He loved to play football from an early age, and when he was nine years old, he was spotted by local regional legend Velimir Sombolac who brought him to FK Kozara Gradiška where he was incorporated into the youth team.
His first highlight came in 1994 when coach Borče Sredojević under extremely harsh circumstances managed to create an ideal synergy of youth and experience and made Raca win his first major title, the 1993–94 Republika Srpska Cup.
By his own words, it ended being the best decision as he had the chance to be at the club when a great group of players were together and were all lucky to have been coached by names such as Mile Tomić, Ivan Čabrinović, Milan Milanović, Bogić Bogićević, Čedo Đoinčević, and others.
After two years in Zemun some foreign clubs had shown interest in signing him, mostly Europeans, but Raca turned totally to the opposite direction after Serbian coach Ljupko Petrović convinced him to join him in Chinese side Shanghai Shenhua.
However, different ideas and concepts between him and the club board made Raca resign after only 6 months, and he then started his own project, football school called FK Stars.