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Džemal Mustedanagić
Personal information
Date of birth (1955-06-08) 8 June 1955 (age 69)
Place of birth Bosanski Novi, PR Bosnia and Herzegovina, FPR Yugoslavia
Position(s) Defender
Team information
Current team Albania U16 (Manager)
Youth career
1968–1973 Sloboda Bosanski Novi
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
1973–1983 Dinamo Zagreb 444 (37)
1983–1986 Austria Wien 74 (3)
Total 608 (52)
International career
1980 Yugoslavia 1 (0)
Managerial career
1987–2003 Dinamo Zagreb Football School
2003–2005 Dinamo Zagreb Reserve Team
2003–2005 Croatia U19
2005–2006 Dinamo Zagreb (assistant)
2007–2008 Dinamo Zagreb U19
2009–2010 Albania (assistant)
2011 Albania
2011–2019 Albania U17
2017– Albania U16
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Džemal Mustedanagić (born 8 June 1955) is a Bosnian-Herzegovinian retired footballer and current manager of the Albania national under-16 football team.

Playing career

Club

Born in Bosanski Novi, his playing career started in FK Sloboda Bosanski Novi where he played from 1968 till 1973 when he was approached by several Yugoslavian first league clubs. He chose Dinamo Zagreb where he played from 1973 till 1983 and had 444 caps, winning the 1981–82 Yugoslav First League title and the 1979–80 Yugoslav Cup title. Also he was first team captain during Miroslav Blažević's managing. He moved to FK Austria Wien in 1983. During that time they won 3 national titles, a national cup, and a famous club achievement – beating FC Barcelona.

International

He made his debut for Yugoslavia in a September 1980 World Cup qualification match against Denmark, coming on as a second half substitute for Ivan Buljan. It remained his sole international appearance.

Managerial career

After his player career in 1987, on demand of the management board of Dinamo Zagreb, he started working with youngsters as a coach in Dinamo Zagreb Football school. In season 2003/2004 he coached the reserve squad of Dinamo Zagreb, where he trained and developed top youngsters' talents such as Eduardo Da Silva, Luka Modrić, Niko Kranjčar, Vedran Ćorluka, Dino Drpić, Tomo Šokota, Mihael Mikić, Hrvoje Čale, Filip Lončarić. Also, during that period, considering talents he brought up to national team, he was selected to work with the expert committee of the Croatia national team, as coach of the U-19 national team.

This talented youngsters made their way to first team, and in 2005 and 2006 he became coach with Josip Kuže of first team Dinamo Zagreb. They took Dinamo from 7th place to winning first place with these youngsters who are leading players today, not only in Dinamo but in national team, too.

Albania national team

In 2009, he arrived in Albania and the Albanian Football Association appointed him as assistant coach of Josip Kuže at the Albania national football team. After Kuže's medical problems, Džemal was appointed as a caretaker coach of the Albania national football team in October 2010. Then following the departure of Kuže after the end of the UEFA Euro 2012 qualifying, Mustedanagić was a temporary coach of Albania for two friendly matches in November 2011 against Azerbaijan on 11 November and Macedonia on 15 November.

In 2011, he took charge of the Albania national under-17 football team and in his debut he qualified the team to the next round of 2012 UEFA European Under-17 Championship, the Elite round.

In November 2017 he was charged to run at the same time the Albania national under-16 team. He participated in the 2017 Mercedez Benz Aegean Cup International Youth Tournament in Turkey, recording a 0–1 loss in the first match against Azerbaijan U16 on 20 November, a 0–0 draw in the second match against hosts Turkey U16 on 21 November and a 2–1 loss in the last match against Kosovo U16 on 23 November.

References

  1. "Player Database". eu-football.info. Retrieved 18 April 2021.
  2. "Kombetarja/ Publikohet lista per miqesoret e nentorit, po kush eshte trajneri?!" (in Albanian). AlbaniaSoccer. 5 November 2011. Retrieved 21 December 2017.
  3. Dzemal Mustedanagić profile at Soccerway
  4. "U-16 won the first game". AFFA.az. 20 November 2017. Retrieved 7 December 2017.
  5. "TURKEY ALBANIA - National Team Matches Details" (in Turkish). TFF.org. 21 November 2017. Retrieved 7 December 2017.
  6. "Shqipëria U-16 humbet ndaj përfaqësueses së Kosovës" [Albania U-16 loses to Kosovo's representatives] (in Albanian). FSHF.org. 23 November 2017. Archived from the original on 6 December 2017. Retrieved 7 December 2017.

External links

Albania national football team – managers
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