Denijal Pirić

Denijal Pirić
Personal information
Date of birth	27 September 1946 (age 78)
Place of birth	Živinice, FPR Yugoslavia
Position(s)	Midfielder
Youth career
	Slaven Živinice
Senior career*
Years	Team
1964–1972	Dinamo Zagreb
1972–1977	Sarajevo
Total
International career
1969–1970	Yugoslavia
Managerial career
1986–1988	Sarajevo
1995–1996	Sarajevo
2000–2001	Sarajevo
2003	Bosnia and Herzegovina U19
2008	Bosnia and Herzegovina (caretaker)
	*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Denijal Pirić (Bosnian pronunciation: [pǐːritɕ]; born 27 September 1946) is a Bosnian former professional football manager and player.

Club career

Born in the small mining town of Živinice, Pirić started playing football at local side Slaven. Former Slaven manager Vlatko Konjevod then lured him to Dinamo Zagreb and played 8 years for the club. Pirić then joined Sarajevo.^[1] With Dinamo, he won two domestic cups and the 1966–67 Inter-Cities Fairs Cup, beating Don Revie's Leeds United in the final. He played over 350 matches for Dinamo in all competitions.^[2]

Pirić made his debut for Yugoslavia in an April 1969 World Cup qualification match away against Spain and has earned a total of 6 caps, scoring 1 goal. His final international was a November 1970 friendly game against West Germany.^[3]

At the time a youth team coach, Pirić was given a caretaker role of the Bosnia and Herzegovina national team to take charge of a home friendly game against Azerbaijan in Zenica on 1 June 2008 after the sacking of Meho Kodro. Most players for this match were assembled from the Bosnian Premier League.^[4]

Pirić worked as a technical director of the Bosnian national teams until his retirement in November 2017.^[5]

Managerial record by team and tenure
Team	From	To	Record
Team	From	To	P	W	D	L	Win %
Bosnia and Herzegovina U19	1 July 2003	11 November 2003	3	0	0	3	000.00
Bosnia and Herzegovina	18 May 2008	30 June 2008	1	1	0	0	100.00
Total			4	1	0	3	025.00

Dinamo Zagreb

^ Profile - GNK Dinamo(in Croatian)
^ Profile - Reprezentacija (in Serbian)
^ "Player Database". eu-football.info. Retrieved 26 April 2021.
^ "Kodro fired as Bosnia-Herzegovina boss". UEFA.com. 17 May 2008. Retrieved 18 May 2008.
^ "Konkursi se raspisuju i padaju, a Darko Ljubojević primljen u NSBiH". 6 November 2017. Archived from the original on 23 September 2019. Retrieved 8 September 2018.