Rešad Kunovac

Rešad Kunovac (born 24 August 1953) is a Bosnian football coach and former player. He was the assistant to Radomir Antić, the head coach of the Serbia national team at the 2010 FIFA World Cup.

Rešad Kunovac

Kunovac in 2010
Personal information
Date of birth	(1953-08-24) 24 August 1953 (age 71)
Place of birth	Foča, FPR Yugoslavia
Position(s)	Defender
Youth career
	Sutjeska Foča
Senior career*
Years	Team	Apps	(Gls)
	Sutjeska Foča
1971–1975	Sloboda Titovo Užice
1975–1980	Partizan	100	(4)
1981	Napredak Kruševac	12	(0)
1981–1983	Memphis Americans (indoor)	65	(51)
1983–1985	Baltimore Blast (indoor)	46	(7)
Managerial career
1990	Yugoslavia U16 (assistant)
1995–1998	Atlético de Madrid (assistant)
2001	FR Yugoslavia (assistant)
2003	Barcelona (assistant)
2008–2010	Serbia (assistant)
2013	Shandong Luneng (assistant)
2015	Hebei China Fortune (assistant)
* Club domestic league appearances and goals

Playing career

He started his career playing for FK Sutjeska Foča^[1] and FK Sloboda Užice in late 1960s,^[2] and later moved on to FK Partizan, where he took the championship crown in the 1975–76 and 1977–78 Yugoslav First League season and also won Mitropa Cup in 1978. He also played with FK Napredak Kruševac.

He played in the Major Indoor Soccer League in the United States under the name of Ray Kunovac.

Managerial career

After ending his playing career, Kunovac became a long-term assistant coach of Radomir Antić at Atlético de Madrid, FC Barcelona^[3] and Real Oviedo. In 2001, he was an assistant coach to Milovan Đorić, head coach of the FR Yugoslavia national football team. He was an assistant coach to Mirko Jozić at the 1990 UEFA European Under-16 Championship.^[4]