Boško Gjurovski (; ; born 28 December 1961) is a Macedonian professional

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and former player who played as a

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. He is the elder brother of Milko Djurovski and the uncle of Mario Djurovski.

Playing career

Club

He was a long-time servant of Red Star Belgrade, where he played for eleven years. He was very much loved by Red Star fans, especially after his brother, Milko, joined bitter rivals

FK Partizan Fudbalski klub Partizan ( sr-Cyrl, Фудбалски клуб Партизан, ; ), often referred to in English as Partizan Belgrade, is a Serbian professional Football club (association football), football club based in Belgrade. It forms ...

. He was known for excellent defending skills, great tackling and powerful shooting. In 1989, he joined Swiss side

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, where he stayed for six seasons and ended his career.

International

He made his senior debut for

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in a December 1982 European Championship qualification match against

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and earned a total of 4 caps, scoring no goals. In 1994, just like his brother Milko, Djurovski accepted a call-up to represent the country of his birth. He made his senior debut for

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in a March 1994

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against

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in Skopje and earned a total of 7 caps, scoring all of his 3 international goals in a match against Cyprus. His final international was a June 1995 European Championship qualification match against

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Managerial career

Gjurovski commenced his coaching career at his former club

as an assistant, and remained in that position for several seasons, in which they won a Swiss title and finished up runner up in another 2. He left this role to take up another assistant's role at his other former club

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after this, and also remained in that role for one season. In November 2002, he became the new coach of FK Rad, after steering FK Radnički Obrenovac to promotion the season earlier. He left FK Rad after only 1 season, citing differences between the club board & himself. Gjurovski was appointed as

head coach in March 2007 after

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walked out on the club. Đurovski did well and won the league title in his first season as senior coach 2006–07 season. However, the following 2007-08 started poorly from the get-go as the team struggled & just managed to qualify for the Champions League 2nd qualifying round with a lot of difficulties, beating Levadia in Belgrade 1:0 and losing in

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1:2. Gjurovski was sacked after that game. He remained in the Red Star organization, however, moving to the position of the club's chief scout. Just months after his sacking as head coach of Red Star Belgrade, Gjurovski was targeted for the assistant's role at

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underachiever

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. It was rumored after this that Gjurovski was ultimately sacked by then red star President Dragan Stojković due to the fact that he would be taking the senior coaching position at Nagoya & was determined to take Gjurovski with him as his number 2. After a 2-year rebuild, Stojković & Gjurovski managed to steer Nagoya to a long-awaited 2nd J-League championship. On 26 November 2013 Gjurovski was appointed as a head coach of the

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, but was sacked due to poor results on 7 April 2015. On 7 May 2017, Gjurovski became the internal coach of Red Star Belgrade, after the departure of

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after a Red Star loss against

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, losing the first place to Partizan. On 20 March 2022, Gjurovski signed a contract with Paradou AC.

Managerial statistics

Honours

Player

Red Star Belgrade *

Yugoslav First League The Yugoslav First League ( Bosnian: Prva savezna liga u fudbalu, sr-Cyrl-Latn, Прва савезна лига у фудбалу, Prva savezna liga u fudbalu, , , , , ) was the premier football league in the Kingdom of Yugoslavia (1918–1941) ...

: 1979–80, 1980–81, 1983–84, 1987–88 *

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: 1981–82, 1984–85 Servette *

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: 1993–94

Manager

Radnički Obrenovac * Second League of FR Yugoslavia: 2001–02 Red Star Belgrade *

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: 2006–07 *

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: 2006–07

Politics

In 2020, he decided to join politics claiming that he wants to fight for agrarian rights,

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, and the development of sport in

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. He received thirteenth position on a combined electoral list of the right-wing

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, and

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in the

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. Gjurovski, who was present at the famous football match between Hajduk Split and

when

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died, has expressed yugo-nostalgic sentiments, saying that "life was nice in the time of Broz."

Personal life

Gjurovski was born in Tetovo in 1961, while his father Cvetko Gjurovski (born as Cvetko Stojanović), an ethnic

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from

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and moved to Macedonia at the beginning of World War II. His paternal grandfather fought for the Royal Serbian Army in World War I and retreated with the Serbian Army to

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. According to Gjurovski, his father's original surname Stojanović was changed to Gjurovski after the establishment of the new

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and

References

External links

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Profile at MacedonianFootball.com
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