Bora Milutinović

Bora Milutinović
Бора Милутиновић

Milutinović in 2009
Personal information
Full name	Velibor Milutinović
Date of birth	September 7, 1944 (1944-09-07)
Place of birth	Bajina Bašta, DF Yugoslavia
Playing position	Manager
Senior career*
Years	Team	Apps†	(Gls)†
0000–1967	FK Bor	?	(?)
1967–1969	OFK Beograd	?	(?)
1967–1969	Partizan Belgrade	43	(3)
1969–1971	AS Monaco	37	(0)
1971–1972	OGC Nice	10	(0)
	FC Rouen
	FC Winterthur
1972–1977	Pumas UNAM
Teams managed
1977–1981	Pumas UNAM
1983–1986	Mexico
1987	San Lorenzo
1987	Udinese Calcio
1990	Costa Rica
1991–1995	United States
1995–1997	Mexico
1997–1998	Nigeria
1998–1999	MetroStars
2000–2002	China
2003–2004	Honduras
2004–2005	Al-Sadd
2006–2007	Jamaica
2009	Iraq
2010–	Iraq Olympic
Honours Men's Football Competitor for Yugoslavia Mediterranean Games Gold 1971 Izmir Team
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only. † Appearances (Goals).

Velibor "Bora" Milutinović (Serbian Cyrillic: Велибор Милутиновић – Бора) (born September 7, 1944 in Bajina Bašta, Serbia, DF Yugoslavia) is a Serbian football coach and former player.

Coaching

He is a Mexican-Serbian football coach, and with Carlos Alberto Parreira one of only two persons to have coached five different teams at the World Cup: Mexico (1986), Costa Rica (1990), the United States (1994), Nigeria (1998), and China (2002). He is also the first coach to take four different teams beyond the first round, before failing to do so with China, henceforth earning the nickname of Miracle Worker, first given to him by Alan Rothenberg, then president of the United States Soccer Federation. In total Milutinović has coached 9 national football teams.

In the summer of 2003, Milutinović was in serious negotiations to finally take over the national team at his native Serbia. Despite heavy, month-long persuasion from Serbian football officials, Milutinović turned down the offer and soon signed on to the Honduras national team. He led the team to the first round of CONCACAF qualifiers before resigning on June 30, 2004. He cited "the prevailing bad atmosphere, created by comments made by the country's managers, officials and press" as the reason for his leaving during World Cup qualifying.

Milutinović's coaching career at club level has not been nearly as illustrious. He coached the MetroStars of Major League Soccer to the worst record in league history in 1999. He also had a brief stint in Qatar league with Al-Sadd as well as nine matches with Udinese Calcio of Italian Serie B in 1987. Milutinović led Iraq national football team in the 2009 FIFA Confederations Cup for 2 draws and one loss.

Milutinović's Achievements with Iraq

Achievements
2009 FIFA Confederations Cup	Group Stage

Milutinović's Managerial stats with Iraq (A) team

Coach	Period	Matches	Wins	Draws	Losses
Bora Milutinović	April 8, 2009 – June, 2009	4	0	3	1

• Qatar vs. Iraq not considered as a FIFA International match since Iraq made 13 Substitutions, Iraq lost the match 0–1.

On November 16, 2006, he was announced as head coach of Jamaica. He continues to be a supporter of the Chinese national team, and keeps a blog on the Chinese website Sina.com. On November 9, 2007, following a string of six consecutive friendly defeats he was fired by Jamaican FA.

Personal

Bora Milutinović comes from a legendary football family; he and his two brothers Miloš and Milorad played together for Partizan Belgrade.

The Milutinović brothers: Milorad, Miloš and Bora

Milutinović is married to a Mexican and currently resides in Mexico City.

References

Barreaud, Marc (1998). Dictionnaire des footballeurs étrangers du championnat professionnel français (1932–1997). L'Harmattan, Paris. ISBN 2-7384-6608-7. 

External links

• Bora Milutinović's match-by-match record with various countries
• Bora Milutinović stats at Medio Tiempo.com (Spanish)

Preceded by John Kowalski

United States men's national soccer team head coach 1991-1995

Succeeded by Steve Sampson