Goran Lacković (born 4 May 1970) is a retired Croatian

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and was most recently assistant

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Playing career

He played for

Lokomotiva Zagreb Nogometni klub Lokomotiva Zagreb (), commonly known as Lokomotiva Zagreb or simply Lokomotiva, is a Croatian professional football club based in Zagreb. It competes in the Croatian First Football League, the country's top division. Founded in 1 ...

in the Yugoslav third level Inter-Republic League. In the same league he also played for Jugokoramika Zaprešić. Then he played for four teams from Zagreb in

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Trešnjevka Trešnjevka is a neighborhood of Zagreb, Croatia. Forming one of the city's inner neighborhoods, it is located in the city's southwestern area. At approximately 15.67 km2 in area and a population of slightly over 121,000, it is one of the most ...

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Špansko Špansko Oranice. Špansko is a neighbourhood in the western part of Zagreb, Croatia. It has about 24,000 inhabitants. žpan), but was modified by both Hungarian (''ispan'') and Croatian language (ispan > span > špan). ''Špansko'' is administra ...

and

Trnje Trnje () is a district in the City of Zagreb, Croatia. According to the 2011 census, the district had 42,282 residents. It is located in the central part of the city, south of Donji grad across the railway ( Zagreb Main Station), east of Trešn ...

Managerial career

After his playing career, he graduated from the Faculty of Kinesiology at

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in 2000, attained a UEFA Pro coaching license and became a lecturer at the Football Academy of the

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on UEFA A and UEFA B courses, and a leader and a lecturer on C course for trainers at the Zagreb regional football association. In addition to various coaching activities in the Zagreb regional football association and Football center of Zagreb, he was the youths' coach in Dinamo Zagreb Football Academy "Hitrec-Kacian" and coached the first team of

NK Lučko Nogometni klub Lučko is a Croatian football club based in the Novi Zagreb – zapad (New Zagreb-West) district in southwest Zagreb. Founded in 1931 as SK Velebit, shortly after renamed into NK Velebit, it is one of the oldest clubs in its bor ...

and NK Radnik Sesvete with whom he won first place in

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and won promotion to the

. On two occasions, he was the assistant coach of the

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, first at head coach

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's headquarters, then at head coach

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's headquarters, with whom on 16 October 2013, along with

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and

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enters the newly established headquarters of the Croatian A team just before two successful decisive game of the playoffs with the

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(0:0 and 2:0) to qualify for the

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in Brazil. After the World Cup in Brazil, the same headquarters began and led the qualifying for the

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in France. In those qualifying national team played 8 games; 4 wins, 3 draw and 1 defeat, after which the Croatian Football Federation replaced Niko Kovač and his headquarters. He was later, also alongside Mihačić and Robert Kovač, an assistant to head coach Niko Kovač at Ligue 1 side

.Otkriveno zašto je Kovač dobio otkaz!
- Sportklub

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Lackovic, Goran 1970 births Living people Footballers from Zagreb Men's association football players not categorized by position Yugoslav men's footballers NK Lokomotiva Zagreb players NK Inter Zaprešić players NK Trešnjevka players NK Sesvete players Second Football League (Croatia) players Croatian football managers NK Lučko managers NK Sesvete managers GNK Dinamo Zagreb non-playing staff AS Monaco FC non-playing staff Croatian expatriate sportspeople in France