Full name Ljubomir Petrovic Name Ljupko Petrovic Playing position Role Football player | Position Forward Years Team | |
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Date of birth (1947-05-15) 15 May 1947 (age 68) Place of birth Brusnica Velika, SFR Yugoslavia | ||
Current team Litex Lovech (manager) | ||
Ljupko Petrovic Shenhna China
Ljubomir "Ljupko" Petrović (Serbian Cyrillic: Љубомир Петровић Љупко; born 15 May 1947) is a Bosnian Serb former football player. He was the winner of the European Cup in 1991 with Red Star.
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- Ljupko Petrovic Shenhna China
- Ljupko petrovic levski sofia
- Biography
- FK Sarajevo controversy
- Personal life
- Honours
- References
Ljupko petrovic levski sofia
Biography
Born in Brusnica Velika village near Bosanski Brod, SR Bosnia and Herzegovina, FPR Yugoslavia, Petrović played for NK Osijek during most of his career. After his career at NK Osijek he also spent some time in the United States.
As a manager, he has been in charge of NK Osijek, FK Spartak Subotica, FK Rad, FK Vojvodina, and finally Red Star, with whom he won the 1991 European Cup. He has also managed Spanish RCD Espanyol, Uruguayan C.A. Peñarol, Austrian Grazer AK and Chinese Shanghai Shenhua and Beijing Guoan. He had another two spells at Red Star before moving to Bulgaria in the 2000s to coach PFC Levski Sofia and later PFC Litex Lovech. He came back to Serbia in March 2008 to become the manager of OFK Beograd, but he resigned from this position one month later. July 2, 2008, Petrović became the head coach of Croatian First League team Croatia Sesvete, thus becoming the first Serbian head coach of a Croatian first division team after the Yugoslav wars. On December 23, 2008 he was appointed for the head coach of his former team FK Vojvodina from Novi Sad, title challengers in the Serbian Superliga for 2008-09 season. Yet, after gaining only one point in the first two matches of the second part of the season, he resigned from this position on March 8, 2009. As of 2010 he is coached Croatian side NK Lokomotiva a youth division of Croatian football giant NK Dinamo Zagreb. In the summer of 2015 Petrović managed Litex Lovech for three matches, leading them to first place in the 2015/2016 A PFG standings, but left the team in early August for family reasons. In early December he returned to the team from Lovech once again after the position of manager was vacated by Laurențiu Reghecampf. Petrović guided them to the 1/2 finals of the Bulgarian Cup. However, it eventually turned out to be another short-lived appointment for the Serbian head coach, as Litex were expelled from the A PFG by the Bulgarian Football Union after their players was ordered off the pitch in a heated derby match against Levski Sofia held on 12 December. In May 2016, he was unveiled as the new manager of Levski Sofia, replacing Stoycho Stoev. He left Levski Sofia on 22 October 2016.
FK Sarajevo controversy
Petrović was on the 8th of April 2014 announced as the successor of the recently sacked Croatian manager Robert Jarni as the head of the FK Sarajevo team. However, only two days after, a picture of the manager and deceased Serbian paramilitary commander Arkan erupted in the Bosnian media depicting Petrović holding a weapon while instructed by the war criminal. This resulted in a hurried press conference where the FK Sarajevo board of members announced that no contract would be signed with Petrović. The manager himself agreed to the decision, citing the possibility of strained working conditions after the unexpected publication. He however claimed no involvement in the Yugoslav wars nor the paramilitary activities of Arkan. Petrović managed FK Sarajevo for only one day, conducting a single training with the players. The authenticity of the photo has later been brought to doubt.
Personal life
Petrović is married to Snežana with whom he has two children: son Srđan and daughter Svetlana. He also has two grandchildren: Nikola and Anastasija.
Honours
