Slaviša Jokanović
Serbian footballer and manager / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Slaviša Jokanović (Serbian Cyrillic: Славиша Јокановић, pronounced [slǎʋiʃa jokȃnoʋitɕ]; born 16 August 1968) is a Serbian professional football manager and former player.
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Full name | Slaviša Jokanović[1] | ||||||||||
Date of birth | (1968-08-16) 16 August 1968 (age 55)[1] | ||||||||||
Place of birth | Novi Sad, SR Serbia, Yugoslavia | ||||||||||
Height | 6 ft 3 in (1.91 m) | ||||||||||
Position(s) | Defensive midfielder | ||||||||||
Youth career | |||||||||||
1985–1986 | Novi Sad | ||||||||||
Senior career* | |||||||||||
Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) | ||||||||
1986–1988 | Novi Sad | ||||||||||
1988–1990 | Vojvodina | 54 | (10) | ||||||||
1990–1993 | Partizan | 67 | (21) | ||||||||
1993–1995 | Oviedo | 62 | (12) | ||||||||
1995–1999 | Tenerife | 123 | (17) | ||||||||
1999–2000 | Deportivo La Coruña | 23 | (2) | ||||||||
2000–2002 | Chelsea | 39 | (0) | ||||||||
2003–2004 | Ciudad Murcia | 6 | (0) | ||||||||
Total | 410 | (69) | |||||||||
International career | |||||||||||
1991–2002 | SFR Yugoslavia / FR Yugoslavia | 64 | (10) | ||||||||
Managerial career | |||||||||||
2007–2009 | Partizan | ||||||||||
2012–2013 | Muangthong United | ||||||||||
2013 | Levski Sofia | ||||||||||
2014 | Hércules | ||||||||||
2014–2015 | Watford | ||||||||||
2015 | Maccabi Tel Aviv | ||||||||||
2015–2018 | Fulham | ||||||||||
2019–2021 | Al-Gharafa | ||||||||||
2021 | Sheffield United | ||||||||||
2022–2023 | Dynamo Moscow | ||||||||||
Medal record
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*Club domestic league appearances and goals |
A physical player considered strong in the air, he impressed at Partizan, before spending seven seasons in La Liga at the service of three clubs, appearing in 208 matches and scoring 31 goals, mainly for Tenerife.[2] He also played for two years with Chelsea towards the end of his career, and represented Yugoslavia at the 1998 World Cup and Euro 2000, earning 64 caps and scoring ten goals in an eleven-year international career.
Jokanović began his managerial career in 2007, winning two consecutive doubles with Partizan, the 2012 Thai Premier League with Muangthong United, and leading Watford and Fulham to promotion to the Premier League in 2015 and 2018 respectively.