Fahrudin Zejnilović (17 January 1955 – 22 March 2014) was a Bosnian professional

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and former player.

Playing career

Zejnilović played with

Borac Banja Luka Fudbalski klub Borac Banja Luka (Serbian Cyrillic: Фудбалски клуб Бopaц Бања Лука, ) is a Bosnian Serb professional football club, based in the city of Banja Luka, Republika Srpska, Bosnia and Herzegovina, and is the main ...

in the

1977–78 Yugoslav First League Teams A total of eighteen teams contested the league, including sixteen sides from the 1976–77 season and two sides promoted from the 1976–77 Yugoslav Second League (YSL) as winners of the two second level divisions East and West. The league ...

before moving to Slovenia and playing with

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and Svoboda Ljubljana (known as Merkator back then) in the

Yugoslav Second League Yugoslav Second League ( Bosnian: ''Druga savezna liga,'' Croatian: ''Druga savezna liga'', Serbian: ''Друга савезна лига'', Slovenian: ''Druga zvezna liga'', Macedonian: ''Втора сојузна лига'', ''Vtora sojuzna l ...

in the seasons 1979–80 and 1980–81.Stats from Yugoslav First and Second Leagues
at zerodic.com He played again in the Second League in the 1984–85 season with the Yugoslav club Trepča. In between Zejnilović played abroad, first at Turkey giant Fenerbahçe in the first half of the 1981–82 season, and in Austria, with Galus Wolfsberg, in the second half of that same season.

Managerial career

Zejnilović started his managerial career back in the mid to late 1980s when he managed Istra and Famos Hrasnica. Later, after the

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, he took charge of TOŠK Tešanj which he promoted to the

First League of Bosnia and Herzegovina The First League of Bosnia and Herzegovina () operated by the Football Association of Bosnia and Herzegovina (abbreviation: ''N/FSBiH'') was the top tier football league in Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina, and after signage of ''Dayton Peace ...

in 1999. After TOŠK, Zejnilović managed Đerzelez from 2000 until 2001 and later Igman Konjic.5. kolo Gradina - Omladinac
at apachi.ba, 10 September 2010, Retrieved 12 March 2017 He was then named by the Bosnia and Herzegovina FA to be head coach of the Bosnia and Herzegovina U18 national team at the

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. Abroad, Zejnović managed

Ethiopian Premier League The Ethiopian Premier League (Amharic: የኢትዮጵያ ፕሪምየር ሊግ), known as the BetKing Ethiopian Premier League for sponsorship reasons, is the top tier association football league of Ethiopia run by the Ethiopian Premier League ...

club

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in 2007. In November 2012, he was the

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club

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for one match.

Later life

In December 2013, an unknown person threw from a car a bomb which detonated in front of Zejnilović's house in

Sarajevo Sarajevo ( ), ; ''see Names of European cities in different languages (Q–T)#S, names in other languages'' is the Capital city, capital and List of cities in Bosnia and Herzegovina, largest city of Bosnia and Herzegovina, with a population of 2 ...

with no consequences besides material damage.BOMBA BAČENA IZ VOZILA U POKRETU?
at infobiro.ba, 5 December 2013, Retrieved 12 March 2017 Zejnilović died just four months later on 22 March 2014 in Sarajevo.

References

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