Boro Primorac
Personal information
Full name Boro Primorac
Date of birth (1954-12-05) 5 December 1954
Place of birth Mostar, FPR Yugoslavia
Height 1.90 m (6 ft 3 in)
Position(s) Defender
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
1972–1978 Velež Mostar 133 (10)
1978–1983 Hajduk Split 157 (22)
1983–1986 Lille 107 (13)
1986–1990 Cannes 111 (14)
Total 508 (61)
International career
1976–1980 Yugoslavia 14 (0)
Managerial career
1990–1992 Cannes
1992–1993 Valenciennes
1994 Guinea
1994–1997 Nagoya Grampus (assistant)
1997–2018 Arsenal (assistant)
2020–2021 Hajduk Split
Medal record
Men's football
Representing  Yugoslavia
Mediterranean Games
Gold medal – first place 1979 Split Team
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Boro Primorac (pronounced [bǒːro prǐːmorats]; born 5 December 1954) is a Bosnian professional football manager and former player who most recently managed Croatian First Football League club Hajduk Split.

Playing career

Club

Primorac featured as a centre half with Yugoslavian clubs Velež Mostar and Hajduk Split, as well as for French teams Lille and Cannes.[1]

International

Primorac played at the senior level for Yugoslavia whom he captained in the late 1970s.[2] He made his debut for them in a February 1976 friendly match away against Tunisia and has earned a total of 14 caps, scoring no goals. Primorac went on to be triumphant as Yugoslavia won the gold medal in football at the 1979 Mediterranean Games. He also was a part of the Yugoslavian squad which got to the semi-finals of the 1980 Summer Olympics. All together Primorac was capped a sum of 18 times for Yugoslavia.[1][3] His final international was a November 1980 World Cup qualification match against Italy.[4]

Managerial career

After his playing days came to an end, Primorac went on to manage French clubs AS Cannes and Valenciennes.[5][6] He then worked under Frenchman Arsène Wenger at Grampus Eight in Japan before joining him at Highbury in March 1997. He then served under Wenger within the role of assistant coach at Arsenal.[1][2]

On 4 November 2020, Primorac was appointed manager of Croatian club Hajduk Split, which was his first job as a head coach after 26 years.[7] He was intended to be a caretaker, but after 7 points won in 3 matches he had extended the contract to the end of the year. However, Hajduk lost all of its three matches until the end of December and Primorac's contract was not extended again, so he was replaced by Paolo Tramezzani in January 2021.

Managerial statistics

As of match played 20 December 2020
Team From To Record
GWDLWin %
Cannes 1 July 1990 30 June 1992 89 28 31 30 031.46
Valenciennes 29 August 1992 30 June 1993 39 10 12 17 025.64
Guinea 1 January 1994 30 July 1994 5 1 1 3 020.00
Hajduk Split 4 November 2020 18 January 2021 6 2 1 3 033.33
Total 139 41 45 53 029.5

Personal life

Primorac is an ethnic Herzegovinian Croat.[8] He is reportedly fluent in eight languages; his native Bosnian and Croatian, French, English, Japanese, German, Spanish, Portuguese and Italian. His son Jure Primorac is also a professional footballer.[6]

Honours

Player

International

Yugoslavia

References

  1. 1 2 3 "Boro Primorac". Arsenal.com. Archived from the original on 7 November 2017. Retrieved 28 January 2009.
  2. 1 2 "Bosanci mogu igrati u Engleskoj". San. 27 February 2008. Archived from the original on 6 July 2011. Retrieved 10 March 2014.
  3. 1 2 "Mediterranean Games 1979 (Split, Yugoslavia)". RSSSF.com.
  4. ↑ "Player Database". eu-football.info. Retrieved 26 April 2021.
  5. ↑ "France – Trainers of First and Second Division Clubs". RSSSF.com.
  6. 1 2 Wheatley, Chris (15 March 2017). "Who is Arsene Wenger's right-hand man Boro Primorac?". Goal.com. Retrieved 1 March 2018.
  7. ↑ "BORO PRIMORAC VODIT ĆE PRVU MOMČAD HAJDUKA U NAREDNOM RAZDOBLJU". Hajduk (in Croatian). Retrieved 4 November 2020.
  8. ↑ Wenger: The Legend

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