Zoran Lukić

Zoran Lukić ( born November 27, 1956 in Sarajevo, SFR Yugoslavia, now Bosnia and Herzegovina ) is a former Yugoslav football player who now works as a coach. With Djurgårdens IF he won several national titles in Sweden.

Career

Playing career

Lukić began his career in the adult area at FK Sarajevo in his hometown. On the side of players like Safet Sušić, Ante Rajković Mirza Kapetanović, Edhem sljivo, Predrag Pašić or Husref Musemić he ran after his debut in the season of 1973/74 in the following years in the highest Yugoslav Game class. In the male-dominated mainly by Serb and Croat teams championship, the club played the mid-1970s partly to avoid relegation to the second division. Towards the end of the decade strengthened the team from Sarajevo and underwent a second successful period in the club's history, as after a fourth place in the season 1978/79 the following season behind FK Red Star Belgrade was the runner-up earned. In subsequent seasons, the club moved several times in the European Cup, reaching the 1983 Cup final. In the 2:3 - final defeat against Dinamo Zagreb Lukić did not come under coach Bosko Antic used.

After Lukić had at that time exceeded usual age limit for foreign exchange in the leagues of the communist states, he left his homeland and joined in the spring of 1983 to the second half of the season the Austrian club SC Neusiedl am See. In the Bundesliga, he played with the climber against straight back down, where he contributed decisively with eight goals this season to avoid relegation. After about another half series in the season 1983/84 he moved in November 1983 to league rivals Favoritner AC. On the side of Peter Burgstaller, Alberto Martínez, Elio Fortunato and Andreas Reisinger, he finished with the club at the end of the season the last non- relegation zone.

In December 1984, he returned to the club back in order to then return to Yugoslavia. New club was KF Prishtina, before he trailed off his career from the late 1980s when unterklassig antretenden Swedish club IF Nykvarns to 1991.

Coaching career

As of 1989, covered Lukić at Nykvarns IF the office of a player coach. After he had hung up his boots in 1991 on the nail, he joined the Stockholm club Djurgårdens IF. There he worked as a youth coach, reaching the youth team in 1998, the Swedish runner. Over the Allsvenskan season 1999, supervised by the coaching duo of Michael Andersson and Peter Grim Erstligamannschaft slipped into the relegation battle, the Allsvenskan, so that the club's management undertook a coaching change and Lukić, together with Soren Åkeby as the new coaching duo handed over the responsibility for the team. Although failed as Table relegation, in the subsequent second league season led the coaching staff as the club's second division champions against Malmö FF and Mjallby AIF back to excellence. Here both their work continued successfully and won with the team to Kim Kallstrom, Andreas Johansson, Louay Chanko and Mikael Dorsin after the runner-up in the first year after the local rivals Hammarby IF in the season 2002 the double league and National Cup. In the following year he joined the ranks in the list of master trainers, as he with the team defended the championship with seven points ahead of Hammarby IF.

After coach Lukić was solely responsible from January 2004, the club's management Djurgårdens IF a restructuring of responsibilities for team leadership decided in the face of success. After a moderate start to the season and the discussions about the new orientation within the club itself Lukić decided in July to resign. As followers presented the club Kjell Jonevret, the Stefan Rehn assisted.

Before the start of the 2005 Lukić took over as successor by Jukka Ikäläinen the training of the Gothenburg club Örgryte IS. In his first Coach of the Year, he led the team to ninth place in the standings before they got to the beginning of the following year, in danger of relegation. Then, the club released him mid-May 2006 and replaced him with Sören Börjesson. Next stop was Qviding FIF. The second division relegated, he led in the third league season 2007 season back as winners in the south before Ängelholms FF in the second division. Then, his contract was extended in October of this year.

After his former coach station Djurgårdens IF had fallen into the premier league 2008 season in danger of relegation, was remembered at the club on the successes under Lukić. In a coaching duo with Andrée Jeglertz he should lead the club back to its former strength and was therefore recruited in December 2008 by Qviding FIF. The boom did not materialize, so that Lukić his post gave back after half a year. In September of that year he returned to Qviding FIF, to work as part of a training team.