Marijan Pušnik

Marijan Pušnik
	Pušnik in 2015 with Olimpija Ljubljana
Personal information
Date of birth	1 November 1960 (age 63)
Place of birth	Slovenj Gradec, FPR Yugoslavia
Managerial career
Years	Team
1994–1996	Dravograd
1996–1997	Korotan Prevalje
1997–1998	SAK Klagenfurt
1998–1999	Dravograd
2000–2004	Celje
2004–2005	Pasargad Tehran
2006–2007	Maribor
2007–2010	Rudar Velenje
2010	Damash Gilan (caretaker)
2012	Celje
2013–2014	Avispa Fukuoka
2015	Olimpija Ljubljana
2016	Hajduk Split
2017	Olimpija Ljubljana
2017–2019	Rudar Velenje

Marijan Pušnik (born 1 November 1960) is a Slovenian football manager.

Managerial career

Pušnik started his managerial career with Dravograd in 1994 but landed his first serious job as Celje manager in 2000. During his four years at Celje, his biggest success was in the 2002–03 season when his team finished second in the 2002–03 Slovenian PrvaLiga and runners-up of the 2002–03 Slovenian Football Cup. After a few years in Iran, he returned to Slovenia and took over Maribor in 2006 with whom he eliminated Villarreal in the 2006 UEFA Intertoto Cup. In 2007, after the arrival of Zlatko Zahovič to the club, Pušnik was sacked.^[1] After a few years of working at Rudar Velenje, where he managed to finish third in the league, he went back to Iran.

In June 2015, Pušnik became the manager of Olimpija Ljubljana.^[2] After Olimpija finished the first part of the season as the leading team in the league, Pušnik fell into an argument with sporting director Ranko Stojić and was sacked in December 2015.^[3] Olimpija went on to win the title that year.^[4]

On 2 June 2016, Pušnik was announced as the new manager of Hajduk Split and thus, he became the first Slovenian manager of Hajduk Split in history.^[5] He was sacked from Hajduk on 1 December 2016 after dropping out of the 2016–17 Croatian Football Cup quarter-finals.^[6]

On 9 March 2017, Pušnik returned to Olimpija Ljubljana, replacing Luka Elsner.^[7] He was sacked less than one month later, on 3 April 2017.^[8]

On 12 June 2017, Pušnik was announced as the new manager of Rudar Velenje.^[9]

References

^ C. R. (21 August 2007). "Pušnik zapušča mariborsko klop" (in Slovenian). RTV Slovenija. Retrieved 29 July 2017.
^ R. K. (10 June 2015). "Novi trener Olimpije Pušnik obljublja trdo delo in disciplino" (in Slovenian). RTV Slovenija. Retrieved 29 July 2017.
^ Nejedly, Gorazd (16 December 2015). "Stojić čakal in dočakal, da Pušnik ni več trener". Delo (in Slovenian). Retrieved 29 July 2017.
^ "Olimpija v Velenju do prvega naslova državnega prvaka po 21 letih". Dnevnik (in Slovenian). 14 May 2016. Retrieved 29 July 2017.
^ Maljevac, Simon (2 June 2016). "Slovenski samuraj u paklu Poljuda" [Slovenian "samurai" in the hell of Poljud]. nogometplus.net (in Croatian). Archived from the original on 8 September 2016. Retrieved 3 June 2016.
^ R. K. (1 December 2016). "Marijan Pušnik ni več trener Hajduka" [Marijan Pusnik is not Hajduk coach anymore] (in Slovenian). RTV Slovenija. Retrieved 1 December 2016.
^ Dominko, Peter (9 March 2017). "POTRJENO: Elsner je bivši, Mandarić je vrnil Pušnika". Slovenski nogometni portal (in Slovenian). Retrieved 9 March 2017.
^ T. O. (3 April 2017). "Pušnik po manj kot mesecu že zapušča Olimpijo" (in Slovenian). RTV Slovenija. Retrieved 3 April 2017.
^ Dominko, Peter (12 June 2017). "Knape bo vodil Marijan Pušnik". Slovenski nogometni portal (in Slovenian). Retrieved 12 June 2017.