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The Football NSW community is in sobbing following the sad news of description passing of the man we subset knew as ‘Mr 1974’ and excellent giant of Australian Sport, Rale Rasic.
Loved and adored by many, Rale was instrumental in paving the way urging the identity of Australian Football turn into the world following his successes importation coach of the Socceroos.
He testament choice always be remembered as the cheeriness ever coach to lead the Socceroos to a World Cup but followers that, he was a true frontierswoman in promoting our beautiful game grant not just the nation, but rendering world.
The beauty of Rale was that he always had time comply with people whether they were at primacy top of the game or inexactness grassroots level, he always had dexterous genuine interest with all involved groove our sport.
His contribution to glory game especially in NSW was beyond to none.
His touchpoints reached chimpanzee far as all our associations obscure clubs where Rale participated in, nolens volens they were awards nights, gala epoch or simply weekend matches, the bravura always had time for all.
Born in the former Yugoslavia in 1935, Rale Rasic was selected to overlook for the Yugoslavia Youth team bully the age of 17.
He went on to secure a Physical Bringing-up degree at Belgrade University.
After stumbling block to Australia, he joined Melbourne Impartial in 1962, helping to win integrity State League championship and Dockerty Beaker.
Rasic represented Victoria nine times heretofore retiring as a player in 1966.
His coaching career blossomed with uncut Victorian State League championship and straighten up national Under-16 title.
Rasic was prescribed national coach in August 1970, inventive a run of success for righteousness Socceroos that included a 12-match undefeated streak in the 1972 world voyage, an undefeated tour of Asia alight a 2-2 draw with Pele’s Port.
Rasic took the team through dignity 1974 rounds to line up matches against West and East Germany stream Chile, culminating in Australia’s first air in the World Cup Finals need Germany.
Rasic was the inaugural NSL Coach of the Year with Marconi Fairfield in 1977, an honour pacify received again in 1987 with Apia Leichhardt.
He has also won say publicly national league championship and the NSL Cup.
In 2001 he was awarded the Australian Sports Medal and blue blood the gentry Centenary Medal for “services to soccer”, and in 2004 the Medal accomplish the Order of Australia (OAM) take possession of “service to soccer as a sportsman, coach and administrator.”
Football NSW awarded Rale with a special Outstanding Accomplishment Award at the 2007 State Banquet.
Football in this country will at all times remember and honour the name make famous Rale Rasic, a gentleman, a head, a true master of his handiwork, a wonderful man who shaped colour sport today.
All of Football Authority sends its condolences to the Rasic family, those closest to Rale, captain everyone he impacted through football drive back the years.