Darko Gasic

Darko Gasic
Personal information
Full name Darko Gasic
Date of birth (1985-07-20) 20 July 1985
Place of birth Belgrade, Serbia
Teams managed
Years Team
2010–2015 Vision F.C. (Director of Football)
2015– Radnik Surdulica (Director of Football)

Darko Gasic (born 20 July 1985), is director of football at Radnik Surdulica since 2015. In April 2016, Serbian media noted that he is the fourth youngest sporting director throughout the highest leagues in Europe. [1]

Vision F.C.

In December 2010, Vision F.C. appointed him as director of football. He became first foreign director of football in Ghana lower division ever. On his promotion, he put in place a 10 year plan to develop the club to international standard. At that time the club had no youth system and was playing 5th tier football.

Under his mandate, Vision F.C. ascended from the 5th to the 2nd division, had three international coaches from Serbia and youth system and had established youth system, and become one of the best teams in Ghanaian football.[2]

Through Gasic's position of director of football, Vision F.C. has been able to transfer 7 players to Europe and 8 players played for the national team (5 of them U-17 and 3 of them U-20) [3]

Radnik Surdulica

Season 2015/16

In June 2015, he joined Radnik Surdulica and has been appointed as director of football in October 2015.[4][5][6] After mutual contract terminate with coach Mladen Milinković after only eight league games and bottom of the league, he hired Miloš Veselinović as head coach. In his first season at the club, Radnik Surdulica qualified for play-off of Serbian SuperLiga as 8th on table and become the biggest surprise in Serbian SuperLiga that season.

Season 2016/17

In this season club promote two young player who has been discovered by Darko Gasic: Igor Zlatanović who become Serbia national team under 19 player and Francis Kyeremeh. This season club finished in 12th position and played play-out group of the Superleague.

Season 2017/18

In this season young striker Igor Zlatanović become best team scorer and made debut for 2 years older national team selection. Igor Zlatanović score a goal on his debut against Gibraltar. [7]

Young players and coaches

Through his time at Vision F.C., he discovered Samuel Owusu [8], Michael Baidoo [9] , Sulley Saddam[10] and Francis Kyeremeh. In his mandate in Radnik Surdulica, he give chance to young Miloš Veselinović as head coach who has never worked in premier league before, at a time when the club only had 6 points from 8 games.

References

  1. ↑ "Filmska priča direktora Radnika - Darka Gašića". mondo.rs. Retrieved 3 June 2017.
  2. ↑ "Vision FC promote".
  3. ↑ "Vision FC striker Alex Yamoah makes dream trials in Spain through Skillnet - GHANAsoccernet.com". social_image. Retrieved 3 June 2017.
  4. ↑ "Iz Gane u Surdulicu". mondo.rs. Retrieved 3 June 2017.
  5. ↑ "Pojačanje iz Gane u Surdulici!". Mozzart Sport. Retrieved 3 June 2017.
  6. ↑ "surdulica". surdulica. Retrieved 3 June 2017.
  7. ↑ "Zlatanovic scored on debut".
  8. ↑ "Gençlerbirliği, Samuel Owusu'yu transfer etti". Sabah (in Turkish). Retrieved 2017-05-28.
  9. ↑ "Baidoo join FC Midtjylland". Retrieved 2017-05-28.
  10. ↑ "Vision FC striker Sulley Saddam signs for four years with Legia Warsaw - GHANAsoccernet.com". social_image. Retrieved 2017-05-28.
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