Demir Hotić

Demir Hotić ( born July 9, 1962 in Bosanski Novi, SFR Yugoslavia) is a Bosnian football coach and former football player.

Career

About his youth club Sloboda Bosanski Novi he came to TuS Gerresheim. Further stations were PSV Borussia Dusseldorf, Dusseldorf Fortuna and Union Solingen before he contested the 1988/ 89 Stuttgarter Kickers. From there, he spent half a year to VfB Stuttgart, before it took Karl -Heinz Feldkamp the winter break of the season 1989/90 1 FC Kaiserslautern. There he had his most successful period as a player and relevant portion of the gain of the DFB Cup 1989/90 and the German championship in 1991. His most internationally most remarkable appearance had Hotić on November 6, 1991. In the second round of the European Champions' Cup, he scored two goals in the 3-1 home win of the 1.FC Kaiserslautern on the later Cup winners FC Barcelona. With a remarkable performance succeeded the former German champions to equalize the 0-2 first leg defeat. Until the 90th minute led Kaiserslautern 3-0 even before the Spanish champions by a lucky goal in the final minute but still the place in the next round was possible only because of the away goals. The FC Barcelona marched confidently through after the European Cup and won the competition this season. Hotić remained until the 1993/94 season in Kaiserslautern and still played after Fenerbahce, Stuttgarter Kickers and at Yverdon -Sport FC, where he ended his professional career in 1995.

Most accurately could Demir Hotić probably characterize with a quote from Karl -Heinz Feldkamp: " There are days when I could just kill him easy! And then I would most like to kiss him in the next moment the shoes! "

Hotić worked from 1996 to 1999 as coach of the traditional club Wormatia Worms, which he led from the fifth division back to the Oberliga West in 1998. After a brief interlude in the U19 of the 1st FC Kaiserslautern, he moved to Oberliga side Eintracht Bad Kreuznach. In his coaching time at TuRU Dusseldorf from 2002 to 2005 the club was relegated from the division up to the Oberliga Nordrhein. From the end of September 2007 to June 2008 Hotić worked as an assistant coach of his former teammates from Lautrer times Reinhard Stumpf at Turkish first division club Gençlerbirliği Ankara.

In January 2009, he took over for half a year as coach at FK Željezničar Sarajevo, one of the most traditional clubs in Bosnia and Herzegovina.

Hotić denied in Germany 134 Bundesliga matches, scoring 36 goals. In addition, he scored 46 goals in 197 second-division games.

His nephew is the professional football player Mustafa Kucukovic.