Darko MilaniÄ
Darko Milanič ( born December 18, 1967 in Izola, SFR Yugoslavia ) is a former Slovenian football player and active football coach, currently the Austrian Bundesliga SK Sturm Graz.
Career
Darko Milanič began his career at NK Izola in Slovenia. After that he played in Belgrade Partizan. In 1993 the defender to Austria for SK Sturm. Like some of his former colleagues had Milanič storm in 2000 after the most successful season storm left in history. He began his coaching training and became a coach at NK Izola. Later he trained nor the Slovenian U- 19 team and the Slovenian youth before he came back in 2006 to storm, as Assistant coach Franco Foda.
He received early 2007, the offer to become the Slovenian team boss, which he refused, however. In the summer of 2007, he asked in a storm, for personal reasons, the termination of his contract and was head coach of the Slovenian club ND Gorica. From 2008 until June 2013 he was coach at NK Maribor, the most successful Slovenian football club. On June 4, 2013, was presented as the new coach of SK Sturm Graz and thus relieved the hapless interim coach Markus Schopp.
Milanič is a qualified marine engine technician, married and has two children.
Achievements
As a player
- Austrian Champion: 1998, 1999
- Austrian Cup Winner: 1996, 1997, 1999
- Yugoslavian Champion: 1987, 1993
- Yugoslav Cup winner: 1989, 1992
- EURO 2000 Participation with the Slovenian National Team
As a coach
- Slovenian champion: 2009, 2011, 2012, 2013
- Slovenian Cup Winners: 2010, 2012, 2013