Nikola Vidović (born 23 November 1964) is a Croatian physical coach. He is currently the athletic coach of Slovenian club

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. Vidović was the national champion of Croatia at

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. In 2007, he became the athletic coach at German

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. In 2009, when the manager

Thorsten Fink Thorsten Fink (born 29 October 1967) is a German football coach and a former footballer, who is the head coach of Belgian Pro League club KRC Genk. Playing career Fink began his career with Borussia Dortmund's reserve squad before moving to S ...

moved to Swiss club

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, he brought a number of his training staff with him, including

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and Vidović. As Fink moved on to his next station as a manager of

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in October 2011, Vidović followed him. After Fink moved to Cyprus and signed as

APOEL FC APOEL FC (; short for Αθλητικός Ποδοσφαιρικός Όμιλος Ελλήνων Λευκωσίας, ''Athletikos Podosferikos Omilos Ellinon Lefkosias'', "Athletic Football Club of Greeks of Nicosia") is a Cypriot professio ...

head coach in January 2015, Vidović worked alongside him as APOEL's fitness coach. Vidović again followed Fink to

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in January 2022. In May 2023, he moved to

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side NK Olimpija Ljubljana as an athletic coach.

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