Milutinović in 2006
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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, Kingdom of Yugoslavia | ||
Height | 1.77 m (5 ft 9 1⁄2 in) | ||
Playing position | Central midfielder | ||
Youth career | |||
1956–1958 | Partizan Belgrade | ||
Senior career* | |||
Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
1958–1960 | OFK Beograd | 15 | (2) |
1960–1966 | Partizan | 40 | (3) |
1965–1966 | → OFK Beograd (loan) | 12 | (3) |
1966–1967 | Winterthur | 20 | (1) |
1967–1969 | Monaco | 42 | (3) |
1969–1971 | Nice | 37 | (0) |
1971–1972 | Rouen | 11 | (0) |
1972–1976 | UNAM | 93 | (12) |
Total | 270 | (24) | |
Teams managed | |||
1977–1983 | UNAM | ||
1983–1986 | Mexico | ||
1987 | San Lorenzo | ||
1987 | Udinese | ||
1988 | Veracruz | ||
1988–1989 | Tecos UAG | ||
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 | ||
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only. |
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only.
Velibor "Bora" Milutinović (Serbian Cyrillic: Велибор Бора Милутиновић; born 7 September 1944) is a Serbian football coach and former player.
He and Carlos Alberto Parreira are the only two people to have attended five times at World Cup as manager, with Milutinović being the only manager who has achieved this with five different teams, and in five consecutive World Cups: 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, first given to him by Alan Rothenberg, then president of the United States Soccer Federation. In total Milutinović has coached eight different national football teams.