Full name Rade Zalad Role Football player Name Rade Zalad | 1970–1978 Partizan Belgrade Playing position Position Goalkeeper | |
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Date of birth (1956-10-26) 26 October 1956 (age 59) Place of birth Pancevo, SFR Yugoslavia Current team FK Napredak KrusevacGoalkeeping coach Nominations Milliyet Sports Award for Foreign Athlete of the Year | ||
Rade Zalad (Serbian Cyrillic: Paдe Зaлaд, born 26 October 1956) was a professional Serbian football goalkeeper and is now a goalkeeping coach.
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Playing career
He came to FK Partizan in 1970 when he was only 14 having played earlier for his local club FK Jedinstvo Kačarevo. He joined FK Partizan senior team in 1978 and also played with Budućnost Podgorica and FK Priština in the Yugoslav First League before moving to Turkey where he played with Beşiktaş J.K., Eskişehirspor and Ankaragücü.
Coaching career
As of March 2010, Zalad was the goalkeepers' coach in the Serbian national team, working under head coach Radomir Antić. He had already worked with Antić in Atletico Madrid, as well as with Celta de Vigo, Real Madrid and F.C. Barcelona.
On 10 January 2013 he signed a contract with CSKA Sofia and became goalkeeping coach. In August 2014 he became goalkeeping coach for FK Napredak Kruševac in the Serbian SuperLiga.