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Bora Milutinović

1944 - Today

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Velibor "Bora" Milutinović (Serbian Cyrillic: Велибор Бора Милутиновић; born 7 September 1944) is a Serbian former professional footballer and manager. He has managed at five editions of the FIFA World Cup, tied for the record alongside Brazilian manager Carlos Alberto Parreira, but did so in five consecutive World Cups with different teams: Mexico (1986), Costa Rica (1990), the United States (1994), Nigeria (1998) and China (2002). He is also the first manager to take four teams beyond the first round – all but China – earning the nickname of Miracle Worker, first given to him by Alan Rothenberg, then president of the United States Soccer Federation. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Bora Milutinović has received more than 560,309 page views. His biography is available in 34 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 33 in 2019). Bora Milutinović is the 149th most popular soccer player (down from 137th in 2019), the 52nd most popular biography from Serbia (down from 50th in 2019) and the 2nd most popular Serbian Soccer Player.

Bora Milutinović is most famous for being the head coach of the Yugoslavian National Soccer Team during the 1990 FIFA World Cup.

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  • 560k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 63.30

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 34

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 9.26

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.27

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among SOCCER PLAYERS

Among soccer players, Bora Milutinović ranks 149 out of 21,273. Before him are Xavi, Xabi Alonso, José Leandro Andrade, Ruud Krol, Arie Haan, and Kakuichi Mimura. After him are Ivica Osim, Tameo Ide, Gunnar Gren, Grzegorz Lato, Pavel Nedvěd, and Karim Benzema.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1944, Bora Milutinović ranks 63. Before him are Maria João Pires, Rudy Giuliani, Jean-Pierre Sauvage, Peter Weir, John Holmes, and Askar Akayev. After him are Leila Khaled, Makoto Kobayashi, Udo Kier, Serge Haroche, Abdul Hamid, and Klaus Nomi.

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In Serbia

Among people born in Serbia, Bora Milutinović ranks 52 out of 661. Before him are Tomislav Nikolić (1952), Krum (710), Milorad Pavić (1929), Aleksandar Ranković (1909), Milan Nedić (1878), and Alexander Karađorđević, Prince of Serbia (1806). After him are Dobrica Ćosić (1921), Danilo Kiš (1935), Mihailo Obrenović (1823), Branislav Nušić (1864), Radomir Putnik (1847), and Saliha Sultan (1680).

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Among SOCCER PLAYERS In Serbia

Among soccer players born in Serbia, Bora Milutinović ranks 2. Before him are Dragan Džajić (1946). After him are Radomir Antić (1948), Rajko Mitić (1922), Vujadin Boškov (1931), Miloš Milutinović (1933), Velibor Vasović (1939), Nemanja Vidić (1981), Dejan Stanković (1978), Todor Veselinović (1930), Aleksandar Tirnanić (1910), and Vladica Popović (1935).

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