Fahrudin Zejnilović

Fahrudin Zejnilović

Personal information
Date of birth	(1955-01-17)17 January 1955
Place of birth	Sarajevo, Yugoslavia
Date of death	(2014-03-22)22 March 2014
Place of death	Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina
Senior career*
Years	Team	Apps	(Gls)
1977–1978	Borac Banja Luka	2	(0)
1979–1980	Maribor	28	(3)
1981	Mercator Ljubljana	13	(0)
1981	Fenerbahçe	2	(0)
1982	Galus Wolfsberg
1984–1985	Trepča	1	(0)
Managerial career
1985–1986	Istra
1986–1988	Famos Hrasnica
1998–2000	TOŠK Tešanj
2000–2001	Đerzelez
2002–2003	Igman Konjic
2005	Bosnia and Herzegovina U18
2007	Saint George
2012	Olimpik (caretaker)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Fahrudin Zejnilović (17 January 1955 – 22 March 2014) was a Bosnian professional football manager and former player.

Playing career

Zejnilović played with Borac Banja Luka in the 1977–78 Yugoslav First League before moving to Slovenia and playing with Maribor and Svoboda Ljubljana (known as Merkator back then) in the Yugoslav Second League in the seasons 1979–80 and 1980–81. 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 still back in the mid to late 1980s when he managed Istra and Famos Hrasnica. Later, after the Yugoslav Wars, he took charge of TOŠK Tešanj which he promoted to the First League of Bosnia and Herzegovina in 1999. After TOŠK, Zejnilović managed Đerzelez from 2000 until 2001 and later Igman Konjic.

He was then named by the Bosnia and Herzegovina FA to be head coach of the Bosnia and Herzegovina U18 national team at the 2005 Mediterranean Games. Abroad, Zejnović managed Ethiopian Premier League club Saint George in 2007.

In November 2012, he was the caretaker manager of Bosnian Premier League club Olimpik for one match.

Later life

In December 2013, an unknown person throw from a car a bomb which detonated in front of Zejnilović's house in Sarajevo with no consequences besides material damage. Zejnilović died just four months later on 22 March 2014 in Sarajevo.