 Đukić asPartizan manager in 2017 | |||||||||||
| Personal information | |||||||||||
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| Date of birth | (1966-02-19)19 February 1966 (age 59) | ||||||||||
| Place of birth | Šabac,SR Serbia,Yugoslavia | ||||||||||
| Height | 1.85 m (6 ft 1 in) | ||||||||||
| Position | Sweeper | ||||||||||
| Senior career* | |||||||||||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) | ||||||||
| 1987–1989 | Mačva Šabac | 62 | (3) | ||||||||
| 1989–1991 | Rad | 60 | (2) | ||||||||
| 1991–1997 | Deportivo La Coruña | 217 | (7) | ||||||||
| 1997–2003 | Valencia | 156 | (4) | ||||||||
| 2003–2004 | Tenerife | 27 | (0) | ||||||||
| Total | 522 | (16) | |||||||||
| International career | |||||||||||
| 1991–2001 | FR Yugoslavia[note 1] | 48 | (2) | ||||||||
| Managerial career | |||||||||||
| 2006–2007 | Serbia U21 | ||||||||||
| 2007 | Partizan | ||||||||||
| 2007–2008 | Serbia | ||||||||||
| 2009 | Mouscron | ||||||||||
| 2011 | Hércules | ||||||||||
| 2011–2013 | Valladolid | ||||||||||
| 2013 | Valencia | ||||||||||
| 2014–2015 | Córdoba | ||||||||||
| 2017 | Al Shabab | ||||||||||
| 2017–2018 | Partizan | ||||||||||
| 2019–2020 | Sporting Gijón | ||||||||||
Medal record
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| * Club domestic league appearances and goals | |||||||||||
Miroslav Đukić (Serbian Cyrillic:Мирослав Ђукић,pronounced[mǐroslaʋdʑǔkitɕ]; born 19 February 1966) is a Serbianfootballmanager and former player who played as asweeper.
He spent fourteen years of his professional career in Spain, notably at the service ofDeportivo de La Coruña andValencia, amassingLa Liga totals of 368 games and 11 goals and winning a combined six major titles for the two teams.
Đukić representedFR Yugoslavia in oneWorld Cup and oneEuropean Championship. After retiring, he embarked in a managerial career at both club and international level.
Born inŠabac and living in a small town near Šabac calledŠtitar in theSocialist Republic of Serbia,Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, Đukić began his playing career withFK Mačva Šabac, moving in 1989 toBelgrade withFK Rad after reported interest from both national giantsFK Partizan andRed Star Belgrade.
In spring 1991, Đukić signed forDeportivo de La Coruña in Spain, who purchased him for 40 millionpesetas. He only appeared in five league games for theGalicians until the end ofhis first season, which ended inLa Liga promotion, but, from there onwards, became an undisputed starter, never totalling less than 35 matches and 3,000 minutes of action in five consecutive campaigns, asSuper Depor was coming to fruition.
On 15 May 1994, inthe league's last round, at home againstValencia CF, Đukić missed apenalty kick in the game's last minute (eventual 0–0 draw), as habitual takerDonato had already beenreplaced and second optionBebeto refused the responsibility since he failed to score one the previous match.[2][3] As a result,FC Barcelona were crowned champions instead, and the elegant defender leftA Coruña at the end of1996–97 at the age of 31 as his contract was not renewed.
Subsequently, Đukić joined Valencia,[4] starting in all of the league games he took part in his first three seasons and helping theChe to two consecutiveUEFA Champions League finals, both lost.[5][6] Already as a backup, he made 16 appearances as the clubwon the first national championship in 31 years in 2002.
Đukić returned toSegunda División after 12 years for the lastseason of his career, playing forCD Tenerife[7] and retiring at the age of 38, having appeared in exactly 400 matches in the Spanish league (bothmajor levels combined).
Đukić made his debut forYugoslavia on 27 February 1991, in a 1–1friendly draw againstTurkey inİzmir. He went on to win 48caps scoring twice,[8] and represented the newly formedFR Yugoslavia atUEFA Euro 2000 (all the games and minutes for the quarter-finalists).[9][10][11][12][13]
Đukić was also a member of the squad that competed at the1998 FIFA World Cup, but did not play due to injury. His final international was a September 2001World Cup qualification match againstSlovenia.[14]
Đukić earned his coaching license in Spain, and started his new career in July 2006 withSerbia's under-21 team with which hequalified in dramatic fashion for the2007 UEFA European Championship (3–0 home loss againstSweden, followed by a 5–0 away win).[15]
On 23 January 2007, Đukić was simultaneously named head coach of Partizan,[16][17] being eventually votedManager of the Year.
Đukić led the Serbia under-21 team to the final of the 2007 UEFA European Championship, losing against hostsNetherlands.[18] He stepped down shortly thereafter.
On 19 December 2007, Đukić decided not to extend his expired contract with Partizan and was appointed head coach ofSerbia. He was replaced at the helm of Partizan bySlaviša Jokanović.
On 25 December 2007, Đukić was officially presented as the new head coach of theSerbia national team.[19] He made his debut as head coach againstMacedonia inSkopje, on 6 February 2008. The match ended with a score of 1-1. In the next four friendly matches, Đukić recorded defeats againstUkraine (2-0),Russia (2-1) andGermany (2-1) and a draw with theRepublic of Ireland (1-1).
Đukić also ledSerbia at the2008 Summer Olympics inBeijing. Before the tournament, Đukić had a brief public row with Partizan and several other European clubs who did not wish to let their players go to Beijing.[20] At the Olympic tournament, Serbia was eliminated in the group stage with only one point won (playingAustralia 1-1,Ivory Coast 2-4 andArgentina 0-2).
On 19 August 2008, the Executive Board of theFootball Association of Serbia announced that Miroslav Đukić is no longer the manager of Serbia and thatRadomir Antić will be appointed in his place, reasoning that Đukić was replaced due to "bad results in friendly matches of the senior national team this year, as well as failure at the Olympic Games in Beijing".[21] Đukić was Serbia manager for only eight months, and he was replaced without ever leading the national team in a competitive match.
On 11 June 2009 he signed forR.E. Mouscron in Belgium, replacingEnzo Scifo and being joined at thePro League team by former Valencia teammatesAmedeo Carboni andJuan Sánchez, who acted assporting director and technical director, respectively; all left shortly after, as the club folded due to severe economical problems.[22]
In late March 2011, Đukić becameHércules CF manager afterEsteban Vigo was sacked. His first match in charge was a 3–1 away win againstReal Sociedad,[23] but theValencians ultimatelysuffered top-flight relegation.[24]
On 6 July 2011, Đukić was appointed at another second division side, agreeing to a three-year contract withReal Valladolid.[25] In early June 2013, after leading them topromotion in his first season – viathe playoffs – andthe 14th position in the second, he replacedErnesto Valverde at the helm of former club Valencia.[26]
Đukić was relieved of his duties on 16 December 2013, following the team's eighth loss ofthe season, 3–0 atAtlético Madrid which left it in ninth place.[27] He was revealed as the newCórdoba CF manager on 20 October 2014, succeedingAlbert Ferrer.[28]
On 23 January 2017, Đukić became the head coach ofAl Shabab, but was forced out after the club merged with Al Ahli to formShabab Al Ahli.
At the beginning of June 2017, Đukić was appointed head coach of Partizan for the second time in his coaching career.[29] He signed a two-year contract, replacingMarko Nikolić, who previously resigned. Đukić made his comeback debut on the Partizan bench in the 2nd round of Champions League qualification againstBudućnost Podgorica. With Đukić on the bench, Partizan managed to eliminate Budućnost in two matches,[30] but was then eliminated byOlympiacos in the 3rd round of qualification.[31] After that, Partizan managed to win a place in the group stage of the Europa League after eliminatingVideoton.[32] Under the leadership of Đukić, Partizan managed to pass the group stage of the Europa League in competition withDynamo Kyiv,Young Boys andSkënderbeu, thus securing a "European spring" after thirteen years.[33] In the round of 16 of the Europa League, Partizan was eliminated byViktoria Plzeň.[34]
Although he had success in Europe, Đukić failed to defend the title of Serbian champion with Partizan. In March 2018, the usually calm Đukić made headlines after he used profanities at a press conference, saying that he "was born in fuckingŠtitar and not sunnyValencia" and that he was "a bum like all of you here."[35] He finished the 2017–18 competitive season in the Serbian Superliga in second place, 17 points behind first-place Red Star.[36] He managed to defend the trophy in the Serbian Cup, after defeating Mladost Lučani in the final (2–1).[37] In May, Đukić arose minor controversy when he said "ifMarko Janković manages toovercome theMontenegrin in him, he will be a great player."[38]
Đukić also started the 2018–19 season on the bench of Partizan. He led the club in the first two rounds of the 2018–19 competition in the Serbian Superliga, where in the first round they were defeated byRadnik Surdulica and then in the second round they defeatedDinamo Vranje.[39][40] He also led the black and whites in the qualification for the Europa League, where firstRudar Pljevlja and then LithuanianFK Trakai were eliminated. He again arose controversy before the latter match-up for referring to Trakai as "not being someIndians with feathers."[41] Despite the fact that he led Partizan to the 3rd round of qualification for the Europa League, Đukić was dismissed on 3 August 2018 and replaced byZoran Mirković.[42]
Đukić came back to the Spanish second tier on 22 December 2019, taking the helm ofSporting de Gijón.[43] Following a13th-place finish, he was replaced byDavid Gallego the following July.[44]
| Club | Season | League | Cup | Continental | Other | Total | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Division | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | ||
| Mačva Šabac | 1987–88 | Yugoslav Second League | 28 | 1 | — | — | — | 28 | 1 | |||
| 1988–89 | Yugoslav Second League | 34 | 2 | — | — | 34 | 2 | |||||
| Total | 62 | 3 | — | — | 62 | 3 | ||||||
| Rad | 1989–90 | Yugoslav First League | 31 | 1 | 2 | 0 | — | 33 | 1 | |||
| 1990–91 | Yugoslav First League | 29 | 1 | — | — | 29 | 1 | |||||
| Total | 60 | 2 | 2 | 0 | — | 62 | 2 | |||||
| Deportivo La Coruña | 1990–91 | Segunda División | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | — | 5 | 0 | ||
| 1991–92 | La Liga | 38 | 3 | 12 | 2 | — | 1[a] | 0 | 51 | 5 | ||
| 1992–93 | La Liga | 38 | 1 | 4 | 1 | — | — | 42 | 2 | |||
| 1993–94 | La Liga | 36 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 6 | 0 | — | 44 | 1 | ||
| 1994–95 | La Liga | 36 | 2 | 7 | 1 | 6 | 0 | — | 49 | 3 | ||
| 1995–96 | La Liga | 35 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 7 | 0 | 2[b] | 0 | 46 | 0 | |
| 1996–97 | La Liga | 29 | 0 | 5 | 1 | — | — | 34 | 1 | |||
| Total | 217 | 7 | 32 | 5 | 19 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 271 | 12 | ||
| Valencia | 1997–98 | La Liga | 33 | 3 | 3 | 0 | — | — | 36 | 3 | ||
| 1998–99 | La Liga | 32 | 1 | 5 | 0 | 4 | 0 | — | 41 | 1 | ||
| 1999–2000 | La Liga | 33 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 16 | 1 | 2[b] | 0 | 53 | 1 | |
| 2000–01 | La Liga | 34 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 12 | 0 | — | 47 | 0 | ||
| 2001–02 | La Liga | 16 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 9 | 1 | — | 26 | 1 | ||
| 2002–03 | La Liga | 8 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | — | 10 | 0 | ||
| Total | 156 | 4 | 13 | 0 | 42 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 213 | 6 | ||
| Tenerife | 2003–04 | Segunda División | 27 | 0 | 1 | 0 | — | — | 28 | 0 | ||
| Career total | 522 | 16 | 46 | 5 | 63 | 2 | 5 | 0 | 636 | 23 | ||
| National team | Year | Apps | Goals |
|---|---|---|---|
| SFR Yugoslavia | 1991 | 2 | 0 |
| 1992 | 0 | 0 | |
| FR Yugoslavia | 1993 | —[note 2] | |
| 1994 | 2 | 0 | |
| 1995 | 1 | 0 | |
| 1996 | 5 | 0 | |
| 1997 | 11 | 1 | |
| 1998 | 6 | 0 | |
| 1999 | 7 | 0 | |
| 2000 | 7 | 0 | |
| 2001 | 7 | 1 | |
| Total | 48 | 2 | |
| Team | From | To | Record | Ref | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| G | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Win % | ||||
| Serbia U21 | 1 July 2006 | 30 June 2007 | 12 | 7 | 1 | 4 | 18 | 12 | +6 | 058.33 | |
| Partizan | 9 January 2007 | 19 December 2007 | 39 | 27 | 5 | 7 | 86 | 32 | +54 | 069.23 | |
| Serbia | 19 December 2007 | 19 August 2008 | 5 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 8 | −4 | 000.00 | [48] |
| Mouscron | 11 June 2009 | 31 October 2009 | 14 | 2 | 5 | 7 | 14 | 22 | −8 | 014.29 | |
| Hércules | 24 March 2011 | 23 June 2011 | 9 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 11 | 13 | −2 | 022.22 | [49] |
| Valladolid | 6 July 2011 | 5 June 2013 | 88 | 38 | 25 | 25 | 131 | 103 | +28 | 043.18 | [50] |
| Valencia | 5 June 2013 | 16 December 2013 | 23 | 10 | 4 | 9 | 33 | 33 | +0 | 043.48 | [51] |
| Córdoba | 20 October 2014 | 16 March 2015 | 21 | 3 | 6 | 12 | 15 | 32 | −17 | 014.29 | [52] |
| Al Shabab | 23 January 2017 | 16 May 2017 | 12 | 7 | 2 | 3 | 21 | 17 | +4 | 058.33 | |
| Partizan | 5 June 2017 | 3 August 2018 | 63 | 36 | 15 | 12 | 112 | 57 | +55 | 057.14 | |
| Sporting Gijón | 22 December 2019 | 21 July 2020 | 21 | 8 | 5 | 8 | 20 | 17 | +3 | 038.10 | [53] |
| Total | 307 | 140 | 73 | 94 | 465 | 346 | +119 | 045.60 | — | ||
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