Joe Raduka

Joe Raduka
Personal information
Full name	Jovica Raduka
Date of birth	January 18, 1954 (age 70)
Place of birth	Velika Gorica, PR Croatia,; FPR Yugoslavia
Height	5 ft 9 in (1.75 m)
Position(s)	Defender
Senior career*
Years	Team
1974–1975	Red Star Belgrade
1978	Oakland Stompers
1979–1982	Edmonton Drillers
1979–1980	→ Namur (loan)
1982–1983	Golden Bay Earthquakes (MISL)
1983	Edmonton Eagles
1983–1987	Cleveland Force (indoor)
Managerial career
1989–1990	Cleveland Crunch (assistant)
1998–1999	Cleveland Crunch (assistant)
	*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Jovica "Joe" Raduka (

Cleveland, Ohio

.

Player

Professional

Raduka began his professional career with

San Jose Earthquakes as well as part ownership of Namur.^[1]

While the Drillers performed poorly outdoors, they did gain an NASL indoor title in 1981. However, the team folded at the end of the 1982 outdoor season and Raduka moved to the

Major Indoor Soccer League (MISL). In 1983, he spent the outdoor season with the Edmonton Eagles of the Canadian Professional Soccer League (CPSL).^[2] That league lasted only one season before collapsing and Raduka returned to the U.S. to rejoin the MISL. However, the Earthquakes had returned to the NASL so Raduka joined the Cleveland Force

. He would spend the next four seasons with the Force until the team folded in 1987.

National team

In 1971, Raduka was the captain of the Yugoslav junior national team.

Coach

When the Force folded, Raduka retired from playing professionally and began his coaching career. He first coached a local German club (Danubschauben) team in Olmsted Falls. Many of the players that played for him found their way onto Cleveland All-Star teams. He founded a Cleveland soccer club, Cleveland United, where he has remained as director and coach. In addition to coaching youth teams, Raduka was an assistant coach with the Cleveland Crunch of MISL in 1989-1990.

References

^ Bogdan TURUDIJA
^ Odinga, Norman [@Impact2002Girls] (May 6, 2020). "Edmonton Eagles" (Tweet) – via Twitter.

External links

Cleveland United profile
Namur team photo
NASL/MISL stats
Red Star stats Archived 2013-02-28 at the Wayback Machine

[1] Bogdan TURUDIJA

[tweet-2] Odinga, Norman [@Impact2002Girls] (May 6, 2020). "Edmonton Eagles" (Tweet) – via Twitter.

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