Vuk Rašovic
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Vuk Rašović (born January 3, 1973 in Dortmund
Dortmund
Dortmund is a city in Germany. It is located in the Bundesland of North Rhine-Westphalia, in the Ruhr area. Its population of 585,045 makes it the 7th largest city in Germany and the 34th largest in the European Union....

, West Germany
West Germany
West Germany is the common English, but not official, name for the Federal Republic of Germany or FRG in the period between its creation in May 1949 to German reunification on 3 October 1990....

) is a former Serbian
Serbs
The Serbs are a South Slavic ethnic group of the Balkans and southern Central Europe. Serbs are located mainly in Serbia, Montenegro and Bosnia and Herzegovina, and form a sizable minority in Croatia, the Republic of Macedonia and Slovenia. Likewise, Serbs are an officially recognized minority in...

 footballer.

Career

Being the son of Partizan's legend Branko Rašović
Branko Rašovic
Branko Rašović is a Montenegrin defender who played for SFR Yugoslavia.-External links:* at the Serbian federation website...

, it's not surpisengly that still very young Vuk started to play in Partizan youth teams. He played professionally, initially, with FK Rad
FK Rad
FK Rad is a football club from Belgrade, Serbia. It plays at Stadion Kralj Petar I, which is located in the southern part of the city's Banjica neighbourhood....

 and Bulgarian Slavia Sofia. Then he returned to the Serbian giants FK Partizan
FK Partizan
Fudbalski klub Partizan is a professional football club based in Belgrade, Serbia. In its long history, FK Partizan won as many as 37 trophies. The club is the holder of 23 national championships, 12 national cups and 1 national supercup, and has also won the Mitropa Cup in 1978...

 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, Rašović signed with the Wizards, but only played in one game for them during the 2004 season. He retired after the year after suffering an injury.

Rašović played for the FR Yugoslavia and Serbia and Montenegro national football teams five times, making his debut June 14, 1997 against Egypt.

After retiring, he started coaching the youth teams of FK Partizan
FK Partizan
Fudbalski klub Partizan is a professional football club based in Belgrade, Serbia. In its long history, FK Partizan won as many as 37 trophies. The club is the holder of 23 national championships, 12 national cups and 1 national supercup, and has also won the Mitropa Cup in 1978...

 becoming the Assistant manager of Goran Stevanović
Goran Stevanovic
Goran "Plavi" Stevanović is a Serbian football manager and former player. In January 2011, Stevanovic was appointed as the new Ghana coach.-External links:...

 during the 2009-10 season.

External sources

  • Profile at Serbian Federation site.
  • Profile at National-football-teams.
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