Haris Alihodžić (born 12 April 1968) is a Bosnian

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and former

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who is currently working as an assistant manager at

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club Željezničar.

Club career

For a big part of his career, Alihodžić played for hometown club Željezničar, with whom he won three

titles, three

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's and three Bosnian Supercup's. He also had brief spells with

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and

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in Austria,

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in the Turkish

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and Mura in Slovenia.

International career

Alihodžić made his senior debut for

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in an October 2002

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against

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and has earned a total of 2 caps, scoring no goals. His final international was a March 2003 European Championship qualification match against

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Managerial and administrative career

Željezničar

After Edis Mulalić was sacked as manager, Alihodžić, who was the sporting director of Željezničar at the time, on 7 May 2016, took over as the caretaker manager of the club until a new permanent manager was to be named. He led the team in one game, a 1–1 draw against

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in the last round of the 2015–16 Bosnian Premier League season. On 12 July 2017, Alihodžić became the director of the youth academy of Željezničar. He worked as director until July 2022, when he was replaced by Edin Ćurić.

Bosnia and Herzegovina U21

On 6 March 2020, after Slobodan Starčević became the new head coach of the Bosnia and Herzegovina U21 national team, it was announced that Alihodžić, alongside Mario Ivanković, had been named as the new assistant coaches of Starčević.

Honours

Player

Željezničar *

: 1997–98, 2000–01, 2001–02 *

: 1999–2000, 2000–01, 2002–03 * Bosnian Supercup: 1998, 2000, 2001

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