Boško "Tatek" Ralić (25 November 1904 – 17 October 1978) was a

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player and coach. He was born in Plaški village near

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, and died in

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Playing career

Ralić has spent his entire playing career at the right half position. For a decade, from 1927 to 1937, he was a prominent player of Concordia Zagreb, one of the most popular football clubs in the

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. Ralić has won two national championships with Concordia, in

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and

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. He has played six games for the

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(1932–1933) and twelve games for the selection of the city of

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(1930–1935). He made his national team debut against

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on 24 April 1932; the last game he played for the national team was a 5-0 loss against

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on 11 June 1933. During the time he played for Yugoslavia the national team made two wins and four losses.

Coaching career

At the beginning of the

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, Ralić escaped from the newly formed

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, and moved to Belgrade, where he became the head coach of the football section of SK Jedinstvo Beograd. After the war, this club was disbanded, and Ralić became the first head coach of FK Metalac, successor of the pre-war five time national champion BSK and predecessor of today's

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. He was the head coach of Metalac in 1946 and 1947, when he left the club and moved to Stara Pazova. He got back to

in 1950, to coach the youth division of

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. In 1953, he was appointed the new head coach of Red Star, replacing

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, but he remained on this position only until December 1954, when he was replaced by Milovan Ćirić. Later, Ralić coached

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from where he moved to FK Bor in summer 1959. In January 1960, he returned to Red Star Belgrade, this time as the coach of the

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, citing family reasons for this decision.Od Zone do Zone
by Radiša Dragićević, page 34

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Ralic, Bosko 1904 births 1978 deaths People from Plaški Men's association football defenders Yugoslav men's footballers Yugoslavia men's international footballers HŠK Concordia players Yugoslav First League players Yugoslav football managers OFK Beograd managers Red Star Belgrade managers FK Napredak Kruševac managers FK Bor managers Yugoslav First League managers Red Star Belgrade non-playing staff