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Bora Milutinović
	Milutinovic in 2012
Personal information
Full name	Velibor Milutinović
Date of birth	7 September 1944 (age 80)
Place of birth	Bajina Bašta, Yugoslavia
Height	1.77 m (5 ft 9+1⁄2 in)
Position(s)	Midfielder
Youth career
1954–1958	Bor
Senior career*
Years	Team
1958–1960	OFK Beograd
1960–1966	Partizan
1965–1966	→ OFK Beograd (loan)
1966–1967	Winterthur
1967–1969	Monaco
1969–1971	Nice
1971–1972	Rouen
1972–1976	UNAM
Total
Teams managed
1977–1983	UNAM
1983–1986	Mexico
1987	San Lorenzo
1987	Udinese
1988	Veracruz
1988–1989	Tecos UAG
1990	Costa Rica
1991–1995	United States
1995–1997	Mexico
1997–1998	Nigeria
1998–1999	MetroStars
2000–2002	China
2003–2004	Honduras
2004–2005	Al Sadd
2006–2007	Jamaica
2009	Iraq
2014	Shaanxi Wuzhou (sporting director)
2014	China (advisor)
2014–2024	Shaanxi Wuzhou (sporting advisor)
Honours
Men's football
Representing Mexico (as manager)
CONCACAF Gold Cup
Copa América
Representing United States (as manager)
CONCACAF Gold Cup
FIFA Confederations Cup
	* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only

Velibor "Bora" Milutinović (Serbian Cyrillic: Велибор Милутиновић – Бора; born 7 September 1944) is a Serbian football coach and former player.

He and Carlos Alberto Parreira are the only two people to have coached five different teams at the World Cup: Mexico (1986), Costa Rica (1990), the United States (1994), Nigeria (1998), and China (2002). He is also the first coach to take four different teams beyond the first round – Mexico (1986), Costa Rica(1990), the United States (1994), and Nigeria (1998) – earning the nickname of Miracle Worker,^[1] first given to him by Alan Rothenberg, then president of the United States Soccer Federation.^[2] In total Milutinović has coached eight different national football teams.

Managerial statistics

Year(s)	Team^[a]	G	W	D	L	Win %	GF	GA
1977–1983	UNAM	218	96	59	63	44	406	299
1983-1986, 1995-1997	Mexico	104	52	32	20	50	?	?
1987	San Lorenzo	8	4	4	0	50	8	2
1987	Udinese	9	3	0	6	33.33	6	10
1988	Veracruz	?	?	?	?	?	?	?
1988–1989	Tecos UAG	?	?	?	?	?	?	?
1990–1991	Costa Rica	9	3	0	6	33.3	7	13
1991–1995	United States	93	30	31	35	31.3	116	110
1997–1998	Nigeria	11	3	2	6	27.3	10	22
1998–1999	NY/NJ MetroStars	33	5	3	25	15.2	?	?
2000–2002	China	46	20	11	15	43.5	75	50
2003–2004	Honduras	10	2	4	4	20	12	14
2004–2005	Al-Sadd	?	?	?	?	?	?	?
2006–2007	Jamaica	6	1	1	4	16.7	5	14
2009	Iraq	4^[b]	0	3	1^[b]	0	1	2

↑ Includes national teams.
↑ ^2.0 ^2.1 Qatar vs. Iraq not considered as a FIFA International match since Iraq made 13 Substitutions, Iraq lost the match 0–1.