Azrudin Valentić (born 21 July 1970), known as Vali is a Bosnian professional football manager and former player.
 Valentić in 2019 with Fremad Amager | |||
| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Date of birth | 21 July 1970 | ||
| Place of birth | Sarajevo, SFR Yugoslavia | ||
| Position(s) | Midfielder | ||
| Youth career | |||
| FK Sarajevo | |||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| 1990–1994 | FK Sarajevo | ||
| 1994–1995 | Raith Rovers | ||
| 1996 | Vorwärts Steyr | 17 | (1) |
| 1996–1997 | Olimpija Ljubljana | 22 | (1) |
| 1997–2000 | FK Sarajevo | ||
| Managerial career | |||
| 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 | ||
| 2021–2022 | Botev Plovdiv | ||
| *Club domestic league appearances and goals | |||
Club career
editValentić 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.
Managerial career
editValentić 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]
Fremad Amager
editValentić 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 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 (second tier).
Botev Plovdiv
editIn January 2021 Valentić was signed by Bulgarian side Botev Plovdiv.[5][6]
Managerial statistics
edit- As of 28 July 2022
| Team | From | To | Record | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| G | W | D | L | Win % | |||
| Vasalunds | 25 August 2009 | 31 December 2011 | 13 | 4 | 5 | 4 | 30.77 |
| Assyriska | 1 January 2012 | 27 May 2014 | 78 | 26 | 17 | 35 | 33.33 |
| Assyriska | 18 September 2014 | 20 October 2015 | 41 | 17 | 11 | 13 | 41.46 |
| Dalkurd | 1 January 2018 | 25 May 2018 | 13 | 1 | 2 | 10 | 7.69 |
| Fremad Amager | 31 October 2018 | 1 July 2019 | 18 | 9 | 5 | 4 | 50.00 |
| Fremad Amager | 3 September 2019 | 1 January 2021 | 48 | 22 | 10 | 16 | 45.83 |
| Botev Plovdiv | 6 January 2021 | 29 July 2022 | 52 | 19 | 14 | 19 | 36.54 |
| Total | 266 | 99 | 65 | 102 | 37.22 | ||
References
edit- ^ "Azrudin Valentic ny assisterande tränare" (in Swedish). IF Brommapojkarna. 23 December 2015.[permanent dead link]
- ^ "Valentic Azrudin ny tränare för Assyriska" (in Swedish). Assyriska FF. Archived from the original on 18 May 2012. Retrieved 21 November 2012.
- ^ SVENSK ”DREAM TEAM” GENFORENES I FREMAD AMAGER Archived 1 July 2019 at the Wayback Machine, fremadamagerelite.dk, 1 July 2019
- ^ MELLBERG STOPPER I FREMAD OG FORTSÆTTER KARRIEREN I HELSINGBORG Archived 17 November 2020 at the Wayback Machine, fremadamagerelite.dk, 3 September 2019
- ^ "Fremad Amager bekræfter træner-afsked" (in Danish). bold.dk. 7 January 2021. Retrieved 7 January 2021.
- ^ "ВИДЕО: Азрудин Валентич е новият треньор на Ботев (Пловдив)". botevplovdiv.bg (in Bulgarian). 8 January 2021.
External links
edit- Azrudin Valentić at National-Football-Teams.com
- Fotbolltransfers Profile