Australian football pioneer Rale Rasic, the first coach to take the Socceroos to a FIFAWorldCup, has died, aged 87. 7NEWS
pioneer Rale Rasic, the first coach to take the Socceroos to a World Cup, has died, aged 87.
Rasic was dumped as coach after the cup, saying the nation’s football hierarchy believed he wasn’t a “real Aussie”.“They took from me something that I was doing better than anyone else,” he had said. Rasic’s coaching career included stints at Melbourne Hungaria, St George, Marconi Stallions, Pan Hellenic, Adelaide City, Blacktown City, South Melbourne, APIA Leichhardt, Canterbury-Marrickville, Rockdale Ilinden, Fairfield Bulls and Canberra Cosmos.
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