Rade Zalad


Rade Zalad was a professional Serbian football goalkeeper and is now a goalkeeping coach.

Playing career

He came to FK Partizan in 1970 when he was only 14 having played earlier for his local club FK Jedinstvo Kačarevo. He joined FK Partizan senior team in 1978 and also played with Budućnost Podgorica and FK Priština in the Yugoslav First League before moving to Turkey where he played with Beşiktaş J.K., Eskişehirspor and Ankaragücü.

Coaching career

As of March 2010, Zalad was the goalkeepers' coach in the Serbian national team, working under head coach Radomir Antić. He had already worked with Antić in Atlético Madrid, as well as with Celta de Vigo, Real Madrid and F.C. Barcelona.
On 10 January 2013 he signed a contract with CSKA Sofia and became goalkeeping coach. In August 2014 he became goalkeeping coach for FK Napredak Kruševac in the Serbian SuperLiga.