Zdravko Zemunović (born 26 March 1954) is a Serbian

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manager and former player.

Playing career

Zemunović started his career at

FK Teleoptik FK Teleoptik () is a professional football club based in Zemun, Belgrade, Serbia. They compete in the Serbian League Belgrade, the third tier of the national league system. History Founded by the manufacturing company of the same name in 1952, t ...

in 1969. After playing for Teleoptik for seven years, he played for

FK Čukarički Fudbalski klub Čukarički () is a Serbian professional Football team, football club from Belgrade, more precisely from the Čukarica municipality, that currently plays in the Serbian SuperLiga, the top tier of Serbian football league system, Se ...

and

FK BSK Batajnica FK BSK Batajnica () is a football club based in Batajnica, Belgrade, Serbia. They compete in the Belgrade Zone League, the fourth tier of the national league system. History The club achieved its biggest success by reaching the quarter-finals of ...

. In 1986, he retired due to a knee injury at the age of 32.

Managerial career

After his retirement, Zemunović enrolled in the department of Physical Education at

University of Belgrade The University of Belgrade ( sr, / ) is a public university in Serbia. It is the oldest and largest modern university in Serbia. Founded in 1808 as the Belgrade Higher School in revolutionary Serbia, by 1838 it merged with the Kragujevac-b ...

and acquired his professional coaching license there.

In Yugoslavia

As a professional coach, Zemunović worked for the three professional football clubs in Yugoslavia (BSK Batajnica, Teleoptik, Voždovac) and won league championships with all three clubs. He visited Japan as a member of Partizan for the

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in 1992.

In Japan

In order to avoid the civil war of Yugoslavia, Zemunović and his family decided to move to Japan and he started his coaching career in Japan as a coach of

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for a year. After working for a couple of amateur clubs in Chiba, Japan, he became the general manager of the youth and junior youth team of

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in 1999 and cultivated young talents such as

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and

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. In December 2000, he took up the post of the manager of Shimizu S-Pulse as the successor of

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and won the

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on 1 January 2001 and also won the

Japanese Super Cup The , known as the for sponsorship reasons, is an annual one-match association football competition in Japan organised by J. League and the Japan Football Association (JFA). This competition serves as the season opener and is played between the r ...

next month. After the coaching career in Shimizu S-Pulse, though he coached FK Rad for one season, he is engaging into the development of young talents as technical director.

Managerial statistics

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Honours

;Shimizu S-Pulse *

:2001, 2000 (Runner-up) *

:2001, 2002 *

Asian Cup Winners' Cup The Asian Cup Winners' Cup was an association football competition run by the Asian Football Confederation (AFC). The competition was started in 1991 as a tournament for all the domestic cup winners from countries affiliated to the AFC. The winne ...

:2001 (3rd place) *

AFC Champions League The AFC Champions League (abbreviated as ACL) is an annual continental club football competition organised by the Asian Football Confederation, and contested by Asia's top-division football clubs. It is the most prestigious club competition ...

:2002 (Final Round)

References

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1954 births Living people Serbian men's footballers FK Teleoptik players FK Čukarički players Serbian football managers FK Rad managers J1 League managers category:J3 League managers Shimizu S-Pulse managers category:FC Gifu managers category:Kamatamare Sanuki managers Men's association football players not categorized by position Serbian expatriate football managers Serbian expatriate sportspeople in Japan Expatriate football managers in Japan Place of birth missing (living people) {{Japan-footy-bio-stub