Ivan Golac
Personal information | |||
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Full name | Ivan Golac[1] | ||
Date of birth | 15 June 1950 | ||
Place of birth | Koprivnica, PR Croatia, FPR Yugoslavia | ||
Height | 5 ft 10 in (1.78 m) | ||
Position(s) |
Right-back | ||
Youth career | |||
1962–1968 | Partizan | ||
Senior career* | |||
Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
1968–1978 | Partizan | 120 | (3) |
1978–1983 | Southampton | 144 | (4) |
1982 | → Bournemouth (loan) | 9 | (0) |
1983 | → Manchester City (loan) | 2 | (0) |
1983–1984 | Belasica | 1 | (0) |
1984–1986 | Southampton | 24 | (0) |
1985 | → Portsmouth (loan) | 8 | (0) |
Total | 308 | (7) | |
International career | |||
1976 | Yugoslavia | 1 | (0) |
Managerial career | |||
1989–1990 | Partizan | ||
1992 | Torquay United | ||
1993–1995 | Dundee United | ||
1997 |
ÍA Akranes | ||
1999 |
Sartid Smederevo | ||
2002–2003 | Karpaty Lviv | ||
*Club domestic league appearances and goals |
Ivan Golac (Serbian Cyrillic: Иван Голац, pronounced [ǐvan gô:lats]; born 15 June 1950) is a Yugoslav[2] former professional football player and manager.
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Playing career
Partizan
Golac was born in
"The Yugoslavian League was one of the best in the world; every game was really tough. It was a kind of war because there was a lot of talent and ambition. We had a very good crowd for all the games and more or less all the clubs, especially Partizan Belgrade, Red Star Belgrade and Dinamo Zagreb. You could put them among the ten biggest derbies in the world ... we would play in front of crowds of 90–100,000"[6]
Southampton
The year of 1978 would prove to be a watershed in Golac's career. He had reached the age of 28, when Yugoslavia's Communist authorities would allow players to move abroad;[7] it was also the year in which English football's restrictions on foreign players were lifted.
Golac was transferred to
He immediately became the established right-back, rarely missing a game over the next four seasons. The Dell crowd soon warmed to his "swashbuckling, surging style along the touchline" and he was voted the "Saints" Player of the Year in 1981 although, according to manager Lawrie McMenemy he had a tendency to "go missing" in away matches.[3]
The relationship turned sour in 1982 when a contract dispute between player and club led to Golac going out on loan to
Writing in the Southern Daily Echo in April 2003, McMenemy said:
"He was a terrific professional who trained well and loved 5-a-sides particularly in the small gym at The Dell where even the best players took time to get acclimatized to the speed of the action."[3]
Of his time with Southampton, Golac said:
"Beautiful football, beautiful supporters and beautiful days. From day one, from the very first kick, I could sense a connection with the crowd. They were terrific."[10]
"There was fire on the park – The Dell was always in flames and a lot of the opponents from London, Manchester and Liverpool just couldn't stand the heat."[10]
Managerial career
Following the end of his playing days, Golac turned to coaching, where his laid-back, positive style led to further successes. Returning to Partizan, he became assistant to manager Momčilo Vukotić in 1989 and helped the club to Yugoslav Cup success that year.
The following September, Golac had an extraordinary debut in management when Vukotić was taken ill on the eve of a
He still had a home in
The Scottish sporting media quickly latched on to Golac, whose
Despite the Cup triumph, poor
Personal life
Outside of football, Golac also had a spell running a chocolate factory in Belgrade.[12] He is married to Bratislava, with daughters Andrijana and Ivana, and they have homes in Belgrade and Vienna.[10]
Honours
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As player
Partizan
Southampton
- Football League Division 1 runner-up: 1983–84
- League Cupfinalist: 1979
As manager
Dundee United
- Scottish Cup: 1994
References
- ^ "Ivan Golac". Barry Hugman's Footballers. Retrieved 14 January 2018.
- ^ a b Dasović, Tomislav (29 December 2020). "Htio sam doći iz Beograda u Zagreb, čak sam i štrajkao, ali nisam uspio ispuniti želju moje majke". Večernji list (in Croatian). Retrieved 7 January 2021.
- ^ ISBN 0-9534474-3-X.
- ^ a b Football League Career Stats at Neil Brown
- ^ "Algeria - Yugoslavia 1-2". Yugoslavia National Team List of Results 1970-1979. RSSF. 24 February 1976. Retrieved 18 August 2010.
- ISBN 1-905449-01-1.
- ^ a b c "LSSC legends - Ivan Golac". Waterloo Sunset - London Southampton supporters. 2 November 2008. Archived from the original on 13 July 2011. Retrieved 22 August 2010.
- ^ Ivan Golac statistics at Football-Heroes.net
- ^ In That Number – A post-war chronicle of Southampton FC. p. 179.
- ^ ISBN 1-905449-01-1.
- ^ a b c Stephen Halliday (15 May 2010). "Dundee United's fans sang Love Is In The Air but I sensed something else else, says Golac". Scotsman.com. Retrieved 22 August 2010.
- ^ a b "Former Dundee Utd manager Ivan Golac covets Celtic job". BBC. 14 May 2010. Retrieved 15 August 2010.
- ^ "Þjálfarar ÍA 1951 - 2007". Archived from the original on 15 April 2012. Retrieved 8 December 2011.
- ^ Winter, Henry (14 January 1994). "Ardiles looking to Angell or Allen". The Independent. Retrieved 13 October 2009.