Nenad Brnović ( Cyrillic: Ненад Брновић; born 18 January 1980) is a Montenegrin football manager and former

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. He Is manager of Sutjeska Nikšić. His older brother

Bojan Bojan (Serbian Cyrillic and Macedonian: Бојан; Ukrainian, Russian and Bulgarian Cyrillic: Боян, transcribed ''Boyan'') is a Slavic given name, derived from the Slavic noun ''boj'' "battle." The ending ''-an'' is a suffix frequently fou ...

is also a footballer.

Club career

He spent most of his club career at

FK Zeta FK Zeta is a football club from Golubovci, a suburb of Podgorica, the capital of Montenegro. It plays in the Montenegrin Second League. The club was the inaugural champion of the Montenegrin First League in 2006–07 season. History Period 1 ...

before joining

FK Partizan Fudbalski klub Partizan ( sr-Cyrl, Фудбалски клуб Партизан, ; en, Partizan Football Club), sometimes known as Partizan Belgrade in English, is a Serbia, Serbian professional football club (association football), football ...

in 2004. During a league fixture against

on 21 March 2006, he suffered a double open-fracture of both his

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and

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following a challenge by

Jovan Markoski Jovan Markoski (; born 23 June 1980) is a Serbian former footballer who played as a midfielder. He was capped four times for Serbia and Montenegro. Club career Markoski made a name for himself while playing for Železnik, winning the Serbia and ...

in the 6th minute of the match. This resulted in two operations and a two-and-a-half-year-long battle to regain fitness. Following the first operation at Belgrade's VMA clinic, the prognosis was 6–8 months away from the pitch, however, due to slow recovery another surgery was required. This one took place in early January 2007 at the Orthopedic clinic in Belgrade As his contract with Partizan expired during his rehab, on 4 September 2008 Partizan management led by general-secretary

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and football director

Ivan Tomić Ivan Tomić (Serbian Cyrillic: Иван Томић; born 5 January 1976) is a Serbian football manager and former player. Club career After coming through the youth categories of Radnički Beograd, Tomić joined Partizan in the summer of 1993, ...

decided to extend Brnović's contract until summer 2009. Three days later, on 7 September 2008, Nenad played his first match after the injury, appearing for 15 minutes in a friendly against PAOK. Later in the fall 2008, he appeared in another friendly versus

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. By December 2008, Brnović appeared to be match-fit and ready to play competitive matches. Later that month Partizan started looking into options of moving him on loan for the first six months of his comeback. In mid January 2009, Brnović's loan move to FK Rad was announced. In summer 2009 Nenad moved to FK Budućnost Podgorica. Two years later he moved to Iranian Mes Sarcheshmeh, where he spent six months during which he played 18 games and scored three goals. In January 2012. he signed for Albanian club Vlaznia, but after the end of that season he came back to Montenegrin championship. During the first half of the season 2012–13. he played for Mogren, and during the second for Zeta. The last two seasons of his career as a professional player (2013-15.) he spent in Lovćen, with which he won a Montenegrin Cup (2014).

International career

Brnović made his debut for FR Yugoslavia (later, Serbia and Montenegro) in an April 2002

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against

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and earned a total of 16 caps, scoring no goals. His final international was a June 2005 friendly against

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. He was not called up to play for the Montenegrin national team formed in 2007.

Managerial career

After finishing his playing career in summer 2015. Brnović became the assistant coach in Zeta. He assisted the manager

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, but when Martać got fired after the series of bad results Brnović replaced him bringing Zeta its first championship win after four defeats. After two championship wins, one draw, and two defeats (the second was against the later champions Mladost) the club management decided to hire much more experienced Dejan Vukićević, and Brnović became the manager of Zeta's youth team.

Honours

;Partizan *

First League of Serbia and Montenegro The First League of Serbia and Montenegro ( sr, Прва савезна лига / Prva savezna liga) was the top football league of Serbia and Montenegro, before the country's dissolution in 2006. The league was formed following the breakup of Yu ...

: 2004–05 *

Serbian SuperLiga The Serbian Super League ( sr, Супер лига Србије / Super liga Srbije), referred to as the Mozzart Bet Super League ( sr, Моцарт Бет Супер лига / Mozzart Bet Super liga) for sponsorship reasons, is a Serbian profes ...

: 2007–08 *

Serbian Cup The Serbian Cup ( Serbian: Куп Србије, Kup Srbije) is the national football cup of Serbia. The winner of the competition gets a spot in the UEFA Europa League qualifying round. From 2006 to 2010, the competition was known as the Lav Cup ...

: 2007–08 ;Lovćen *

Montenegrin Cup The Montenegrin Cup (Montenegrin language, Montenegrin and Serbian language, Serbian: ''Kup Crne Gore'') is the national football cup played in Montenegro, established in 2006. The winner of the cup is awarded a spot in the second qualifying rou ...

: 2014

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