Thomas Vasov

Thomas Vasov
Personal information
Date of birth (1972-01-31) 31 January 1972
Place of birth Trier, West Germany
Height 1.87 m (6 ft 1 1⁄2 in)
Playing position Defender
Club information
Current team
 Borac Čačak
Coach
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
0000–1993 Timok Zaječar
1993–1996 Borac Čačak
1996–2003 KAA Gent 111 (10)
2003 Shanghai Shenhua 17 (1)
Teams managed
2016– Borac Čačak

* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only.


Thomas Vasov (born 31 January 1972) is a Serbian–German football manager and former player. He played for FK Borac Čačak, K.A.A. Gent and Shanghai Shenhua.

Club career

Born in Trier, West Germany, he played with FK Timok Zaječar when he transferred to Serbian side FK Borac Čačak in 1993. In his first season with Borac, they became champions of the 1993–94 Second League of FR Yugoslavia and got promotion to the First League of FR Yugoslavia where he played the following two seasons making 54 appearances and scoring 3 goals in the Yugoslav top-tier.[1]

After 3 years with Borac, in summer 1996 he transferred to Belgium to K.A.A. Gent and played with them the following 7 seasons in the Belgian Pro League.[2]

In 2003 he transferred to Shanghai Shenhua and won the Chinese Jia-A League 2003. However, Shanghai Shenhua were stripped of the title on 19 February 2013 for the match-fixing scandal in that season.[3]

By Outumn 2014 he was working as coach of the youth team of FK Borac Čačak.[4]

In April 2016, after Ljubiša Stamenković got sacked, Vasov took charge as main coach of FK Borac Čačak.[5]

Honours

Borac Čačak
Shanghai Shenhua

References

  1. ↑ Thomas Vasov at playerhistory.com
  2. ↑ Thomas Vasov at Footballdatabase
  3. ↑ 中国足协纪律委员会处罚决定（001-038号 at Chinese Football Association official website, 18-2-2013, retrieved 30-8-2014
  4. ↑ Kadeti - sezona 2014/15 at FK Borac Čačak official website, retrieved 2-11-2014 (Serbian)
  5. ↑ Vasov i Maslać: Nema predaje protiv Partizana at Sportski žurnal, 27-4-2016 (Serbian)
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