Danilo Dončić

Danilo Dončić

Personal information
Date of birth	(1969-08-20) 20 August 1969
Place of birth	Vranje, SFR Yugoslavia
Playing position	Striker
Club information
Current team	St. Andrews (coach)
Youth career
1981–1989	FK Beograd
Senior career*
Years	Team	Apps	(Gls)
1989–1990	Rudar Prijedor	23	(1)
1990–1992	Napredak Kruševac
1992–1993	Čukarički
1993–1994	FK Beograd
1994–1997	Valletta	63	(58)
1997–1999	Lokomotiv Sofia	50	(17)
1999–2001	Imortal DC	43	(6)
2001–2006	Sliema Wanderers	133	(93)
Teams managed
2006–2007	San Gwann
2007–2008	Floriana
2008–2010	Lokomotiv Sofia (assistant)
2010–2011	Kavala (assistant)
2011–2012	Sliema Wanderers
2012–2013	Tarxien Rainbows
2013–2014	Mosta
2014	St. Andrews
2014–2015	Al-Najma
2015–2016	Ethnikos Achnas
2016–Now	St. Andrews
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only.

Danilo Dončić (Serbian Cyrillic: Данило Дончић; born August 20, 1969) is a Serbian football manager and former player. As of 2015, he is the manager of Ethnikos Achnas.

Early life

He was born in Vranje but spent most of his early life in Belgrade.^[1] He started his youth football career with FK Beograd before joining his first professional football team, FK Rudar Prijedor playing back then in the Yugoslav Second League.

Playing career

He continued his professional career with famous Serbian football clubs FK Napredak Kruševac, FK Čukarički before returning to FK Beograd.^[2] Having spent the majority of his early football career in Serbia, Dončić decided to try the international waters by joining Valletta Malta where he won all possible Maltese Cups in one season 2006–07 and was the top scorer^[3] in Malta by breaking the record of scoring 32 league goals in one season. He left Malta for one of the top Bulgarian clubs Lokomotiv Sofia and continued his career by moving to Portugal playing for Imortal DC. After that he spent five years playing for Sliema Wanderers F.C. where he won three league campaigns in a roll and one trophy. In those years of his most success Dončić was three times top scorer of the Maltese Premier League. In total, he played eight years in Malta with a record of 196 games played and 151 goals scored. In May 2006 at the age of 37, Dončić retired from playing football.

Coaching career

Dončić decided to concentrate on coaching and soon after he finished his career as a player, he started coaching the First Division Maltese team San Gwann F.C. in 2006. In the consecutive season, he signed with Floriana F.C. as a head coach of this premier Maltese team. Floriana F.C., a team with a successful football history placed fifth in the Premiere league and was a semi-finalist in the Trophy for the same year. Following this achievement, Dončić got invited by one of the best Serbian coaches, Dragan Okuka, where he accepted to become his first assistant coach in Dončić's ex-club PFC Lokomotiv Sofia.^[4][5][6] Subsequently, Dončić moves on to a top Greek league team Kavala F.C. together with Dragan Okuka. After some time, Okuka resigned and Dončić continued working with Henryk Kasperczak till the year 2011. At the same time, Dončić was contacted by Sliema Wanderers F.C. for the post of a head coach and he returned to Malta to take over his ex-team Sliema Wanderers F.C. from February 2011 till May 2012. Remainder of 2012. Danilo is coaching Tarxien Rainbows F.C. Premier League team. His career continues with Mosta F.C. (2013–2014) and St. Andrews F.C. (2014- Autumn 2014) as a Club Manager.^[7] With start of new football season Danilo decides to accept the offer of Al-Najma (2014–2015) on position of Club Manager.^[8] Following successful year at Al-Najma Danilo takes the contract with Ethnikos Achnas (2015-2016). Danilo is back to the Maltese Premier League after reaching an agreement with St Andrews FC.^[9][10]

References

External links

• Official website
• Player Profile at ForaDeJogo