Boro Primorac
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Full name | Boro Primorac | ||||||||||||||
Date of birth | 5 December 1954 | ||||||||||||||
Place of birth | Mostar, FPR Yugoslavia | ||||||||||||||
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Position(s) | Defender | ||||||||||||||
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Current team
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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) | |||||||||||||
International career | |||||||||||||||
1976–1982 | Yugoslavia | 14 | (0) | ||||||||||||
Managerial career | |||||||||||||||
1990–1992 | Cannes | ||||||||||||||
1992–1993 | Valenciennes | ||||||||||||||
1994 | Guinea Bissau | ||||||||||||||
1994–1997 | Nagoya Grampus (assistant) | ||||||||||||||
1997– | Arsenal (first team assistant coach) | ||||||||||||||
Medal record
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*Club domestic league appearances and goals |
Boro Primorac (born 5 December 1954) is a Bosnian Croat football coach and a former Yugoslav international. Currently, he is the first team coach at Arsenal.
As a player, Primorac was an accomplished international centre half who captained Yugoslavia in the late 1970s. While playing for Velež Mostar and Hajduk Split, his jersey number was 5.[1]
Now a respected coach, Primorac works as right-hand man to Arsenal manager Arsène Wenger. He worked with the Frenchman at Grampus Eight in Japan before joining him at Highbury in March 1997.[2] They have been friends for more than 20 years.[1] He has also worked for AS Cannes and Valenciennes.[3]
Primorac is fluent in nine languages: Bosnian, Macedonian, French, English, Japanese, German, Spanish, Portuguese and Italian.
His son Jure Primorac is a professional footballer.
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
- ↑ Arsenal.com profile
- ↑ France – Trainers of First and Second Division Clubs. Rsssf.com.
External links
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- 1954 births
- Living people
- Arsenal F.C. non-playing staff
- AS Cannes players
- Croats of Bosnia and Herzegovina
- Croatian footballers
- Croatian football managers
- Bosnia and Herzegovina expatriates in France
- Bosnia and Herzegovina expatriates in Japan
- Bosnia and Herzegovina expatriates in England
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- Bosnia and Herzegovina football managers
- Expatriate footballers in France
- Yugoslav First League players
- Ligue 1 players
- FK Velež Mostar players
- Association football central defenders
- Footballers at the 1980 Summer Olympics
- HNK Hajduk Split players
- Lille OSC players
- Olympic footballers of Yugoslavia
- Sportspeople from Mostar
- Yugoslav footballers
- Yugoslavia international footballers
- Yugoslav football managers
- Yugoslav expatriate footballers
- Yugoslav expatriates in France
- AS Cannes managers
- Valenciennes FC managers
- Expatriate football managers in Guinea
- Guinea national football team managers