Assistant coach Tomislav Rukavina

Born on October 14, 1974 in Osijek, Tomislav Rukavina started his football career in his hometown. After good games for Osijek's seinor team, he moved to Zagreb. He was too big football talent for NK Zagreb so he came in Dinamo. He spent in Dinamo four years and won with the club four Croatian championships and three Croatian Cups. He also played two times in the Champions League group stage.

After Dinamo, Rukavina moved to Venice where he played in the First and Second national league. He stayed in Italy for three years and then he came back in Croatia. Rukavina played two years for Hajduk and with won two Croatian championships. He performed five times for the Croatian national team.

Rukavina came in Dinamo in 2009 as the assistant coach of Krunoslav Jurčić. In the summer of 2010 Rukavina left Dinamo (in the same time when Jurčić left Dinamo). One year later, before the season 2011/2012, Rukavina came back in Dinamo, worked with the first team, youth team for a short while and in winter 2012. returned to position of assistant coach.