Dražen Besek
| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Date of birth | 10 March 1963 | ||
| Place of birth | Varaždin, PR Croatia, FPR Yugoslavia | ||
| Playing position | Midfielder | ||
| Club information | |||
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Current team
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Birkirkara FC (manager) | ||
| Youth career | |||
| Varteks | |||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| 1982–1984 | Varteks | 31 | (2) |
| 1984–1985 | Olimpija Ljubljana | 17 | (2) |
| 1985–1991 | Dinamo Zagreb | 130 | (17) |
| 1991–1993 | Stade de Vallauris | ||
| 1993 | Ikast FS | 17 | (1) |
| 1996–1997 | Casino Salzburg | ||
| 1998–1999 | Varteks | 11 | (0) |
| Teams managed | |||
| 1998–1999 | Varteks (player-manager) | ||
| 2000 | Čakovec | ||
| 2001–2002 | Slaven Belupo | ||
| 2002–2003 | Varteks | ||
| 2004–2005 | Zagłębie Lubin | ||
| 2007 | Drava Ptuj | ||
| 2007–2009 | Varteks | ||
| 2010 | Shanghai Shenhua (assistant) | ||
| 2011 | China U-23 (assistant) | ||
| 2011 | Shanghai Shenhua | ||
| 2012 | NK Zagreb | ||
| 2013 | Hunan Billows | ||
| 2014 | Wuhan Zall | ||
| 2015 | Tianjin Songjiang | ||
| 2015 | Osijek | ||
| 2015–2016 | Birkirkara FC | ||
| * Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only. |
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Dražen Besek (born 10 March 1963) is a Croatian coach and former professional football midfield player. He was managed of Birkirkara. While as a player he was predominantly remembered for his time with Croatian teams Varteks and Dinamo Zagreb before moving around Europe where he joined several other clubs before he retired. After his playing career ended he would go into management where he coached his hometown football club Varteks on several occasions before moving away from Croatia and joining Polish side Zagłębie Lubin as well as Chinese side Shanghai Shenhua.
Besek played for Dinamo Zagreb in the Yugoslav First League. Later he joined French Stade de Vallauris, Danish Ikast FS (now called FC Midtjylland) and Austrian SV Casino Salzburg (now called FC Red Bull Salzburg).
Besek would return to his hometown football club of Varteks as a player-coach within the Croatian 1998–99 Prva HNL league season and guided the club to a fifth spot at the end of the campaign. This was followed by a brief spell at second tier club Čakovec before he returned to another top tier club with Slaven Belupo where in the 2001–02 Prva HNL where he guided them to a respectable sixth. This saw Varteks interested in his services again where within the 2002–03 Prva HNL campaign he aided them to an improved third at the end of the season before Besek made his first move abroad with Polish club Zagłębie Lubin.
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