Igor Jovicevic
(Igor Jovićević)
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Born
1973 (52 years old)
Zagreb, CroatiaPosition
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Widzew Łódź
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Polish Ekstraklasa
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Igor Jovićević (Croatian pronunciation: ; born 30 November 1973) is a Croatian professional football manager and former player who is currently in charge of Ekstraklasa club Widzew Łódź.
After being labeled as the new Zvonimir Boban while playing in the youth team of the most successful Croatian club, Dinamo Zagreb, with only 17 years he signed, in summer of 1991, a contract with Real Madrid. His transfer cost was one million dollars, however, the contract was based on the fact that the Merengues, in case of lining him in the first team, would have to pay a total of five million, being that the probable cause of having him playing in the B squad. There, he was trained by Rafael Benítez, among others, and had an opportunity of playing along some youngsters, like Raúl and Guti.
On 11 June 1995, he was injured while playing against Ukraine with the Croatia national under-21 team. After having a one-year pause due to injury, he returned to Croatia to play with another club from the Croatian capital, NK Zagreb. After that, he played with J. League Division 1 club Yokohama F. Marinos, Brazilian club Guarani Futebol Clube and a short spell in France with FC Metz before moving to China to play with Shenyang Dongjin, a discrete passage in Ukraine with Karpaty Lviv before finishing his career in China, again, with a new knee ligaments injury, aged 32. After retiring, he returned to Spain, this time to Marbella, where he owns a bar.
His father, Čedomir "Čedo" Jovićević (1952–2020) born in Žabljak, Montenegro, was the famous defender of Dinamo Zagreb, playing ten years with the most successful Croatian club. His mother, Sanja, is from Zagreb.
Igor is married and has two sons: Filip and Marcos, both players of the Dinamo Zagreb Academy.
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 Real Madrid Castilla | 1991-1996 | Permanent | - | - | |
 NK Zagreb | 1996-1999 | Permanent | - | - | |
 Yokohama F Marinos | 1999-2000 | Permanent | - | - | |
 Guarani | 2000 | Permanent | - | - | |
| NK Zagreb | 2000-2001 | Permanent | - | - | |
 Metz | 2001-2002 | Permanent | - | - | |
 Karpaty Lviv | 2003-2004 | Permanent | - | - |
Former Club Staff
| Karpaty Lviv | 2014-2015 | Caretaker Manager | - | - | |
 Celje | 2016-2017 | Manager | - | - | |
 Dinamo Zagreb II | 2017-2020 | Manager | - | - | |
 Dinamo Zagreb | 2020 | Manager | - | - | |
 SC Dnipro-1 | 2020-2022 | Manager | - | - | |
 Shakhtar Donetsk | 2022-2023 | Manager | - | - | |
 Al-Raed | 2023-2024 | Manager | - | - | |
 Ludogorets Razgrad | 2024-2025 | Manager | - | - |
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