Fahrudin Zejnilović

Fahrudin Zejnilović
Personal information
Full name Fahrudin Zejnilović
Date of death (2014-03-22)22 March 2014
Place of death Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
1977–1978 Borac Banja Luka 2 (0)
1979–1980 Maribor 28 (3)
1981 Svoboda Ljubljana 13 (0)
1981 Fenerbahçe 2 (0)
1982 Galus Wolfsberg
1984–1985 Trepča 1 (0)
Teams managed
198x–198x Istra Pula
198x–198x Famos Hrasnica
1998–1999 TOŠK Tešanj
Đerzelez
Igman Konjic
Bosnia&Herzegovina (Mediterranean Games)
2007 Saint George
2010 Gradina Srebrenik
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only

Fahrudin Zejnilović (23 November 1924 – 22 March 2014) was a Bosnian-Herzegovinian football player and manager.

Playing career

He played with FK Borac Banja Luka in the 1977–78 Yugoslav First League before moving to Slovenia and playing with NK Maribor and NK Svoboda[1] (known as Merkator back then) in the Yugoslav Second League in the seasons 1979–80 and 1980–81.[2] He played again in Second League in the season 1984–85 with Serbian club FK Trepča.[2] In between he played abroad, first in Turkey with Fenerbahçe S.K. in the first half of the 1981–82 season, and in Austria, with Galus Wolfsberg, in the second half of that same season.[3]

Coaching career

He started his coaching career still back in the 1980s when he coached NK Istra and FK Famos Hrasnica. Later, after the Yugoslav Wars, he took charge of TOŠK Tešanj[4] which he drove to the Premier League, NK Đerzelez, and FK Igman Konjic.[5]

He was then named by the Football Association of Bosnia and Herzegovina coach of the Bosnian team to be part at the Mediterranean Games.[5] Before arriving to OFK Gradina, he coached abroad, in Ethiopia, Saint George S.C.[6] in 2007.[5]

He coached OFK Gradina in Autumn 2010.[7]

Zejnilović died on March 22, 2014, in Sarajevo, at age 60, leaving behind his wife Suvada, daughter Emina, and, son Dženan.[8] Earlier, in December 2013, an unknown person throw from a car a bomb which detonated in front of Zejnilović house in Sarajevo with no consequences besides material damage.[9]

References

  1. ↑ Od druge jugoslovanske do letrte slovenske lige at snportal.si, 14-8-2013, retrieved 12-3-2017 (in Swedish)
  2. 1 2 Stats from Yugoslav First and Second Leagues at zerodic.com
  3. ↑ "Asovi Yu-Fudbala2, page 118, (in Serbian)
  4. ↑ In Memoriam-Fahrudin Zejnilović zvani Zeka at tesanj.net, 23-3-2014, retrieved 12-3-2017 (in Bosnian)
  5. 1 2 3 5. kolo Gradina - Omladinac at apachi.ba, 10-9-2010, retrieved 12-3-2017 (in Bosnian)
  6. ↑ Rwanda/Ethiopia: St. George Coach Extols Ugandan Debutants at allafrica.com, 17-1-2007, retrieved 12-3-2017
  7. ↑ Gradina preokretom do pobjede nad Krajinom at srebrenik.ba, 27-9-2010, retrieved 12-3-2017 (in Bosnian)
  8. ↑ FAHRUDIN (ZEJO) ZEJNILOVIĆ at jedileri.ba, 23-3-2014, retrieved 12-3-2017 (in Bosnian)
  9. ↑ BOMBA BAČENA IZ VOZILA U POKRETU? at infobiro.ba, 5-12-2013, retrieved 12-3-2017 (in Bosnian)
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