Zdravko Zemunović

Zdravko Zemunović (born 26 March 1954) is a former Serbian football player, manager and current head coach for FC Gifu.

Zdravko Zemunović
Personal information
Full name Zdravko Zemunović
Date of birth (1954-03-26) 26 March 1954
Place of birth Yugoslavia
Club information
Current team
 Vonds Ichihara
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
1969–1976 Teleoptik
1977–1979 Čukarički
1980–1986 BSK Batajnica
Teams managed
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
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only

Playing career

Zemunović started his career at FK Teleoptik, the B team of Partizan, in 1969. After playing for FK Teleoptik for 7 years, he enjoyed playing for FK Čukarički, BSK Batajnica. In 1986, he retired due to knee injury at age 32.

After retirement

After his retirement, Zemunović enrolled in the department of Physical Education at University of Belgrade and acquired professional coaching license there.

Coaching career in Yugoslavia

As professional coach, Zemunović worked for the three professional football clubs in Yugoslavia (BSK Batajnica, Teleoptik, Voždovac) and won league championships in all clubs. He visited Japan as a member of Partizan for Kirin Cup in 1992.

Coaching career 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.

Managerial statistics

[1]

Team From To Record
GWDLWin %
Shimizu S-Pulse 2001 2002 60 33 3 24 055.00
Total 60 33 3 24 055.00

Honours
Shimizu S-Pulse

References
  1. J.League Data Site(in Japanese)


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