Ratomir Dujković

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Ratomir Dujković
Ратомир Дујковић
Personal information
Full name Ratomir Dujković
Date of birth (1946-02-24) 24 February 1946 (age 78)
Place of birth
FPR Yugoslavia
Position(s) Goalkeeper
Youth career
NK Borovo
0000–1962 NK Osijek
1962–1964 Red Star Belgrade
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
1964–1974 Red Star Belgrade 201 (0)
1974–1977 Real Oviedo 100 (0)
1977–1980 NK Osijek 84 (0)
1980–1983 Galenika Zemun 62 (0)
International career
1971 SFR Yugoslavia 4 (0)
Managerial career
1984–1985 Galenika Zemun
1987–1992 Red Star Belgrade (goalkeeping coach)
1992–1995 Venezuela
1996–1997 Myanmar
1997–1998 Atlético Zulia
1998–1999
Universidad de Los Andes
2001
Estudiantes de Mérida
2001–2004 Rwanda
2004–2006 Ghana
2006–2008 China U23
2009–2010 Serbia U21
2010 Syria
Medal record
Men's Football
Representing  Yugoslavia
European Championship
Silver medal – second place 1968 Italy Team
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Ratomir Dujković (

football
manager and a former player.

Playing career

Born and raised in

handball goalkeeper. He was spotted there by Josip Kezdi, at that point an ex-goalkeeper for NK Borovo, who suggested he try football. He took his advice and soon became a goalkeeper in NK Borovo, before earning a move to NK Osijek. On 29 November 1962, NK Osijek juniors took part in the Yugoslav Republic Day tournament in Belgrade where 16-year-old Dujković impressed so much that powerhouse Red Star Belgrade
immediately offered a move to their youth system. He accepted right away and only went home to pick up personal belongings.

At Red Star he became part of a new batch of up-and-coming players along with

Galenika Zemun
, another second league side, and helped it gain promotion in 1981/82 season. He would not play top flight football again, though, as he promptly retired in the summer of 1982.

Managing career

Dujković's foray into coaching started with the same club he ended his playing days in: Galenika. He was part of their coaching staff during 1982/83 season, which the team finished dead last and got relegated again.[citation needed]

Galenika

Dujković's first head coaching job came in 1983 at Galenika Zemun. He led the team to some respectable results in Yugoslav Second League for a couple of seasons, but never gained promotion. In 1987, he accepted an offer from Red Star Belgrade to become the goalkeepers' coach on their staff. For the next 5 years Dujković worked under various head coaches, with the exception of one season that he spent assisting Gojko Zec in United Arab Emirates. Dujković was on the Red Star coaching staff when the team won the European Cup in 1991.

Venezuela

Dujković would wait until 1992 for his next head coaching job. He was recommended to the Venezuelan Football Federation by

the FIFA list.[citation needed
]

Myanmar and a return to Venezuela

Next came the head coaching role at Myanmar's national football team. Dujković qualified them for Asian Games, but eventually quit due to Myanmar's turbulent relationship with FIFA. He returned to Venezuela to recently established Atlético Zulia club side from Maracaibo and got the coach of the year honours.

Afterwards, Dujković coached

Euro 2000 under head coach Vujadin Boškov
.

Rwanda

Dujković became the coach of the

African Cup of Nations for the first time. Ironically, Rwanda qualified at the expense of Ghana – a nation whose national team he would soon take over and lead to 2006 World Cup – in a memorable qualifier in Kigali
on 6 July 2003.

At the final tournament in Tunisia in January 2004, Rwanda, among the smallest ever to qualify, came within minutes of progressing from the group and entering quarterfinals. Dujković's contract with Rwanda expired in mid-2004 and he left after failing to agree to a new contract with the Rwandan FA.

Ghana

In September 2004, the

2006 African Cup of Nations in Egypt.[citation needed
]

Dujković faced a lot of opposition throughout his tenure in Ghana. Many wanted to see a domestic coach lead the national team. Calls for his sacking particularly intensified in January 2006 after an indifferent display at the

2006 African Cup of Nations where Ghana got drawn in a fairly difficult group with Nigeria, Senegal and Zimbabwe.[1]

After losing to Nigeria and defeating Senegal, Ghana faced a deciding match against the seeming minnows of the group Zimbabwe who up to that point failed to collect a single point from first two matches. A win would assure progression for Ghana, but they lost 1-2 and failed to move to the second round. On 12 June 2006 at

AWD-Arena in Hanover, Dujković led Ghana in its first ever World Cup match. Unfortunately, it ended unhappily for his team as Italy beat them easily 2-0.[citation needed
]

The Black Stars went into their next match versus Czech Republic knowing a loss would probably mean elimination. In a very entertaining match, Ghana managed a famous 2-0 win despite missing several clear-cut scoring chances as well as failing to convert a penalty shot. Third game pitted Dujković's team against the United States and they delivered once more, beating the Americans 2-1 and qualifying for the Round of 16 where Brazil awaited.[citation needed]

Although powerhouse

Ghanaian media, who believed that he had ulterior motives for resigning before the expiration of his contract. Dujković in turn, blamed the media for putting unmerited stress and pressure on him, a move that didn't go down well with the Ghanaian public. Not long after he left the Ghanaian team, it was reported that he had signed up with China to coach the Chinese Olympic Soccer Team.[citation needed
]

China Olympic team

On October 10, 2006, Dujković was appointed coach of China national under-23 football team also known as China's Olympic team.[2] His main task was preparing the team for the 2008 Olympic Games on home soil for which the Chinese FA set the ambitious goal of reaching the semifinals. In late 2006, Dujković led the team in 2006 Asian Games where they progressed out of the group on top before losing a quarterfinal thriller to Iran u-23 on penalties.

In June 2007, following a string of bad results for China's senior national team led by Zhu Guanghu, Chinese media started calling for Dujković to take over the coaching duties of the top national side. For his part, Dujković expressed interest, but not before 2008 Olympics. He also ruled out coaching two sides at the same time.[3] Still, he did get involved with the senior team in lesser capacity as the 'general coach' after his countryman Vladimir Petrović took over as head coach in September 2007.[4]

After reiterating that Olympic medal is the goal in early July 2008,[5] Dujković got sacked a week later (and only three weeks before the start of the Olympics) by the Chinese FA.[6] The shocking development came as the culmination of the behind the scenes clashes between two parties. Dujković's assistant Yin Tiesheng took over on short notice and led the team in the Olympics.[7] The team drew its first group match of the competition, and lost the remaining two, failing to progress out of the group.[8]

Serbia under-21 team

On 15 July 2009, Dujković was named as the head coach of

2011 European Under-21 Championship in Denmark.[citation needed
]

His competitive debut took place on September 5, 2009 at home versus Slovakia, and it ended with Serbia losing 1-2 on a goal in injury time. Though two wins followed (away at Norway and home versus minnows Cyprus), many criticized the overall play of Dujković's team. After the away 3-1 loss to traditional rivals Croatia many criticized his player selection as well. As the long qualifying break commenced in November 2009, Dujković's team was in third spot with 9 points, behind Croatia (12) and Slovakia (10).

In early February 2010,

2010 World Cup.[10] Furthermore, he publicly expressed interest in the job despite being under contract with Serbian FA (FSS), hoping to be allowed to perform two jobs simultaneously since Serbia u-21 didn't resume playing competitive matches again until August 2010. FSS president Tomislav Karadžić said Dujković would be released from his contract without penalties should he request so, but ruled out allowing him to perform two jobs at the same time.[11] The Nigerian job eventually went to Lars Lagerbäck
.

On 11 August 2010, qualifying resumed for Serbia with a match away at Slovakia, the first of three must-wins if qualification was to be secured. Playing without Ivan Obradović and Raća Petrović who were made available to Radomir Antić's full squad that played a friendly match versus Greece the same day, and without Adem Ljajić and Danijel Aleksić, neither of whom Dujković called up, reasoning he needed players who "had more playing time in the recent period and had more experience". His team had a very poor outing, losing 1-2 and thus relinquishing any chance of qualifying for the 2011 European u-21 Championship.[12]

One day after losing to Slovakia, Dujković handed in his resignation and did not lead the team in the remaining two matches of the qualifying. The job went to Tomislav Sivić who finished out the two meaningless qualifiers.[13]

Syria

In mid-October 2010, Dujković was named the new head coach of the Syrian national team,[14] thus becoming the fourth Serb, after Dragoslav Popović, Dragoslav Srijović and Miloslav Radivojević, to lead the Syrian football squad.

On 19 December 2010, two months after getting hired, Dujković was fired by the Syrian FA for "not returning from vacation on the agreed upon date".[15] Dujković claimed to the Serbian press that he was not fired, but rather that he quit over Syrian FA's decision not to allow him to bring his own assistant coaches.[16]

In April 2014 it was announced that Dujković was part of an 8-man shortlist to replace Eric Nshimiyimana as Rwanda manager.[17]

References

  1. ^ Dujković lost the plot, modernghana.com, 25 January 2006.
  2. ^ Dujković new coach for China's Olympic soccer team Archived 2007-09-29 at the Wayback Machine
  3. ^ Dujković coy about top China job
  4. ^ Dujković: A medal is the aim; FIFA.com, 9 July 2008.
  5. ^ Dujkovic: A medal is the aim; FIFA.com, 9 July 2008.
  6. ^ China axe Dujković, fifa.com, 17 July 2008.
  7. ^ Dujkovic sacked 3 weeks before Games, Shandong on Internet, July 18, 2008 Archived November 20, 2008, at the Wayback Machine
  8. ^ "Olympics-Soccer-Dujkovic stripped of control of China team". Reuters. 2008-07-17. Retrieved 2021-01-17.
  9. ^ Dujković selektor mlade selekcije, b92.net, 15 July 2009.
  10. ^ Dujković za MONDO: Da, zvala me je Nigerija!, mondo.rs, 8 February 2010.
  11. ^ FSS: "Dujković mora da se odluči", b92.net; 10 February 2010.
  12. ^ Očajni "orlići" zasluženo ne idu u Dansku, mondo.rs, 11 August 2010.
  13. ^ Dujković: Logično je da podnesem ostavku, Blic.rs, 12 August 2010.
  14. ^ Ratomir Dujković na klupi Sirije, Blic.rs, 11 October 2010.
  15. ^ Fudbalski savez Sirije otpustio Ratomira Dujkovića, Blic.rs, 19 December 2010.
  16. ^ Dujković: Nisam smenjen u Siriji, ja sam njima dao otkaz, Blic.rs; 21 December 2010.
  17. ^ Andrew Jackson Oryada (25 April 2014). "Ratomir Dujkovic on shortlist for Rwanda coach position". BBC Sport. Retrieved 27 April 2014.

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