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| Full name | Boro Primorac | ||||||||||||||||
| Date of birth | (1954-12-05)5 December 1954 (age 70) | ||||||||||||||||
| Place of birth | Mostar,FPR Yugoslavia | ||||||||||||||||
| Height | 1.90 m (6 ft 3 in) | ||||||||||||||||
| Position | 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
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| * Club domestic league appearances and goals | |||||||||||||||||
Boro Primorac (pronounced[bǒːroprǐːmorats]; born 5 December 1954) is a Bosnian professionalfootballmanager and formerplayer who most recently managedCroatian First Football League clubHajduk Split.
Primorac featured as a centre half with Yugoslavian clubsVelež Mostar andHajduk Split, as well as for French teamsLille andCannes.[1]
Primorac played at the senior level forYugoslavia whom he captained in the late 1970s.[2] He made his debut for them in a February 1976friendly match away againstTunisia 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 the1979 Mediterranean Games. He also was a part of the Yugoslavian squad which got to the semi-finals of the1980 Summer Olympics. All together Primorac was capped a sum of 18 times for Yugoslavia.[1][3] His final international was a November 1980World Cup qualification match againstItaly.[4]
After his playing days came to an end, Primorac went on to manage French clubsAS Cannes andValenciennes.[5][6]He then worked under FrenchmanArsène Wenger atGrampus Eight in Japan before joining him atHighbury in March 1997. He then served under Wenger within the role of assistant coach atArsenal.[1][2]
On 4 November 2020, Primorac was appointed manager of Croatian clubHajduk 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 byPaolo Tramezzani in January 2021.
| Team | From | To | Record | ||||
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| G | W | D | L | Win % | |||
| 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 | ||
Primorac is an ethnicBosnian Croat.[8] He is reportedly fluent in nine languages; his nativeBosnian andCroatian,French,English,Japanese,German,Spanish,Portuguese andItalian. His sonJure Primorac is also a professional footballer.[6]
Yugoslavia
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