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| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Date of birth | (1953-02-06)6 February 1953 (age 72) | ||
| Place of birth | Titograd,FPR Yugoslavia | ||
| Height | 1.83 m (6 ft 0 in) | ||
| Position | Striker | ||
| Youth career | |||
| –1967 | Budućnost Titograd | ||
| 1967–1970 | Red Star Belgrade | ||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| 1970–1980 | Red Star Belgrade | 212 | (88) |
| 1980–1981 | Club Brugge | 21 | (8) |
| 1981–1984 | Benfica | 56 | (26) |
| 1984–1986 | Boavista | 49 | (15) |
| Total | 338 | (137) | |
| International career | |||
| 1969–1970 | Yugoslavia U20 | 6 | (3) |
| 1972–1973 | Yugoslavia U21 | 2 | (1) |
| 1971–1977 | Yugoslavia | 13 | (2) |
| Managerial career | |||
| 1986–1988 | Boavista (assistant) | ||
| 1988–1993 | Salgueiros | ||
| 1993–1994 | Beira-Mar | ||
| 1994–1996 | Benfica (assistant) | ||
| 1995 | Benfica (caretaker) | ||
| 1997 | Boavista | ||
| 1997–1998 | FR Yugoslavia (assistant) | ||
| 1998 | Vitoria Guimarães | ||
| 1999 | Sampdoria (assistant) | ||
| 1999–2000 | FR Yugoslavia (assistant) | ||
| 2000 | Panionios | ||
| 2001–2003 | Red Star Belgrade | ||
| 2003–2004 | Al-Shaab | ||
| 2005–2007 | Serbia (technical director) | ||
| 2007–2010 | Montenegro | ||
| 2010 | Ceahlăul Piatra Neamț | ||
| 2010–2011 | Golden Arrows | ||
| 2011–2012 | Atyrau | ||
| 2016–2020 | Serbia (assistant coach and head scout) | ||
| 2020–2021 | Libya | ||
| * Club domestic league appearances and goals | |||
Zoran Filipović (Serbian Cyrillic:Зоран Филиповић,pronounced[zǒranfilǐːpoʋitɕ,-fǐli-]; born 6 February 1953) is a Montenegrin formerfootballcoach andplayer, best known for his playing stints withRed Star Belgrade andS.L. Benfica.
Filipović, born 6 February 1953, inTitograd,SR Montenegro,FPR Yugoslavia, made his name in Yugoslavia as a potent striker withRed Star Belgrade, during more than ten seasons at the club (5 June 1969 to 29 June 1980). He played a total of 520 games for the club scoring 302 goals. He was theYugoslav First League top scorer in1976–77 season with 21 goals. He also still holds the club record for most goals in European competitions – scoring 28 goals for Red Star inEuropean Cup,Cup Winners' Cup andUEFA Cup.
His first stop abroad was a season atClub Brugge in Belgium, scoring eight goals in 21 league matches. In the summer of 1981, 28-year-old Filipović joined the reigning Portuguese championsS.L. Benfica where over the following three seasons he scored 28 goals in 54 league matches. Filipović also guided the club Benfica to the1983 UEFA Cup Final againstR.S.C. Anderlecht, being the top scorer ofthat season's competition and scoring memorable goals for the Portuguese in the quarterfinal againstA.S. Roma and in the semifinal againstUniversitatea Craiova.
Filipović ended his career withBoavista FC (1984–1986) when he became the assistant coach at the same club.
Filipović made his debut forYugoslavia in a May 1971European Championship qualification match againstEast Germany inLeipzig, scoring a debut goal after only 11 minutes. He earned a total of 13 caps, scoring 2 goals and his final international was a November 1977Balkan Cup match (0-0) againstGreece inThessaloniki.[1]
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Filipović got his first head coaching job atS.C. Salgueiros in 1988 and stayed with the club for five seasons. He orchestrated the club's most notable moments in history by becomingSecond League champion in 1989–90 and achieving UEFA Cup participation through best placement in club's history immediately in the next season.
In 1993, he moved toS.C. Beira-Mar where he coached for a season. In 1994, he returned toS.L. Benfica for a two-year spell where he was the assistant coach and interim head coach winning onePortuguese Cup in 1996, and participating in theUEFA Champions League. In 1997, he coachedBoavista.
From mid-1990s, Filipović was on theFR Yugoslavia national team coaching staff as an assistant to head coachSlobodan Santrač. He was part of Yugoslav coaching staff at theWorld Cup 1998, leaving the post together with Santrač right after the tournament.
After joining as their head coach for a short spell, he left to work as part ofSampdoria coaching staff.Vujadin Boškov called him on to become his assistant during the second part of the1998 season. Filipović's next stop wasVitória S.C. in the Portuguese league. However, he re-joined theFR Yugoslavia national team in 1999 continuing his collaboration with Vujadin Boškov when he took over. Filipović was the assistant at theEuro 2000. Following Euro 2000, he briefly coachedPanionios inGreece.
In 2001, Filipović returned to coachRed Star Belgrade in Serbia until 2003 with which he won the2001–02 FR Yugoslavia Cup title and is remembered for launching young players such asNemanja Vidić,Boško Janković,Nikola Žigić,Aleksandar Luković amongst others. In 2003, Filipović went to theUnited Arab Emirates when coachingAl-Shaab with which he was defeated in the Cup finals.
After the Emirates experience, he became thetechnical director of theFootball Association of Serbia and Montenegro A and U21 squads participating in the2006 FIFA World Cup inGermany and the2006 U21 European Championship inPortugal.
On 1 February 2007, he was appointed the first coach of the newly createdMontenegro national team. His first game in charge was a friendly againstHungary on 24 March 2007 where they won their debut match with 2–1. The record in the newly formed Montenegro national team was more than positive for a team rated always as underdogs – of a total of 23 matches played, 8 victories were achieved, 8 draws and 7 defeats.
TheFA presidentDejan Savićević commented when Filipović's contract expired in January 2010 – "Filipović did an enormously good job. He formed a great group of players and worked with great enthusiasm." Filipović left the Balkan newcomers in an astonishing 73rd position in the FIFA ranking when he departed from this historical role. Only two months after leaving the helm ofMontenegro national team he assumed a 3-month coaching job contract inRomanian clubFC Ceahlăul Piatra Neamț.
In July 2010 he was hired bySouth African clubGolden Arrows fromDurban. With only three months left in the championship and with relegation imminent, Filipović arrived inFC Atyrau to save the team from relegation. He stayed on to sign a one-year contract forseason 2012. In May 2016 it was announced bySerbia that Filipović will return to national team football in a new role.
After five years in theSerbia where significant achievements were attained, in December 2020 accepted a new challenge to become the national team coach ofLibya. In May 2021, before the start of the qualifications for the2021 FIFA Arab Cup inQatar, he terminated his contract with theLibyan Football Federation (LFF) in FIFA with a just cause.
Red Star Belgrade
Benfica
Benfica (as an assistant)
Salgueiros
Red Star Belgrade
Filipović still has the goal record in European competitions forRed Star Belgrade – 28 goals.Filipović is ranked the 3º Top goalscorer forRed Star – 502 games/302 goals.Filipović in season1982–83 he contributed to Benfica's European good campaign – 12 games/8 goals (hat trick againstAS Roma, and also the decisive goal againstUniversitatea Craiova).
