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Wednesday, June 15, 2011Sports
Jovanovski new football coach
Sports Reporter

Macedonian Gjorgji Jovanovski has been named the new football coach of the Bangladesh national football team, formally closing the door on the incumbent Croatian Robert Rubcic, in a press conference at the Bangladesh Football Federation (BFF) yesterday.

The 55-year-old coach is scheduled to arrive here on June 20 to take charge of the national side ahead of their FIFA World Cup pre-qualifier against Pakistan on June 29 in Dhaka, said Badal Roy, chairman of team management committee, at a press briefing at the BFF House yesterday.

"We are taking World Cup qualifiers seriously in a bid to advance to the next round. We did not want to demoralise our players before those games, which is why we have chosen Jovanovski," said Roy, who is also a vice-president of the BFF.

Jovanovski will be awarded a one-year contract worth 66,000 dollars apart from food, transport and accommodation facilities, he added.

"He will be given three months' wages in advance and the rest will be given in line with the contract which will be penned after his arrival," said Roy.

Jovanovski, an UEFA pro-licensed coach, started his coaching career with Macedonian club Vardar in 1996 where he had also began his playing career 26 years earlier. His coaching career, confined so far within native Macedonia and Turkey, saw him deliver three Macedonian league titles and one cup title apart from guiding clubs to group stages of the UEFA Champions League.

Jovanovski's latest employment was at Bulgarian side ZSC Sofia where he was terminated after two months following his side's 2-0 defeat to Rapid Vienna in Europa League in 2010.

Jovanovski's playing carrier began in 1970 as a member of Vardar's youth team before joining the famous Yugoslav club Red Star seven years later. After a brief return to Macedonia, he went to Turkey where he played for Samsunspor before calling time on his playing career with Ankargucu in 1988-89.

He was also picked for the national youth team of former Yugoslavia in 1973.

Jovanovski is going to be Bangladesh's 15th foreign coach and fourth in three years under the Kazi Salahuddin-led committee after unpleasant departures of Brazilian Edson Silva Dido, Serbian Zoran Djordjevic and the latest, Rubcic.

Rubcic left here on June 2 without informing the authorities and has so far declined to attend to calls and e-mails from the football's governing body. Rubcic, who signed a one-year deal worth 50,000 dollars in September last year, still had three months of his contract left.

It was learnt .that the Croat was not paid his wages for the last four months along with his food allowance and was also dissatisfied with lack of activities as coach. Badal Roy though claimed they were ready to clear all his dues and made every possible move to contact the coach, but in vain.

"We tried our best to reach and make a communication with Robert Rubcic, but he never responded. We urged him to receive all the due money we owe to him, but in a shocking note I regret to say that all of our efforts went in vain. Furthermore, he also avoided the agent. So we can say Robert Rubcic chapter with BFF has come to an end," announced Roy at the press conference.

Coach's profile
Name: Gjorgji Jovanovski
Born: March 22, 1956
Place: Skopje (Macedonia)
Nationality: Macedonian
Marital Status: Married with 2 daughters
Coaching career (1996-till date): Vardar (Macedonia); Samsunspor (Turkey), Rabotnicki (Macedonia), Meilano (Macedonia), Metalurg (Macedonia), Macedonia 'A'
Playing career (1970-89): Vardar (Macedonia); Red Star (Yoguslavia); Samsunspor (Turkey), Ankaragucu (Turkey)

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