Robert Grdović (born 23 February 1974) is a Croatian
futsal Futsal is a football-based game played on a hardcourt, hard court smaller than a football pitch, and mainly indoors. It has similarities to five-a-side football and Indoor soccer, indoor football.
Futsal is played between two teams of five players ...
manager and former player.
Playing career
During his futsal career, Grdović played for the clubs
Uspinjača Zagreb (Croatia), Cagliari Futsal (Italy), Genzano Calcio a 5 (Italy), Petar (Croatia),
Gospić (Croatia), Split (Croatia), and Zapad (Croatia).
He also played for the
Croatian national futsal team, making 56 appearances between 1998 and 2008. He retired in 2011.
Coaching career
As a football coach, he was a manager of the Croatian teams Zapad and
Nacional Zagreb
F.C. Nacional is a futsal club based in Zagreb, Croatia. Before 2008 club was known under the name MNK Gospić and it was based in city of Gospić, Croatia
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. Grdović also worked as the coach-consultant of the
Croatian national futsal team.
With the cooperation of the
Croatian Football Federation
The Croatian Football Federation ( hr, Hrvatski nogometni savez, HNS) is the governing body of association football in Croatia. It was originally formed in 1912 and is based in the capital city of Zagreb. The organisation is a member of both FIF ...
and the
Football Federation of Turkmenistan, it was announced in March 2019 that Grdović would take over the
Turkmenistan national futsal team
The Turkmenistan national futsal team represents Turkmenistan in international futsal competitions and is controlled by the Football Federation of Turkmenistan.
Overview
Turkmenistan can count themselves fortunate to have avoided preliminary qual ...
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In March 2020, Grdović left the team due to the expiration of the contract and the postponement of matches of the
2020 AFC Futsal Championship
The 2020 AFC Futsal Championship would have been the 16th edition of the AFC Futsal Championship, the biennial international futsal championship organised by the Asian Football Confederation (AFC) for the men's national teams of Asia. A total of ...
.
Nema utakmica, nema ni posla: Ante Miše nije više izbornik Turkmenistana
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References
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1974 births
Living people
People from Sindelfingen
Sportspeople from Stuttgart (region)
Croatian men's futsal players
Croatian expatriate sportspeople in Italy
Croatian futsal coaches
Croatian expatriate sportspeople in Slovenia
Croatian expatriate sportspeople in Turkmenistan
Expatriate sports coaches