Nick Dasovic

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Nick Dasovic
Dasovic in 2009
Personal information
Full name Nick Robert Dasovic
Date of birth (1968-12-05) December 5, 1968 (age 55)
Place of birth Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Height 6 ft 1 in (1.85 m)
Position(s) Midfielder
Youth career
1975– Vancouver Croatia Youth
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
1988–1989
NK Segesta Sisak
 45 (2)
1990
NK Dinamo Zagreb
 1 (0)
1991 NK Zagreb 0 (0)
1991–1992 North York Rockets 35 (0)
1993–1994 Montreal Impact 36 (4)
1995
Vancouver 86ers
 2 (0)
1995–1996 Stade Briochin 21 (1)
1996
Vancouver 86ers
 10 (1)
1996 Trelleborgs FF 7 (0)
1996–2002
St Johnstone FC
 137 (3)
2002–2005 Vancouver Whitecaps FC 81 (3)
Total 375 (13)
International career
1992–2004 Canada 63 (2)
Managerial career
2006
Whitecaps FC Reserves
2008–2010
TFC Academy
2008
Canada U23
2010 Toronto FC (interim)
2011–2013
Canada U20
2019–2020 Vancouver Whitecaps U23
2022–2023 Whitecaps FC Academy U19
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Nick Robert Dasovic (born December 5, 1968) is a Canadian former professional soccer player who played as a midfielder.

He began his career with Croatian club

Vancouver 86ers before returning to Europe briefly to play for Stade Briochin. Another period with Vancouver 86ers in 1996 was followed by a short stint in Sweden with Trelleborgs FF. He finished his playing career with Scottish club St Johnstone, with whom he spent six years and made over 100 league appearances. He won promotion to the Scottish top flight in his first season in Perth
.

His coaching career began with

Whitecaps FC Reserves in 2006. He became manager of TFC Academy in 2008, a role he balanced briefly with a stint as manager of the Canada under-23s. In 2010, he was named interim manager of Toronto FC. The following year, he was installed as manager of the Canada under-20s
, a role in which he remained for two years.

In 2021, he began his current role as manager of the Whitecaps FC Academy U-19s.

Dasovic represented the Canada men's national soccer team on 63 occasions between 1992 and 2004, scoring twice.

Club career

A

Croatian First League playing for Croatian club Dinamo Zagreb, renamed Croatia Zagreb during the 1990s. The team also featured important players like Mario Stanić and Goran Vlaović
.

He began playing in Canada professionally with the North York Rockets, of the former Canadian Soccer League, for whom he played the 1991 and 1992 seasons. Dasovic played the 1993 and 1994 seasons in the American Professional Soccer League with the Montreal Impact.

Dasovic played for Stade Briochin in the French Championnat National in 1995 and for Swedish Allsvenskan side Trelleborgs FF in 1996.[1]

St. Johnstone

In November 1996, Dasovic signed for Scottish club

1998 Scottish League Cup Final in which he scored, a 2–1 defeat against Rangers. Saints went on to finish third behind Rangers and Celtic in the Scottish Premier League that season, qualifying for the 1999–2000 UEFA Cup. Dasovic's only league goal was also memorable; it was the only goal in a 1–0 win away at Celtic in September 1998.[2]

International career

Dasovic made his senior debut for Canada in an April 1992 friendly match against China and went on to earn 63 caps, scoring twice.[3] He represented Canada in 14 World Cup qualifiers[4] and played at the 2001 FIFA Confederations Cup.

His final international game was a January 2004 friendly match against Barbados.

International goals

Scores and results list Canada's goal tally first.
# Date Venue Opponent Score Result Competition
1 July 11, 1993 Estadio Azteca, Mexico City, Mexico  Costa Rica 1–0 1–1 1993 CONCACAF Gold Cup
2 October 13, 1996
Commonwealth Stadium, Edmonton, Alberta
, Canada		  Cuba 2–0 2–0 1998 FIFA World Cup qualification

Coaching career

Dasovic led

summer Olympics
. Canada recovered to defeat Guatemala in the third-place playoff, a rematch of their first-round game, winning on penalties (5–3) after a scoreless draw through 120 minutes.

On May 6, 2008, Dasovic joined

Canada U20 national team.[5]

Dasovic was hired as an assistant coach by the

Mark Watson on October 15, 2014.[7]

Dasovic received his

UEFA Pro Licence from the Scottish Football Association in 2012.[8]

Dasovic coached the U-15 team at Mountain United FC in 2017. In July 2018, Dasovic was hired as an assistant manager for

Simon Fraser University Men's Soccer team.[9]

On January 18, 2019, Dasovic joined the technical staff of Vancouver Whitecaps and was named head coach of the newly formed U-23 development squad.[10]

In January 2021, Vancouver reorganized their Academy staff and Dasovic became the manager for the Whitecaps FC Academy U-19 team.[11]

Canadian Soccer Hall of Fame

Dasovic was inducted into the

Canadian Soccer Hall of Fame
in 2011.

Broadcasting

In 2015 Dasovic joined the MLS on TSN crew and is used selected weeks as a studio or game analyst.

References

  1. ^ Nick Dasovic at playerhistry.com
  2. ^ "Celtic frustrated as Dasovic gives Saints success". Independent. September 24, 1998. Archived from the original on June 20, 2022. Retrieved November 11, 2014.
  3. ^ Appearances for Canada National Team - RSSSF
  4. ^ Record at FIFA Tournaments - FIFA
  5. ^ [1] - Canada Soccer Association
  6. ^ "Earthquakes name Nick Dasovic assistant coach". San Jose Earthquakes. Retrieved June 18, 2013.
  7. ^ "Dominic Kinnear ends run with Houston Dynamo, will take over for San Jose Earthquakes". MLSSoccer.com. Retrieved October 15, 2014.
  8. ^ "Who we are". Dasovic-Neil Coaching. May 17, 2015. Retrieved October 23, 2017.
  9. ^ Canada Soccer Hall of Famer Nick Dasovic joins men’s soccer staff, athletics.sfu.ca, July 4, 2018
  10. ^ Whitecaps FC add Nick Dasovic to technical staff as U-23 development squad head coach, whitecapsfc.com, January 18, 2019
  11. ^ "Whitecaps FC announce staffing updates for MLS Academy". WhitecapsFC.com. Retrieved April 4, 2021.

External links

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