Nenad himself worked for more than one and a half seasons in only one club.
On July 4, Lugansk Zorya announced the appointment of Serbian specialist Nenad Lalatovich to the post of head coach of the club. In this position, the Serb replaced Patrick van Leeuwen, who left for Shakhtar. Lalatovich became the fourth Serbian specialist to work in the Ukrainian championship. None of his three predecessors completed a full season. Yes, and Lalatovich himself, who changed 13 clubs and two teams during his 12-year career, only stayed in one of the teams for more than a season and a half.
Football pilgrim
Serbian Vojvodina became this club for Lalatovich during his second arrival to this club. For the first time in his career in a team from Novi Sad, Nenad appeared as a coach in November 2015 and left in December 2016, having managed to play 52 matches with the team, in which he averaged 1.98 points per game.
The second arrival turned out to be longer and more successful – two seasons, from 2019 to 2021. During this period, Nenad played 74 matches at the helm of the team, averaging two points per game and winning the Serbian Cup.
Quite long, as for Lalatovic, were periods in Proleter (one and a half seasons and 58 matches), Cukarichki (the same one and a half seasons and 60 matches) and the first entry into Radnicki from Nis (season, 44 matches, an average of 2.25 points per match and silver medals).
In his last club – Mladost – Nenad worked less than three months, having spent 10 matches with the team. A similar result in terms of duration and with the Bosnian Borac, at the helm of which the Serbian specialist had nine fights.
Predecessors didn’t last long
Before Lalatovich, three Serbian specialists worked with Ukrainian clubs. In none of the three cases, cooperation can be called long-term.
The first was Ivan Golats, who led the Carpathians in the second part of the 2001/2002 season and finished seventh with the Lviv club. After spending seven matches in the 2003/2004 season (six in the championship, one in the Cup), Golac was fired. Fired on a four-match streak without a win (two draws and two losses), which included losing the Cup to Titan.
Slavoljub Muslin, who headed the Donetsk Metallurgist, did not work a full season in Ukraine either. In the 2004/2005 season, the Serb played 24 matches at the helm of the team (15 wins, two draws and seven losses) and left Donetsk in early March 2005, after losing to Zaporozhye teammates.
The last Serbian specialist who flew into the elite division of the Ukrainian championship was Peritsa Ognenovich, who headed Metalist in the winter. It did not work out very well – one victory, three draws and 11 defeats in 15 matches and relegation to the First League. True, given all the circumstances, it was difficult to demand something more from the team and the coach.
Let’s see what happens with Lalatovich and how long he stays in Ukraine, where he visited when he was a Shakhtar player.
Source: Sportarena
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