Boro Primorac is a Bosnian professional football manager and former player who most recently managed Croatian First Football League club Hajduk Split.
13 Facts About Boro Primorac
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Boro Primorac played at the senior level for Yugoslavia whom he captained in the late 1970s.
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Boro Primorac made his debut for them in a February 1976 friendly match away against Tunisia and has earned a total of 14 caps, scoring no goals.
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Boro Primorac went on to be triumphant as Yugoslavia won the gold medal in football at the 1979 Mediterranean Games.
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Boro Primorac was a part of the Yugoslavian squad which got to the semi-finals of the 1980 Summer Olympics.
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All together Boro Primorac was capped a sum of 18 times for Yugoslavia.
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Boro Primorac's final international was a November 1980 World Cup qualification match against Italy.
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Boro Primorac then worked under Frenchman Arsene Wenger at Grampus Eight in Japan before joining him at Highbury in March 1997.
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Boro Primorac then served under Wenger within the role of assistant coach at Arsenal.
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On 4 November 2020, Boro Primorac was appointed manager of Croatian club Hajduk Split, which was his first job as a head coach after 26 years.
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Boro Primorac was intended to be a caretaker, but after 7 points won in 3 matches he had extended the contract to the end of the year.
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However, Hajduk lost all of its three matches until the end of December and Boro Primorac's contract was not extended again, so he was replaced by Paolo Tramezzani in January 2021.
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Boro Primorac is reportedly fluent in eight languages; his native Bosnian and Croatian, French, English, Japanese, German, Spanish, Portuguese and Italian.