Vlado Čapljić

Vlado Čapljić
Personal information
Date of birth (1962-03-22) 22 March 1962 (age 62)
Place of birth Sarajevo, FPR Yugoslavia
Height 1.80 m (5 ft 11 in)
Position(s) Defender
Youth career
1972–1979 Željezničar
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
1979–1985 Željezničar 80 (1)
1985–1987 Partizan 48 (4)
1988–1990 Dinamo Zagreb 40 (7)
1990–1992 Željezničar 2 (0)
1992–1994 Esposende
International career
1979 Yugoslavia U19 3 (0)
1984 Yugoslavia U23
1984–1985 Yugoslavia 4 (0)
Managerial career
Radnički Obrenovac
Bežanija (youth)
Srem Jakovo
Timočanin
2009–2011 Radnički Kragujevac
2012 Slavija Sarajevo
2013 Rudar Prijedor
2013–2014 Donji Srem
2014 Radnički Kragujevac
2015 Mačva Šabac
2015 Željezničar
2016 Vršac
2017 Radnički Kragujevac
Medal record
Men's Football
Representing  Yugoslavia
Olympic Games
Bronze medal – third place 1984 Los Angeles Team
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Vladan "Vlado" Čapljić (Serbian Cyrillic: Владан Владо Чапљић; born 22 March 1962) is a Bosnian professional football manager and former player.[1]

Playing career

Club

Čapljić started playing in the youth teams of hometown club Željezničar where he played until 1985. With them, he reached the semi-finals of the 1984–85 UEFA Cup.

Next, Čapljić moved to Belgrade to play with Partizan where he won two national championships, in 1986 and 1987. In January 1988, he moved to Dinamo Zagreb where he played until 1990.

Čapljić then returned briefly to Željezničar, before, in 1992, deciding to move abroad, to Portugal, where he played for lower league club Esposende, before hanging up his boots in 1994.[2]

International

Čapljić played for all the youth selections, before making his senior debut for Yugoslavia in a March 1984 friendly match against Hungary and has earned a total of 4 caps, scoring no goals. He also played for the olympic team at the 1984 Summer Olympics and won a bronze medal.[3]

His final international was a September 1985 FIFA World Cup qualification match against East Germany.[4]

Managerial career

After having retired, Čapljić decided to stay attached to football, and, after getting the coaching diploma, he started managing a number of teams in Serbia. He was also a manager of a few teams in Bosnia and Herzegovina. Čapljić was the manager of Radnički Obrenovac, Bežanija, Srem Jakovo, Timočanin, Radnički Kragujevac, Slavija Sarajevo, Rudar Prijedor, Donji Srem, Mačva Šabac, his former club Željezničar and Vršac.

Čapljić was most recently the manager for a third time in his career of Serbian First League club Radnički Kragujevac in 2017.

Honours

Partizan

Yugoslavia

References

  1. ^ "Intervju Nedeljom - Vlado Čapljić". 17 May 2015.
  2. ^ Profile and playing career at Reprezentacija.rs
  3. ^ "Vlado Čapljić Biography and Statistics". Sports Reference. Archived from the original on 18 April 2020. Retrieved 27 August 2009.
  4. ^ "Player Database". eu-football.info. Retrieved 6 February 2021.