Bora Milutinović

Bora Milutinović
Milutinovic in 2012
Personal information
Full name Velibor Milutinović
Date of birth (1944-09-07) 7 September 1944
Place of birth Bajina Bašta, Yugoslavia
Height 1.77 m (5 ft 9+1⁄2 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)
1965–1966 → OFK 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)
Managerial career
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)
Medal record
Men's football
Representing  Mexico (as manager)
CONCACAF Gold Cup
Winner 1996 United States Team
Copa América
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
1992 Saudi Arabia Team
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

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

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

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

Player

UNAM

  • Copa MX: 1974–75
  • Campeón de Campeones: 1975

Manager

UNAM

United States

Mexico


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