Radomir Antić

Radomir Antic ( Serbian Cyrillic Радомир Антић, born November 22, 1948 in Žitište, Vojvodina, Yugoslavia ) is a former Yugoslav football player and current Serbian football coach and was from 2008 to 2010 coach of the Serbian national team.

Career

Playing career

Antic began his playing career at FK Sloboda Užice, where he stood until 1968 under contract. This year, he moved to FK Partizan Belgrade. He was Yugoslav champion in 1976 once.

After this success, the Serb moved to Fenerbahce in Turkey, in the two years in Istanbul, the then defense could even win the Turkish league.

In 1978 he went to Spain for the first time to Real Zaragoza, where he was active for two more years, after which it took his former Yugoslavs to England to Luton Town, where he trailed off with a total of 100 games in four years his playing career.

Coaching career

1985 Antic returned back to Yugoslavia and was until 1988 an assistant coach at his former club FK Partizan Belgrade as a player. 1988 went back to Spain to his former club Real Zaragoza also, where he was head coach. For three years he held the scepter in his hand before he was obliged in 1991 from Real Madrid as head coach.

Antic sparked Alfredo Di Stéfano from the last twelve games of the season 1990/91. He could win the third place and came up with the Royal in the UEFA Cup. He brought such stars as Robert Prosinečki or Luis Enrique in the capital. After a relatively good success, he was ousted and replaced by the Dutchman Leo Beenhakker.

In 1992, he went to Real Oviedo. He managed with the Asturiern the league. His star of Real Robert Prosinečki followed him in 1994 in the city on the Camino de Santiago. In 1995 he left Oviedo and moved to Atletico Madrid.

Atletico he trained between 1995 and 2000, with two interruptions. In his first season as head coach, he managed to win the people of Madrid, the Spanish double in 1995/96. In the 1996/97 season he was with Atletico, for the first time in the club's history, in the UEFA Champions League. It was eliminated in the quarterfinals against Ajax Amsterdam. In the summer of 1998, the Serb was replaced by Arrigo Sacchi Italians. In 1999, he returned as the successor of his successor to the Vicente Calderón Stadium. This year the Cup final could be achieved. At the end of the season Antic was again, this time Claudio Ranieri replaced by an Italian. From February 2000, he was able to experience a third term at Atletico, but again he lost with the team the cup final.

In the summer of 2000 Antic returned to Real Oviedo. With the Asturiern he had to descend from the Primera División.

After one and a half years of unemployment Antic came in January 2003 to FC Barcelona. He is the only coach to Real Madrid, Atletico Madrid and Barça trained. At the end of the season he was replaced by Frank Rijkaard.

2004 Antic came to Celta Vigo, but this time he did not make the league.

On August 19, 2008, after four years without a coaching job, he took over the national team in his home country of Serbia. Under his leadership, the Serbian national team qualified for the 2010 World Cup in South Africa.

Achievements

As a player:

As a coach: