Slobodan Drapić

Slobodan Drapić
Слободан Драпић
'סלובודאן דראפיץ

File:Slobodan Drapić.JPG Drapić coaching Beitar Jerusalem in 2015
Personal information
Date of birth	(1965-02-28) 28 February 1965
Place of birth	Novi Sad, SFR Yugoslavia (now Serbia)
Position(s)	Defender
Team information
Current team	Beitar Jerusalem F.C.
Senior career*
Years	Team	Apps	(Gls)
1984–1986	FK Novi Sad	36	(0)
1988–1995	Maccabi Netanya	122	(7)
1995–1998	Beitar Nes Tubruk	–	(–)
International career
1988	Israel	1	(0)
Managerial career
1999–2000	Maccabi Netanya (assistant coach)
2000	Maccabi Netanya (caretaker)
2003–2008	Maccabi Haifa (assistant coach)
2008–2009	Hapoel Kfar Saba
2009–2010	Maccabi Herzliya
2010–2011	Bnei Sakhnin
2012	Partizan (assistant coach)
2013–2015	Beitar Tel Aviv Ramla
2015–	Beitar Jerusalem
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Slobodan Drapić (Serbian Cyrillic: Слободан Драпић, Hebrew: סלובודאן דראפיץ'‎; born 28 February 1965) is a former Serbian-Israeli football player and manager.

Career

After coming to Israel in 1988 he played for Maccabi Netanya as a defender. In a long coaching career in Israel he became the assistant coach with Maccabi Netanya, Tzafririm Holon and Maccabi Haifa When Ronny Levy left Maccabi Haifa, he also wanted to leave the club. Partizan Belgrade offered him a job as a Scout and coach assistant, but refused the offer because he wanted to stay in Israel.

On 27 September 2010, Drapić signed in a two years contract as manager of Bnei Sakhnin

In the second half of the 2011-12 season he worked for Partizan as the assistant coach of Avram Grant.

In June 2013 he became the manager of Beitar Tel Aviv Ramla. Drapić worked as the manager of the club until on 7 June 2015, then he signed a contract as the manager of Beitar Jerusalem.

Personal life

Drapić is wedded to his Israeli wife Anita. They have 4 children, the oldest is Dolev who is a professional basketball player in Barak Netanya