Rešad Kunovac (born 24 August 1953) is a Bosnian football coach and former player. He was the assistant to

Radomir Antić Radomir Antić ( sr-Cyrl, Радомир Антић, ; 22 November 1948 – 6 April 2020) was a Serbian professional football manager and player. Following a 17-year playing career as a defender, most of which he spent playing at Partizan, wit ...

, the head coach of the Serbia national team at the

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Playing career

He started his career playing for

FK Sutjeska Foča Fudbalski klub Sutjeska Foča ( sr-cyr, Фудбалски клуб Cутjecкa Фoчa) is a professional association football club based in the town of Foča that is situated in southern Bosnia and Herzegovina. Sutjeska currently plays in the Fi ...

and

FK Sloboda Užice Fudbalski klub Sloboda Užice () is a Serbian professional football club from Užice. They are currently playing in the Serbian First League, the second tier of Serbian football. History Early years (1920s and 1930s) The club was founded throu ...

in late 1960s, and later moved on to

FK Partizan Fudbalski klub Partizan ( sr-Cyrl, Фудбалски клуб Партизан, ; en, Partizan Football Club), sometimes known as Partizan Belgrade in English, is a Serbia, Serbian professional football club (association football), football ...

, where he took the championship crown in the

1975–76 Yugoslav First League Teams A total of eighteen teams contested the league, including sixteen sides from the 1974–75 season and two sides promoted from the 1974–75 Yugoslav Second League (YSL) as winners of the two second level divisions East and West. The league ...

season. He also played with

FK Napredak Kruševac Fudbalski klub Napredak Kruševac (), commonly known as Napredak Kruševac, is a Serbian professional football club based in the city of Kruševac. The word ''Napredak'' means "progress" in Serbian. The club's nickname is the Čarapani which tr ...

. He played in the Major Indoor Soccer League in the

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under the name of Ray Kunovac.

Managerial career

After ending his playing career, Kunovac became a long-term assistant coach of

at Atlético de Madrid,

FC Barcelona Futbol Club Barcelona (), commonly referred to as Barcelona and colloquially known as Barça (), is a professional football club based in Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain, that competes in La Liga, the top flight of Spanish football. Found ...

and Real Oviedo. In 2001, he was an assistant coach to

Milovan Đorić Milovan Đorić (Serbian Cyrillic: Милован Ђорић; born 6 August 1945) is a Serbian football manager and former player. He is often referred to by his nickname Bata Đora. Đorić last coached in 2011 when he was head coach of the S ...

, head coach of the

FR Yugoslavia national football team The Serbia and Montenegro national football team ( sr, Фудбалска репрезентација Србије и Црне Горе, Fudbalska reprezentacija Srbije i Crne Gore) was a national football team that represented the State Unio ...

. He was an assistant coach to

Mirko Jozić Mirko Jozić (; born 8 April 1940) is a Croatian retired professional football manager and player. Managerial career As manager, he won the 1987 FIFA World Youth Championship in Chile with the Yugoslavia under-20 national team composed of fam ...

at the

1990 UEFA European Under-16 Championship The 1990 UEFA European Under-16 Championship was the eighth edition of UEFA's European Under-16 Football Championship. East Germany hosted the championship, during 17–27 May 1990. 16 teams entered the competition, and Czechoslovakia won their f ...

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1953 births Living people People from Foča Men's association football defenders Yugoslav men's footballers FK Sutjeska Foča players FK Sloboda Užice players FK Partizan players FK Napredak Kruševac players Memphis Americans players Baltimore Blast (1980–1992) players Yugoslav First League players Major Indoor Soccer League (1978–1992) players Yugoslav expatriate men's footballers Expatriate men's soccer players in the United States Yugoslav expatriate sportspeople in the United States Bosnia and Herzegovina football managers FC Barcelona non-playing staff Bosnia and Herzegovina expatriate sportspeople in China {{BosniaHerzegovina-footy-bio-stub