Blaž "Baka" Slišković is a former Bosnian Croat football

Football (soccer)

Association football, more commonly known as football or soccer, is a sport played between two teams of eleven players with a spherical ball...

 player and currently the manager of Al-Ansar

Al-Ansar (Saudi Arabia)

Al-Ansar is a Saudi Arabian multi-sports club based in Medina. Its football team has the Prince Mohammed bin Abdul Aziz Stadium as their home stadium. It is currently playing in the Saudi Premier League.In the season 2011-2012 the club change clubs colors and logo.-Current squad:- Current...

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Slišković was nicknamed "Balkan Maradona." In July 2011, Zinedine Zidane

Zinedine Zidane

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 named Slišković as one of his idols while growing up. and put him "All time BEST 11" of Marseille

Olympique de Marseille

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Career

During his time Slišković was considered one of the most technically gifted players of his generation.

In 2011, for the 100th anniversary of Hajduk Split, he was chosen in the "Hajduk Split Best 11 of all-time".

International career

Although most experts expected him to create a great international career, he was only capped 26 times for Yugoslavia

Yugoslavia national football team

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. He scored 3 goals in the process. Slišković played two friendly games for Bosnia and Herzegovina national football team

Bosnia and Herzegovina national football team

The Bosnia and Herzegovina national football team is the national football team of Bosnia and Herzegovina, governed by the Football Association of Bosnia and Herzegovina...

 in 1993 as the captain in both games.

Coaching career

He managed the Bosnia and Herzegovina national football team

Bosnia and Herzegovina national football team

The Bosnia and Herzegovina national football team is the national football team of Bosnia and Herzegovina, governed by the Football Association of Bosnia and Herzegovina...

 from 2002 until 2006.

In 2004 he won the award "Best Bosnia-Herzegovina coach" and ˇ"Bosnia-Herzegovina man of the year" by Dnevni Avaz and Max.

In October 2004, he replaced Ivan Katalinić

Ivan Katalinic

Ivan Katalinić is a Croatian football manager and former Hajduk Split and Southampton goalkeeper. As a member of Hajduk's famous "golden generation" of the seventies, he won four Yugoslav championships and five consecutive cups.At the beginning of 1980 came a move to Southampton where he stayed...

 and won the Croatian Championship with Hajduk Split for the 2004-2005 season.

In March 2010 Unirea Alba Iulia hired Slišković until the end of the season; he replaced Adrian Falub.

In April 2011 he took the head coaching position at NK Široki Brijeg

NK Široki Brijeg

NK Široki Brijeg is a Bosnian-Herzegovinian team from the town of Široki Brijeg that currently plays in the Premier League of Bosnia and Herzegovina....

 and reached 4th position and qualified for UEFA League. He is currently team manager of Al-Ansar

Al-Ansar (Saudi Arabia)

Al-Ansar is a Saudi Arabian multi-sports club based in Medina. Its football team has the Prince Mohammed bin Abdul Aziz Stadium as their home stadium. It is currently playing in the Saudi Premier League.In the season 2011-2012 the club change clubs colors and logo.-Current squad:- Current...

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