teams which had never occurred before. National Belgian Federation: UEFA courses teacher and national coach Meanwhile, he followed the UEFA courses, where his brilliant marks drew the attention of the National Belgian Football federation which, before he had finished his courses, proposed him a job as a UEFA courses teacher at the National Federation. He very quickly climbed the ladder at the Belgian Football Federation and became supervisor of the UEFA courses in all the southern part of Belgium and in the capital city, Brussels. His career accelerated again when the Belgian Federation offered him a newly created job. Kovac became UEFA courses teacher for ex-professionals and UEFA courses teacher for the ex-international players with more than 40 caps. Among his pupils, he gave courses to Michel Preudhomme, Enzo Scifo, Marc Wilmots. He then followed a formation of physical trainer in France at Dijon Sports Research University, courses given by the famous Cometti. Meanwhile, Kovac refused a proposal from LOSC (France) and started negotiations with Standard under impulse of Preudhomme who wanted to get his services. The affair was not concluded and Kovac was appointed national coach U 18 at the Belgian National Federation where he got excellent results again as Winner of the Four Nations International Tournament (Denmark, Ukrain, Belgium and Scotland) Club management Kovac was called back a third time to RAA Louvière and was appointed General Sports Coordinator in the club which won the Belgian Cup and played in UEFA Cup. In 2004, Kovac accepted a new challenge: Marc Wilmots asked him to work with the first team in the famous club Saint Trond. Kovac decided then to focus his attention on his job as a teacher for a while. Until December 2009 when the mythical Brussels club Union St. Gilloise asked him to rescue the team that was on the last position with 17 points after a long series of seven defeats at a stretch. Kovac accepted the challenge carried out his task successfully: with 13 matches without defeat, his team finished with 42 points in May 2010. On 24 March 2011 he was named new manager of Belgian Pro League club Charleroi SC. However, he only managed the club one game, which was lost, and on 4 April he was sacked and replaced with Luka Peruzovic. On 17 April 2013 he became manager of Hungarian club Diósgyőri VTK. In 2014 he was appointed Director of