Aleksandar Ristić

Aleksandar Ristic ( born June 28, 1944 in Sarajevo ) is a former Yugoslav football player and Yugoslav and Bosnian coach. Since 1974 he has been in German football; initially as a player and later as a coach.

Career

Player

Ristic played until 1974 at Velež Mostar, Hajduk Split and FC Sarajevo. In 1974, the trained sports instructors joined the German Bundesliga - the coach Branko Zebec made ​​him at Eintracht Braunschweig at his assistant. In the middle of Eintracht he graduated from 1974 to 1978 a total of 78 league games and scored three goals. There are also four missions in the European Cup.

Coach

Even as a coach, he first worked in 1980 under Zebec briefly as an assistant coach at Hamburger SV and was after his release for half a year head coach. He then returned Assistant coach Ernst Happel to 1983. Followed almost two years as head coach at Eintracht Braunschweig, where he was released in the spring of 1985, after problems with the President of Eintracht Günter Mast. He then returned as an assistant coach for HSV. From 1987 he was three and a half years head coach at Fortuna Dusseldorf, from January 1991 and a half years at FC Schalke 04 in the summer of 1992 he returned for four and a quarter years back to Dusseldorf. Because of its long activity for Dusseldorf fans called him king there Aleks. The song Here comes Alex from Düsseldorf band Die Toten Hosen although not being of this legendary coach, but was coined by the fans according to him. His latest and third stint as coach of Fortuna Dusseldorf he was for six months until the end of 2000, where he was dismissed for lack of success but.

From 1998 to 2003, with an interruption Ristic (2000/ 01) coach at Rot-Weiß Oberhausen. His most recent station in professional football at the 1 FC Union Berlin in 2004 lasted only a few months as the team's relegation from the second Bundesliga. In the 2007 /08 season Ristic returned to the dugout. The Bosnian signed with Oberliga KFC Uerdingen 05 as the successor to Jürgen Luginger a treaty, however, was terminated early by mutual agreement already on March 22, 2008. Since then he has accepted no more supply and meanwhile finished his coaching career.

The star wrote about Aleksandar Ristic: He was considered one of the most entertaining coach of Bundesliga soccer: The Bosnians, highly popular with fans and media, so drove some club head to despair.

Private life

From his appointment to the Federal Republic was a immigration; Ristic lived from 1987 to 2012 with his wife and daughter in Dusseldorf and is now residing in Munich, where his daughter is now studying.

Achievements

• Hamburger SV ( assistant coach ) European Champions Cup (1): 1982/83 German master (3): 1978/79, 1981/82, 1982/83 German Vice Champion (3): 1979/80, 1980/81, 1986/87 DFB Cup Winners (1): 1986/87

• Fortuna Dusseldorf ( Trainer) Promotion to the Bundesliga (2): 1988/89, 1994/95 Promotion to 2nd League ( 1): 1993/94 DFB Cup semi-final (1): 1995/96 DFB Cup second round (1): 1987/88

• FC Schalke 04 ( Trainer) Promotion to the Bundesliga (1): 1990/91

• Rot-Weiß Oberhausen ( Trainer) DFB Cup semi-final (1): 1998/99