maintain a place in the promotion playoffs, with 8 points in 11 matches. After the end of the season, Zeman resigned from Brescia, criticizing his players for not having accepted his tactics. On 21 June 2006 Zeman returned to Lecce, signing a one-year contract with the giallorossi, who were then relegated to Serie B in 2005–2006. Because of poor results, he was then fired on 24 December and replaced by Giuseppe Papadopulo. On 17 June 2008 Red Star Belgrade unveiled Zeman as their new head coach. However, after only five competitive games as Red Star's head coach, on 6 September 2008 Zeman was sacked because of catastrophic results in Serbian League and UEFA Cup. During Zeman's management, Red Star hadn't managed to score in three matches of the domestic league and club found themselves on the bottom of the table for the first time in 24 years. Red Star were also eliminated in the qualifying round of the UEFA Cup by APOEL F.C. from Cyprus. 2010s: back to Foggia, and Pescara On 20 July 2010 it was confirmed that Zeman would take over as new head coach of his former club Foggia, rejoining chairman Pasquale Casillo and director of football Giuseppe Pavone as part of the trio who led the into Serie A back in the 1990s. He left the club at the end of May, after ending the regular season in sixth place, and failing to qualify to the promotion playoffs despite his Foggia team being the team with the highest goalscoring ratio among all Italian professional leagues. On 21 June 2011 Zeman was announced as new head coach/technical director of Serie B club Pescara, signing a one-year contract with the Adriatici. At Pescara, Zeman coached a team composed of promising youngsters, many of them re-joining him from his previous season at the helm of Foggia (among them, Simone Romagnoli, Ciro Immobile and Lorenzo Insigne, and also Marco Verratti); under his tenure, the from Abruzzo entered straight into the race for automatic promotion and provided a record goalscoring ratio for Italian standard (90 goals in 42 games, Serie B record). On 21 May 2012, Pescara won automatic promotion to Serie A following a 3–1 away win at Sampdoria, thus ensuring Zeman a top flight return at his first season as head coach. He went on to win the Serie B title in the final game of the season. 2012–13: