Boško Gjurovski
| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Full name | Boško Gjurovski | ||
| Date of birth | 28 December 1961 | ||
| Place of birth |
Tetovo, FPR Yugoslavia (now North Macedonia) | ||
| Height | 178 cm (5 ft 10 in) | ||
| Position(s) | Defensive midfielder, sweeper | ||
| Youth career | |||
| Teteks | |||
| 1976–1978 | Red Star Belgrade | ||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| 1978–1989 | Red Star Belgrade | 237 | (41) |
| 1989–1995 | Servette | 163 | (9) |
| Total | 400 | (50) | |
| National team | |||
| 1982–1989 | Yugoslavia | 4 | (0) |
| 1994–1995 | Macedonia | 7 | (3) |
| Teams managed | |||
| 1998–2001 | Servette (assistant) | ||
| 1999 | Servette | ||
| 2001–2002 | Red Star Belgrade (assistant) | ||
| 2002 | Radnički Obrenovac | ||
| 2002–2003 | Rad | ||
| 2006–2007 | Red Star Belgrade (assistant) | ||
| 2007 | Red Star Belgrade | ||
| 2008–2013 | Nagoya Grampus (assistant) | ||
| 2013–2015 | Macedonia | ||
| 2016–2017 | Nagoya Grampus | ||
| 2017 | Red Star Belgrade (caretaker) | ||
| 2018–2019 | Kyoto Sanga FC | ||
| 2021– | Grafičar Beograd | ||
| * Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only | |||
Boško Gjurovski (Macedonian: Бошко Ѓуровски, Serbian: Бошко Ђуровски / Boško Đurovski; born 28 December 1961) is a Macedonian professional football manager and former player who played as a midfielder.[1] He also holds Serbian citizenship. He is currently the head coach of Grafičar, which play in the second tier of Serbian football.
He is the elder brother of Milko Gjurovski and the uncle of Mario Gjurovski.
Playing career[]
Club[]
He was a long-time servant of Red Star Belgrade, where he played for eleven years. He was very much loved by Red Star fans, especially after his brother, Milko, joined bitter rivals FK Partizan. He was known for excellent defending skills, great tackling and powerful shooting. In 1989, he joined Swiss side Servette FC, where he stayed for six seasons and ended his career.
International[]
He made his senior debut for Yugoslavia in a December 1982 European Championship qualification match against Wales and earned a total of 4 caps, scoring no goals. In 1994, just like his brother Milko, Djurovski accepted a call-up to represent the country of his birth. He made his senior debut for Macedonia in a March 1994 friendly match against Slovenia in Skopje and earned a total of 7 caps, scoring all of his 3 international goals in a match against Cyprus. His final international was a June 1995 European Championship qualification match against Belgium.[2]
Managerial career[]
Gjurovski commenced his coaching career at his former club Servette FC as an assistant, and remained in that position for several seasons, in which they won a Swiss title and finished up runner up in another 2. He left this role to take up another assistants role at his other former club Red Star Belgrade after this, and also remained in that role for one season.
In November 2002, he became the new coach of FK Rad, after steering FK Radnički Obrenovac to promotion the season earlier. He left FK Rad after only 1 season, citing differences between the club board & himself.
After a few years out of coaching, Gjurovski returned to Red Star Belgrade in March 2007 as head coach of Red Star Belgrade after Dušan Bajević walked out on the club. Đurovski did well and won the league title in his first season as senior coach 2006–07 season. However, the following 2007-08 started poorly from the getgo as the team struggled & just managed to qualify for the Champions League 2nd qualifying round with a lot of difficulties, beating Levadia in Belgrade 1:0 and losing in Tallinn 1:2. Gjurovski was sacked after that game. Gjurovski remained in the Red Star organization, however, moving to the position of the clubs chief scout.
Just months after his sacking as head coach of Red Star Belgrade, Gjurovski was targeted for the assistants role at J1 League underachiever Nagoya Grampus. It was rumored after this that Gjurovski was ultimately sacked by then red star President Dragan Stojković due to the fact that he would be taking the senior coaching position at Nagoya & was determined to take Gjurovski with him as his number 2.
After a 2-year rebuild, Stojković & Gjurovski managed to steer Nagoya to a long-awaited 2nd J-League championship.
On 26 November 2013 Gjurovski was appointed as a head coach of the Macedonia national football team,[3] but due to poor results on 7 April 2015 he was sacked.[4]
On 7 May 2017, Gjurovski has become the internal coach of Red Star Belgrade, after a departure of Miodrag Božović which is happen after a Red Star loss against Voždovac and losing the first place to Partizan.
Managerial statistics[]
| Team | From | To | Record | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| G | W | D | L | Win % | |||
| Macedonia | November 2013 | April 2015 | 12 | 2 | 3 | 7 | 16.67 |
| Nagoya Grampus | August 2016 | December 2016 | 8 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 37.50 |
| Kyoto Sanga FC | May 2018 | December 2018 | 29 | 10 | 4 | 15 | 34.48 |
| Total | 49 | 15 | 9 | 25 | 30.61 | ||
Honours[]
Player[]
Red Star Belgrade
Servette
Manager[]
Radnički Obrenovac
- Second League of FR Yugoslavia: 2001–02
Red Star Belgrade
Politics[]
In 2020, he decided to join politics claiming that he wants to fight for agrarian rights, natural environment, and the development of sport in Serbia.[5] He received thirteenth position on a combined electoral list of the Healthy Serbia, and Better Serbia in the 2020 Serbian parliamentary election.[6]
Gjurovski, who was present at the famous football match between Hajduk Split and Red Star Belgrade when Josip Broz Tito died, has expressed yugo-nostalgic sentiments, saying that "life was nice in the time of Broz."[7]
References[]
- ^ Gjurovski takes over from Bozovic at Red Star‚ sbs.com.au, 8 May 2017
- ^ "Player Database". eu-football.info. Retrieved 27 March 2020.
- ^ Gjurovski is the new head coach of the national football team Archived 3 December 2013 at the Wayback Machine FFM – Football Federation of Macedonia, 26 November 2013
- ^ http://www1.skysports.com/football/news/11095/9794275/macedonia-sack-coach
- ^ Ekipa „Blica“. "SA FUDBALSKOG TERENA U POLITIČKU ARENU Boško Đurovski: Često ni u fudbalu nema fer-pleja". Blic.rs (in Serbian). Retrieved 3 June 2020.
- ^ Online, Piše: Danas (22 May 2020). "Ko je sve na listi Milana Stamatovića i Dragana Jovanovića za poslanike?". Dnevni list Danas (in Serbian). Retrieved 3 June 2020.
- ^ Stojkoski, Zdravko (2020). "The Match When Tito Died".
External links[]
- Boško Gjurovski – FIFA competition record (archived) (in English)
- Profile at MacedonianFootball.com (in English)
- Boško Gjurovski at J.League (in Japanese)
- Boško Gjurovski at National-Football-Teams.com
- RSSSF
- 1961 births
- Living people
- Sportspeople from Tetovo
- Association football midfielders
- Yugoslav footballers
- Yugoslavia international footballers
- Macedonian footballers
- North Macedonia international footballers
- Dual internationalists (football)
- Red Star Belgrade footballers
- Servette FC players
- Yugoslav First League players
- Swiss Super League players
- Macedonian expatriate footballers
- Expatriate footballers in Switzerland
- Macedonian expatriate sportspeople in Switzerland
- Macedonian football managers
- Servette FC managers
- FK Rad managers
- Red Star Belgrade managers
- North Macedonia national football team managers
- Nagoya Grampus managers
- Kyoto Sanga FC managers
- J1 League managers
- J2 League managers
- Expatriate football managers in Switzerland
- Expatriate football managers in Serbia
- Macedonian expatriate sportspeople in Serbia
- Expatriate football managers in Japan
- Macedonian expatriate sportspeople in Japan
- Serbian people of Macedonian descent