Azrudin Valentić

Azrudin Valentić (born 21 July 1970), known as Vali is a Bosnian professional football manager and former player who is the current head coach of Parva liga club Botev Plovdiv.

Azrudin Valentić
Personal information
Full name Azrudin Valentić
Date of birth (1970-07-21) 21 July 1970
Place of birth Sarajevo, SFR Yugoslavia
Youth career
FK Sarajevo
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
1990–1994 FK Sarajevo
1994–1995 Raith Rovers
1996 SK Vorwärts Steyr
1996–1997 Olimpija Ljubljana
1997–2000 FK Sarajevo
Teams managed
2009–2011 Vasalunds IF
2012–2015 Assyriska FF
2016–2017 IF Brommapojkarna (assistant)[1]
2018 Dalkurd FF
2018–2019 Fremad Amager
2019–2021 Fremad Amager
2021– Botev Plovdiv
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only

Career

Valentić started out his playing career in Bosnian club FK Sarajevo where he won the league. He then went on to play for Raith Rovers in Scotland and SK Vorwärts Steyr in Austria before his career ended because of injury. He moved to Sweden in 2002 and four years later started working for Vasalunds IF as an individual coach before becoming their manager in 2009. In 2011, he took over as manager for Assyriska FF.[2]

Managerial career

Fremad Amager

Valentić was appointed manager of Fremad Amager at the end of October 2018.

On 1 July 2019 Fremad Amager announced, that Olof Mellberg had joined the club as their new manager.[3] Vali was reinforced with Mellberg, who he worked with in IF Brommapojkarna. With the access of Mellberg, the club changed the structure of the sporting staff, with Mellberg becoming manager and Vali becoming the first team coach. However, only two months after Mellberg's arrival, he left the club in the favor of Helsingborg IF and Valentić was re-appointed as the manager of the club.[4] He guided the club to a 4th place in the 2019–20 Danish 1st Division.

Botev Plovdiv

In January 2021 Valentić was signed by Bulgarian side Botev Plovdiv.[5]

References
  1. "Azrudin Valentic ny assisterande tränare" (in Swedish). IF Brommapojkarna. 23 December 2015.
  2. "Valentic Azrudin ny tränare för Assyriska" (in Swedish). Assyriska FF. Archived from the original on 18 May 2012. Retrieved 21 November 2012.
  3. SVENSK ”DREAM TEAM” GENFORENES I FREMAD AMAGER, fremadamagerelite.dk, 1 July 2019
  4. MELLBERG STOPPER I FREMAD OG FORTSÆTTER KARRIEREN I HELSINGBORG, fremadamagerelite.dk, 3 September 2019
  5. "Fremad Amager bekræfter træner-afsked" (in Danish). bold.dk. 7 January 2021. Retrieved 7 January 2021.
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