Bora Milutinović
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| Full name | Velibor Milutinović | ||||||||||||||
| Date of birth | September 7, 1944 | ||||||||||||||
| Place of birth | Bajina Bašta, DF Yugoslavia | ||||||||||||||
| Playing position | Manager | ||||||||||||||
| Senior career* | |||||||||||||||
| Years | Team | Apps† | (Gls)† | ||||||||||||
| –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 | ||||||||||||||
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| 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 | ||||||||||||||
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| * Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only. † Appearances (Goals). |
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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.
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[edit] 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,[1] first given to him by Alan Rothenberg, then president of the United States Soccer Federation.[2] 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.
[edit] Milutinović's Achievements with Iraq
| Achievements | |
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| 2009 FIFA Confederations Cup | Group Stage |
[edit] Milutinović's Managerial stats with Iraq (A) team
| Coach | Period | Matches | Wins | Draws | Losses |
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| 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.
[edit] Personal
Bora Milutinović comes from a legendary football family; he and his two brothers Miloš and Milorad played together for Partizan Belgrade.
Milutinović is married to a Mexican and currently resides in Mexico City.
[edit] References
- ^ "Five in a row for the miracle worker". BBC News. April 15, 2002. http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport3/worldcup2002/hi/team_pages/china/newsid_1618000/1618475.stm. Retrieved April 26, 2010.
- ^ Profile: Bora Milutinovic
Barreaud, Marc (1998). Dictionnaire des footballeurs étrangers du championnat professionnel français (1932–1997). L'Harmattan, Paris. ISBN 2-7384-6608-7.
[edit] 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 |
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- 1944 births
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- Mexican people of Serbian descent
- 1986 FIFA World Cup managers
- 1990 FIFA World Cup managers
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- 1992 King Fahd Cup managers
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