Marino Pušić

Manager

Birthday August 18, 1971

Birth Sign Leo

Birthplace Mostar, SR Bosnia and Herzegovina, SFR Yugoslavia

Age 52 years old

Nationality Croatia

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1971

Marino Pušić (born 18 August 1971) is a Croatian retired footballer working as head manager of Ukrainian Premier League club Shakhtar Donetsk.

As a player and a manager he was also active in futsal.

As a player, Pušić played for De Graafschap, VV Rheden, 1. FC Köln II, and KAS Eupen.

1990

He was part of the Red Star Belgrade squad that won the 1990–91 European Cup, but was still too young to feature in any of their games.

1996

Pušić later became a club legend at Babberich, when he scored both goals in the 1996 Dutch Amateur Cup final against SHO in De Kuip.

Pušić was a trainer in the Vitesse/AGOVV Football Academy and assistant-manager with NAC Breda, Inter Baku en FC Twente.

1999

After fleeing the Yugoslav Wars for the Netherlands he rejected a move to Croatia Zagreb in 1999 when he played for Dutch Hoofdklasse side Babberich.

2017

On 18 October 2017, he was appointed interim manager at FC Twente after his predecessor René Hake was forced to leave.

On 29 October 2017, Gertjan Verbeek was presented as the new manager, after which Pušić fell back in his role as assistant manager.

2018

On 26 March 2018, he was promoted to the interim manager position again, as Verbeek was fired.

As interim head coach, Pušić failed to save FC Twente's season and finished last in the Eredivisie, thus relegating to the Eerste Divisie.

As of the 2018–19 season, Pušić was promoted to head coach.

2019

After finishing in first place and becoming the champions of the Eerste Divisie, and thus securing promotion back to the Eredivisie, Pušić was sacked on 7 May 2019.

He was then recruited to become the assistant manager for AZ Alkmaar in May 2019.

In January 2021, Feyenoord announced to have signed Pušić as assistant-manager, starting in the summer of 2021.

As manager Arne Slot was previously sent away by AZ Alkmaar for negotiating with Feyenoord, Pušić was sent away by AZ Alkmaar as well.

On 24 October 2023, Pušić left Feyenoord to become the new head coach of Ukraine club Shakhtar Donetsk.

FC Twente

Feyenoord