Zvonko Varga

Zvonko Varga
Personal information
Full name Zvonko Varga
Date of birth (1959-11-27) 27 November 1959
Place of birth Zrenjanin, FPR Yugoslavia
Height 1.78 m (5 ft 10 in)
Playing position Striker
Youth career
Crvenka
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
1977 Crvenka 1 (0)
1978–1986 Partizan 199 (58)
1986–1997 RFC Liège 277 (102)
Total 477 (160)
National team
1979 Yugoslavia U20 3 (0)
Teams managed
2000–2001 OFK Beograd
2002 Rad
2002–2003 Partizan (assistant)
2004 Sartid Smederevo
2004–2005 Partizan (assistant)
2005–2006 Teleoptik
2006–2007 Partizan (assistant)
2007 Qatar SC (assistant)
2008–2011 Teleoptik
2011 Ittihad (assistant)
2012–2015 Partizan (assistant)

* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only.


Zvonko Varga (Serbian Cyrillic: Звонко Варга; born 27 November 1959) is a Serbian football manager and former player.

Club career

Varga made his senior team debut with Crvenka in the Yugoslav Second League, before moving to Partizan without his club's permission.[1] He then spent one year with lower league club Rad, before being able to debut for Partizan. Varga played eight seasons (1978–1986) with the Black-Whites, making 199 appearances and scoring 58 goals in the Yugoslav First League. He also won two national championship titles (1983 and 1986).

In 1986, Varga moved abroad to Belgium, spending the rest of his playing career at RFC Liège. He was the Belgian league's second highest scorer in the 1988–89 season with 22 goals, one less than Eddie Krncevic. Varga scored all six goals in his team's 6–1 home league win over Beerschot on 13 May 1989. He won the Belgian Cup in the following 1989–90 season.

International career

Varga represented Yugoslavia at the 1979 FIFA World Youth Championship. He played all three games, as the team exited the competition after group stage.

Managerial career

Varga started his managerial career at OFK Beograd in 2000.[2] He was also manager of Rad for several months,[3] before being named assistant manager to Lothar Matthäus at Partizan.[4] After Matthäus left the club, Varga left his position and became manager of Sartid Smederevo in January 2004.[5] He resigned from the club after only four games.[6] In June 2004, Varga returned to Partizan to be assistant manager to Vladimir Vermezović.[7] He was co-manager of Teleoptik alongside Blagoje Paunović between 2005 and 2006,[8] before returning to Partizan as an assistant.

In the second part of 2007, Varga was assistant manager to Dimitri Davidovic at Qatar SC.[9] He then returned to Serbia, taking charge of Teleoptik in early 2008. Varga led them to promotion to the Serbian First League in 2009.[10] He was released in January 2011.[11] Varga again moved to the Middle East and joined Davidovic at Saudi Arabian outfit Ittihad in the second part of 2011.[12] He returned to Partizan in 2012, being an assistant in the following three years.

Statistics

Club Season League Continental Total
AppsGoalsAppsGoalsAppsGoals
Crvenka 1976–77 100010
Total 100010
Partizan 1978–79 20020220
1979–80 30900309
1980–81 29900299
1981–82 34800348
1982–83 20300203
1983–84 411051
1984–85 3011313312
1985–86 3217403617
Total 1995810120959
Career total 2005810121059

Honours

Partizan
RFC Liège

References

  1. ↑ "Zvonko Varga: Moj kobni provod u Makarskoj" (in Serbian). mozzartsport.com. 15 September 2014. Retrieved 25 June 2015.
  2. ↑ "Varga trener OFK Beograda!" (in Serbian). glas-javnosti.rs. 1 June 2000. Retrieved 18 June 2012.
  3. ↑ "Rad turn to Djurovski". uefa.com. 7 November 2002. Retrieved 25 June 2015.
  4. ↑ "LOTHAR MATTHÄUS PROMOVISAN !" (in Serbian). partizan.rs. 23 December 2002. Retrieved 25 June 2015.
  5. ↑ "Zvonko Varga novi trener Sartida" (in Serbian). b92.net. 6 January 2004. Retrieved 25 June 2015.
  6. ↑ "Sartid bring back Kikovic". uefa.com. 16 March 2004. Retrieved 25 June 2015.
  7. ↑ "Zvonko Varga ponovo u stručnom štabu" (in Serbian). partizan.rs. 24 June 2004. Retrieved 25 June 2015.
  8. ↑ "Teleoptik osvojio Kup Beograda" (in Serbian). partizan.rs. 24 May 2006. Retrieved 25 June 2015.
  9. ↑ "Invazija stranaca u Humskoj" (in Serbian). politika.rs. 17 July 2007. Retrieved 25 June 2015.
  10. ↑ "Muka, pa kreč, pa drama, pa slavlje!" (in Serbian). partizan.rs. 11 June 2009. Retrieved 25 June 2015.
  11. ↑ "Rašović umesto Varge u Teleoptiku" (in Serbian). b92.net. 19 January 2011. Retrieved 25 June 2015.
  12. ↑ "Varga: Stanojević sve činio da me degradira!" (in Serbian). novosti.rs. 23 January 2012. Retrieved 25 June 2015.
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