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Velibor “Bora” Milutinović (born 7 September 1944) is a Mexican-Serbian football coach and former player. He and Carlos Alberto Parreira are the only two persons to have coached five different teams at the World Cup: Mexico (1986), Costa Rica (1990), the United States (1994), Nigeria (1998), and China (2002). He is also the first coach to take four different teams beyond the first round – Mexico (1986), Costa Rica (1990), the United States (1994), and Nigeria (1998) – earning the nickname of Miracle Worker, first given to him by Alan Rothenberg, then president of the United States Soccer Federation. In total, Milutinović has coached eight different national football teams.
He has been in professional elite football for over 35 years and therefore has extensive experience in the evolution of football throughout the last three decennia.
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d’Hooghe, P.P.R.N., Kerkhoffs, G.M.M.J. (2014). Interview – Velibor “Bora” Milutinović. In: d'Hooghe, P., Kerkhoffs, G. (eds) The Ankle in Football. Sports and Traumatology. Springer, Paris. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-2-8178-0523-8_10
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