Mehmed Baždarević

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Mehmed Baždarević
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Baždarević (2015)
Personnel
Surname Mehmed Baždarević
birthday September 28, 1960
place of birth VišegradSFR Yugoslavia
position midfield
Men's
Years station Games (goals) 1
1978-1987 FK Željezničar Sarajevo 229 (22)
1987-1996 FC Sochaux 308 (29)
1996-1998 Olympique Nîmes 32 0(0)
1998-1999 Etoile Carouge 6 0(0)
National team
Years selection Games (goals)
1983-1992 Yugoslavia 54 (4)
1996 Bosnia and Herzegovina 2 (0)
Stations as a trainer
Years station
2003-2005 FC Istres
2005-2006 Étoile Sportive du Sahel
2006-2007 Al-Wakrah SC
2007-2010 Grenoble Foot
2011–2012 FC Sochaux
2012-2013 Al-Wakrah SC
2014-2017 Bosnia and Herzegovina
2018-2019 Paris FC
1 Only league games are given.

Mehmed Baždarević (born September 28, 1960 in Višegrad ) is a former Yugoslav soccer player and Bosnian soccer coach . From 2014 to 2017 he was the head coach of the Bosnian-Herzegovinian national team. He coached Paris FC until December 2019 .

Career

Baždarević began his career at FK Željezničar Sarajevo . He spent nine years of his career in Sarajevo . During this time, the first call-up to the national team of Yugoslavia fell. The Bosnian made his debut in 1983. He was part of the Yugoslav squad for the 1984 European Football Championship in France . It was used three times and Yugoslavia was eliminated in the group stage. In the same year he was able to win the bronze medal with the Yugoslav selection at the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles . In 1987 he finally moved to France for FC Sochaux , which he remained loyal to until 1996. During this time, the independence of his home country Bosnia and Herzegovina fell . He made his debut for Bosnia-Herzegovina and was the captain of the national team in two World Cup qualifiers against Greece (3-0) and Croatia (4-1). From 1996 to 1998 he was under contract with Olympique Nîmes . He then played another year in Switzerland with Etoile Carouge.

After the playing career

After the active playing career, he became a coach. From 2003 to 2005 he coached the French club FC Istres . From 2005 to 2006 he was coach of the Tunisian club Étoile Sportive du Sahel . He then coached Al-Wakrah SC , a club from Qatar, for a year . From 2007 he coached Grenoble Foot 38 in the French second division. He then stayed for two more years, from 2011 to 2012, in France, at FC Sochaux , before he took over the coaching position at the Saudi al-Wakrah SC . At the end of 2014, Baždarević became the coach of the Bosnian-Herzegovinian national team . He was fired after failing to participate in the 2016 European Championship in France and failing to qualify for the 2018 World Cup in Russia .

successes

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