Asif Šarić (born 15 January 1965) is a Bosnian

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manager and former player who played as a

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. He was assistant coach for

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. He is currently assistant manager at

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club

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Football career

Šarić first played for Sloboda Tuzla and in 1992 he transferred to Germany to play for

Arminia Bielefeld DSC Arminia Bielefeld (; full name: ; commonly known as Arminia Bielefeld (), also known as ''Die Arminen'' or ''Die Blauen'' ), or just Arminia (), is a German sports club from Bielefeld, North Rhine-Westphalia. Arminia is most well known as ...

. Šarić joined

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's first team for their 1994–95 season under head coach

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. Following their promotion in the previous season this was Basel's first season back in the highest tier of Swiss football. After playing in 8 test games Šarić played his domestic league debut for his new club in the away game in the

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on 3 August 1994 as Basel were defeated 2–1 by Lausanne-Sport. He scored his first goal for the club in the home game in the

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on 10 September. In fact he scored two goal as Basel won 4–0 against

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. During his one season with the club, Šarić played a total of 39 games for Basel scoring a total of 4 goals. 21 of these games were in the Nationalliga A, three in the

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and 15 were friendly games. He scored two goals in the domestic league, one in the cup and the other was scored during the test games. Follow this year in Switzerland, Šarić return to Germany and played for

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and SV Wilhelmshaven. He became assistant coach and reserve player for

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in 2003. He was later assistant coach and then became head coach for

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in 2006. He was assistant coach for

between 2008 and 2011. In 2019 he was head coach ad interim for

References

Sources

* Rotblau: Jahrbuch Saison 2017/2018. Publisher: FC Basel Marketing AG. * Die ersten 125 Jahre. Publisher: Josef Zindel im Friedrich Reinhardt Verlag, Basel.
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1965 births Living people Bosnia and Herzegovina emigrants to Germany Men's association football midfielders Bosnia and Herzegovina men's footballers FK Sloboda Tuzla players Arminia Bielefeld players FC Basel players Sportfreunde Siegen players SC Paderborn 07 players SV Wilhelmshaven players Rot Weiss Ahlen players Regionalliga players Swiss Super League players Oberliga (football) players Bosnia and Herzegovina expatriate men's footballers Expatriate men's footballers in Switzerland Bosnia and Herzegovina expatriate sportspeople in Switzerland Bosnia and Herzegovina football managers Bonner SC managers Hannover 96 non-playing staff Hannover 96 managers 2. Bundesliga managers {{BosniaHerzegovina-footy-midfielder-stub