Vlado Čapljić

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

Vlado Čapljić
Personal information
Full name Vladan Čapljić
Date of birth (1962-03-22) 22 March 1962
Place of birth Sarajevo, SFR 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
National team
Yugoslavia U21
1984 Yugoslavia U23
1984–1985 Yugoslavia 4 (0)
Teams managed
Radnički Obrenovac
Bežanija
Srem Jakovo
Timočanin
2009–2011 Radnički Kragujevac
2012 Slavija Sarajevo
2013 Rudar Prijedor
2013–2014 Donji Srem
2015 Radnički Kragujevac
2015 Mačva Šabac
2015 Željezničar
2016 Vršac
2017 Radnički Kragujevac
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only

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 1923, at the time known as 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 (Radnički 1923) in 2017.

Honours

Player

Partizan

International

Yugoslavia

References
  1. "Intervju Nedeljom - Vlado Čapljić". 17.05.2015.
  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.
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