Nedim Jusufbegović


Nedim Jusufbegović is a Bosnian professional football manager and former player who was most recently the manager of First League of FBiH club Igman Konjic.

Club career

Jusufbegović was born in the capital of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Sarajevo. The first club he played for was Igman Konjic before moving on to Sarajevo, and later to Velež Mostar.
From there he would transfer to the Slovenian PrvaLiga in 2002 and play for Olimpija Ljubljana for several years, scoring a total of 17 goals and making 63 appearances before he returned for the last stages of his career to be spent in the Bosnian side Željezničar.
His final season as a football player expired at Željezničar, and he retired from the game in the transfer season of 2005, during July.

International career

Jusufbegović's very first match for Bosnia and Herzegovina was against South Africa on 8 August 2001, when Bosnia and Herzegovina defeated their oppnent by 2–4 in the L.G. tournament held in Tehran, Iran.
The second and final match he played for the national team was two days subsequent to the victory against South Africa, in the same tournament, this time against the host nation Iran where Bosnia lost 4–0.

Managerial career

Several years after retiring from football as a player, namely in 2011, Jusufbegović was employed as a manager by the newly revitalized Sarajevo team Olimpik. Not until September 2012 did he leave Olimpik, after having been nominated for manager of the year the very same year, coming back for a third time in the same position in April 2013.
In 2015, he left Velež Mostar after 2 years as the club's manager. After Velež, Jusufbegović managed Zvijezda Gradačac from 2015 to 2016, GOŠK Gabela in 2016, Čelik Zenica from 2016 to 2017 and most recently, from 2018 to 2019, Igman Konjic.

Honours

Player

Sarajevo
Olimpija Ljubljana