Bora Milutinović

Bora Milutinović
Milutinović (2006)
Personnel
Surname	Velibor Milutinović
birthday	September 7, 1944
place of birth	Bajina Bašta ,  Yugoslavia
position	midfield
Men's
Years	station	Games (goals) 1
1956-1968	Partizan Belgrade
1968-1969	AS Monaco
1969-1970	OGC Nice
1970-1971	FC Rouen
1971-1972	FC Winterthur	25 (3)
1972-1977	UNAM Pumas
Stations as a trainer
Years	station
1977-1982	UNAM Pumas
1983-1986	Mexico
1987	CA San Lorenzo
1987-1988	Udinese Calcio
1988-1989	CD Veracruz
1989-1990	Costa Rica
1990	UNAM Pumas
1991-1995	United States
1995-1997	Mexico
1997-1998	Nigeria
1998-1999	New York metro stars
2000-2002	People's Republic of China
2003-2004	Honduras
2004-2005	al-Sadd Sports Club
2006-2007	Jamaica
2009	Iraq
1 Only league games are given.

Velibor "Bora" Milutinović (born September 7, 1944 in Bajina Bašta , Yugoslavia ) is a former Yugoslav football player and a current Serbian - Mexican football coach .

life and career

The Milutinović family had three sons. Miloš , Velibor and Milorad . All three made it into top teams in what was then Yugoslavia or played for Partizan Belgrade . Milutinović played as a player in Serbia , France , Switzerland ( FC Winterthur ) and Mexico . He ended his footballing career in Mexico, became the Mexican champion as a coach with the UNAM Pumas in 1981 and has lived there ever since. In addition to Serbian citizenship, he also has Mexican citizenship.

Milutinović worked as a coach for many years. He got every team (except PRC and Honduras) that he coached to at least the second round of the World Cup . In total, he has looked after these nations in over 220 games. He is called "Master of the Impossible" or "Master of the Underdogs" because he repeatedly celebrated unexpected successes with supposedly weak national teams.

He has trained five different nations for a world championship:

• Mexico (1986)
• Costa Rica (1990)
• USA (1994)
• Nigeria (1998)
• PR China (2002)

Apart from the USA and Mexico, which were automatically qualified as organizers, Milutinović qualified as coach of the teams for the tournaments. He also coached the New York / New Jersey MetroStars of the US Major League Soccer in 1999 . He was also the coach of the Honduran national team until 2004 when he was fired for reasons unknown during World Cup qualification.

In February 2007 Milutinović was the new national coach of the Jamaican national team , but after failing in the World Cup qualification, he was dismissed in November of the same year. Between April and June 2009 he was the coach of Iraq .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Global Times : Interview: Serbian soccer coach Milutinovic thanks to the Chinese president's comment ( Memento of the original from March 2, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
2. ^ BBC : Five in a row for the miracle worker
3. ↑ Bora Milutinović: It's a shame that Uli Hoeness didn't call. An interview . In: Kicker from June 11, 2009 (accessed December 4, 2012).

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