Branko Okić

Branko " Brane " Okic ( born February 16, 1969 in Kreševo ​​, Yugoslavia ) is a former Bosnian football player. From 1995 he was a member of a two-year break the VfR Aalen and moved there in 2009 after the end of his playing career in the coaching staff, most recently as 2012 to coach the U-19 juniors.

Career

As a player

Branko Okic was born in Kreševo ​​in present-day Bosnia and Herzegovina. Mid-1980s was one of the 1.73 m wide, two-footed midfielder on the playmaker position as a 32 -fold youth international to the most promising talents of the Yugoslav football. In 1986 he signed a 17 -year-old a three -year contract with first division side FK Sarajevo. With the start of the Civil War Okic was drafted as a soldier.

Through the contacts of a friend to R.A.A. La Louviere Okic signed a three -year contract with the Belgian second division. 1994 failed in changing to the German second division club TSV 1860 Munich. Okic was initially without a club and then joined VfL Sindelfingen fünftklassigen Association League Württemberg.

By now married and living in Heidenheim an der Brenz, he moved to the 1995/96 season for VfR basking in the Oberliga Baden- Württemberg. There he became a regular and key players as well as a crowd favorite. In 1999 he became the club on the third-rate Regionalliga Süd. In the summer of 2002, he moved to league rivals Rot-Weiss Erfurt and was also there for the crowd favorite. In the season 2003/ 04, stood at the end of the promotion to the Second Bundesliga, he shone as a playmaker in 34 games with five goals and 25 assists and was chosen after the season by the coaches as the second best player in the league. Because of his advanced age of 35 years Okic but was sorted out for the new season of ascent coach René Müller.

About a stopover at the Oberliga Heidenheimer SB 1846, he returned to the winter break of the season 2004/ 05 back to VfR Aalen. Here he was able to return to his old performances and had thus contributed significantly to the sporting success. With age, he was considered more rare, in the 2008 /09 season in the newly created Third Division, at the end of the descent VfR one point behind the saving 18th place in the table, he stood among the coaches Edgar Schmitt, Jürgen Kohler, Kosta Runjaic and Petrik Sander only twice in the grid. Only Rainer Scharinger, who took over the team as the fifth coach of the season with four games left in the season, gave the 40 -year-old, who was the oldest professional football player in Germany at this time before Michael Tarnat and Jens Lehmann, regain confidence and set him in all four remaining games on from the start. With the end of season Branko Okic ended his professional career.

As a coach

Although he still had a running until 2010 Treaty of VfR Aalen, Branko Okic ended his professional career in 2009. These he fulfilled by training the amateur team of VfR in sechstklassigen Association League Württemberg as an assistant coach (in the role of a player coach ).

2011 moved Okic within the club and was coach of A- Juniors ( U- 19) of the VfR who played in the second-class A-Juniors league. A year later, however, the club ended the collaboration, as the youth level had to be reorganized in the second Bundesliga after the rise of the professional team. Okic then left the club after a total of 15 years of service.