Dženan Uščuplić


Dženan Uščuplić is a Bosnian professional football manager and former player who is the manager of the Sarajevo U19 team.

Playing career

As a player of Sarajevo on three occasions, Uščuplić won 3 Bosnian cup titles and one supercup with the club. He also played for Olimpik. He retired in the summer of 2002 at the age of 27 because of a chronic knee injury sustained in April 1998.

Managerial career

After being forced to retire from football, Uščuplić spent 9 years in the Sarajevo youth academy and as an assistant to former first team manager Robert Jarni, before being named manager in 2014. In his debut season he led the club to a cup triumf, ending a seven-season silverware drought. On 26 September 2014, Uščuplić was relieved of his duties as Sarajevo manager after a string of disappointing results, and returned to the club's youth academy where he completed the UEFA Pro Licence program.
On 21 April 2015, he was again named manager of Sarajevo after the club management sacked Meho Kodro. This time Uščuplić led Sarajevo to a league triumph shortly after being named the new manager. On 11 September 2015, Uščuplić and his whole staff were sacked after a series of poor results that culminated with yet another loss, this time against Slavija Sarajevo.

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Honours

Player

Sarajevo
Sarajevo
Sarajevo U19
Sarajevo U17