Petar Šegrt

Petar Šegrt (born 8 May 1966) is a Croatian football coach and former football defender. He is currently the Head coach of the Tajikistan national football team.

Petar Šegrt
Šegrt as Georgia national team head coach in 2008
Personal information
Full name Petar Šegrt
Date of birth (1966-05-08) 8 May 1966
Place of birth Đurđevac, SFR Yugoslavia
Position(s) Defender
Club information
Current team
 Tajikistan national football team[1]
Youth career
VFR Hirsau
FC Alzenberg Wimberg
FV Calw
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
1984–1987 FV Calw
1989–1990 FV Plochingen
1990–1991 TSV Schweickheim
1991–1992 SV Allmersbach
1992 FC Walldorf
1993 SV Waldhof Mannheim A.
Teams managed
1983–1987 FV Calw
1996–1997 VfL Bochum (assistant)
1997–2000 MSV Duisburg (assistant)
2000–2001 SV Waldhof Mannheim (assistant)
2001–2003 DSV Leoben
2003 SV Ried
2004–2006 Wiener Sportklub
2006–2008 Georgia U-21
2008 Georgia
2010–2011 Bali Devata
2011–2013 PSM Makassar
2014–2015 Zvijezda Gradačac
2015–2017 Afghanistan
2018–2020 Maldives
2022– Tajikistan
Honours
Men's football
Representing  Maldives As Manager
SAFF Championship
Winner2018 Bangladesh
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only

Early life

Šegrt's parents immigrated to Germany in the 1970s but took his older brother and left him behind with his grandmother.[2]

Career as a player

Petar Šegrt started his senior career in 1984 playing for FV Calw. He also played for FV Plochingen, TSV Schweickheim, SV Allmersbach, FC Walldorf and SV Waldhof Mannheim A. After his first injury, while he was recovering from the operation, he started as junior coach of FV Calw, while he was only 17 years old. Because of his second knee injury, he had to finish playing at 1993, while he was 27 years old. The same year Šegrt graduated for UEFA 'B' Coaching Licence in Ruit, Germany, and started his coaching career.

Coaching qualification and philosophy

Petar Šegrt has UEFA Pro Licence. He graduated for UEFA 'B' Coaching Licence in November, 1993 in Ruit, Germany, for UEFA 'A' Coaching Licence in July, 1995 in Hennef, Germany, and for UEFA Pro Licence Petar Šegrt graduated in October, 2001 in Koln, Germany.

Petar Šegrt's coaching philosophy can be described as good organization, aggressively attacking football with a good balance between offensive and defensive. Šegrt is known by working with clear concept, intensive communication with players while keeping the authority and leadership, developing players to a successful team with winner spirit. He is especially known by being loyal to the team, the club, federation members and to spectators. Šegrt often attended Coaching Seminars at the German Football Association, the Football Federations of Spain, England, France, Netherlands, Switzerland, Croatia, South Africa and Austria. He also attended Coaching hospitalities at Football clubs as Arsenal London, West Ham, Hamburger SV, TSG Hoffenheim, Al Ahly Club, Austria Wien, Sturm Graz and many others. Petar Šegrt have References from coaches as Joachim Löw, Arsène Wenger, Klaus Toppmöller, Ralf Rangnick, Josef Hickersberger, Erich Rutemöller, Ivica Osim and Dejan Savićević.

Coaching career

After 4 years honorary working as youth coach in Amateur club FV Calw, Petar Šegrt started his professional coaching career and he worked for various clubs in Germany. In 1.Bundesliga clubs VfL Bochum and MSV Duisburg he worked as U-19 youth coach, as Second team assistant coach and also as part of the First team coaching staff. In 2000, he go back to the club where he once played SV Waldhof Mannheim in 2.Bundesliga to work as assistant coach and as head coach of the Second team. In this 5 years with his A-licence Petar Šegrt got many experience to work on the highest level in Germany especially with young talented players. After he graduated his UEFA Pro Licence in 2001 he started to work as head coach in some professional clubs in Austria like DSV Leoben, SV Ried and Wiener Sportklub. In this 14 years of coaching experience Šegrt was remembered as the coach who develop many young players into National team players and he earned himself a nickname "Architect".[3]

Georgia national team

In 2006, he start working as a part of Georgia A-national team Coaching team together with Klaus Toppmöller. Between 2006–2008 Petar Šegrt also accept the role as head coach of Georgia U21 national team where in a very short time he developed more than 18 players who played or still playing for Georgia A-national team. While Petar Šegrt as coach, Georgia U21 make one of the biggest success in Georgian National team football history with a 2–0 victory against Russia U21 in 2007 European U21 Cup qualification. After Klaus Toppmöller left the Georgia A-national team on 1 April 2008, Petar Šegrt was appointed as first Technical Director in history of Georgian Football Federation. He was also leading Georgia A-national team as head coach in friendly games against Estonia and Portugal in May 2008, before Georgian Football Federation appointed Héctor Cúper as head coach on August 1, 2008. In addition to his coaching skills, Šegrt gained large popularity in Georgia during the Georgia-Russia war conflict in 2008, after his famous speech[4] at Rustaveli square in Tbilisi, where he promised to the thousands of Georgian people gathered, that he would not leave their country despite the war.

After his great work in Georgia, in December 2008 Germany's leading sports magazine Kicker announced that German Football Association choose Petar Šegrt as one of the candidates for taking over Germany U21.[5]

In the end of 2010, Konsorsium Liga Premier Indonesia invited Petar Šegrt to be a part and help them with his coaching and managing experience to build a new club in Indonesian professional football based in Bali, so Šegrt approached to Bali Devata which competed in Liga Primer Indonesia. After he finished his job with Bali Devata the same consortium offered him a new job as head coach of former Indonesian champion PSM Makassar.

PSM Makassar

Since October 2011 Petar Šegrt was appointed as head coach of PSM Makassar. Very traditional club[6] which last years had many problems and not even one national team player anymore. After only one season in Indonesian Premier League Šegrt developed 10 new Indonesian national players, six players were invited for Indonesia A-national team and four players were invited for Indonesia U-23 national team. After success Šegrt achieved that season, in July 2012 PSM Makassar club boards offered him 5 years contract extension,[7] which is very uncommon for Indonesian clubs. Petar Šegrt also have unbeaten home record in Indonesian Premier League, which is the first time for PSM Makassar in the club's 97 years history, although he had youngest team in the Indonesian Premier League as average age of the players was 22. In December 2012, Petar Šegrt lead the team winning the Walikota Cup in Ternate.[8] That was the first trophy for PSM Makassar after almost 12 years. Although he had contract until 2017, after his team winning game in Jun 2013 Petar Šegrt decided to leave PSM Makassar for private reasons.[9] The club's supporters showed their disappointment[10] by decision of their favorite coach, but together with president and club's management they invited Šegrt to attend the next home game in July 2013. They filled the stadium and prepared official goodbye in front of the game, which is very unusual for Indonesian supporters.

Zvijezda Gradačac

After leaving PSM Makassar, Petar was a strong candidate to coach Indonesia national football team. In September 2014, Petar Šegrt accepted the offer from Bosnian Premier League club Zvijezda Gradačac.[11] Although Petar Šegrt brought Zvijezda in the middle of the ranking, in April 2015 the club got a new management and they decided to appoint a new coach. That ended up being a poor decision as the club got relegated from the Premier League shortly after Šegrt left.

Afghanistan national team

In November 2015, Afghanistan Football Federation announced that they appointed Petar Šegrt as the new head coach. Šegrt promised he will use his experience and knowledge to develop football in Afghanistan.[12] Petar Šegrt won six from eight official matches with Afghanistan. He won four South Asia Cup matches and one lost in overtime against home team India in final 1–2. In World Cup qualification for Russia 2018 Šegrt lost only in Japan and he won two other matches. He achieved the biggest success of Afghanistan in Asia Cup with the direct and first time in history of Afghanistan the Final Asia Cup Qualification. After that the Afghanistan Football Federation surprisingly decides to appoint new coach.

Maldives national team

In March 2018 Football Association of Maldives signed a two-year contract with Petar Šegrt as the head coach. Petar Šegrt won his first official match In AFC Qualifications with convincing 7–0 against Bhutan.[13] That was the first win for Maldives after 288 days. In September 2018, the Maldives made a big surprise by winning the SAFF Suzuki Cup 2018 in Bangladesh against any odds. In the final they won 2–1 against favorite India. For Petar Šegrt that was the second final of the SAFF Suzuki Cup as he led Afghanistan until the final 2 years earlier, which he lost to India 1–2. On January 7, 2020 head coach Petar Šegrt and the Maldivian association agreed on a mutually agreed termination of the contract.

Tajikistan national team

On 27 January 2022, the Tajikistan Football Federation announced Šegrt as their new Head Coach.[14]

References
  1. Сборную Таджикистана по футболу возглавил тренер из Хорватии
  2. Mann der Hoffnung bkz.de
  3. "Architect PSM, Petar Segrt".
  4. "Petar Segrt, Lesson of Loyalty in Football".
  5. "Petar Segrt candidate for Germany U21". Kicker.
  6. "PSM Makassar homepage".
  7. "PSM Makassar offered 5 years contract to Petar Segrt".
  8. "PSM Makassar Won the Walikota Cup Ternate".
  9. "Petar Segrt Decides To Resign From PSM Makassar".
  10. "PSM Makassar Supporters Unhappy With Petar Segrt Decision To Resign From The Club".
  11. "Petar Segrt New Head Coach of Zvijezda Gradacac".
  12. Der gefährlichste Trainerjob der Welt stuttgarter-zeitung.de
  13. "Die maledivische Nationalelf war 288 Tage ohne Sieg" zeit.de
  14. "ХОРВАТСКИЙ СПЕЦИАЛИСТ ПЕТР СЕГРТ – НОВЫЙ ГЛАВНЫЙ ТРЕНЕР СБОРНОЙ ТАДЖИКИСТАНА". fft.tj/ (in Russian). Tajikistan Football Federation. 27 January 2022. Retrieved 28 January 2022.
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