Adnan Gušo

Adnan Gušo
Personal information
Date of birth (1975-11-30) 30 November 1975 (age 49)
Place of birth Sarajevo, SFR Yugoslavia
Height 1.98 m (6 ft 6 in)
Position(s) Goalkeeper
Team information
Current team
 Željezničar (goalkeeping coach)
Youth career
1984–1993 Željezničar
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
1993–1999 Željezničar 157 (0)
1999–2001 Erzurumspor 24 (0)
2000–2001 → Željezničar (loan) 36 (0)
2001 Spartak Moscow 0 (0)
2002 → Željezničar (loan) 15 (0)
2002 Sarajevo 0 (0)
2003–2005 Universitatea Craiova 72 (0)
2005 Dinamo Bucureşti 3 (0)
2006 Arges Piteşti 11 (0)
2006–2007 Pandurii Târgu-Jiu 37 (0)
2008 Olympiakos Nicosia 4 (0)
2011–2012 Željezničar 20 (0)
Total 379 (0)
International career
1996–1997 Bosnia and Herzegovina U21 8 (0)
1999–2007 Bosnia and Herzegovina 22 (0)
Managerial career
2009–2011 Željezničar (goalkeeping coach)
2016–2017 Bosnia and Herzegovina (goalkeeping coach)
2019–2021 Željezničar (goalkeeping coach)
2024– Željezničar (goalkeeping coach)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Adnan Gušo (born 30 November 1975) is a Bosnian former professional football goalkeeper and current goalkeeping coach of Bosnian Premier League club Željezničar.

Club career

Bosnia and Herzegovina

Born in Sarajevo, Gušo started his career at hometown club Željezničar. He was usually a regular first team choice and in 1998 he won a championship title. Soon he went abroad. After a short spell in Turkish Erzurumspor and Spartak Moscow, he signed a one-year contract with FK Sarajevo in summer 2002. Gušo shortly after went to Romania, where he played for several clubs. While in Bosnia, Gušo won three league titles, one cup and one supercup, all while playing for Željezničar.[1]

Romania

Gušo was signed a three-and-a-half-year contract with FC Universitatea Craiova in January 2003, on free transfer.[2]

After the relegation, he signed for FC Dinamo București in summer 2005 where he won the 2005 Romanian Supercup and then in January 2006 he signed a two-year deal with FC Argeş Piteşti.[3]

Cyprus

In January 2008, he moved to Olympiakos Nicosia but left the club the same year.

Return to Željezničar

In 2009, Gušo was named the goalkeeping coach of the first team of Željezničar. In 2011, he came out of retirement and played one more season for the club. He was still in the same time the goalkeeping coach. He won the double that season and once again retired.

International career

Gušo made his debut for Bosnia and Herzegovina in an October 1999 UEFA Euro qualification match away against Scotland and has earned a total of 22 caps, scoring no goals.[4]

He was not called up to Blaž Slišković's squad for the first four matches of UEFA Euro 2008 qualifying. At that time the first and second choice goalkeepers were Kenan Hasagić and Almir Tolja. Due to Fuad Muzurović’s appointment as head coach, both were dropped and Gušo played the remaining 8 games as first choice. His final international was a November 2007 UEFA Euro qualification match against Turkey.[5]

Coaching career

Gušo started his goalkeeping coach career in 2009 after finishing his career. He was appointed as a goalkeeper coach at Željezničar after Amar Osim was named manager. After 2 years as coach, Gušo paused his coaching career so that he could come out of retirement to once again be a player at Željezničar for one season.

In 2016, 4 years after finishing his playing career for a second time, he went back to coaching as he was appointed as the goalkeeper coach of the Bosnia and Herzegovina national team.[6]

In July 2018, almost a year after leaving the national team, Gušo became the goalkeeper coach in the Youth Academy of Željezničar.[7]

On 3 January 2019, he left the Youth Academy to once again become the goalkeeper coach in the first team of Željezničar after negotiations with Amar Osim who was in late December 2018 for a third time in his managerial career appointed as the manager of the club.[8] In the middle of a seven game winless run in the 2020–21 league season, on 5 April 2021, Gušo decided to leave Osim's first team coaching staff and returned to Željezničar's Youth Academy.[9] In April 2024, he returned to work in the first team.[10]

Honours

Player

Željezničar

Dinamo București

References

  1. ^ "Transfers: 24 June-02 July 2002". UEFA.com. 30 April 2002. Retrieved 23 October 2008.
  2. ^ uefa.com – Football Europe – News & Features – News Specific
  3. ^ uefa.com – Football Europe – News & Features – News Specific
  4. ^ Mamrud, Roberto (16 July 2009). "Bosnia and Herzegovina – Record International Players". RSSSF. Retrieved 28 February 2021.
  5. ^ "Player Database". eu-football.info. Retrieved 28 February 2021.
  6. ^ Adnan Gušo: Čast je raditi u A timu bh. reprezentacije at klix.ba, 27 August 2016
  7. ^ Adnan Gušo se vratio na Grbavicu, trenirat će golmane u omladinskom pogonu at klix.ba, 6 July 2018
  8. ^ Nekadašnji golman bh.reprezentacije se vraća na Grbavicu at sport1.ba, 3 January 2019
  9. ^ S. Mlaćo (5 April 2021). "Adnan Gušo napustio stručni štab FK Željezničar" (in Bosnian). sportsport.ba. Retrieved 5 April 2021.
  10. ^ "FK Željezničar i Bruno Akrapović potpisali sporazumni raskid ugovora, Samir Bekrić više nije sportski direktor". fkzeljeznicar.ba (in Bosnian). 20 April 2024. Retrieved 20 April 2024.