Azrudin Valentić

Azrudin Valentić (born 21 July 1970), known as Vali is a Bosnian professional football manager and former player.

Azrudin Valentić

Valentić in 2019 with Fremad Amager
Personal information
Date of birth	(1970-07-21) 21 July 1970 (age 55)
Place of birth	Sarajevo, SFR Yugoslavia
Position(s)	Midfielder
Youth career
	FK Sarajevo
Senior career*
Years	Team	Apps	(Gls)
1990–1994	FK Sarajevo
1994–1995	Raith Rovers
1996	Vorwärts Steyr	17	(1)
1996–1997	Olimpija Ljubljana	22	(1)
1997–2000	FK Sarajevo
Managerial career
2009–2011	Vasalunds IF
2012–2015	Assyriska FF
2016–2017	IF Brommapojkarna (assistant)[1]
2018	Dalkurd FF
2018–2019	Fremad Amager
2019–2021	Fremad Amager
2021–2022	Botev Plovdiv
* Club domestic league appearances and goals

Club career

Valentić started out his playing career in Bosnian club FK Sarajevo where he won the league. He then went on to play for Raith Rovers in Scotland and SK Vorwärts Steyr in Austria before his career ended because of injury.

Managerial career

Valentić moved to Sweden in 2002 and four years later started working for Vasalunds IF as an individual coach before becoming their manager in 2009. In 2011, he took over as manager for Assyriska FF.^[2]

Fremad Amager

Valentić was appointed manager of Fremad Amager at the end of October 2018.

On 1 July 2019, Fremad Amager announced, that Olof Mellberg had joined the club as their new manager.^[3] Vali was reinforced with Mellberg, who he worked with in IF Brommapojkarna. With the access of Mellberg, the club changed the structure of the sporting staff, with Mellberg becoming manager and Vali becoming the first team coach. However, only two months after Mellberg's arrival, he left the club and Valentić was re-appointed as the manager of the club.^[4] He guided the club to a 4th place in the 2019–20 Danish 1st Division (second tier).

Botev Plovdiv

In January 2021 Valentić was signed by Bulgarian side Botev Plovdiv.^[5][6]

Managerial statistics

As of 28 July 2022

Team	From	To	Record
			G	W	D	L	Win %
Vasalund	25 August 2009	31 December 2011	13	4	5	4	030.77
Assyriska	1 January 2012	27 May 2014	78	26	17	35	033.33
Assyriska	18 September 2014	20 October 2015	41	17	11	13	041.46
Dalkurd	1 January 2018	25 May 2018	13	1	2	10	007.69
Fremad Amager	31 October 2018	1 July 2019	18	9	5	4	050.00
Fremad Amager	3 September 2019	1 January 2021	48	22	10	16	045.83
Botev Plovdiv	6 January 2021	29 July 2022	52	19	14	19	036.54
Total			266	99	65	102	037.22