Coaching staff

Coaches
and scouts

Players at the camp are led and assessed by people who have played and coached at the highest level — from the Champions League and the World Cup to youth national teams.

Lazo DžepinaUEFA Pro
Coach and scout

Lazo Džepina

CSL titles as head coach
countries as coach or player
UEFA Pro licence since

UEFA Pro coach with a career in Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina and Canada. As head coach he won two Canadian Soccer League titles, building his squads by bringing in players from the European market — scouting has been part of his job from day one.

  • CSL champion 2010 (Brantford Galaxy) and 2013 (SC Waterloo Region)
  • CSL 2nd Division champion 2013, runner-up 2015
  • CSL Coach of the Year nominee 2012
  • As a player: FR Yugoslavia First League (FK Rad), Republika Srpska Cup (FK Borac)
Languages: Bosnian · English
Coaching career
  1. 2024–2025
    NK Janjevo Kistanje
    Head coach
  2. 2022–2024
    NK Dinara Knin
    Head coach
  3. 2012–2016
    SC Waterloo Region (CSL, Kanada)
    Head coach
  4. 2010–2011
    Brantford Galaxy (CSL, Kanada)
    Head coach
  5. 2010
    NK Dinara Knin
    Head coach
Playing career
  1. 2005
    Hamilton Thunder (CPSL, Kanada)
  2. 1996–2000
    FK Borac Banja Luka
  3. 1993–1994
    FK Rad Beograd
  4. 1985–1990
    NK Dinara Knin
Perica OgnjenovićUEFA Pro
Coach · former Real Madrid player

Perica Ognjenović

Champions League with Real Madrid
World Cup with Yugoslavia
matches for Red Star

Former Yugoslavia international and Real Madrid player, with whom he won the Champions League in 2000. As a coach he led Red Star U19 and the Serbia U17 team, served as deputy director of the Football Association of Serbia, and took over FC Metalist Kharkiv in 2023.

  • Champions League 2000 with Real Madrid
  • 1998 World Cup with FR Yugoslavia
  • Red Star: 100+ matches, league and cup, one of the club's youngest captains
  • Serbia U17: qualified for the 2018 European Championship
  • Attacking football — favourite formations 4-3-3 and 3-5-2
Languages: Serbian · English · Spanish · Russian
Coaching career
  1. 2023–
    FC Metalist Kharkiv
    Head coach
  2. 2020
    FK Zvijezda 09 (Premijer liga BiH)
    Head coach
  3. 2017
    Srbija U17
    National team head coach
  4. 2016
    Fudbalski savez Srbije
    Deputy director
  5. 2015
    FK Crvena zvezda U19
    Coach
Playing career
  1. 2000–
    1. FC Kaiserslautern · Dinamo Kijev · Angers SCO · Selangor · Ergotelis
  2. 1999–2000
    Real Madrid CF
  3. 1994–1999
    FK Crvena zvezda
  4. 1998
    Reprezentacija SR Jugoslavije
Full CV →Open CV (PDF)
Dalibor SkorićUEFA A
Coach · Serbia youth teams

Dalibor Skorić

assistant coach, Serbia
clubs as a player
on Serbia's youth staff since

Assistant coach of Serbia's youth national teams (U17/U18) since 2017, previously a coach in Red Star's youth academy. As a player he wore the shirts of Red Star, Partizan, APOEL and MTK Budapest.

  • UEFA A licence, Faculty of Sport — coaching school
  • Serbia U17/U18 — assistant coach since 2017
  • Red Star — youth teams 2015–2017
  • As a player: Red Star (1997–2000), APOEL, MTK, Dalian Shide
Languages: Serbian · English
Coaching career
  1. 2017–
    Srbija U17 / U18
    Assistant coach
  2. 2015–2017
    FK Crvena zvezda — mlađe kategorije
    Coach
Playing career
  1. 2001–2003
    MTK Budimpešta
  2. 2001–2002
    FK Rad Beograd
  3. 2000–2001
    APOEL Nikozija
  4. 2000
    Dalian Shide (Kina)
  5. 1997–2000
    FK Crvena zvezda
  6. 1995–1997
    FK Rad Beograd
  7. 1994–1995
    FK Rudar Pljevlja
  8. 1993–1994
    FK Partizan
  9. –1993
    NK Dinara Knin
Full CV →Open CV (PDF)

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