Career
He was the assistant to Radomir Antić, the head coach of the Serbian national team until 2010. He started his career playing for FK Sutjeska Foča and FK Sloboda Užice in late 1960s, and later moved on to FK Partizan Belgrade, where he took the championship crown in the 1975-1976 Yugoslav First League season. He also played with FK Napredak Kruševac.
He played in the Major Indoor Soccer League in the United States under the name of Ray Kunovac.
After ending his playing career, Kunovac became a long-term assistant coach of Radomir Antić at Atlético de Madrid, Football Club Barcelona and Real Oviedo. In 2001, he was an assistant coach to Milovan Đorić, head coach of the First Revision Yugoslavia national football team
He was an assistant coach to Mirko Jozić at the 1990 Union of European Football Associations European Under-16 Football Championship.