Bora Milutinović
Bora Milutinović (born 7 September 1944) is a former Serbian football player.
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Personal information | |||
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Full name | Velibor Milutinović | ||
Date of birth | 7 September 1944 | ||
Place of birth | Bajina Bašta, Yugoslavia | ||
Position(s) | Midfielder | ||
Senior career* | |||
Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
Bor Beograd Partizan Monaco Nice Rouen Winterthur Universidad Nacional | |||
Teams managed | |||
1977-1981 1983-1986 1987 1987 1990 1991-1995 1995-1997 1997-1998 1998-1999 2000-2002 2003-2004 2004-2005 2006-2007 2009 |
Universidad Nacional Mexico San Lorenzo Almagro Udinese Costa Rica United States Mexico Nigeria MetroStars China PR Honduras Al-Sadd Jamaica Iraq | ||
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only |
Velibor "Bora" Milutinović (Serbian Cyrillic: Велибор Милутиновић – Бора; born 7 September 1944) is a Serbian football coach and former player.
He and Carlos Alberto Parreira are the only two people 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 – Mexico (1986), Costa Rica(1990), the United States (1994), and Nigeria (1998) – 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 eight different national football teams.