Azrudin Valentić

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.

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. 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. 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.

Managerial statistics

References

External links

Fotbolltransfers Profile

1970 births

Living people

Footballers from Sarajevo

Men's association football forwards

Yugoslav men's footballers

Bosnia and Herzegovina men's footballers

FK Sarajevo players

Raith Rovers F.C. players

SK Vorwärts Steyr players

NK Olimpija Ljubljana (1945–2005) players

Scottish Football League players

Austrian Football Bundesliga players

Slovenian PrvaLiga players

Premier League of Bosnia and Herzegovina players

Bosnia and Herzegovina expatriate men's footballers

Expatriate men's footballers in Scotland

Bosnia and Herzegovina expatriate sportspeople in Scotland

Expatriate men's footballers in Austria

Bosnia and Herzegovina expatriate sportspeople in Austria

Expatriate men's footballers in Slovenia

Bosnia and Herzegovina expatriate sportspeople in Slovenia

Bosnia and Herzegovina football managers

Swedish football managers

Vasalunds IF managers

Assyriska FF managers

Dalkurd FF managers

Fremad Amager managers

Botev Plovdiv managers

Bosnia and Herzegovina expatriate football managers

Expatriate football managers in Sweden

Bosnia and Herzegovina expatriate sportspeople in Sweden

Expatriate football managers in Denmark

Bosnia and Herzegovina expatriate sportspeople in Denmark

Expatriate football managers in Bulgaria

Bosnia and Herzegovina expatriate sportspeople in Bulgaria

Danish 1st Division managers