Boro Primorac
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Full name | Boro Primorac | |||||||||||||||
Date of birth | 5 December 1954 | |||||||||||||||
Place of birth | Mostar, FPR Yugoslavia | |||||||||||||||
Height | 1.90 m (6 ft 3 in) | |||||||||||||||
Playing position | Defender | |||||||||||||||
Club information | ||||||||||||||||
Current team | Arsenal (first team assistant coach) | |||||||||||||||
Senior career* | ||||||||||||||||
Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) | |||||||||||||
1972–1978 | Velež Mostar | 133 | (10) | |||||||||||||
1978–1983 | Hajduk Split | 283 | (53) | |||||||||||||
1983–1986 | Lille | 107 | (13) | |||||||||||||
1986–1990 | Cannes | 111 | (14) | |||||||||||||
Total | 634 | (90) | ||||||||||||||
National team | ||||||||||||||||
1976–1982 | Yugoslavia | 14 | (0) | |||||||||||||
Teams managed | ||||||||||||||||
1990–1992 | Cannes | |||||||||||||||
1992–1993 | Valenciennes | |||||||||||||||
1994 | Guinea Bissau | |||||||||||||||
1994–1997 | Nagoya Grampus (assistant) | |||||||||||||||
1997– | Arsenal (first team assistant coach) | |||||||||||||||
Honours
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* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only |
Boro Primorac (Serbo-Croatian pronunciation: [bǒːro prǐːmorats]; born 5 December 1954) is a Bosnian Croat[1] coach and a former Yugoslav international. Currently, he is the first team coach at Arsenal.
Playing career
Primorac of whom featured as a centre half played with Yugoslavian clubs Velež Mostar and Hajduk Split as well as for French teams Lille and Cannes.[2]
International career
Primorac played at the senior level for Yugoslavia whom he captained in the late 1970s.[3] Primorac went on to be triumphant as Yugoslavia won the gold medal in football at the 1979 Mediterranean Games. He also was a part of the Yugoslavian squad which got to the semi finals of the 1980 Summer Olympics. Altogether Primorac was capped a sum of 18 times for Yugoslavia.[2][4]
Managerial career
After his playing days came to an end, Primorac went on to manage French clubs AS Cannes and Valenciennes.[5][6] He then worked under Frenchman Arsene Wenger at Grampus Eight in Japan before joining him at Highbury in March 1997. He has since served under Wenger within the role of a head coach at Arsenal.[2][3]
Personal life
Primorac is reportedly fluent in eight languages, his native Serbo-Croatian, French, English, Japanese, German, Spanish, Portuguese and Italian. His son Jure Primorac is also a professional footballer.[6]
Honours
- Yugoslavia
References
- ↑ Rees, Jasper (3 April 2014). "Wenger: The Legend". Short Books – via Google Books.
- 1 2 3 "Boro Primorac". Arsenal.com.
- 1 2 "Bosanci mogu igrati u Engleskoj". San. 27 February 2008. Archived from the original on 6 July 2011. Retrieved 10 March 2014.
- 1 2 "Mediterranean Games 1979 (Split, Yugoslavia)". RSSSF.com.
- ↑ "France – Trainers of First and Second Division Clubs". RSSSF.com.
- 1 2 Wheatley, Chris (15 March 2017). "Who is Arsene Wenger's right-hand man Boro Primorac?". Goal.com. Retrieved 1 March 2018.