Alen Škoro (born 30 March 1981) is a Bosnian football manager and former professional

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. At international level, he made four appearances for the Bosnia and Herzegovina national team. He was named manager of second tier Bosna Sema in June 2016.

Club career

Škoro came through the youth set up at

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. He joined French giants Olympique Marseille aged 20, but had to retire at 32 due to persistent knee injuries after a career which took him to Switzerland, Austria and Mexico. He played two matches for Klagenfurt in the Austrian Regionalliga in 2012 and his last club was Olimpik, whom he joined in summer 2012. Only whilst playing in the

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has Škoro ever been a prolific goal scorer and his spells in

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and the

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were unsuccessful. He scored 63 goals in 111 games for Sarajevo.

International career

He made his debut for

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in an April 2004

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against

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and has earned a total of 4 caps, scoring no goals. His final international was a June 2009 friendly against

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Career statistics

Club

International

Honours

Player

Sarajevo *

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: 1998–99 Individual * Bosnian Premier League top scorer: 2003–04 (20 goals)

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