Slobodan Drapić

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Slobodan Drapić
Drapić coaching Beitar Jerusalem in 2015
Personal information
Date of birth (1965-02-28) 28 February 1965 (age 59)
Place of birth Novi Sad, SFR Yugoslavia (now Serbia)
Position(s) Defender
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
1984–1986
Novi Sad
36 (0)
1988–1995 Maccabi Netanya 122 (7)
1995–1998 Beitar Nes Tubruk (–)
International career
1988 Israel[1] 1 (0)
Managerial career
1999–2000 Maccabi Netanya (assistant)
2000 Maccabi Netanya (caretaker)
2000–2002 Tzafririm Holon (assistant)
2001 Tzafririm Holon (caretaker)
2003–2008 Maccabi Haifa (assistant)
2008–2009 Hapoel Kfar Saba
2009–2010 Maccabi Herzliya
2010–2011 Bnei Sakhnin
2012 Partizan (assistant)
2013–2015
Beitar Tel Aviv Ramla
2015–2016 Beitar Jerusalem
2016–2020 Maccabi Netanya
2020–2021 Beitar Jerusalem
2021–2022 Ironi Kiryat Shmona
2022–2023 Hapoel Tel-Aviv
2023–2023 Ironi Kiryat Shmona
2023– Bnei Sakhnin
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Slobodan Drapić (Serbian Cyrillic: Слободан Драпић, Hebrew: סלובודאן דראפיץ'; born 28 February 1965) is a football manager and former player. He is currently the manager of Bnei Sakhnin. Born in Yugoslavia, he represented Israel at international level.

Playing career

Drapić was born and grew up in

Maccabi Netanya and made aliyah.[2] On 23 November 1988, he was called up for the Israeli national team and won his one and only cap for the national side in a friendly game against Romania.[3]

Drapić played with Netanya for seven years in the

Beitar Tubruk, where he also retired as a player.[4]

Coaching career

In a long coaching career in Israel he became the assistant coach with Maccabi Netanya, Tzafririm Holon and Maccabi Haifa.[5] When Ronny Levy left Maccabi Haifa, he also wanted to leave the club. Partizan Belgrade offered him a job as a scout and coach assistant, but he refused the offer because he wanted to stay in Israel.

On 27 September 2010, Drapić signed a two-year contract as manager of Bnei Sakhnin.[6]

In the second half of the 2011–12 season he worked for Partizan as the assistant coach of Avram Grant.[7]

In June 2013 he became the manager of

Beitar Jerusalem
. The following season he returned to his former club of Maccabi Netanya.

Personal life

Drapić is married to his Israeli wife Anita. They have four children; the youngest is

Barak Netanya.[8]

Managerial stats

Team Nat From To Record
P W D L Win %
Hapoel Kfar Saba
Israel 26 June 2008 10 June 2009 43 10 15 18 023.26
Maccabi Herzliya
Israel 11 June 2009 1 June 2010 38 13 10 15 034.21
Bnei Sakhnin
Israel 27 September 2010 4 April 2011 28 5 6 17 017.86
Beitar Tel Aviv Ramla
Israel 23 June 2013 5 June 2015 81 24 27 30 029.63
Beitar Jerusalem
Israel 7 June 2015 1 June 2016 44 21 7 16 047.73
Maccabi Netanya
Israel 2 June 2016 3 July 2020 151 70 37 44 046.36
Beitar Jerusalem Israel 4 September 2020 20 March 2021 26 8 8 10 030.77
Ironi Kiryat Shmona Israel 9 November 2021 31 May 2022 26 13 6 7 050.00
Hapoel Tel Aviv Israel 19 September 2022 10 January 2023 13 3 4 6 023.08
Ironi Kiryat Shmona Israel 14 Febaury 2023 10 2 6 2 020.00
Total 460 169 126 165 036.74

References

  1. ^ "The Israel Football Association". Archived from the original on 4 August 2012. Retrieved 28 April 2010.
  2. ^ "דראפיץ' חתם לשנתיים בנתניה: חזרתי הביתה" [Derpitz signed for two years in Netanya: I returned home]. 2 June 2016.
  3. ^ "The Israel Football Association". football.org.il. Archived from the original on 13 October 2007.
  4. ^ TheSportsChannel (7 June 2015). "בוקר ספורט 04.06.15 - אבות ובנים - סלובודאן ודולב דראפיץ'" – via YouTube.[dead link]
  5. ^ "Drapic a candidate for Kfar Saba job (hebrew)". 24 June 2008.
  6. ^ "Haim Levy sacked from Bnei Sakhnin, Drapić signed in a two years contract" (in Hebrew). . One. 27 September 2010. Retrieved 27 September 2010.
  7. ^ "Grant dovodi čoveka za vezu". Sportske.net. 20 January 2012. Retrieved 31 October 2019.
  8. ^ "אופס! תקלה". www.basket.co.il.