Nenad Starovlah

Nenad Starovlah

Personal information
Full name	Nenad Starovlah
Date of birth	(1955-07-29) 29 July 1955 (age 61)
Place of birth	Sarajevo, SFR Yugoslavia
Height	1.88 m (6 ft 2 in)
Playing position	Defender
Senior career*
Years	Team	Apps	(Gls)
1972–1982	Željezničar Sarajevo	333	(8)
National team
1978–1980	Yugoslavia	2	(0)
Teams managed
1982–1992	Željezničar Sarajevo
1985–1987	SFR Yugoslavia U-21 (Ass´t)
1987–1990	SFR Yugoslavia U-16
1987–1990	Bosnia and Herzegovina U-17
1989–1991	SFR Yugoslav Olympic Team
1992–1993	Hajduk Kula
1993–1994	Borac Čačak
1994–1995	Ethnikos Piraeus
1995–1999	Apollon Limassol
1999–2000	Enosis Neon Paralimni
2000–2002	Sutjeska Nikšić
2002–2006	Apollon Limassol
2006–2007	Željezničar Sarajevo
2008–2014	Omonia
Honours Men's Football Representing  Yugoslavia Mediterranean Games 1979 Split Team
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only.

Nenad Starovlah (Serbian Cyrillic: Ненад Сtаровлах; Greek: Νέναντ Στάροβλαχ; born 29 July 1955) is a Bosnian Serb football manager and former player. As player he was a Yugoslav international. He also holds Cypriot citizenship.

Nenad Starovlah was the total player. He played 333 games for Željezničar as a defender where nevertheless he scored 18 goals. He stayed in Željezničar from 1972–1982, where he won the Yugoslav Championship once. In July 1992, Nenad was chosen as the best young player at the tournament of the Republic Championship.

He also played for the Yugoslav national team where in the 1978 Summer Olympics, the Yugoslav team won the gold medal in Athens and a year later, at the 1979 Mediterranean Games, the Yugoslav team won the gold medal in Split. He retired when he was 27 years old, due to a knee injury.

After ending his football career in 1982 he took over U-10 side of Željezničar and for eight years he trained with them where they achieved six titles of the Championship of Bosnia and Herzegovina. Due to the fact that sixteen of these players from that generation signed a professional contract with the first team, he took over as assistant coach of Željezničar in 1992 under Milan Ribar. The war in Yugoslavia took place in 1992 and as a result the team split. Many of these players continued their career abroad like Mario Stanić (Benfica, Parma, Chelsea, National Team of Croatia), Elvir Baljić (Fenerbahçe, Real Madrid, Galatasaray, Bosnian national team), Marijo Dodik (Mechelen, Slaven Belupo, Bosnian national team), Boris Vasković (Vojvodina, Sartid, OFK Belgrade, FR Yugoslavia national team), Veldin Karić (Vojvodina, Torino, Lugano, Dinamo, Croatian national team), and others.

He took over Yugoslav U-16 national team as an assistant coach of Mirko Jozić in 1990. The team reached the finals of the European Championship in Germany in 1990 losing the final to Czechoslovakia by 3-2.

During the same period whilst he was the assistant coach at SFR Yugoslavia U-16, he was the manager of the Bosnia and Herzegovina U-17 national team. In 1988 and 1990 the team achieved the championship of Republic of Yugoslavia twice and in 1989 where the team won the second place.

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