Bora Milutinović

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Bora Milutinović
Personal information
Full name	Velibor Milutinović
Date of birth	September 7, 1944 (age 62)
Place of birth	Bajina Bašta, DF Yugoslavia
Nickname	Bora, The Magician
Position	Manager
Club information
Current club	Jamaica
Professional clubs*
Years	Club	Apps (goals)
	OFK Beograd Partizan Belgrade AS Monaco OGC Nice FC Rouen FC Winterthur Pumas UNAM	? (?) ? (?)
National team
?	SFR Yugoslavia	? (?)
Teams managed
1977-1981 1983-1986 1987 1990 1991-1995 1995-1997 1997-1998 1999 2000-2002 2003-2004 2004-2005 2006-	Pumas UNAM Mexico San Lorenzo Udinese Calcio Costa Rica United States Mexico Nigeria MetroStars China Honduras Al-Sadd Jamaica
* Professional club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only.

Velibor "Bora" Milutinović (Serbian Cyrillic: Велибор "Бора" Милутиновић) (born September 7, 1944 in Bajina Bašta, Serbia, Yugoslavia) is a Serbian football (soccer) coach, and the only person 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 (all the above except China).

During Summer of 2003 he was in serious negotiations to finally take over the national team reigns at his native Serbia-Montenegro. Despite heavy, month-long persuasion from Serbian football officials, Milutinovic turned down the offer. Soon afterwards he signed on to coach the Honduras national team, but resigned on June 30, 2004 during World Cup qualifying despite getting the team into the third round of CONCACAF qualifiers. He cited "the prevailing bad atmosphere, created by comments made by the country's managers, officials and press" as the reason for his leaving.

Milutinović's coaching career at club level hasn't been nearly as illustrious. He coached the MetroStars of Major League Soccer to the worst record in league history in 1999. He also had a brief coaching stint in Qatar league.

Milutinović became a Mexican citizen and is married to a Mexican national.

On November 16, 2006, he was announced as head coach of Jamaica.

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• Bora's match-by-match record with various countries

Preceded by: John Kowalski

U.S. men's national soccer team head coach 1991-95

Succeeded by: Steve Sampson

	Mexico squad - 1986 World Cup Quarter Finalists
1 Larios | 2 Trejo | 3 Quirarte | 4 Ponce | 5 Cruz | 6 De Los Cobos | 7 España | 8 Dominguez | 9 Sánchez | 10 Boy | 11 Hermosillo | 12 Rodriguez | 13 Aguirre | 14 Barbosa | 15 Flores | 16 Muñoz | 17 Servin | 18 Amador | 19 Hernández | 20 Orozco | 21 Ortega | 22 Negrete | Coach: Milutinović

	Costa Rica squad - 1990 World Cup
1 Conejo | 2 Quesada | 3 Flores | 4 González | 5 Obando | 6 Chaves | 7 Medford | 8 Chavarría | 9 Guimarães | 10 Ramírez | 11 C. Jara | 12 Gómez | 13 Davis | 14 Cayasso | 15 Marín | 16 Jaikel | 17 Myers | 18 G. Jara | 19 Marchena | 20 Montero | 21 Barrantes | 22 Segura | Coach: Milutinović

	United States squad - 1994 World Cup
1 Meola | 2 Lapper | 3 Burns | 4 Kooiman | 5 Dooley | 6 Harkes | 7 Perez | 8 Stewart | 9 Ramos | 10 Wegerle | 11 Wynalda | 12 Sommer | 13 Jones | 14 Klopas | 15 Moore | 16 Sorber | 17 Balboa | 18 Friedel | 19 Reyna | 20 Caligiuri | 21 Clavijo | 22 Lalas | Coach: Milutinović

	Nigeria squad - 1998 FIFA World Cup
1 Rufai | 2 Oparaku | 3 Babayaro | 4 Kanu | 5 Okechukwu | 6 West | 7 George | 8 Adepoju | 9 Yekini | 10 Okocha | 11 Lawal | 12 W. Okpara | 13 Babangida | 14 Amokachi | 15 Oliseh | 16 Okafor | 17 Eguavoen | 18 Oruma | 19 Iroha | 20 Ikpeba | 21 G. Okpara | 22 Baruwa | Coach: Milutinović

	China squad - 2002 FIFA World Cup
1 An Qi | 2 Zhang Enhua | 3 Yang Pu | 4 Wu Chengying | 5 Fan Zhiyi | 6 Shao Jiayi | 7 Sun Jihai | 8 Li Tie | 9 Ma Mingyu | 10 Hao Haidong | 11 Yu Genwei | 12 Su Maozhen | 13 Gao Yao | 14 Li Weifeng | 15 Zhao Junzhe | 16 Qu Bo | 17 Du Wei | 18 Li Xiaopeng | 19 Qi Hong | 20 Yang Chen | 21 Xu Yunlong | 22 Jiang Jin | 23 Ou Chuliang | Coach: Milutinović