Nebojša Ralević
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| Personal Information | |||
| Full name | Nebojša Ralević | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Nickname | Daredevil | ||
| Age | 65 years and 81 days | ||
| Country |  Hrvatska | ||
| Position | Winger Wingback Central Defender Forward | ||
| Current team | Farmers on the storm (Assistant) | ||
| Youth Career | |||
| Youth team | Farmers on the storm U19 | ||
| Senior Career | |||
| Seasons (Global) | Team |  |  |
| 42-66 | Farmers on the storm | 192 | (72) |
| Teams Managed | |||
| 70-71 | Farmers on the storm | ||
| Appearances and goals counted for competitive matches only. | |||
Nebojša Ralević (Serbian Cyirillic: Небојша Ралевић), nicknamed Daredevil, is a Croatian football coach and former player of Serbian descent. Ralević has played his whole career (24 seasons) for Farmers on the storm, during the time having played on all outfield positions. He started as primary Forward, was later deployed as Winger, and in last years of his career found himself most often in the roles of Wing Back or Central Defender. Four seasons after ending his professional career, in season 70, Ralević was named a head coach of Farmers, after departure of another club legend Dario Cakarun. Subsequently Ralević spent a little more than a season as a coach of Farmers, before being replaced by Vladimir Stipaničev. He is currently an assistant to Farmers' owner SilverZG.
Youth Career
Ralević failed to impress on two try-outs before being accepted in Farmers on the storm U19 (then named 2+2=5) in week 12 of Season 41. He was not amongst biggest talents, but was anyway promoted a season later. No-one would think that he is going to become long-lasting club icon.
Senior Career
Ralević was promoted as a quadruple-inadequate player, with his Scoring, Passing, Defending and Winger all on the same level. With those skills, it was obvious that he could play on almost every outfield position, except Inner, but also that he would probably be restricted to friendlies and occasional cup game. In his first season, the team won Div. V.58 and was promoted for the first time in history to Div. IV. In Season 43, Raiders on the storm (which was the team name back then) played in IV.19 but unfortunately finished 7th and was relegated. The team found itself again in 5th tier, this time in V.12. Ralević was now first team striker, and he helped Raiders win the series title in its first season in V.12, but they eventually failed to gain a promotion in a qualifying match. Two seasons later, the team, after almost being shut-down, was relegated to 6th level. In between Seasons 45 and 46, Raiders bought a lot of good young players, and Ralević was again demoted to reserves. He faithfully fullified that role for the seasons to come, and was more or less important factor in all further club successes - winning another Div. VI title, three more Div. V titles and a Div. IV title in Season 48. He was never trained on purpouse, but he recieved a lot of it, eventually rising to triple excellent in Defending, Winger and Passing. Ralević probably played his last game in season 66 on 7th November 2017, coming on as a substitute in the last moments of EHF Euro Cup first round against English Big Black Violators. This was his 350th total match for Farmers, an absolute record, later surpassed by Benjamin Ramljak.
Coaching Career
In the 6th week of season 70 Ralević became coach of Farmers on the storm.
Nickname
Ralević carries the nickname Daredevil because the comic book hero Daredevil was known in 1970s in former Yugoslavia as Nebojša.
Statistics at Farmers
| League | Cup | Total | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Season | League | App. | Goals | App. | Goals | App. | Goals |
| 42 | V.58 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 43 | IV.19 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| 44 | V.12 | 10 | 6 | 2 | 0 | 12 | 6 |
| 45 | V.12 | 13 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 14 | 6 |
| 46 | V.12 | 12 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 15 | 2 |
| 47 | VI.433 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 3 |
| 48 | V.138 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 49 | V.138 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 50 | V.138 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 51 | V.138 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 52 | IV.12 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 53 | IV.12 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 3 | 0 |
| 54 | IV.12 | 6 | 0 | 4 | 1 | 10 | 1 |
| 55 | V.205 | 9 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 10 | 6 |
| 56 | V.205 | 15 | 7 | 5 | 1 | 20 | 8 |
| 57 | V.205 | 15 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 17 | 6 |
| 58 | V.205 | 13 | 2 | 4 | 1 | 17 | 3 |
| 59 | VI.973 | 12 | 9 | 3 | 2 | 15 | 11 |
| 60 | V.128 | 12 | 6 | 3 | 1 | 15 | 7 |
| 61 | V.128 | 8 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 10 | 4 |
| 62 | V.128 | 6 | 2 | 6 | 3 | 12 | 5 |
| 63 | IV.48 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 1 | 5 | 1 |
| 64 | IV.48 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 1 | 5 | 1 |
| 65 | III.15 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 4 | 0 |
| 66 | III.15 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| Total | 136 | 56 | 56 | 16 | 192 | 72 | |
Note: 'League' also includes qualification play-off matches; 'Cup' also includes secondary and consolation cups.
Note#2: Listed are only the seasons in which this player was active member of the team, i.e. playing at least one game; that game can also be a friendly, which are not counted in this table.
