Slobodan Drapić

Slobodan Drapić
Слободан Драпић
'סלובודאן דראפיץ

Drapić coaching Beitar Jerusalem in 2015
Personal information
Date of birth (1965-02-28) 28 February 1965
Place of birth Novi Sad, SFR Yugoslavia (now Serbia)
Playing position Defender
Club information
Current team
Beitar Jerusalem F.C.
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
1984–1986 FK Novi Sad 36 (0)
1988–1995 Maccabi Netanya 122 (7)
1995–1998 Beitar Nes Tubruk (–)
National team
1988 Israel[1] 1 (0)
Teams managed
1999–2000 Maccabi Netanya (assistant coach)
2000 Maccabi Netanya (caretaker)
2003–2008 Maccabi Haifa (assistant coach)
2008–2009 Hapoel Kfar Saba
2009–2010 Maccabi Herzliya
2010–2011 Bnei Sakhnin
2012 Partizan (assistant coach)
2013–2015 Beitar Tel Aviv Ramla
2015– Beitar Jerusalem

* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only.

† Appearances (goals)

Slobodan Drapić (Serbian Cyrillic: Слободан Драпић, Hebrew: סלובודאן דראפיץ'; born 28 February 1965) is a former Serbian-Israeli football player and manager.

Career

After coming to Israel in 1988 he played for Maccabi Netanya as a defender. In a long coaching career in Israel he became the assistant coach with Maccabi Netanya, Tzafririm Holon and Maccabi Haifa[2] When Ronny Levy left Maccabi Haifa, he also wanted to leave the club. Partizan Belgrade offered him a job as a Scout and coach assistant, but refused the offer because he wanted to stay in Israel.

On 27 September 2010, Drapić signed in a two years contract as manager of Bnei Sakhnin[3]

In the second half of the 2011-12 season he worked for Partizan as the assistant coach of Avram Grant.

In June 2013 he became the manager of Beitar Tel Aviv Ramla. Drapić worked as the manager of the club until on 7 June 2015, then he signed a contract as the manager of Beitar Jerusalem.

Personal life

Drapić is wedded to his Israeli wife Anita. They have 4 children, the oldest is Dolev who is a professional basketball player in Barak Netanya[4]

References


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