Veselin Jelušić is a Serbian

football Football is a family of team sports that involve, to varying degrees, kick (football), kicking a football (ball), ball to score a goal (sports), goal. Unqualified, football (word), the word ''football'' generally means the form of football t ...

coach.

Career

He taught at the

University of Belgrade The University of Belgrade () is a public university, public research university in Belgrade, 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 me ...

in the 1990s. He then managed two African national teams,

Angola Angola, officially the Republic of Angola, is a country on the west-Central Africa, central coast of Southern Africa. It is the second-largest Portuguese-speaking world, Portuguese-speaking (Lusophone) country in both total area and List of c ...

and

Botswana Botswana, officially the Republic of Botswana, is a landlocked country in Southern Africa. Botswana is topographically flat, with approximately 70 percent of its territory part of the Kalahari Desert. It is bordered by South Africa to the sou ...

. After leaving his role as Botswana manager he began working in youth development for the Botswana FA. On 3 July 2017, Jelušić signed a two-year contract with South African club

Bloemfontein Celtic Bloemfontein Celtic Football Club (simply known as Celtic) is a South African soccer club based in Bloemfontein. Bloemfontein Celtic had a large fan base in the Free State and competed in the Premiership before selling their status to Royal ...

. In October 2017 he was named Absa Premiership Coach of the Month. He resigned in June 2018. On 12 October 2020 he was unveiled as the head coach of Zambian club City of Lusaka. In February 2022 he was appointed manager of the Lesotho national team. He left the position by mutual agreement in June 2023.https://www.lena.gov.ls/jelusic-pours-his-heart-out-as-bids-farewell/

References

Year of birth missing (living people) Living people Serbian football managers Angola national football team managers Botswana national football team managers Bloemfontein Celtic F.C. managers Lesotho national football team managers G.D. Interclube managers Serbian expatriate football managers Serbian expatriate sportspeople in Angola Expatriate football managers in Angola Serbian expatriate sportspeople in Botswana Expatriate football managers in Botswana Serbian expatriate sportspeople in South Africa Expatriate soccer managers in South Africa Serbian expatriate sportspeople in Zambia Expatriate football managers in Zambia Serbian expatriate sportspeople in Lesotho Expatriate football managers in Lesotho {{Serbia-footy-bio-stub