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

Azrudin Valentić

Personal information
Full name	Azrudin Valentić
Date of birth	(1970-07-21) 21 July 1970 (age 52)
Place of birth	Sarajevo, SFR Yugoslavia
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
National team
1993	Bosnia and Herzegovina	1	(0)
Teams managed
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

Playing career

Club

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.

International

He played in a unofficial international match for Bosnia and Herzegovina against Iran on 12 September 1993.[2]

Managerial career

He 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.[3]

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.[4] 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 in the favor of Helsingborg IF and Valentić was re-appointed as the manager of the club.[5] 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 the Bulgarian team Botev Plovdiv owned by his friend Anton Zingarevich. The team avoided relegation on his first season after a last-minute tie between Slavia and Etar. Despite of being eliminated by Etar in the first round of the Cup of Bulgaria, at the end of his second season the team finished in the third position and qualified to UEFA Conference League being eliminated by Apoel Nicosia in the first knock-out round without scoring.

The elimination of UEFA Conference League, 4 defeats in a row in the local championship and a series of controversial declarations to the media many controversial decisions such as removing Christian icons from the locker room and forbidding pork from the diet of the players which created him big problems with the fanbase. Valentic was forced to resign from his position but previously agreeing with the owner of the Club to create a new position for himself as 'Sports Advisor to the Owner for Sports Development'.

b. [6][7]

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

External links

• Azrudin Valentić at National-Football-Teams.com
• Fotbolltransfers Profile

На других языках

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- [en] Azrudin Valentić

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[it] Azrudin Valentić

Azrudin Valentić (21 luglio 1970) è un allenatore di calcio ed ex calciatore bosniaco, di ruolo attaccante, tecnico del Botev Plovdiv.

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[ru] Валентич, Азрудин

Азрудин Валентич (англ. Azrudin Valentic; 1 июля 1971 (по другим данным 1970[3]), Сараево, Югославия) — югославский и боснийский футболист и тренер.

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