Bora Milutinović

Serbian footballer and manager

Velibor "Bora" Milutinović (Serbian Cyrillic: Велибор Милутиновић – Бора; born 7 September 1944) is a Serbian football coach and former player.

Bora Milutinović
Milutinovic in 2012
Personal information
Full name Velibor Milutinović
Date of birth (1944-09-07) 7 September 1944 (age 80)
Place of birth Bajina Bašta, Yugoslavia
Height 1.77 m (5 ft 9+12 in)
Position(s) Midfielder
Youth career
1954–1958 Bor
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
1958–1960 OFK Beograd 15 (2)
1960–1966 Partizan 40 (3)
1965–1966OFK 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
2014 Shaanxi Wuzhou (sporting director)
2014 China (advisor)
2014–2024 Shaanxi Wuzhou (sporting advisor)
Honours
Men's football
Representing  Mexico (as manager)
CONCACAF Gold Cup
Winner 1996 United States Team
Copa América
Third place 1997 Bolivia Team
Representing  United States (as manager)
CONCACAF Gold Cup
Winner 1991 United States Team
Runner-up 1993 United States-Mexico Team
FIFA Confederations Cup
Third place 1992 Saudi Arabia Team
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only

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.

Managerial statistics

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Year(s) Nat Team[a] G W D L Win % GF GA
1977–1983   UNAM 218 96 59 63 44 406 299
1983-1986, 1995-1997   Mexico 104 52 32 20 50 ? ?
1987   San Lorenzo 8 4 4 0 50 8 2
1987   Udinese 9 3 0 6 33.33 6 10
1988   Veracruz ? ? ? ? ? ? ?
1988–1989   Tecos UAG ? ? ? ? ? ? ?
1990–1991   Costa Rica 9 3 0 6 33.3 7 13
1991–1995   United States 93 30 31 35 31.3 116 110
1997–1998   Nigeria 11 3 2 6 27.3 10 22
1998–1999   NY/NJ MetroStars 33 5 3 25 15.2 ? ?
2000–2002   China 46 20 11 15 43.5 75 50
2003–2004   Honduras 10 2 4 4 20 12 14
2004–2005   Al-Sadd ? ? ? ? ? ? ?
2006–2007   Jamaica 6 1 1 4 16.7 5 14
2009   Iraq 4[b] 0 3 1[b] 0 1 2
  1. Includes national teams.
  2. 2.0 2.1 Qatar vs. Iraq not considered as a FIFA International match since Iraq made 13 Substitutions, Iraq lost the match 0–1.

Honours

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Player

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UNAM

Manager

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UNAM

United States

Mexico