Miroslav Polak

Miroslav Polak (Serbian Cyrillic: Мирослав Пoлaк, born 8 February 1958) is a Serbian football manager and former player.

Miroslav Polak

Personal information
Full name	Miroslav Polak
Date of birth	(1958-02-08) February 8, 1958
Place of birth	Belgrade, SFR Yugoslavia
Playing position(s)	Midfielder
Youth career
	Čukarički
Senior career*
Years	Team	Apps	(Gls)
1976–1978	Partizan Belgrade	9	(0)
1978–1986	Rad Beograd	173	(12)
1986–1987	Malmö FF
1987–1988	Panionios	8	(2)
1988–1990	SV Salzburg
1990–1991	FC Puch
Teams managed
1990–1991	FC Puch
1991–1995	BNZ Salzburg
1995–1996	FK Austria Amateure
1996–1997	BNZ Salzburg U-18
1997–1998	SV Braunau
2000	SV Salzburg
2001–2003	TSV St. Johann
2004–2007	TSV St. Johann (sports director)
2007–2010	FC Puch
2013–2014	Austria Salzburg
2016–2018	SK Bischofshofen
2018	SB Chiemgau Traunstein
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only

Born in Belgrade, SR Serbia, then Yugoslav capital, Miroslav "Mirko" Polak initially played in the youth team of FK Čukarički.[1] He then played with Yugoslav giants FK Partizan between 1976 and 1978. Then he moved to FK Rad playing with them in the Yugoslav First and Second leagues until 1986 when he moved abroad to Sweden joining Malmö FF. After one season in Sweden and one in Greece paying with Panionios, he moves to Austria where he plays with SV Salzburg between 1988 and 1990. In 1990, he joins another Austrian side, FC Puch where he becomes player-manager. That was the end of his playing career and the start of a long career as a coach in Austria. [2]

Nowadays he is the Coach of the Bavarian club SB Chiemgau Traunstein, playing in Landesliga Bayern [3]

References

1. Monografija 85. godina FK Čukarički page 90 (in Serbian)
2. "Miroslav Polak". worldfootball.net. Retrieved August 20, 2014.
3. "Miroslav Polak übernimmt den SB Chiemgau Traunstein". traunsteiner-tagblatt.de. Retrieved August 26, 2018.