Zdravko_Zemunović
Zdravko Zemunović
Serbian footballer (born 1954)
Zdravko Zemunović (born 26 March 1954) is a Serbian football manager and former player.
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Zemunović with Shimizu S-Pulse | |||
| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Date of birth | (1954-03-26) 26 March 1954 (age 70) | ||
| Place of birth | Yugoslavia | ||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| 1969–1976 | Teleoptik | ||
| 1977–1979 | Čukarički | ||
| 1980–1986 | BSK Batajnica | ||
| Managerial career | |||
| 1988–1990 | BSK Batajnica | ||
| 1990–1992 | Teleoptik | ||
| 1992–1994 | Voždovac | ||
| 1995 | Tosu Futures (coach) | ||
| 1999–2000 | Shimizu S-Pulse (youth) | ||
| 2000–2002 | Shimizu S-Pulse | ||
| 2004 | Rad | ||
| 2008–2011 | Shimizu S-Pulse (technical advisor) | ||
| 2005– | Chiba Football Association | ||
| 2016–2018 | Vonds Ichihara | ||
| 2020 | FC Gifu | ||
| 2021 | Kamatamare Sanuki | ||
| *Club domestic league appearances and goals | |||
Zemunović started his career at FK Teleoptik in 1969. After playing for Teleoptik for seven years, he played for FK Čukarički and FK BSK Batajnica. In 1986, he retired due to a knee injury at the age of 32.
After his retirement, Zemunović enrolled in the department of Physical Education at University of Belgrade and acquired his professional coaching license there.
In Yugoslavia
As a professional coach, Zemunović worked for the three professional football clubs in Yugoslavia (BSK Batajnica, Teleoptik, Voždovac) and won league championships with all three clubs. He visited Japan as a member of Partizan for the Kirin Cup in 1992.
In Japan
In order to avoid the civil war of Yugoslavia, Zemunović and his family decided to move to Japan and he started his coaching career in Japan as a coach of Tosu Futures for a year. After working for a couple of amateur clubs in Chiba, Japan, he became the general manager of the youth and junior youth team of Shimizu S-Pulse in 1999 and cultivated young talents such as Takuma Edamura and Kota Sugiyama. In December 2000, he took up the post of the manager of Shimizu S-Pulse as the successor of Steve Perryman and won the Emperor's Cup on 1 January 2001 and also won the Japanese Super Cup next month.
After the coaching career in Shimizu S-Pulse, though he coached FK Rad for one season, he is engaging into the development of young talents as technical director.
| Team | From | To | Record | ||||
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| G | W | D | L | Win % | |||
| Shimizu S-Pulse | 2001 | 2002 | 60 | 33 | 3 | 24 | 055.00 |
| Total | 60 | 33 | 3 | 24 | 055.00 | ||
- Shimizu S-Pulse
- Emperor's Cup:2001, 2000 (Runner-up)
- Japanese Super Cup:2001, 2002
- Asian Cup Winners' Cup:2001 (3rd place)
- AFC Champions League:2002 (Final Round)
- J.League Data Site(in Japanese)
- Zdravko Zemunović manager profile at J.League (archive) (in Japanese)
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