Zdravko Zemunović

Zdravko Zemunović
	Zemunović with Shimizu S-Pulse
Personal information
Date of birth	26 March 1954 (age 70)
Place of birth	Yugoslavia
Senior career*
Years	Team
1969–1976	Teleoptik
1977–1979	Čukarički
1980–1986	BSK Batajnica
Managerial career
1988–1990	BSK Batajnica
1990–1992	Teleoptik
1992–1994	Voždovac
1995	Tosu Futures (coach)
1999–2000	Shimizu S-Pulse (youth)
2000–2002	Shimizu S-Pulse
2004	Rad
2008–2011	Shimizu S-Pulse (technical advisor)
2005–	Chiba Football Association
2016–2018	Vonds Ichihara
2020	FC Gifu
2021	Kamatamare Sanuki
	*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Zdravko Zemunović (born 26 March 1954) is a Serbian football manager and former player.

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Playing career

Zemunović started his career at FK Teleoptik in 1969. After playing for Teleoptik for seven years, he played for FK Čukarički and FK BSK Batajnica. In 1986, he retired due to a knee injury at the age of 32.

Managerial career

After his retirement, Zemunović enrolled in the department of Physical Education at University of Belgrade and acquired his professional coaching license there.

In Yugoslavia

As a professional coach, Zemunović worked for the three professional football clubs in Yugoslavia (BSK Batajnica, Teleoptik, Voždovac) and won league championships with all three clubs. He visited Japan as a member of Partizan for the Kirin Cup in 1992.

In Japan

In order to avoid the civil war of Yugoslavia, Zemunović and his family decided to move to Japan and he started his coaching career in Japan as a coach of Tosu Futures for a year. After working for a couple of amateur clubs in Chiba, Japan, he became the general manager of the youth and junior youth team of Shimizu S-Pulse in 1999 and cultivated young talents such as Takuma Edamura and Kota Sugiyama. In December 2000, he took up the post of the manager of Shimizu S-Pulse as the successor of Steve Perryman and won the Emperor's Cup on 1 January 2001 and also won the Japanese Super Cup next month.

After the coaching career in Shimizu S-Pulse, though he coached FK Rad for one season, he is engaging into the development of young talents as technical director.