Goran Miscevic (; born 26 March 1963) is a Canadian professional soccer coach and former player. He is the manager of German club Rot-Weiß Erfurt.

Career

Miscevic was born in

Virovitica Virovitica () is a Croatian city near the Hungarian border. It is situated near the Drava river and belongs to the historic region of Slavonia. Virovitica has a population of 14,688, with 21,291 people in the municipality (census 2011). It is als ...

, SR Croatia,

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to a

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* * * Old Serbian (disambiguat ...

family and he played professionally in Yugoslavia and Germany. After his retirement from competitive soccer he obtained a coaching license from the

German Football Association The German Football Association (german: Deutscher Fußball-Bund ; DFB ) is the governing body of football in Germany. A founding member of both FIFA and UEFA, the DFB has jurisdiction for the German football league system and is in charge of t ...

. Miscevic managed

VfR Pforzheim The VfR Pforzheim was a German association football club from the city of Pforzheim, Baden-Württemberg. The club achieved notability by playing in Germany's second division in the 1965–66 season. In 2010. the club merged with 1. FC Pforzhei ...

in Germany for two years. In 1997, he immigrated to Canada and in 2000 he served as an assistant coach for

Glen Shields The Glen Shields Sun Devils were a soccer team which played in the Canadian Professional Soccer League from 1998–2002. They played their home matches in Thornhill, Ontario. The franchise was one of the original teams of the CPSL. Originally f ...

of the Canadian Professional Soccer League. In 2003, he was appointed the head coach for the

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, and in the 2004 season led the team to a second-place position in the Eastern Conference. He returned to the Lions organization in 2007 (this time under the name Canadian Lions) with his assistant being former

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international

Blagoje Bratić Blagoje "Blažo" Bratić (March 1, 1946 – July 31, 2008) was a Bosnian Canadian footballer and manager. Playing career Club Born in Sarajevo, he started playing football in Pretis Vogošća (later known as UNIS, and today as FK Vogošća) at ...

. His tenure with the club was notable as he promoted Dejan Jakovic to the first team and secured the team a postseason berth by finishing fourth in the International Division. In 2008, he went overseas to coach Al-Wakrah Sport Club in the

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. In 2010, he went to Saudi Arabia to coach Al-Hazm F.C. of the Saudi Professional League. In 2011, he went to Oman to coach

Salalah SC Salalah Sport Club ( ar, نادي صلالة الرياضي; also known locally as ''Al-Nimoor'', or "The Tiger(s)", or just plainly as Salalah) is an Omani football club based in Salalah, Oman. Their home ground is Al-Saada Stadium, but they als ...

of the

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. In 2012, he moved to the United Arab Emirates and had stints with

Al Urooba Al Urooba Club ( ar, نادي العروبة الرياضي الثقافي) is a United Arab Emirates professional football club. It is based in the city of Mirbah and Qidfa, Fujairah. The club currently plays in the UAE First Division League. ...

and was unbeaten for 12 games in row, it was a league record, lost only 3 games in season,

Al-Ittihad Kalba SC Ittihad Kalba Football Club ( ar, نادي إتحاد كلباء لكرة القدم‎) is a football club in Kalba, United Arab Emirates. History Ittihad Kalba was established in 1972 when two clubs ''(Al Shabab)'' and ''(Al Rooba)'' merged wi ...

, and

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. In 2017 he moved to China to coach Zhenjiang Huasa change name to Kunshan FC. In 2018 he moved to another Chinese club

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and led them into winning that year as well as a 10th place finish in

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, enough for gaining promotion to

China League Two The Chinese Football Association Division Two League (Simplified Chinese: 中国足球协会乙级联赛), or China League Two, is the third tier league of the People's Republic of China. The league is under the auspices of the Chinese Football As ...

. In 2019 he went back to the Middle East and signed with the top division team Al-Seeb Club of the

. Season 2019/2020 he won

Championship. In 2020, he was named the head coach for FC Rot-Weiss Erfurt in the NOFV-Oberliga Südgaining promotion to Regional League North East.

References

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