Rale Rasic was the first man to take Australia to the FIFA World Cup finals when the Socceroos qualified for the tournament in West Germany in 1974.
Rale Rasic, the first coach to take the Socceroos to a World Cup, has died aged 87.
Eighteen months later he returned to Yugoslavia to serve in the army before coming back to Australia and playing in the National Soccer League with the Footscray Jugoslav United Soccer Team, established by Yugoslav migrants in 1950. , Kevin Sheedy’s foreword details how the rise of Rasic’s Socceroos “frightened the life out of” the AFL, who suddenly saw soccer as “some sort of threat” because the media was showing interest and a growing number of children were taking up the sport.“It should be remembered that Rale’s feat of taking the Socceroos to the World Cup finals will never be bettered,” wrote the former long-time Essendon coach and inaugural coach of the Greater Western Sydney Giants.
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