Bora Milutinović

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Bora Milutinović
Full name	Velibor Milutinović
Date of birth	September 7, 1944 (age 62)
Place of birth	Bajina Bašta, Serbia
Nickname	Bora, The Magician
Playing position	Manager
Club information
Current club	Jamaica
Senior clubs¹
Years	Club	App (Gls)*
	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 1987 1990 1991-1995 1995-1997 1997-1998 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
¹ Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only. * Appearances (Goals)

Velibor "Bora" Milutinović (Serbian Cyrillic: Велибор "Бора" Милутиновић) (born September 7, 1944 in Bajina Bašta, Serbia, then Yugoslavia) is a Serbian football 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, before failing to do so with China.

In the summer of 2003, Milutinović was in serious negotiations to finally take over the national team at his native Serbia-Montenegro. Despite heavy, month-long persuasion from Serbian football officials, Milutinović turned down the offer and soon signed on to the Honduras national team. He led the team to the first round of CONCACAF qualifiers before resigning on June 30, 2004. He cited "the prevailing bad atmosphere, created by comments made by the country's managers, officials and press" as the reason for his leaving during World Cup qualifying.

Milutinović's coaching career at club level has not 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 stint in Qatar league as well as nine matches with Udinese Calcio of Italian Serie B in 1987.

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

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

Preceded by Miguel Mejía Barón	Mexico national football team manager 1995-1997	Succeeded by Manuel Lapuente

Preceded by Bobby Houghton	China national football team coach 15 January 2000 - 16 June 2002	Succeeded by Arie Haan

	Mexico squad - 1986 FIFA World Cup Quarter-finalists
1 Larios \| 2 Trejo \| 3 Quirarte \| 4 Manzo \| 5 Francisco Cruz \| 6 de los Cobos \| 7 España \| 8 Domínguez \| 9 Sánchez \| 10 Boy \| 11 Hermosillo \| 12 Rodríguez \| 13 Aguirre \| 14 Felix Cruz \| 15 Flores \| 16 Muñoz \| 17 Servín \| 18 Amador \| 19 Hernández \| 20 Heredia \| 21 Ortega \| 22 Negrete \| Coach: Milutinović

	Costa Rica squad - 1990 FIFA 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 FIFA 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