Place of birth Prague, Czechoslovakia 1975–1984 Bohemians Praha 1984–1986 Meteor Praha Role Football manager | 1974–1975 Meteor Praha Years Team Name Dusan Jr. | |
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Date of birth (1967-10-11) 11 October 1967 (age 48) Manages SK Slavia Prague, FC Dinamo Tbilisi Similar People Laszlo Sepsi, Orlando Sa, Tosaint Ricketts, Benjamin Onwuachi | ||
Dušan Uhrin Jr. (born 11 October 1967) is a Czech football manager. He is the son of Dušan Uhrin senior who is also a football manager.
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Playing career
Dušan Uhrin Jr. played in his youth at Meteor Prague and Bohemians Prague. He started his senior career at Meteor in 1984, before moving to Montáže Prag and subsequently FC Jílové. While at the latter, Uhrin suffered a severe injury and decided to concentrate on a coaching career. Between 1990 and 1991 he stepped up into the role of player/manager at RH Strašnice, but afterwards only kept on playing on occasion for FC Jílové until 1998, when he retired altogether from his playing career.
Managing career
Although Uhrin first managed RH Strašnice in 1990, his first real major team in 2000, when he co-coached Sparta Prague. He got a longer managing stint at Bohemians Prague between 2002 and 2004, but Uhrin came into the limelight while at FK Mladá Boleslav, whom he took over in 2004. After saving the team from relegation in his first season, he managed the amazing feat of becoming vice-champions of the Czech first league in the 2005–06 season. Mladá Boleslav impressed in Europe the following season, not least because of defeating Olympique de Marseille in the first round of the UEFA Cup, and one of the people who took notice of Uhrin's achievements was Timișoara boss Marian Iancu. Despite finishing third with Mladá Boleslav that year, Dušan Uhrin Jr. accepted to take over Politehnica Timișoara, stating that it was important for him to find a new challenge.
Politehnica Timișoara and return
In the first year at Timisoara, Uhrin achieved qualification to the UEFA Cup, thereby marking the first European presence of a Timisoara team since 1992. Although his achievements in the first half of the 2008/2009 season were even more impressive, with the club being placed third despite a six-point penalty imposed by FIFA, the FC Timisoara owner, Marian Iancu, decided to sack Dušan Uhrin Jr. in early December, for undisclosed reasons. (Marian Iancu is known though to often do such uninspired moves, also sacking before the end of the season – the best in the team's history – the follower of Dušan Uhrin Jr. as team coach and having done something similarly a few years before with Romanian coach Cosmin Olăroiu).
On 13 December 2010, Dušan was announced the new Politehnica Timişoara's Head Coach signed for one year with option to renewal for two years. After his come back he spoke for official site : ""I hope the stadium will be full again! But, above all, I promise to our fans that we play good attacking football. We hope to bring out the best place possible. I want to have the same relationship with the fans from the last time, because Poli's supporters were wonderful. I'm glad that we have again the colors that he had a team since I started coaching in 2007. These are Poli's true colors!". Uhrin made an impressive re-debut by winning all of the first four matches. But after that series of victories Poli unluckily gained only one victory in the following six games. Although Poli finished second at the end of the 2010–11 Liga I season and was supposed to play in the 2011–12 UEFA Champions League, it was relegated to the Liga II because of accumulated debt and Dušan Uhrin left Poli on 27 July 2011.
Dinamo Tbilisi
In June 2012, he signed a contract with Dinamo Tbilisi for two years. During his first year, Dinamo managed to win Georgian Championship for the first time after 2008. He resigned on December 6, 2013, and will return to the Czech Republic to manage FC Viktoria Plzeň in 2014.