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Boro Primorac
Personal information
Full name	Boro Primorac
Date of birth	5 December 1954 (age 69)
Place of birth	Mostar, FPR Yugoslavia
Height	1.90 m (6 ft 3 in)
Position(s)	Defender
Senior career*
Years	Team
1972–1978	Velež Mostar
1978–1983	Hajduk Split
1983–1986	Lille
1986–1990	Cannes
Total
International career
1976–1980	Yugoslavia
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
Men's football
Representing Yugoslavia
Mediterranean Games
	*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Boro Primorac (pronounced [bǒːro prǐːmorats]; born 5 December 1954) is a Bosnian professional football manager and former player who most recently managed Croatian First Football League club Hajduk Split.

Playing career edit

Club edit

Primorac featured as a centre half with Yugoslavian clubs Velež Mostar and Hajduk Split, as well as for French teams Lille and Cannes.^[1]

International edit

Primorac played at the senior level for Yugoslavia whom he captained in the late 1970s.^[2] He made his debut for them in a February 1976 friendly match away against Tunisia 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 the 1979 Mediterranean Games. He also was a part of the Yugoslavian squad which got to the semi-finals of the 1980 Summer Olympics. All together Primorac was capped a sum of 18 times for Yugoslavia.^[1]^[3] His final international was a November 1980 World Cup qualification match against Italy.^[4]

Managerial career edit

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 Arsène Wenger at Grampus Eight in Japan before joining him at Highbury in March 1997. He then served under Wenger within the role of assistant coach at Arsenal.^[1]^[2]

On 4 November 2020, Primorac was appointed manager of Croatian club Hajduk 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 by Paolo Tramezzani in January 2021.

Managerial statistics edit

As of match played 20 December 2020

Team	From	To	Record
Team	From	To	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

Personal life edit

Primorac is an ethnic Herzegovinian Croat.^[8] He is reportedly fluent in eight languages; his native Bosnian and Croatian, French, English, Japanese, German, Spanish, Portuguese and Italian. His son Jure Primorac is also a professional footballer.^[6]

Honours edit

Player edit

International edit

Yugoslavia

Mediterranean Games: 1979^[3]

References edit

^ ^a ^b ^c "Boro Primorac". Arsenal.com. Archived from the original on 7 November 2017. Retrieved 28 January 2009.
^ ^a ^b "Bosanci mogu igrati u Engleskoj". San. 27 February 2008. Archived from the original on 6 July 2011. Retrieved 10 March 2014.
^ ^a ^b "Mediterranean Games 1979 (Split, Yugoslavia)". RSSSF.com.
^ "Player Database". eu-football.info. Retrieved 26 April 2021.
^ "France – Trainers of First and Second Division Clubs". RSSSF.com.
^ ^a ^b Wheatley, Chris (15 March 2017). "Who is Arsene Wenger's right-hand man Boro Primorac?". Goal.com. Retrieved 1 March 2018.
^ "BORO PRIMORAC VODIT ĆE PRVU MOMČAD HAJDUKA U NAREDNOM RAZDOBLJU". Hajduk (in Croatian). Retrieved 4 November 2020.
^ Wenger: The Legend^{[permanent dead link]}