Rale Rasic, a pioneer of football in Australia and the first coach to take the Socceroos to the World Cup, has died aged 87
and the first coach to take the Socceroos to the World Cup, has died aged 87.
He arrived in Australia in 1962 and played football in Melbourne, representing Victoria on multiple occasions, before retiring from playing in 1966. Rasic guided the Socceroos to their first appearance at the Fifa World Cup in 1974, where they lost two games and drew one to be knocked out in the group stage.The current Socceroos coach, Graham Arnold, said the news of Rasic’s death was “devastating”.
“The amount of passion and love that Rale had for football has never drifted too far away from myself and he has been a great inspiration for me over the years. He was such a great man, he loved a chat, and loved a story, and he always kept those stories going and that motivated a lot of people in life.”
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