Ranko Popović (born 26 June 1967 in Peć

Pec

Peć or Pejë is a city and municipality in north-western Kosovo and Metohija - Serbia, and the administrative centre of the homonymous district. Governor of city is Ali Berisha....

) is a Serbia

Serbia

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n football coach

Coach (sport)

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 and former player, currently coaching Japan Football League

Japan Football League

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 side Machida Zelvia. He also holds an Austria

Austria

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Club career

Popović played in the Yugoslav First League

Yugoslav First League

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 with FK Partizan

FK Partizan

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. He also had a brief spell with UD Almería

UD Almería

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 in the Spanish Segunda División

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Coach career

In July 2009, he accepted the offer for the coach of J-league club Oita Trinita

Oita Trinita

is a J. League Division 2 team. The team name Trinita can be considered either a combination of the English word trinity and Ōita, or the Italian word trinità. The dual meaning expresses the will of the citizens, companies, and local governments to support the team.The team's home town is Ōita...

, which had experienced 14 consecutive defeats in the season. This team little won the league matches for his first six matches (1 win and 5 losts), but for the last ten matches of the season, the team did not lost (5 wins and 5 draws). This result gave him the offer for the next season's coach of the team, but then the team barely went bankruptcy, so the contract was canceled by the team.

He was appointed as the manager of Machida Zelvia on December 15th, 2010.

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• Career(Japanese)