Slobodan Cendic
Slobodan Čendić ( born August 28, 1938 in Kragujevac ) is a former Yugoslav football coach. He began his career in 1970 in the Bundesliga with FC Schalke 04 long years he spent at the 1 FC Saarbrücken he once led to the Bundesliga.
Career
Slobodan Cendic was in his active player career goalkeeper at Radnicki Kragujevac, his coaching career began in Germany when he moved to the fourth round of the 1970/71 season Rudi Good village at FC Schalke 04 replaced. He led the young squad with, among others, Klaus Fichtel Klaus Fischer and the 6th place, what was the best Bundesliga placement of Gelsenkirchen until then, and in the semi-finals of the DFB Cup, which after 2-0 half-time lead with 2:3 against the 1. FC Köln was lost. Formally, at that time was Ernst Kuzorra, star of the 1930s Schalke champion teams, the coach because Cendic still did not have a valid coaching license. At the Sports University in Cologne, he acquired the football coach diploma in 1970 along with the course colleagues Siegfried Held, Uwe Klimaschefski, Otto Rehhagel and Hans Tilkowski. Ivica Horvat coached Schalke in the following season and led the team to Vice league and cup.
The following season, he took over FC Augsburg in Bavaria at that time third-rate league, the highest amateur league. He could the team, however, to be no impetus and was the end of November 1971 to replace Kurt Schwarzhuber. In the rest of the season, he took over the second division SC Tasmania 1900 Berlin in Berlin, who finished the season as runner-up, in the promotion round to the Bundesliga but not impressed.
In the next two years he coached Preußen Münster in the subprime Regionalliga West. 1972/73 the team was still 13, rising to fifth place in the following season.
For the 1975/76 season he was the newly created 2nd Bundesliga was committed where the team win with the young Felix Magath, Egon Schmitt and the Traser twins and Ernst Heinz quite a respectable seventh place from 1 FC Saarbrücken in the southern group. The following year was even the first place and thus the promotion to the Bundesliga. In which the later defender Bernd Förster made his debut in professional football, but had now left the Magath - - After the ninth round of the first FC was on the 16th place and the impatient board dissolved Cendic by Manfred Krafft from. Saarbrücken finished the season in 14th place.
From October 1977 Cendic trained as the successor of Anton Rudinsky in Mannheim the then trading as Chio Waldhof and attributed this to eighth place. A year later, he was, as the SVW was number 12, on an interim basis superseded by the forest Höfer Louis Günderoth veteran who made again a month later for Georg Gawliczek place. At season's completion of SV Waldhof was the 16th just two points above the relegation zone. Cendic took over a month after his dismissal on the Waldhof the Bundesliga relegation 1.FC Saarbrücken, where he became the successor of former international Hans Cieslarczyk. End of the season the team was on a conciliatory eighth place and was able to 1979/80 even improve on the 5th place. In the following season, it was important to a place among the top ten to secure thus to qualify for the now single-track 2nd Bundesliga. The first FC started with nine defeats in their first eleven games in the disastrous season and after 13 Round Cendic was eventually replaced by Erich Jordens, but nothing changed the fact that the Saarbrücken were mediocre.
Cendic found but immediately place on the bench of the league rivals Stuttgarter Kickers, the third parties were at the end of the season. In the next season he was with the Kickers seventh in the new league.
In the following season he was employed for several months at Alemannia Aachen and in the second round in 1983/84 against newly promoted SC Charlottenburg, whose prompt return descent, he was unable to prevent.
In October 1985, a commitment to Rot-Weiß Oberhausen as the successor of Friedel Elting. He led the bad started the season Rhinelander from the penultimate to eleventh place. During the season, he won with the Red and Whites still the first game, but three defeats ensured in the next three games for his dismissal and Janos Bedl took his place.
Gameday On the 20th of the season 1987/88 Cendic became the third coach of the season last year climber for Bundesliga FC Homburg, but could not change the fact that the team relegated at the end. In the following season he was with the Saarlanders after 32 match days in the 2nd Bundesliga in first place after a 0-1 defeat at Freiburg but it came to the separation. At that time, the FC Homburg was threatened once by the DFB with point deduction, if he would take up with a condom brand as shirt sponsor. Cendic commented: "What for points they want us actually deduct " former international player, Jimmy Hartwig, in the final stages of his career at Homburg, designated Cendic years later as " unsuspecting choleric "
At the beginning of the 1989/90 season he coached Hannover 96 and started with five defeats in six games, which led to his untimely departure and at the same time was also his farewell to the German football clubs.
In 1990, he coached the SV Darmstadt 98 and the mid-1990s he was in Switzerland at SC Brühl St. Gallen and FC Kreuzlingen on the bench.