Nenad Brnović (

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

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. His older brother Bojan is also a footballer.

Club career

He spent most of his club career at FK Zeta before joining

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in 2004. During a league fixture against FK Zeta 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 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 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

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. Later in the fall 2008, he appeared in another friendly versus FK Slavija Sarajevo. 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 Brnović moved to

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. 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 Miodrag Martać, 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: 2004–05 *

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: 2007–08 *

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: 2007–08 ;Lovćen *

Montenegrin Cup The Montenegrin Cup (Montenegrin language, Montenegrin: ''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 first qualifying round of the UEFA Conference League ...

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* * {{DEFAULTSORT:Brnovic, Nenad 1980 births Living people Footballers from Podgorica Men's association football midfielders Serbia and Montenegro men's footballers Serbia and Montenegro men's international footballers Montenegrin men's footballers FK Zabjelo players FK Mladost Apatin players FK Hajduk Kula players FK Zeta players FK Partizan players FK Rad players FK Budućnost Podgorica players Shahr Khodro F.C. players KF Vllaznia Shkodër players FK Mogren players FK Lovćen players Second League of Serbia and Montenegro players First League of Serbia and Montenegro players Serbian SuperLiga players Montenegrin First League players Persian Gulf Pro League players Kategoria Superiore players Montenegrin expatriate men's footballers Expatriate men's footballers in Serbia Montenegrin expatriate sportspeople in Serbia Expatriate men's footballers in Iran Montenegrin expatriate sportspeople in Iran Expatriate men's footballers in Albania Montenegrin expatriate sportspeople in Albania Montenegrin football managers FK Zeta managers FK Partizan non-playing staff FK Sutjeska Nikšić managers