Dragan Okuka
Dragomir "Dragan" Okuka (Serbian Cyrillic: Драгомир Драган Окука; born 2 April 1954) is a Serbian football coach and former player.
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Full name | Dragomir Okuka | ||||||||||||||||
Date of birth | 2 April 1954 | ||||||||||||||||
Place of birth | Porija, FPR Yugoslavia | ||||||||||||||||
Position(s) | Midfielder | ||||||||||||||||
Senior career* | |||||||||||||||||
Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) | ||||||||||||||
1971–1974 | Velež Nevesinje | ||||||||||||||||
1974–1985 | Velež Mostar | 214 | (34) | ||||||||||||||
1977–1978 | → Leotar (loan) | 33 | (4) | ||||||||||||||
1985–1987 | Örebro SK | 64 | (8) | ||||||||||||||
1987–1989 | Motala AIF | 58 | (11) | ||||||||||||||
International career | |||||||||||||||||
1978–1979 | Yugoslavia U21 | 4 | (1) | ||||||||||||||
1981–1982 | Yugoslavia U23 | 5 | (0) | ||||||||||||||
Managerial career | |||||||||||||||||
1995–1996 | Bečej | ||||||||||||||||
1996–1997 | Čukarički | ||||||||||||||||
1997–1998 | Obilić | ||||||||||||||||
1999–2000 | Budućnost Podgorica | ||||||||||||||||
2000 | Vojvodina | ||||||||||||||||
2000–2003 | Legia Warsaw | ||||||||||||||||
2005–2006 | Serbia and Montenegro U21 | ||||||||||||||||
2006 | Wisła Kraków | ||||||||||||||||
2007 | Omonia | ||||||||||||||||
2008–2010 | Lokomotiv Sofia | ||||||||||||||||
2010 | Kavala | ||||||||||||||||
2011–2013 | Jiangsu Sainty | ||||||||||||||||
2014 | Changchun Yatai | ||||||||||||||||
2016 | Tianjin Teda | ||||||||||||||||
2018 | Vojvodina | ||||||||||||||||
2019 | Kunshan | ||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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*Club domestic league appearances and goals |
As a player, he was predominantly associated with his time with Velež Mostar where he won the 1981 Yugoslav Cup before joining Swedish club Örebro SK, the place his son, professional footballer Dražen, was born before ending his career soon after.
Starting his management career with FK Bečej, Okuka would win his first coaching honours with FK Obilić when he won the 1997–98 Yugoslav league title with them. Since then he has achieved success with Polish club Legia Warsaw and managed the Serbia and Montenegro under-21 team to a fourth-place finish at the 2006 European Under-21 Championship. He has also managed several other clubs.