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Petar Borota (Serbian Cyrillic: Пeтap Бopoтa) (5 March 1952 – 12 February 2010) was a Serbian footballer who played as a goalkeeper, most notably for Partizan and Chelsea.^[1]

In addition to great goalkeeping ability, Borota is also remembered for his eccentric style of play in goal that occasionally led to him conceding bizarre goals.

Club career[link]

Borota started playing professional football with OFK Beograd in 1969, recording 8 league appearances for the club by the end of the season. Over the coming years he marked himself out as an able goalkeeper, earning a spot on the Yugoslav u-21 team and attracting interest from bigger clubs.

FK Partizan[link]

Eventually in 1975, he agreed terms with FK Partizan across town, leaving OFK after six seasons. However, before joining the crno-beli he went to serve the mandatory army stint that kept him out of action for the entire 1975–76 season.

1976-77 season[link]

Borota finally joined the reigning league champion Partizan in late 1976 with the season already in progress. The 23-year-old claimed a place between the goal posts right away, making 27 league appearances until the end of the season under also newly arrived head coach Biće Mladinić.

1977-78 season[link]

For the following 1977–78 season, Borota was an established squad member. With head coach Mladinić behind the bench, Partizan claimed the domestic title in dominating fashion behind the goalscoring efforts of club legend Moca Vukotić and new acquisition Slobodan Santrač (arrived in the winter transfer window, and scored 11 goals in 16 matches during the half-season), but also thanks in no small part to Borota (in addition to rugged central defenders Nenad Stojković and Jusuf Hatunić as well as full backs Nikica Klinčarski and Ivan Golac) who let in only 19 goals in 34 league matches.

1978-79 season[link]

The 1978-79 season saw Partizan defend the domestic title in addition to competing in the Europen Champions Cup. The first round tie versus East German champions Dynamo Dresden was marked by another one of Borota's bizarre blunders that he was already known for. The return leg on 27 September 1978 had Partizan arriving in Dresden with a comfortable two-goal advantage from the first leg in Belgrade (2-0). However, in the 8th minute of the second leg match, forgetting that play hasn't been stopped after making a save since neither goal-out nor foul got called, Borota placed the ball onto the 5-meter line and moved far away to take a run and kick it into play. He moved so far away from the ball that Dynamo forward Hans-Jürgen Dörner had enough time to step in and nudge it into the unguarded net. The strange goal stood, and by the end Dynamo managed to score another one for 0-2 final score and thus take the match into extra-time. Dynamo won 4-5 on penalties thus eliminating Partizan as Borota faced a barage of criticism from the Partizan faithful.

The defending league champions were on a downward spiral in the league, too, as unexpected losses tied them firmly to the bottom half of the table. Only a few months later, Borota would repeat the calamitous mistake from Dresden, this time in December 1978 during the 63rd league edition of the Eternal Derby versus bitter cross-town rivals Red Star Belgrade. Playing in the snow-covered JNA Stadium, the goalkeeper again collected the ball from a cross in front of opposing forwards while colliding with one of them, and again wrongly assumed that play stoppage had been called, thus placing the ball down unguarded. The referee actually didn't call a foul since Borota firmly held control of the ball during the aerial challenge so Red Star forward Miloš Šestić snuck in and pushed it into empty net for the match's opening goal.^[2] Red Star eventually recorded a 1-3 victory. Various urban legends persist about this event: from the one that Šestić actually mislead Borota on purpose by telling him, while the keeper was down on the ground with the ball in his hands, that the ref had called a foul^[3][4] to the one that Borota was confused by the sound of a whistle that came from a Red Star fan in the stands.

Due to his shaky displays and the team's overall atrocious form, Borota lost the coach's trust, making only 16 appearances between the posts that season. Head coach Mladinić resigned two weeks after the derby in late December during the winter break as Florijan Matekalo took over from January. In March, before the season's end, with the team battling relegation threat, Borota (who was about to turn 27 years of age) got sold to Chelsea.

Chelsea[link]

Borota signed for Chelsea in March 1979 for a transfer fee of £70,000 with the club on the verge of relegation from the First Division. Brought in by manager Danny Blanchflower as a replacement for legendary goalie Peter Bonetti, Borota made his debut against champions-elect Liverpool on 4 March 1979 and impressed in a 0–0 draw.^[5] However, the next five league matches all ended in defeat, culminating in a 6-0 thrashing by Nottingham Forest as Borota ultimately could not prevent relegation to the Second Division. He continued with his flamboyant and somewhat eccentric style – on occasions, he would dribble up the field and attempt to get past opposition players or throw the ball against the crossbar when taking a goal kick – which endeared him to the Chelsea fans and helped make him a cult hero at the club.

As the 1979-80 season in Second Division began, manager Blanchflower resigned in September 1979 and England legend Geoff Hurst was brought in as replacement. Borota continued as a regular under Hurst as the team finished fourth in the standings, missing the promotion on goal-difference.

Ahead of the 1980-81 season Hurst named Borota to be the squad captain. Borota was voted Chelsea player of the year in 1981 after keeping 16 clean sheets that season; he made 114 appearances for the club.^[6]

However, his erratic behaviour sometimes backfired and led to the team conceding goals, which did not endear him to his managers. After a fall-out with John Neal he joined Brentford in 1982 (with Chelsea still in the Second Division) and later Portuguese sides Boavista and FC Porto.^[7] He made 114 appearances in all competitions for Chelsea and kept 36 clean sheets.

International[link]

As he came into his own with FK Partizan during league-winning the 1977-78 season, Borota started getting national team callups as well.

The 26-year-old Hajduk Split's keeper Ivan Katalinić had been the national team's first choice goalie at the time under 3-man head coaching commission (consisting of Marko Valok, Stevan Vilotić, and Gojko Zec) as well as under previous head coach Ivan Toplak, however, the team's faltering 1978 World Cup qualifying campaign with two opening losses that led to Toplak's removal prompted a need to look at other options in goal as well.

The coaching triumvirate of Valok, Vilotić and Zec gave 25-year-old Borota a debut as second half substitute for Katalinić on 5 October 1977 in the away friendly versus Hungary.

1978 World Cup qualifying[link]

One month after his debut, Borota got a surprise opportunity to start in the crucial qualifier away versus Romania that was a must-win for Yugoslavia. The contest turned into a furious and epic scoring affair with Borota amateurishly conceding a long-range lob effort by Iosif Vigu only 4 minutes in. Plavi overturned the score to 1-2 by the 18th minute on a goal from Safet Sušić and a superb 25-meter strike by Dražen Mužinić, but the momentum shifted again as Anghel Iordănescu and László Bölöni managed to beat Borota twice more by halftime for 3-2 Romanian lead with poor aerial heading effort and bad positional play of Yugoslav defenders contributing to both goals. Early into the second half young Sušić took over again: first with a great individual move blowing by several defenders before scoring followed ten minutes later by a hard driven low shot off a laid-on free kick, for a 3-4 Yugoslavia lead. Still, Romanians mustered up one more comeback, albeit partial with a headed goal by Dudu Georgescu for 4-4, but Yugoslavs responded right back through Aleksandar Trifunović and Zoran Filipović by the end for a 4-6 final score.

Despite a win being recorded, Borota was demoted to the bench as Katalinić went back between the posts for the next must-win qualifier at home versus Spain that Yugoslavia had to win by 2 goals in order to qualify.

Following the failure to beat Spain and qualify for the World Cup, the coaching commission was disbanded with only Vilotić continuing as the head coach for the time being. He led the team in two friendlies and gave Borota a substitute appearance against Italy.

Euro 80 qualifying[link]

For the start of Euro 80 qualifying in fall 1978 FSJ brought back Biće Mladinić, who at the time also led FK Partizan, to be the next national team head coach.

The campaign began at home versus old rivals Spain and Yugoslavia lost again as Borota sat on the bench. For the next qualifier away at Romania on 25 October 1978, Mladinić gave Borota (his goalie at Partizan) a start. The high scoring from the previous qualifying cycle from a year earlier repeated again, but this time Romania won 3-2. Pižon Petrović put Yugoslavia up on a penalty kick for 0-1 at halftime, but Romanians came back in the second half with three unanswered goals (a brace by defender Ştefan Sameş followed by Iordanescu penalty kick). This was Borota's last national team appearance.

He finished his international career with 4 caps in total, two of which were starts in competitive matches.

Post-playing[link]

Borota tried his hand at coaching, but didn't get further than several low-profile appointments in South Africa during the 1980s.

By the early 1990s he came back to Belgrade. Already devoting much of his time to abstract painting (he had his work displayed in London in 1981 while an active player), Borota put together an exhibition in Srećna nova umetnost gallery in Belgrade's SKC. In 1994 he was implicated in an art theft ring of Paja Jovanović paintings and served a six-month spell in investigative detention.^[8]

After getting out of prison, through his friendship with Vujadin Boškov and Siniša Mihajlović, Borota moved to Genoa in Italy where he made a living by painting.

He died on 12 February 2010 in Genoa, after a long illness, aged 56.^[6] He was laid to rest at the New Cemetery in Belgrade on 25 February 2010^[9] with the sombre ceremony attended by his friends and colleagues such as Moca Vukotić, Slobodan Santrač, Pižon Petrović, Xhevat Prekazi, and Milutin Šoškić among others.^[10][11]

References[link]

External links[link]

• Profile at Reprezentacija
• Petar Borota 1952–2010, chelseaFC, 13 Feb 2010
• Preminuo legendarni golman Petar Borota, MTS Mondo, 12 February 2010

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Borota
Country	Hungary
County	Bács-Kiskun
Area
• Total	81.8 km2 (31.6 sq mi)
Population (2005)
• Total	1,537
• Density	18.78/km2 (48.6/sq mi)
Time zone	CET (UTC+1)
• Summer (DST)	CEST (UTC+2)
Postal code	6445
Area code(s)	77

Location of Bács-Kiskun county in Hungary

Borota is a village in Bács-Kiskun county, in the Southern Great Plain region of Hungary.

Geography[link]

It covers an area of 81.8 km² (32 sq mi) and has a population of 1537 people (2005).

History[link]

Borota was mentioned in 1325 as Boroth and it was property of the archbishop of Kalocsa. Since the village had been devastated by the Mongol invasion of 1241-42, the archbishop sold the village to Imre Becsey who brought new settlers to Borota. In the 16th century Borota fell under Ottoman occupation and was mentioned several times in Turkish records. In 1658 Palatine Ferenc Wesselényi donated the village to Baron Pál Serényi. In 1740 Borota was in the hands of the Princes Grassalkovich, however they divided the estate into plots and sold it to the Cseszneky family. Since 1750 Borota belonged to Rém village, but its southern part known as Szentkáta remained the property of the Counts Cseszneky de Milvány until the 20th century. In the second half of the 19th century Borota was an independent village for a short while, then administered again by Rém. In 1911 eventually regained its administrative independence.

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Safet Sušić

Personal information
Full name	Safet Sušić
Date of birth	(1955-04-13) 13 April 1955 (age 57)
Place of birth	Zavidovići, SFR Yugolslavia
Height	1.81 m (5 ft 11 in)
Playing position	Attacking midfielder
Club information
Current club	Bosnia and Herzegovina (manager)
Youth career
1971	FK Krivaja
1972–1973	FK Sarajevo
Senior career*
Years	Team	Apps†	(Gls)†
1973–1982	FK Sarajevo	221	(85)
1982–1991	Paris Saint-Germain	343	(85)
1991–1992	Red Star Saint-Ouen	17	(3)
National team
1977–1990	Yugoslavia	54	(21)
Teams managed
1994–1995	Cannes
1996–1998	İstanbulspor
2001	Al-Hilal
2004–2005	Konyaspor
2005–2006	Ankaragücü
2006	Çaykur Rizespor
2008	Çaykur Rizespor
2008–2009	Ankaraspor
2009–	Bosnia and Herzegovina
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only. † Appearances (Goals).

Safet "Pape" Sušić (born 13 April 1955) is a Bosnian former footballer and current manager of the Bosnia and Herzegovina national football team.^[1] In his playing days, he operated as playmaking attacking midfielder. In 2010, he was voted PSG's best player of all time by French sport magazine France Football 's readers.^[2]

Playing career[link]

Sušić began his career with the football club Krivaja in his hometown Zavidovići. In 1973, he was transferred to FK Sarajevo, where he was to become a legendary figure by the late 1970s. During the 1979–80 season, he was top scorer in the Yugoslavian league with 17 goals. In 1979, he was honoured as the Yugoslav Footballer of the Year, also being selected as the best athlete hailing from the republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina.

In 1982, Sušić signed with French outfit of Paris Saint-Germain, where he became a star on the European stage. Hardly ever injured, he performed at a high level well past his 30s. The Yugoslav international was never injured nor suspended, thus allowing him to score 85 goals and make a record 61 assists for PSG between 1982 and 1991. On 22 September 1984, in a 7–1 home drubbing of Bastia, he assisted on five of the side's goals. At 36, Sušić left the capital for a final year with Red Star Saint-Ouen.

During a 13-year span, Sušić appeared 54 times with the Yugoslav national team, netting 21 goals, in spite of the fact that he was always in the role of midfield playmaker. He represented the nation at the 1982 and 1990 World Cups, and at Euro 1984. On 19 June 1990, Sušić opened the score in Yugoslavia's 4–1 World Cup win against the United Arab Emirates, aged 35.

In 2004, to celebrate UEFA's Jubilee, he was selected as the Golden Player of Bosnia and Herzegovina by the Football Association of Bosnia and Herzegovina as their most outstanding player of the past 50 years.^[3] "If you were to rank Safet Sušić with the all-time greats, you would have to put him in at least the top 40," German Gerd Müller (one of the greatest goal scorers in history) said.

Footballer Darko Pančev declared:

"It's well known how much I valued and still do value Safet Sušić. For me he's unsurpassable, the best Yugoslavia had. Probably one of the best in the world. I was often known to say that us other players should have to pay to play in the same team as Pape. At least I always talked and thought like that. Pape was a treasure for every forward. His crosses were unbelievable. Sometimes his ball would hit me without me even being aware of it. A wonderful player."^[4]

On 5 February 2010, France Football choose Sušić as the best player in the history of Paris Saint-Germain, ahead of players such as Carlos Bianchi, Mustapha Dahleb, Ronaldinho, George Weah, Joël Bats, Raí and Luis Fernández.^[5][6]

Coaching career[link]

Sušić coached Cannes, also in France, where he retired as a player, briefly in 1994–95. Between 1997–1999, he managed İstanbulspor, returning to that country during 2003–04, with Konyaspor, and in the first half of 2006–07, taking charge of Çaykur Rizespor (12 matches).^[7]

After he was sacked by Rizespor, another Turkish side, in February 2008,^[8] Sušić was hired by Ankaraspor in March.^[9]

On 28 December 2009, Sušić was named coach of the Bosnia and Herzegovina national football team.^[10] His debut was a friendly match against Ghana in Sarajevo. Bosnia and Herzegovina won the game 2:1 after goals from Vedad Ibišević and Miralem Pjanić. After only 2 wins in Sušić's 6 first matches in charge of the national team, including an important 2:0 loss to France in the qualification for Euro 2012, Sušić came under a lot of criticism from several journalists and columnists who called for his head.^[11][12]

Sušić recorded a 1:1 draw with France during a second game in Paris and ensured Bosnia qualified for their second consecutive qualification play-off birth for EURO 2012 to be played against Portugal in November.^[13][14]

As of 11 November 2011, Sušić's Bosnia national football side was on a seven game unbeaten streak run.^[15] Safet Sušić will remain as Bosnia's manager through the qualifiers for FIFA World Cup 2014.^[16]

Honours (player)[link]

Team[link]

• FK Sarajevo:
  • Yugoslav League: Runner-up 1979-80

• Paris Saint-Germain:
  • French League: 1985–86; runner-up 1988–89
  • French Cup: 1982–83; runner-up 1984–85

Individual[link]

• FK Sarajevo:
  • Yugoslav League: Top scorer/best player, 1979–80

• Paris Saint-Germain:
  • French League: Best foreign player, 1982–83

• Bosnia and Herzegovina Player of the 20th Century (2004)^[3]

• Best Player in the history of Paris Saint-Germain - in the selection of France Football on 5. February 2010^[6]

Personal life[link]

Sead Sušić, a former footballer, is his older brother. His nephew, Tino Sušić, is also a footballer.

References[link]

External links[link]

• UEFA.com - Golden Player of Bosnia and Herzegovina
• National team data (Serbian)

v t e Yugoslavia squad – 1982 FIFA World Cup 1 Pantelić 2 Jerolimov 3 Gudelj 4 Zajec 5 Stojković 6 Krmpotić 7 Petrović 8 Šljivo 9 Zoran Vujović 10 Živković 11 Zlatko Vujović 12 Pudar 13 Sušić 14 Jovanović 15 Hrstić 16 Šestić 17 Jerković 18 Deverić 19 Halilhodžić 20 Šurjak (c) 21 Pašić 22 Svilar Coach: Miljanić

v t e Yugoslavia squad – UEFA Euro 1984 1 Simović 2 N. Stojković 3 Baljić 4 Katanec 5 Zajec (c) 6 Radanović 7 Šestić 8 Gudelj 9 Sušić 10 Baždarević 11 Vujović 12 Ivković 13 Hadžibegić 14 Elsner 15 Miljuš 16 D. Stojković 17 Čop 18 Deverić 19 Halilović 20 Cvetković Coach: Veselinović

v t e Yugoslavia squad – 1990 FIFA World Cup 1 Ivković 2 Stanojković 3 Spasić 4 Vulić 5 Hadžibegić 6 Jozić 7 Brnović 8 Sušić 9 Pančev 10 Stojković 11 Vujović (c) 12 Omerović 13 Katanec 14 Bokšić 15 Prosinečki 16 Šabanadžović 17 Jarni 18 Baljić 19 Savićević 20 Šuker 21 Panadić 22 Leković Coach: Osim