Vinko Marinović

Vinko Marinović (born 3 March 1971) is a Bosnian professional football manager and former player who is the manager of Bosnian Premier League club Sarajevo.

Vinko Marinović
Personal information
Full name Vinko Marinović
Date of birth (1971-03-03) 3 March 1971
Place of birth Vienna, Austria
Height 1.89 m (6 ft 2 1⁄2 in)
Playing position(s) Defender
Club information
Current team
 Sarajevo (manager)
Youth career
1980–1988 Kozara Gradiška
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
1988–1991 Kozara Gradiška
1991–1994 Borac Banja Luka
1995–1999 Red Star Belgrade 90 (10)
1999–2003 Beerschot 40 (1)
2004–2008 Laktaši 108 (31)
2008–2009 Kozara Gradiška
National team
1998 FR Yugoslavia 1 (0)
Teams managed
2010–2011 Kozara Gradiška
2012 Kolubara
2014–2015 Borac Banja Luka
2015–2016 Zrinjski Mostar
2017–2019 Bosnia and Herzegovina U21
2019– Sarajevo
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only

Club career

Marinović started playing with only nine years of age at the youth teams of Kozara Gradiška. In 1988, he was included in the senior team that competed in those days, still in SFR Yugoslavia in lower tier leagues. His good exhibitions called the attention of the biggest regional club Borac Banja Luka.

With the beginning of the Bosnian War in 1992, Marinović's club was moved to Serbia, and continued, under the same name, to play in the First League of FR Yugoslavia, composed of clubs from Serbia, Montenegro and Borac Banja Luka from Bosnia and Herzegovina. In many statistical football websites, his club, since in those years was playing in the territory of Serbia, is confused with another Serbian top league club, with the same name, Borac, but from another town, Čačak.

In 1995, he moved alongside his teammate Darko Ljubojević to 1991 European and World champions Red Star Belgrade. Marinović soon started playing in the initial squad, and his solid exhibitions and strong character made him the team captain in the next years. After four seasons, he and the club made the decision that was time for him to move abroad, so in the summer of 1999, Marinović signed with Belgian First Division A club Beerschot from Antwerp, where his initial success was stopped by a terrible injury.

After four, not so happy seasons there, Marinović decided to return to Bosnia where he signed with Bosnian Premier League club Laktaši, where he did get his physical condition back, assuming the lead as the captain of the team and playing an impressive 108 league games in four seasons, having scored his best 17 goals. In 2008, Marinović decided to return to his youth years club Kozara Gradiška where he finished his playing career.[1]

International career

Marinović decided to represent the FR Yugoslavia national team (Serbia and Montenegro), for which he played one match.[2] It was on 23 December 1998 in a friendly match in Tel Aviv against, the home side, Israel. He entered as a substitute for Slobodan Komljenović in the second part of the match.

Managerial career

Early career

After retiring, Marinović graduated in the Managerial Academy in Belgrade and became the manager of his previous club Kozara, with whom he succeeded the promotion to the Bosnian Premier League after winning the 2010–11 First League of RS season.

After getting sacked at Kozara, he was for a short period the manager of Serbian First League club Kolubara in 2012, but a year later became an assistant manager at Borac Banja Luka.[3] Afterwards, he was the manager of Borac from 2014 to 2015.

Zrinjski Mostar

After a fairly good season as Borac manager, Marinović became the new manager of Zrinjski Mostar.[4] In his second season with Zrinjski, he won the league title one round before the end of the season[5] and after the finish of the season he was named Bosnian Premier League Manager of the Season.[6]

In December 2016, during the league's winter break, Marinović left Zrinjski.[7] At the time Zrinjski were first on the league table.

Bosnia and Herzegovina U21

In March 2017, Marinović was named the new head coach of the Bosnia and Herzegovina U21 national team.[8] After the ending of the 2019 UEFA Euro U21 qualification in 2018, Marinović made one of the best results in the qualification finishing third in the group. Four points less than second placed Portugal and six less than first placed Romania.[9]

On 26 December 2018, he signed a new contract which was due to last until October 2022.[10] However, on 26 December 2019, Marinović left the national team to become the new manager of Sarajevo. He officially left the team a day later, on 27 December, terminating his contract with the Bosnia and Herzegovina FA.[11]

Sarajevo

On 26 December 2019, Marinović came back to club management after three years and became the new manager of Sarajevo.[12] He was officially announced as the new Sarajevo manager four days later, on 30 December, signing a two and a half year contract.[13] In his first game as Sarajevo manager, Marinović's team beat Tula City 6–2 in a league match on 22 February 2020.[14]

On 1 June 2020, the 2019–20 Bosnian Premier League season ended abruptly due to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic in Bosnia and Herzegovina and by default, Sarajevo, led by Marinović, were crowned league champions for a second consecutive time.[15] This also marked a historic moment for the league as Marinović became the first manager to win the Bosnian Premier League since its formation in 2000 with two different clubs, the first one being Zrinjski and their 2015–16 title win, and the second one being exactly Sarajevo.[16]

Personal life

Marinović was born in Vienna, Austria, but was brought up in Gradiška. During the Bosnian War, he played for Borac Banja Luka, until his move to Red Star Belgrade.[17]

He was in Belgrade during the NATO bombing of Yugoslavia, after which he moved to Belgium, where he stayed until 2003, returning to Bosnia and Herzegovina. He is married to Klaudija Marinović, with whom he has two daughters.

Managerial statistics
As of 12 August 2020[18]
Managerial record by team and tenure
Team Nat From To Record
G W D L GF GA GD Win %
Kozara Gradiška 1 July 2010 18 September 2011 36 20 6 10 57 30 +27 055.56
Borac Banja Luka 18 March 2014 25 March 2015 29 14 5 10 36 31 +5 048.28
Zrinjski Mostar 25 March 2015 27 December 2016 70 42 18 10 125 57 +68 060.00
Bosnia and Herzegovina U21 — 10 March 2017 27 December 2019 18 9 3 6 33 15 +18 050.00
Sarajevo 30 December 2019 Present 6 5 1 0 15 5 +10 083.33
Total 159 90 33 36 266 138 +128 056.60

Honours

Player

Borac Banja Luka

Red Star Belgrade

Laktaši

Manager

Kozara Gradiška

Zrinjski Mostar

Sarajevo

Individual

See also

References
  1. Interview at Borac B.Luka official website
  2. Yugoslavia international matches between 1990-1999 at RSSSF.com
  3. Coaching stuff at FK Borac Banja Luka official website, retrieved 15 August 2013 (in Serbian)
  4. Vinko Marinović novi trener Zrinjskog at klix.ba, 25 March 2015
  5. Marinović: Čestitam igračima na zalaganju i osvojenoj tituli at klix.ba, 7 May 2016
  6. Nagrađeni najbolji u protekloj sezoni: Zajko Zeba najbolji igrač Premijer lige BiH at klix.ba, 22 May 2016
  7. Vinko Marinović napustio Zrinjski at klix.ba, 27 December 2016
  8. Vinko Marinović novi selektor mlade reprezentacije BiH at klix.ba, 10 March 2017
  9. Marinović: Borili smo se tokom čitavih kvalifikacija, čestitam igračima na zalaganju at klix.ba, 17 October 2018
  10. Vinko Marinović produžio ugovor, ostaje selektor mlade reprezentacije BiH do 2020. godine at klix.ba, 26 December 2018
  11. M. Šljivak (27 December 2019). "Vinko Marinović više nije selektor mlade reprezentacije BiH" (in Bosnian). sportsport.ba. Retrieved 27 December 2019.
  12. E.B. (26 December 2019). "Vinko Marinović novi trener Fudbalskog kluba Sarajevo" (in Bosnian). Klix.ba. Retrieved 26 December 2019.
  13. E. Škorić (30 December 2019). "Vinko Marinović novi trener FK Sarajevo!" (in Bosnian). sportsport.ba. Retrieved 30 December 2019.
  14. E.B. (22 February 2020). "Sarajevo u spektakularnom derbiju razbilo Tuzla City, hat-trick Ahmetovića" (in Bosnian). Klix.ba. Retrieved 22 February 2020.
  15. F.Z. (1 June 2020). "Zvanično! Sarajevo prvak BiH drugu godinu zaredom, Čelik i Zvijezda ispadaju" (in Bosnian). Klix.ba. Retrieved 1 June 2020.
  16. R. Pašić (1 June 2020). "Vinko Marinović je danas ušao u historiju bh. fudbala" (in Bosnian). sportsport.ba. Retrieved 1 June 2020.
  17. Marinović: U Zvezdi sam ostvario snove at novosti.rs, 1 January 2012
  18. "Vinko Marinović". Sofascore.com (in Croatian). Retrieved 12 August 2020.
  19. Mitropa Cup at rsssf.com
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