Photo: Doha Stadium Plus Qatar / CC BY 2.0 (source: Wikimedia Commons)
My Take
Bora Milutinović fascinates me as a true journeyman of international football. Managing at five FIFA World Cups is staggering, but doing it in five consecutive tournaments with five different national teams, Mexico, Costa Rica, the United States, Nigeria, and one more, is what really impresses me. That tells me he could walk into any football culture and quickly get a squad punching above its weight. The Serbian, born in Bajina Bašta, clearly had a gift for adapting to wildly different players and expectations rather than imposing one rigid system. Tying Carlos Alberto Parreira's record from that nomadic path makes his achievement feel even more remarkable.
Overview
Velibor "Bora" Milutinović (Serbian Cyrillic: Велибор Бора Милутиновић; born 7 September 1944) is a Serbian former professional footballer and manager. He has managed at five editions of the FIFA World Cup, tied for the record alongside Brazilian manager Carlos Alberto Parreira, but did so in five consecutive World Cups with different teams: Mexico (1986), Costa Rica (1990), the United States (1994), Nigeria (1998) a…
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1. Profile
- Name (English)
- Bora Milutinović
- Name (Japanese)
- ボラ・ミルティノビッチ
- Reading
- ぼら・みるてぃのびっち
- Born
- September 7, 1944 (age 81)
- Zodiac / Chinese zodiac
- Virgo / Monkey
- Origin
- Bajina Bašta, Serbia
- Blood type
- Private
- Height
- 177 cm
- Agency
- Private
- Occupation
- association football player / association football coach
2. Background
- Elementary school
- Private
- Junior high
- Private
- High school
- Private
- University
- Private
3. Relationships
- Spouse
- Private
- Children
- Private
- Parents
- Private
- Siblings
- Private
4. Personality
Motto
Private
6. Links
Association football player — see all → · Association football coach — see all → · More people from Serbia →
7. About this entry
Tags
- Last updated
- 2026-06-02
Facts are limited to publicly available information up to 2024; non-public items are marked "Private / Unknown". English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.