Robert Prosinečki new coach of the BiH national team

SARAJevo, (Patria) - Robert Prosinečki is the new coach of the Bosnia and Herzegovina national football team.

The Croatian expert was chosen as Mehmed Baždarević's successor at today's session of the Executive Board of the BiH Football Association.

Prosinečki was elected with unanimous support from all 15 members of the Executive Board, while 12 votes were needed for the election.

His opponent was Amar Osim, former coach of FK Željezničar.

The new coach will have his first task at the end of the month when the national team visits America, where they will play friendly matches against the USA and Mexico on January 28 and 31. 

Robert Prosinečki's first assistants in the national team's professional staff will be his collaborators from previous work, Dragan Spasić and Gordan Ciprić, while former BiH national team players Elvir Rahimić and Kenan Hasagić as goalkeeping coach are also expected to work in the professional staff.

Robert Prosinečki was born in 1969 in Villingen, Germany, and during his playing career, he played for Dinamo Zagreb, Crvena Zvezda, Real Madrid, Oviedo, Barcelona, Sevilla, Dinamo again, Hrvatski dragovoljac, Standard, Portsmouth, Olimpija Ljubljana, Zagreb, and Savski Marof. 

The job of the coach of the BiH national team will be his fourth coaching assignment in his career. He first worked as an assistant in the Croatian national team, then led Belgrade's Crvena Zvezda, Turkey's Kayserispor, and during the previous World Cup qualifiers, he worked as the coach of Azerbaijan.