Chivas USA names Zoran Savic as Assistant Coach

Published on March 1, 2007 under Major League Soccer (MLS)
Club Deportivo Chivas USA News Release


CARSON, Calif. (Thursday, March 1, 2007) - Chivas USA of Major League Soccer today announced that Zoran Savic, a championship-winning player, coach and general manager in professional indoor soccer in the United States, has been named Assistant to Chivas USA's Head Coach Preki. Savic joins Assistant Coach Martín Vásquez and Goalkeeper Coach Zak Abdel on Preki's coaching staff for the 2007 MLS season, as the Red-and-White seek to build on the club's historic playoff run in 2006, when it reached the Western Conference Semifinals.

"I am pleased to welcome Zoran Savic to our technical staff," said Chivas USA Head Coach Preki. "Zoran knows a tremendous amount about the game of soccer, not just as a player on the field but also from his days as a championship-winning head coach and administrator. I look forward to his contributions to our staff alongside such qualified coaches as Martín and Zak."

Savic joins Chivas USA after serving as head coach of the Major Indoor Soccer League's Kansas City Comets (2000-2005), where he also served as vice president and chief operating officer.

From 1992-1996, Savic coached the Comets' predecessor, the Kansas City Attack of the National Professional Soccer League, leading the Attack to the NPSL Championship in his first year as a head coach (1993). He would go on to become the first person to win NPSL championships as player (1987), coach (1993) and general manager (1997).

Born August 13, 1959 in the Serbian town of Gornji Milanovac, Savic came to the United States from Yugoslavia in the early 1980's to play professional soccer. His playing career began in the former MISL in 1980 with the Buffalo Stallions (1980-1982), followed by the Kansas City Comets (1982-1984), Louisville Thunder (1985-18 87), Los Angeles Lazers (1984-1985, 1987-1988), Milwaukee Wave (1988-1989), and Kansas City Attack (89-92).

During his indoor days, Savic, a forward, also played outdoor soccer in the APSL, spending summer stints with the Tampa Bay Rowdies (1987), Orlando Lions (1989, 1990) and Albany Capitals (1991), where he reached the 1991 championship game before falling on penalty kicks to the San Francisco Bay Blackhawks.

He currently holds a USSF 'A' License, as well as an NSCAA Premier Diploma.

Savic - whose name is 'Chivas', pronounced backwards - is married to wife Scotty, with whom he shares a son, Stefan, and daughter, Sofia.

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