Marino Pušić (born 18 August 1971) is a Croatian retired

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working as an assistant manager of

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club

Feyenoord Feyenoord Rotterdam () is a Dutch professional football club in Rotterdam, which plays in the Eredivisie, the top tier in Dutch football. Founded as Wilhelmina in 1908, the club changed to various names before settling on being called after its ...

. As a player and a manager he was also active in

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Playing career

Club

As a player, Pušić played for

De Graafschap VBV De Graafschap () is a professional football club from Doetinchem, Netherlands, playing in the Eerste Divisie, the second tier of Dutch football. It was formed on 1 February 1954 and they play their home games at the De Vijverberg stadium. ...

, VV Rheden,

1. FC Köln 1. Fußball-Club Köln 01/07 e. V., commonly known as simply FC Köln () or FC Cologne in English, is a German professional football club based in Cologne in North Rhine-Westphalia. It was formed in 1948 as a merger of the clubs ''Kölner Ballspi ...

II, and

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. He was part of the

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squad that won the

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, but was still you young to feature in any of their games. After fleeing the Yugoslav Wars for Holland he rejected a move to Croatia Zagreb in 1999 when he played for Dutch

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side Babberich. Pušić later became a club legend at

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, when he scored both goals in the 1996 Dutch Amateur Cup final against

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Managerial career

Pušić was a trainer in the Vitesse/

AGOVV AGOVV () is a Dutch association football club based in Apeldoorn. It was established on 25 February 1913. The club played in professional football from 1954 to 1971 and from 2003 to 2013. AGOVV's male first squad plays in 2022–23 in the Tweede ...

Football Academy and assistant-manager with

NAC Breda NAC Breda (), often simply known as NAC, is a Dutch professional football club, based in Breda, Netherlands. NAC Breda play in the Rat Verlegh Stadium, named after their most important player, Antoon 'Rat' Verlegh. They play in the Eerste Divi ...

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FC Twente Football Club Twente () is a Dutch professional football club from the city of Enschede, sometimes known internationally as Twente Enschede. The club was formed in 1965 by the merger of 1926 Dutch champions Sportclub Enschede with Enschedese Bo ...

. On 18 October 2017, he was appointed interim manager at FC Twente after his predecessor

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was forced to leave. On 29 October 2017,

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was presented as the new manager, after which Pušić fell back in his role as assistant manager. On 26 March 2018, he was promoted to the interim manager position again, as Verbeek was fired. As interim head coach, Pušić failed to save FC Twente's season and finished last in the

, thus relegating to the

Eerste Divisie The Eerste Divisie (, en, First Division) is the second-highest tier of football in the Netherlands. It is linked with the top-level Eredivisie and with the third-level Tweede Divisie via promotion/relegation systems. It is also known as the ...

. As of the 2018–19 season, Pušić was promoted to head coach. After finishing in first place and becoming the champions of the Eerste Divisie, and thus securing promotion back to the

, Pušić was sacked on 7 May 2019. He was then recruited to become the assistant manager for

AZ Alkmaar Alkmaar Zaanstreek (), better known as AZ Alkmaar or simply AZ (), is a Dutch professional football club from Alkmaar and the Zaan district. The club plays in the Eredivisie, the highest professional football league in the Netherlands, and ho ...

in May 2019. In January 2021,

announced to have signed Pušić as assistant-manager, starting in the summer of 2021. As manager

Arne Slot Arend Martijn Slot (; born 17 September 1978) is a Dutch professional football coach and former player who is the head coach of Feyenoord. Playing career Slot played as midfielder for PEC Zwolle, NAC Breda and Sparta Rotterdam. Coaching care ...

was previously sent away by AZ Alkmaar for negotiating with Feyenoord, Pušić was sent away by AZ Alkmaar as well.

Honours

;

: 2018–19

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Pusic, Marino 1971 births Living people Croats of Bosnia and Herzegovina Sportspeople from Mostar Association football midfielders Bosnia and Herzegovina footballers Dutch footballers De Graafschap players Red Star Belgrade footballers FK Velež Mostar players 1. FC Köln II players K.A.S. Eupen players Vierde Divisie players Expatriate footballers in the Netherlands Expatriate footballers in Germany Expatriate footballers in Belgium Dutch football managers FC Twente managers Eredivisie managers Eerste Divisie managers FC Twente non-playing staff AZ Alkmaar non-playing staff NAC Breda non-playing staff AGOVV Apeldoorn non-playing staff