Vuk Rašović (Serbian Cyrillic: Вук Рашовић; born 3 January 1973) is a Serbian footballmanager and former player who played as a defender. He is the manager of United Arab Emirates club Kalba FC.
Playing career
Rašović started to play for the youth teams of FK Partizan. He played professionally, initially, with FK Rad and Bulgarian Slavia Sofia. Then he returned to FK Partizan where he played from 1998 to 2002. In 2002, he moved to Krylia Sovetov of Russia, where he played between 2002 and 2003. In 2004, he signed with the American MLS team Kansas City Wizards[1] but only played in one game for them during the 2004 season. He retired after the year as a result of suffering an injury.
After retiring, Rašović started his coaching career with Partizan. He became the assistant manager of Goran Stevanović during the 2009–10 and Aleksandar Stanojević in 2010–11 season. Later on, he became a head coach of Partizan's affiliate, Teleoptik.
On 29 April 2013, Rašović was promoted as the new head coach of Partizan.[2] He made his debut by defeating FK Radnički Niš on 2 May 2013.
From December 2014 to 1 May 2015, he was the director of football of Dinamo Minsk.
On 2018, Rašović signed for UAE side Al Dhafra, during his two-year spell, he would get them to qualify for two UAE President's Cup finals, he lost one and the second final was cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic in the United Arab Emirates. After two years at Al Dhafra, Rašović signed for Al Wahda.[3] He was later dismissed in March 2021, due to poor results in both the league and cup competitions.
On 21 June 2021, Rašović was appointed as the manager of newly promoted Saudi Arabian side Al-Fayha.[4]