Adnan Gušo (born 30 November 1975) is a Bosnian retired professional

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and current goalkeeping coach. During his playing career, Gušo played for many clubs across

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Club career

Bosnia and Herzegovina

Born in

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, Gušo started his career at hometown club Željezničar. He was usually a regular first team choice and in 1998 he won a championship title. Soon he went abroad. After a short spell in

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and

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, he signed a one-year contract with

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in summer 2002. Gušo shortly after went to

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, where he played for several clubs. While in

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, Gušo won three league titles, one cup and one supercup, all while playing for Željezničar.

Romania

Gušo was signed a three-and-a-half year contract with

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in January 2003, on free transfer. After the relegation, he signed for

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in summer 2005 where he won the 2005 Romanian Supercup and then in January 2006 he signed a two-year deal with

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Cyprus

In January 2008, he moved to

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but left the club the same year.

Return to Željezničar

In 2009, Gušo was named the goalkeeping coach of the first team of Željezničar. In 2011, he came out of retirement and played one more season for the club. He was still in the same time the goalkeeping coach. He won the double that season and once again retired.

International career

Gušo made his debut for

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in an October 1999 UEFA Euro qualification match away against

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and has earned a total of 22 caps, scoring no goals. He was not called up to

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's squad for the first four matches of UEFA Euro 2008 qualifying. At that time the first and second choice goalkeepers were Kenan Hasagić and

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. Due to

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’s appointment as head coach, both were dropped and Gušo played the remaining 8 games as first choice. His final international was a November 2007 UEFA Euro qualification match against

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Coaching career

Gušo started his goalkeeping coach career in 2009 after finishing his career. He was appointed as a goalkeeper coach at Željezničar after

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was named manager. After 2 years as coach, Gušo paused his coaching career so that he could come out of retirement to once again be a player at Željezničar for one season. In 2016, 4 years after finishing his playing career for a second time, he went back to coaching as he was appointed as the goalkeeper coach of the Bosnia and Herzegovina national team. In July 2018, almost a year after leaving the national team, Gušo became the goalkeeper coach in the Youth Academy of Željezničar. On 3 January 2019, he left the Youth Academy to once again become the goalkeeper coach in the first team of Željezničar after negotiations with Amar Osim who was in late December 2018 for a third time in his managerial career appointed as the manager of the club. In the middle of a seven game winless run in the

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league season, on 5 April 2021, Gušo decided to leave Osim's first team coaching staff and returned to Željezničar's Youth Academy.

Honours

Player

Željezničar *

Bosnian Premier League The m:tel Premier League of Bosnia and Herzegovina ( bs, m:tel Premijer liga Bosne i Hercegovine / м:тел Премијер лига Босне и Херцеговине), also known as Liga 12, is the top tier football league in Bosnia and He ...

: 1997–98, 2000–01, 2001–02, 2011–12 *

Bosnian Cup The Bosnia and Herzegovina Football Cup ( sh-Latn-Cyrl, separator=" / ", Kup Bosne i Hercegovine, Куп Босне и Херцеговине) is a knock-out football competition contested annually by clubs from Bosnia and Herzegovina. The winner ...

: 2000–01, 2011–12 *

Bosnian Supercup The Supercup of Bosnia and Hezegovina is a discontinued football competition. It was contested between the league champion and the cup winner of the previous season. It was first contested in the 1996–97 season and has not been held since the ...

: 1998 Dinamo București *

Supercupa României The Supercupa României ( en, Romanian Supercup) is a Romanian football championship contested by the winners of the Liga I and the Cupa României. It is usually played at the Arena Națională in Bucharest. The competition started off in 1994, ...

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