Career
He was most recently the manager of. Born in Brusnica Velika village near Bosanski Brod, Social Research Bosnia and Herzegovina, FPR Yugoslavia, Petrović played for NK Osijek during most of his career. After his career at NK Osijek he also spent some time in the United States.
He has also managed Spanish RCD Espanyol, Uruguayan Central America Peñarol, Austrian Grazer Alaska and Chinese Shanghai Shenhua and
He had another two spells at Red Star before moving to Bulgaria in the 2000s to coach PFC and later PFC. He came back to Serbia in March 2008 to become the manager of OFK Beograd, but he resigned from this position one month later.
July 2, 2008, Petrović became the head coach of Croatian First League team Croatia Sesvete, thus becoming the first Serbian head coach of a Croatian first division team after the Yugoslav wars. On December 23, 2008 he was appointed for the head coach of his former team FK Vojvodina from Novi Sad, title challengers in the Serbian Superliga for 2008-2009 season. Yet, after gaining only one point in the first two matches of the second part of the season, he resigned from this position on March 8, 2009.
As of 2010 he is coached Croatian side NK Lokomotiva a youth division of Croatian football giant NK Dinamo Zagreb.
In the summer of 2015 Petrović managed for three matches, leading them to first place in the 2015/2016 A PFG standings, but left the team in early August for family reasons. In early December he returned to the team from Lovech once again after the position of manager was vacated by Laurențiu Reghecampf.
Petrović guided them to the 1/2 finals of the Bulgarian Cup. However, it eventually turned out to be another short-lived appointment for the Serbian head coach, as Litex were expelled from the A PFG by the Bulgarian Football Union after their players was ordered off the pitch in a heated derby match against held on 12 December.
Petrović was on the 8th of April 2014 announced as the successor of the recently sacked Croatian manager Robert Jarni as the head of the FK Sarajevo team
However, only two days after, a picture of the manager and deceased Serbian paramilitary commander Arkan erupted in the Bosnian media depicting Petrović holding a weapon while instructed by the war criminal. This resulted in a hurried press conference where the FK Sarajevo board of members announced that no contract would be signed with Petrović. The manager himself agreed to the decision, citing the possibility of strained working conditions after the unexpected publication.
He however claimed no involvement in the Yugoslav wars nor the paramilitary activities of Arkan.
Petrović managed FK Sarajevo for only one day, conducting a single training with the players. The authenticity of the photo has later been brought to doubt.
