragoslav Stepanović novi trener Čukaričkog | Mondo". Mtsmondo.com. 10 June 2010. Archived from the original on 27 September 2007.
- ^ "Stepi za MONDO: Da, ja sam trener Vojvodine, MTS Mondo, June 6, 2009". Mtsmondo.com. 10 June 2010. Archived from the original on 7 June 2009.