Robert Prosinecki, a Croatian football manager and former football midfielder who last worked as manager of Azerbaijan, is Bosnia’s new national football coach, it was announced on Thursday.
Journalist Haris Mrkonja wrote for N1 that while popes were often selected in less than a week, it took Bosnia more than three months to appoint a national football coach.
After retiring from active football, the 48-year-old worked as assistant manager of the Croatia national team between 2006 and 2010, before being made manager of Red Star Belgrade in December 2010.
In August 2012, Prosinečki left Red Star and took over Turkish club Kayserispor two months later. He was appointed manager of Azerbaijan’s national football team in December 2014.
His main rival for this position was Amar Osim, 50, Bosnian coach and ex-football player and son of Ivan Ivica Osman, who is president of the normalisation committee of Bosnia’s football federation, which some used as an argument against Amar.
During his time as Red Star manager, he used to greet fans with a raised hand and three fingers, which has been used against him in some Bosnian media, since this form of greeting is seen in Bosnia as a Serb nationalistic gesture.
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