Fahrudin Omerović
Personal information
Date of birth (1961-08-26) 26 August 1961
Place of birth Doboj, PR Bosnia-Herzegovina, FPR Yugoslavia
Height 1.82 m (6 ft 0 in)
Position(s) Goalkeeper
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
1980–1984 Sloboda Tuzla 94 (0)
1984–1992 Partizan 238 (0)
1992–1995 Kocaelispor 93 (0)
1996–1998 Istanbulspor 35 (0)
Total 460 (0)
International career
1989–1992 Yugoslavia 8 (0)
1996 Bosnia and Herzegovina[1] 3 (0)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Fahrudin Omerović (born 26 August 1961) is a Bosnian former professional footballer who played as a goalkeeper. He serves assistant coach at Fenerbahçe. In Turkey, Omerović became known as Fahrettin Ömerli while playing there; he took up Turkish citizenship as a naturalized citizen.[2]

Club career

Born in Doboj, SR Bosnia and Herzegovina, Omerović begin his career in FK Sloboda Tuzla, making his debut in the Yugoslav First League in the 1980–81 season. He spent four seasons playing in Tuzla, when in summer 1984 he was transferred to FK Partizan where he will become the main goalkeeper for the following eight seasons.[3] With Partizan he won two Yugoslav championships, two Yugoslav Cups, and one Supercup.

After the dissolution of SFR Yugoslavia, he made a transfer to Kocaelispor in 1992. He played Kocaelispor for four years. After he moved to İstanbulspor and played there for 2 years. Finally he retired in 1998-99 season.

International career

Omerović was capped eight times for Yugoslavia between 1989 and 1992, including a spot in Yugoslavia's 1990 World Cup roster where he spent the tournament as an unused backup to Tomislav Ivković. Even after the independence of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Omerović was included in the Yugoslav squad for Euro 1992,[4] but the nation would be suspended due to the Yugoslav Wars.

In 1996, he played three matches for the newly established Bosnian national team.[3] His final international was an October 1996 World Cup qualification match against Croatia.[5]

Coaching career

After retiring, he stayed in Turkey where he has undertaken a coaching career. Initially he worked as assistant of Safet Sušić and Aykut Kocaman, before beginning his career as a main coach working in clubs such as İstanbulspor, Malatyaspor and Ankaraspor.[3]

Honours

References

  1. ↑ "Players Appearing for Two or More Countries". Archived from the original on 3 August 2008. Retrieved 27 July 2011.
  2. ↑ Naturalized Turks #26
  3. 1 2 3 Fahrudin Omerović at Reprezentacija.rs
  4. ↑ "Pancev también renuncia a la Eurocopa". Mundo Deportivo (in Spanish). 25 May 1992. Retrieved 5 June 2019.
  5. ↑ "Player Database". eu-football.info. Retrieved 23 April 2021.
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