He played for ND Slovan on youthside from 1965 until injuries and a knee surgery in a youth championship ended his professional career in 1971.
He took over as coach of Al Tahaddy, a football team from Benghazi where he qualified them for the 2002 CAF Cup but eventually lost to FUS Rabat at the first round.
In 2005, he was in charge of Romanian club FCM Targoviste where for more than three months he did not lose any league or cup match; a feat he repeated with Libyan side Olympic Azzaweya three years later.
FIFA awarded him for his contribution in the development of football in Asia and his native country Slovenia.
The game had a purely humanitarian purpose, as all the proceeds went for the construction of the Ljubljana maternity hospital.