Vuk Rašović

Rašović in 2015
Personal information
Full name	Vuk Rašović
Date of birth	(1973-01-03) 3 January 1973
Place of birth	Dortmund, West Germany
Height	1.82 m (5 ft 11+1⁄2 in)
Position(s)	Defender
Team information
Current team	Al-Fayha (manager)
Youth career
	Partizan
Senior career*
Years	Team	Apps	(Gls)
1992–1993	Partizan	1	(0)
1993–1997	Rad	82	(6)
1997–1998	Slavia Sofia	24	(0)
1998–2002	Partizan	100	(1)
2002–2003	Krylia Sovetov Samara	11	(0)
2004	Kansas City Wizards	1	(0)
International career
1997–2001	FR Yugoslavia	5	(0)
Managerial career
2011–2013	Teleoptik
2013	Partizan
2015–2016	Dinamo Minsk
2017	Napredak Kruševac
2017–2018	Al Faisaly
2018–2020	Al Dhafra
2020–2021	Al Wahda
2021–	Al-Fayha
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Vuk Rašović (Serbian Cyrillic: Вук Рашовић; born 3 January 1973) is a former Serbian footballer who is the manager of Saudi Arabian club Al-Fayha.

Playing career

Rašović started to play for the youth teams of FK Partizan. He played professionally, initially, with FK Rad and Bulgarian Slavia Sofia. Then he returned to FK Partizan where he played from 1998 to 2002. In 2002, he moved to Krylia Sovetov of Russia, where he played between 2002 and 2003. In 2004, he signed with the American MLS team Kansas City Wizards^[1] but only played in one game for them during the 2004 season. He retired after the year as a result of suffering an injury.

Rašović played five times for the FR Yugoslavia national team, making his debut on 14 June 1997 against Egypt.

Managerial career

After retiring, Rašović started his coaching career with Partizan. He became the assistant manager of Goran Stevanović during the 2009–10 and Aleksandar Stanojević in 2010–11 season. Later on, he became a head coach of Partizan's affiliate, Teleoptik.

On 29 April 2013, Rašović was promoted as the new head coach of Partizan.^[2] He made his debut by defeating FK Radnički Niš on 2 May 2013.

From December 2014 to 1 May 2015, he was the director of football of Dinamo Minsk.

On 2018, Rašović signed for UAE side Al Dhafra, during his two-year spell, he would get them to qualify for two UAE President's Cup finals, he lost one and the second final was cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic in the United Arab Emirates. After two years at Al Dhafra, Rašović signed for Al Wahda.^[3] He was later dismissed in March 2021, due to poor results in both the league and cup competitions.

On 21 June 2021, Rašović was appointed as the manager of newly promoted Saudi Arabian side Al-Fayha.^[4]

Honours

References

External links

• Vuk Rašović at National-Football-Teams.com
• Vuk Rašović at reprezentacija.rs