Vladan "Vlado" Čapljić (

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: Владан Владо Чапљић; born 22 March 1962) is a Bosnian professional

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and former

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Playing career

Club

Čapljić started playing in the youth teams of hometown club Željezničar where he played until 1985. With them, he reached the semi-finals of the

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. Next, Čapljić moved to

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to play with Partizan where he won two

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, in

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and

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. In January 1988, he moved to

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where he played until 1990. Čapljić then returned briefly to Željezničar, before, in 1992, deciding to move abroad, to Portugal, where he played for lower league club

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, before hanging up his boots in 1994.

International

Čapljić played for all the youth selections, before making his senior debut for

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in a March 1984

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against

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and has earned a total of 4 caps, scoring no goals. He also played for the olympic team at the

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and won a bronze medal. His final international was a September 1985

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match against

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Managerial career

After having retired, Čapljić decided to stay attached to football, and, after getting the coaching diploma, he started managing a number of teams in Serbia. He was also a manager of a few teams in Bosnia and Herzegovina. Čapljić was the manager of Radnički Obrenovac,

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, Srem Jakovo, Timočanin, Radnički Kragujevac, Slavija Sarajevo, Rudar Prijedor, Donji Srem, Mačva Šabac, his former club Željezničar and

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. Čapljić was most recently the manager for a third time in his career of

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club Radnički Kragujevac in 2017.

Honours

Partizan *

Yugoslav First League The Yugoslav First League ( Bosnian: Prva savezna liga u fudbalu, sr-Cyrl-Latn, Прва савезна лига у фудбалу, Prva savezna liga u fudbalu, , , , , ) was the premier football league in the Kingdom of Yugoslavia (1918–1941) ...

: 1985–86, 1986–87 Yugoslavia *

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Third place:

1984 Events January * January 1 – The Bornean Sultanate of Brunei gains full independence from the United Kingdom, having become a British protectorate in 1888. * January 7 – Brunei becomes the sixth member of the Association of Southeas ...

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