Denis Tahirović (born 16 July 1985) is a Croatian

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manager and former player.

Playing career

Tahirović played for SG Wattenscheid 09 as a youth player where he at a very young age began as a youth coach at the club. He then moved to

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, where he played for the reserve team and also was a youth coach for the club's U12 team. Tahirović was also the person who took German international player,

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, to Schalke and was his coach at the club. For the 2007–08 season he moved to

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, where he made ten appearances in the Slovenian PrvaLiga and scored one goal. In the second half of the 2007–08 season, he played for the Croatian club NK Virovitica, which he left after half a year to join

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. He left this club in summer 2009 to play for the Bosnian club

FK Sloboda Tuzla Fudbalski klub Sloboda Tuzla ( sh-Cyrl, Фудбалски клуб Слободa Tyзла; English: Football Club Sloboda Tuzla) is a Bosnian professional football club based in Tuzla, Bosnia and Herzegovina. The English translation of the team ...

and later

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in the 2009–10 season.

Coaching career

Tahirović later returned to Germany to work as a coach in the amateur sector. He was the U19 head coach of SG Wattenscheid 09 from 2011 to 2013. In November 2013, he became the assistant coach of FC Kray. On 18 May 2014, he was appointed interim head coach for the rest of the season, where Michael Lorenz was appointed new head coach. He left the club alongside Lorenz on 27 July 2015 due to professional and personal reasons. On 9 April 2016, Tahirović became Michael Lorenz' - who he also worked under at FC Kray - assistant coach at

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. However, already one month later, the duo was released. Tahirović was then appointed head coach of FSV Duisburg on 19 September 2016. On 4 August 2017, he decided to step back from the position. However, he returned to the club on 1 January 2017, however, as a sporting director. After

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was fired in mid-January 2018, Tahirović took charge of the team until the end of the season and secured promotion to the Oberliga. He then continued his duties as a sporting director at the end of the season.148-maliger Oberligaspieler übernimmt FSV Duisburg
reviersport.de, 23 June 2018

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Tahirovic, Denis 1985 births Living people Men's association football midfielders Croatian men's footballers FC Schalke 04 II players NK Primorje players Barcsi SC footballers FK Sloboda Tuzla players Slovenian PrvaLiga players Croatian expatriate men's footballers Expatriate men's footballers in Germany Croatian expatriate sportspeople in Germany Expatriate men's footballers in Slovenia Croatian expatriate sportspeople in Slovenia Expatriate men's footballers in Hungary Croatian expatriate sportspeople in Hungary Expatriate men's footballers in Bosnia and Herzegovina Croatian expatriate sportspeople in Bosnia and Herzegovina Croatian football managers FC Kray managers