Full name Branislav Brnovic Name Branko Brnovic Role Footballer | Years Team Height 1.82 m 1987–1991 Buducnost | |
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Date of birth (1967-08-08) 8 August 1967 (age 48) Similar People Predrag Mijatovic, Dejan Savicevic, Dragoje Lekovic, Esteban Saveljich, Dragoljub Brnovic | ||
'Long ball' England are scared - Branko Brnovic
Branislav "Branko" Brnović (Serbian Cyrillic: Бранко Брновић; born 8 August 1967 in Titograd, Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia) is a retired Montenegrin professional footballer who played as a defensive midfielder.
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- Long ball England are scared Branko Brnovic
- Motenegro v England England looking for excuses Brnovic
- Club career
- International career
- Managerial stats
- References
Motenegro v England - England looking for excuses - Brnovic
Club career
After making his professional debuts with local FK Budućnost Podgorica, Brnović signed with national giants FK Partizan in 1991, helping the Belgrade club to back-to-back national championships, with the addition of two cups. In the 1992–93 season, as the team won the league and lost the domestic cup to city rivals Red Star, he scored a career-best six goals (the team netted 103).
In 1994, Brnović moved abroad and joined RCD Espanyol in La Liga – then known as Español. A starter in four of his six seasons in Catalonia, he left the club after a poor individual campaign (only one game in the league), which ended with conquest of the Copa del Rey.
Brnović returned to active aged nearly 40, playing one season with FK Kom in his native town, now renamed Podgorica after the Montenegro independence.
International career
Brnović represented Yugoslavia on twenty-seven occasions, his debut coming on 20 September 1989 in a 3–0 friendly win with Greece in Novi Sad. He also appeared during the UEFA Euro 1992 qualifying stage as the national team made it all the way to Sweden, only to be suspended due to the Yugoslav Wars.
Subsequently, Brnović was selected for the 1998 FIFA World Cup in France and appearing in three games in an eventual round-of-16 exit. Additionally, he was a member of the talented Yugoslav under-20 team that won the 1987 FIFA World Youth Championship in Chile, playing five matches in the tournament.
On 5 March 2007, Brnović was appointed assistant manager in the Montenegrin national team. On 8 September, he became head coach after Zlatko Kranjčar was sacked, leading the side to the Euro 2012 playoffs, where it lost 0–3 on aggregate to the Czech Republic. On December 17, 2015, Branko Brnović's contract as Montenegro coach will not be renewed when it expires at the end of 2015. Following executive committee discussions over the 48-year-old's future, the Football Association of Montenegro (FSCG) thanked Brnović for his "professional work, dedication and results" and wished him "every success in his future career". In charge of the national team since he stepped up to replace Zlatko Kranjčar in October 2011, Brnović notably led Montenegro to the UEFA EURO 2012 play-offs, where they lost out to the Czech Republic. On 17 December 2015, Montenegro FA said they would not renewed his contact and he would leave at the end of the year.