With the Croatian national team Saračević won a bronze medal at the 1994 European Championship, a silver medal at the 1995 World Championship and gold medals at the 1993 Mediterranean Games and 1996 Summer Olympics. At the Olympics he played six matches including the final and scored 16 goals. On 27 February 2003 it was announced that Saračević had become the new head coach of RK Zamet Crotek after the sacking of Damir Čavlović. During the rest of the 2002–03 season he was a player-coach in some matches. At the end of the season Zamet finished in fifth place while reaching the semi-final of the Croatian Cup. Failing to qualify in the EHF Cup and a bad league position in the new season force the boards hand to sack Saračević on 22 March 2004. He has had unsuccessful stints in Nyíregyházi KSE in Hungary and Čelik Zenica in Bosnia and Herzegovina. For a brief time he was the assistant coach of RK Zagreb. On 19 March 2016 he was named as coach of Dubrovnik. From April 2017 to February 2018, he was in the Croatia national team staff of head coach Lino Červar. In November 2017 after departure of Kasim Kamenica, he signed with RK Zagreb. He finished contract in June 2018, after end of season. On 14 June 2018 he was named as the head coach of RK Podravka, Croatian women's club.