Husref Musemić (born 4 July 1961) is a Bosnian professional

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and former

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who is the manager of

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club Igman Konjic. He is regarded as one of the most successful Bosnian football managers.

Club career

Born in the town of

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, near

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, Musemić began his career playing in local club Radnik Bijeljina, competing back then in the

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group West.Husref Musemić at Playerhistory In 1979, he joined

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side

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, where he played the following 6 seasons. He was an important member of the memorable Sarajevo squad that won the

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, which gave him a ticket to a move in that summer to

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.Husref Musemić
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Musemić represented the red & white's for the following four seasons, having in the meantime won another Yugoslav First League title in the 1987–88 season. He moved abroad in summer of 1989 by joining Hearts, but he only played the first half of the 1989–90 Scottish Premier Division, as during the winter break he returned to Yugoslavia and joined his former club, FK Sarajevo. He did score a derby winner against Hibernian in August 1989, though, to cement his place in Hearts' history books. By then, Sarajevo had already been deconstructed from the championship winning squad from 1985, so a year after returning from Scotland, Musemić moved abroad again, this time to the Netherlands by joining

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. He played nine games in the second half of the 1990–91 Eredivisie season, but in the following season he only managed to play one match, so he spent the second part of the season playing with FC VVV. He however played no official games for them. Before retiring, Musemić played in Germany between 1992 and 1994 with

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in the

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where he got the chance to show his scoring skills by netting 16 times in 32 matches. He finished his playing career after the end of that season at the age of 33.

International career

Musemić made his debut and played his only match for the Yugoslav national team in a friendly match played in

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, on 30 March 1983, in a Yugoslav victory of 2–0 against

. Later, after the break-up of Yugoslavia, in 1995, he played in the first half of the first ever official match of the Bosnia and Herzegovina national team, away against

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Managerial career

Early career

After retiring from playing, Musemić began his managerial career. Initially, he worked at

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as an assistant to managers Mehmed Janjoš and

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. Afterwards managed Đerzelez in the late 1990s, before becoming Sarajevo's main manager and winning the 2004–05 Bosnian Cup and two years later, the 2006–07 Bosnian Premier League. After Sarajevo, Musemić managed Olimpik, with whom he won the 2008–09 First League of FBiH and got them promoted to the

. He also managed Sloboda Tuzla and Mladost Doboj Kakanj. While at Sloboda, Musemić also had good success, finishing 2nd in the 2015–16 Premier League season and being the 2015–16 Bosnian Cup runner-up. In between his two appointments at Olimpik, from 29 June 2011 until 2012, he was head coach of the Bosnia and Herzegovina U18 national team.

Sarajevo

In August 2017, for the fifth time in his career, Musemić was appointed as the manager of Sarajevo. In November 2017, he overtook

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as Sarajevo's manager with the most wins in the club's history. In the 2018–19 season, he had for a second time in his career won the Bosnian Cup after Sarajevo beat

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in the

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on 15 May 2019. Just three days after the cup success, on 18 May 2019, Musemić led Sarajevo to a 4–0 home league win against Zvijezda 09 and won the league title with Sarajevo once again and also won the club's first ever double in history, as well as also the first double ever in his managerial career. On 23 May 2019, he was named the Bosnian Premier League Manager of the 2018–19 season. On 12 June 2019, he extended his contract with Sarajevo, which was due to keep him at the club until the summer of 2021. On 2 December 2019, Musemić got sacked from his position of Sarajevo manager after an underwhelming performance of his team in its 3–1 home league loss against fierce city rivals Željezničar in the

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two days earlier, on 30 November. It was that same

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in which Željezničar also beat Sarajevo 5–2 at home on the

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on 31 August 2019, with Musemić getting most of the blame for the team's loss.

Tuzla City

On 7 January 2021, it was announced that Musemić had become the new manager of

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, signing a two-and-a-half year contract with the club. In his first game in charge, Tuzla City beat city rivals Sloboda in a league match on 28 February 2021. Musemić oversaw his first loss as Tuzla City manager against his former Sarajevo, in a

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cup game on 7 April 2021. He left the club by mutual consent on 10 April 2022, following a string of poor results.

Igman Konjic

On 22 December 2022, Musemić was appointed as the manager of relegation threatened Igman Konjic.

Personal life

Musemić's older brother Vahidin is a former professional footballer as well and

legend.

Managerial statistics

Honours

Player

Sarajevo *

: 1984–85 Red Star Belgrade *

: 1987–88

Manager

Sarajevo *

: 2006–07, 2018–19 *

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: 2004–05, 2018–19 OlimpikChampion, First League of FBiH
bihsoccer.com * First League of FBiH: 2008–09

Individual

* Bosnian Premier League Manager of the Season: 2018–19

References

External links

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