Almir Turković (born 3 November 1970) is a Bosnian retired professional

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and manager. Turković played for hometown club Sarajevo in Bosnia and Herzegovina, and for clubs in the Croatian

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and Japanese

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Club career

Turković played for Zadar,

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and

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in the Croatian

and later played for Sarajevo in the

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. He also played in Austria, Mexico for Tigres UANL during the 1995–96 season and Japan. Turković won the Bosnian Premier League and Bosnian Cup with Sarajevo, while with Hajduk he won the Prva HNL, the

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and the Croatian Super Cup. He made over 100 appearances for Sarajevo in all competitions. Turković was also named the Bosnian Premier League player of the season in 2006–07. He retired at the age of 38 while playing for Sarajevo after the end of the 2007–08 season.

International career

Turković made his senior debut in Bosnia and Herzegovina's first ever official international game, a November 1995 friendly game away against Albania, and has earned a total of 11 caps, scoring no goals. His final international was a March 2003 European Championship qualification match against Luxembourg.

Career statistics

Club

International

Managerial career

Sarajevo

In January 2009, after

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was named the new manager of Sarajevo, he named Turković his assistant. In June 2009, Turković got suspended after claiming that ''Sarajevo became a not serious club'' and that the club officials at the time ''didn't get the wanted players the coaching staff wanted''. On 1 July 2009, the suspension was lifted and Turković came back to the coaching staff. In April 2010, after

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became the new manager, Turković wasn't anymore the caretaker manager and came back to the position of an assistant. In July 2010, after Varešanović decided that Turković will not be his assistant anymore, he decided to leave the club.

Return to Sarajevo (academy)

In January 2019, Turković was named the new head coach of the FK Sarajevo U17 team. While being the head coach of the youth team, on 13 March 2019, Turković suffered a heart attack and was needed to immediately be operated. Luckily, the operation went good and Turković has been in a stable condition ever since.

Honours

Player

Sarajevo *

: 2006–07 * Bosnian Cup: 1996–97 Hajduk Split *

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: 2003–04, 2004–05 *

: 2002-03 * Croatian Super Cup:

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Individual

Player of the Season: 2006–07

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