Fuad Muzurović
Personal information
Date of birth (1945-11-03) 3 November 1945
Place of birth Bijelo Polje, DF Yugoslavia
Position(s) Full-back
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
1964–1974 Sarajevo 265 (1)
1975 Jedinstvo Bijelo Polje
Managerial career
1977–1981 Sarajevo
1983–1984 Prishtina
1985–1986 Prishtina
1987–1988 Adana Demirspor
1990–1995 Sarajevo
1995–1997 Bosnia and Herzegovina
1998 Adanaspor
1999 Al Arabi
2001–2002 Sarajevo
2002 Al Masry
2004 Cerezo Osaka
2006–2007 Bosnia and Herzegovina
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Fuad Muzurović (born 3 November 1945) is a Bosnian retired professional football manager and former player.

Playing career

Although he did not have an international playing career, Muzurović is still remembered as a quality full-back playing for his hometown club Jedinstvo Bijelo Polje and Sarajevo, where he won the Yugoslav First League in the 1966–67 season.

Managerial career

Muzurović's managerial skills led him to various countries with good success, although he did not manage to win many trophies. He managed Sarajevo in three periods, with the first one from 1977 to 1981 in Yugoslav First League, achieving a runner-up place in 1980. After that Muzurović was the manager of Prishtina from 1983 to 1984, managing to drive the small newcomer side to the best position in their history when they finished 8th in the Yugoslav First League in the 1983–84 season. He was once again Prishtina's manager from 1985 to 1986. The next appointment was at Turkish club Adana Demirspor in 1987, staying there for one year. His second appointment as Sarajevo manager came in the 1990–91 season. After the Bosnian War, Muzurović was the first head coach of the newly founded Bosnia and Herzegovina national team, managing to clinch a historical victory against Denmark in a 3–0 thriller in Sarajevo. Failing to qualify for the 1998 FIFA World Cup, he was replaced with Džemaludin Mušović in 1998.

Muzurović then had a two-month spell as Adanaspor manager in the 1998–99 season,[1] from where he went to Qatar's Al Arabi in 1999. The third and final appointment as Sarajevo's manager came in the 2001–02 season, managing to win his first and only managerial career, the Bosnian Cup. Muzurović was then manager of Egyptian Premier League club Al Masry in July 2002, leaving the club shortly after in December of that year. On 1 February 2004, the Japanese J1 League club Cerezo Osaka board appointed him as their manager, but was sacked after leading the club in only two games, the second fastest sacking of a manager in J1 League history.

On 21 December 2006, Muzurović became the new head coach of the Bosnia and Herzegovina national team for a second time in his career, nearly three years after getting sacked at Cerezo Osaka.[2] One of the most memorable wins of Bosnia and Herzegovina came during Muzurović's coaching, particularly a 3–2 home win against Turkey in the UEFA Euro 2008 qualifiers on 2 June 2007, a game which also saw the international debut of Edin Džeko.[3] He stayed as head coach until 17 December 2007.

Managerial statistics

Managerial record by team and tenure
Team From To Record
G W D L GF GA GD Win %
Sarajevo 1 July 1977 1 September 1981 146 61 31 54 224 213 +11 041.78
Prishtina 1 July 1983 30 June 1984 35 15 3 17 39 57 −18 042.86
Prishtina 1 July 1985 30 June 1986 35 13 5 17 37 48 −11 037.14
Adana Demirspor 1 July 1987 28 November 1988 53 20 7 26 60 64 −4 037.74
Bosnia and Herzegovina 30 November 1995 7 November 1997 18 7 2 9 21 25 −4 038.89
Adanaspor 1 July 1998 30 September 1998 7 1 1 5 2 9 −7 014.29
Sarajevo 1 July 2001 30 June 2002 39 18 10 11 66 37 +29 046.15
Al Masry 1 July 2002 30 December 2002 16 8 5 3 17 13 +4 050.00
Cerezo Osaka 1 February 2004 22 March 2004 2 0 0 2 3 6 −3 000.00
Bosnia and Herzegovina 21 December 2006 17 December 2007 9 3 0 6 11 16 −5 033.33
Total 360 146 64 150 480 488 −8 040.56

Honours

Player

Sarajevo

Manager

Sarajevo

References

  1. ↑ "FUAD MUZUROVİÇ Turkish League Stats". mackolik.com. Archived from the original on 17 January 2014. Retrieved 14 May 2020.
  2. ↑ "Fuad Muzurović novi selektor reprezentacije BiH" (in Bosnian). Klix.ba. 21 December 2006. Retrieved 21 December 2006.
  3. ↑ "Bosnia and Herzegovina 3-2 Turkey". tff.org. 2 June 2007. Retrieved 14 May 2020.
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