Zoran Vranes ( born September 14, 1950 ) is a Serbia

Serbia

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n former football

Football (soccer)

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 player and coach currently working as an assistant coach for Trinidad & Tobago

Trinidad and Tobago national football team

The Trinidad and Tobago national football team, nicknamed The Soca Warriors, is the national team of Trinidad and Tobago and is run by the Trinidad and Tobago Football Federation. It reached the first round of the 2006 FIFA World Cup Finals...

.

Career

Born in Serbia, then one of the republics constituting Yugoslavia

Yugoslavia

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, Zoran Vranes first made his name as a player of Partizan

FK Partizan

Fudbalski klub Partizan is a professional football club based in Belgrade, Serbia. In its long history, FK Partizan won as many as 37 trophies. The club is the holder of 23 national championships, 12 national cups and 1 national supercup, and has also won the Mitropa Cup in 1978...

 and Šumadija.

Coaching career

He coached Rudar Pljevlja. He was than as defensive

Defense (sport)

In many team sports, defense or defence is the action of preventing an opponent from scoring. The term may also refer to the tactics involved in defense, or a sub-team whose primary responsibility is defense...

 coach who had previously trained another set of Caribbean island players, the Trinidad and Tobago national football team

Trinidad and Tobago national football team

The Trinidad and Tobago national football team, nicknamed The Soca Warriors, is the national team of Trinidad and Tobago and is run by the Trinidad and Tobago Football Federation. It reached the first round of the 2006 FIFA World Cup Finals...

. He has received praise for helping to transform the defencemen of St Vincent and the Grenadines football into a formidable defensive team. He took six points in six games of FIFA World Cup

FIFA World Cup

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 Qualifying but it proved insufficient. Then came a middling finish in the Caribbean Nations Cup, followed by the history-setting year of 2006, when they beat the Jamaica national football team

Jamaica national football team

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 in a 2-1 win. It was the first time that St Vincent ever beat Jamaica in football

Football (soccer)

Association football, more commonly known as football or soccer, is a sport played between two teams of eleven players with a spherical ball...

, and they won it with defence. However, the team was ultimately unable to win the championship, making it only to the 8-team finals.

Year	Win	Lost	Draw
2004	8	6	5
2005	1	2	0
2006	5	4	2
2007	1	3	0
Total	15	|15	7