Azrudin Valentić

Azrudin Valentić
Valentić in 2019 with Fremad Amager
Personal information
Date of birth (1970-07-21) 21 July 1970 (age 54)
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

Azrudin Valentić (born 21 July 1970), known as Vali is a Bosnian professional football manager and former player.

Club 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.

Managerial career

Valentić 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

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 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

In January 2021 Valentić was signed by Bulgarian side Botev Plovdiv.[5][6]

Managerial statistics

As of 28 July 2022
Team From To Record
G W D L Win %
Vasalunds 25 August 2009 31 December 2011 13 4 5 4 030.77
Assyriska 1 January 2012 27 May 2014 78 26 17 35 033.33
Assyriska 18 September 2014 20 October 2015 41 17 11 13 041.46
Dalkurd 1 January 2018 25 May 2018 13 1 2 10 007.69
Fremad Amager 31 October 2018 1 July 2019 18 9 5 4 050.00
Fremad Amager 3 September 2019 1 January 2021 48 22 10 16 045.83
Botev Plovdiv 6 January 2021 29 July 2022 52 19 14 19 036.54
Total 266 99 65 102 037.22

References

  1. ^ "Azrudin Valentic ny assisterande tränare" (in Swedish). IF Brommapojkarna. 23 December 2015.[permanent dead link‍]
  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 Archived 1 July 2019 at the Wayback Machine, fremadamagerelite.dk, 1 July 2019
  4. ^ MELLBERG STOPPER I FREMAD OG FORTSÆTTER KARRIEREN I HELSINGBORG Archived 17 November 2020 at the Wayback Machine, fremadamagerelite.dk, 3 September 2019
  5. ^ "Fremad Amager bekræfter træner-afsked" (in Danish). bold.dk. 7 January 2021. Retrieved 7 January 2021.
  6. ^ "ВИДЕО: Азрудин Валентич е новият треньор на Ботев (Пловдив)". botevplovdiv.bg (in Bulgarian). 8 January 2021.