Branko Brnović

Branko Brnović

Brnović during a match with Montenegro in 2014
Personal information
Full name	Branislav Brnović
Date of birth	(1967-08-08) 8 August 1967 (age 49)
Place of birth	Titograd, SFR Yugoslavia
Height	1.82 m (5 ft 11 1⁄2 in)
Playing position	Midfielder
Senior career*
Years	Team	Apps	(Gls)
1987–1991	Budućnost	100	(13)
1991–1994	Partizan	88	(11)
1994–2000	Espanyol	146	(3)
2006–2007	Kom	15	(2)
Total		349	(29)
National team
1989–1998	Yugoslavia	27	(3)
Teams managed
2007–2011	Montenegro (assistant)
2011–2015	Montenegro
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only.

Branislav "Branko" Brnović (Serbian Cyrillic: Бранко Брновић; born 8 August 1967 in Titograd, Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia) is a retired Montenegrin professional footballer who played as a defensive midfielder.

After making his professional debuts with local FK Budućnost Podgorica, Brnović signed with national giants FK Partizan in 1991, helping the Belgrade club to back-to-back national championships, with the addition of two cups. In the 1992–93 season, as the team won the league and lost the domestic cup to city rivals Red Star, he scored a career-best six goals (the team netted 103).

In 1994, Brnović moved abroad and joined RCD Espanyol in La Liga – then known as Español. A starter in four of his six seasons in Catalonia, he left the club after a poor individual campaign (only one game in the league), which ended with conquest of the Copa del Rey.

Brnović returned to active aged nearly 40, playing one season with FK Kom in his native town, now renamed Podgorica after the Montenegro independence.

Brnović represented Yugoslavia on twenty-seven occasions, his debut coming on 20 September 1989 in a 3–0 friendly win with Greece in Novi Sad. He also appeared during the UEFA Euro 1992 qualifying stage as the national team made it all the way to Sweden, only to be suspended due to the Yugoslav Wars.