Bora Milutinović

Velibor " Bora " Milutinovic ( born September 7, 1944 in Bajina Basta, Yugoslavia ) is a Serbian- Mexican football coach and former football player ..

Life

The Milutinovic family had three sons. Miloš, Velibor and Milorad. All three have made it to the top teams of the former Yugoslavia and played for Partizan Belgrade. As a player Milutinovic of Serbia, France, Switzerland (FC Winterthur ) and Mexico worked. In Mexico, he ended his footballing career was as a coach with the UNAM Pumas 1981 Mexican masters and lived there ever since. In addition to the Serb he has additionally Mexican citizenship.

As a coach, he worked for many years. He brought each team (except China and Honduras ), which he coached, at least in the second round of the World Cup. In total, he has supervised these nations with over 220 games. It is called the " master of the impossible " or "Master of the underdogs ," he repeated with supposedly weaker teams celebrated unexpected successes.

He has coached five different nations for a world championship:

• Mexico (1986 )
• Costa Rica ( 1990)
• USA ( 1994)
• Nigeria ( 1998)
• China ( 2002)

Except with the United States and Mexico, which were automatically qualified as an organizer, he has qualified as coach of the team for the tournaments. Milutinovic coached 1999, the New York / New Jersey MetroStars of Major League Soccer. He was also coach of the National Team of Honduras until 2004, when he was dismissed for unknown reasons during the World Cup qualifiers.

In February 2007, Milutinovic as the new coach of the Jamaican national football team, after the failure in the World Cup qualifiers but was released again in November of the same year. Between April and June 2009, he was the coach of Iraq.