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Vahid Halilhodžić

1952 - Today

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Vahid Halilhodžić (Bosnian pronunciation: [ʋȃ:xid xǎlilxodʒitɕ]; born 15 May 1952) is a Bosnian professional football manager and former player. He is regarded as one of the most controversially successful Bosnian football managers, due to his successful tenure in coaching various national teams yet having problematic relations with his teams and players due to different approaches. Regarded as one of the best Yugoslav players, Halilhodžić had successful playing spells with Velež Mostar and French clubs Nantes and Paris Saint-Germain before retiring in 1987. During that time, he earned 15 full international caps for Yugoslavia and was part of national squads who won the 1978 European Under-21 Championship and played at the 1982 FIFA World Cup. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Vahid Halilhodžić is the 164th most popular soccer player (down from 108th in 2019), the 22nd most popular biography from Bosnia and Herzegovina (down from 16th in 2019) and the 2nd most popular Bosnian, Herzegovinian Soccer Player.

Vahid Halilhodžić is most famous for being the director of the movie "No Man's Land" which won the Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival in 2001.

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Among SOCCER PLAYERS

Among soccer players, Vahid Halilhodžić ranks 164 out of 21,273. Before him are Oldřich Nejedlý, Hernán Crespo, Zoltán Czibor, Luigi Riva, Juan Alberto Schiaffino, and Héctor Scarone. After him are John Barnes, Dennis Bergkamp, Kunishige Kamamoto, Yasuo Takamori, Shoichi Nishimura, and Robert Lewandowski.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1952, Vahid Halilhodžić ranks 53. Before him are Ko Yong-hui, Pope Tawadros II of Alexandria, Allan Simonsen, Jimmy Connors, Shigeru Miyamoto, and Christian Clavier. After him are Fuad II of Egypt, Douglas Adams, George Papandreou, John Goodman, Nicko McBrain, and Charles Scott Sherrington.

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In Bosnia and Herzegovina

Among people born in Bosnia and Herzegovina, Vahid Halilhodžić ranks 22 out of 375. Before him are Biljana Plavšić (1930), Dražen Dalipagić (1951), Milorad Dodik (1959), Ivica Osim (1941), Boris Tadić (1958), and Nedeljko Čabrinović (1895). After him are Miroslav Blažević (1935), Vukašin of Serbia (1320), Ante Marković (1924), Haris Silajdžić (1945), Vojislav Šešelj (1954), and Meša Selimović (1910).

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Among SOCCER PLAYERS In Bosnia and Herzegovina

Among soccer players born in Bosnia and Herzegovina, Vahid Halilhodžić ranks 2. Before him are Ivica Osim (1941). After him are Milan Galić (1938), Edin Džeko (1986), Branko Stanković (1921), Asim Ferhatović (1933), Josip Katalinski (1948), Savo Milošević (1973), Hasan Salihamidžić (1977), Goran Jurić (1963), Vlatko Marković (1937), and Andrija Anković (1937).

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