Džemal Mustedanagić (born 8 June 1955) is a Bosnian-Herzegovinian

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and current

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of the

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Playing career

Club

Born in Bosanski Novi, his playing career started in FK Sloboda Bosanski Novi where he played from 1968 till 1973 when he was approached by several Yugoslavian first league clubs. He chose

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where he played from 1973 till 1983 and had 444 caps, winning the 1981–82 Yugoslav First League title and the

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title. Also he was first team captain during Miroslav Blažević's managing. He moved to

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in 1983. During that time they won 3 national titles, a national cup, and a famous club achievement – beating

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International

He made his debut for

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in a September 1980 World Cup qualification match against

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, coming on as a second half substitute for Ivan Buljan. It remained his sole international appearance.

Managerial career

After his player career in 1987, on demand of the management board of

, he started working with youngsters as a coach in Dinamo Zagreb Football school. In season 2003/2004 he coached the reserve squad of Dinamo Zagreb, where he trained and developed top youngsters' talents such as Eduardo Da Silva, Luka Modrić, Niko Kranjčar, Vedran Ćorluka,

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, Tomo Šokota, Mihael Mikić, Hrvoje Čale,

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. Also, during that period, considering talents he brought up to national team, he was selected to work with the expert committee of the Croatian national team, as coach of the U-19 national team. This talented youngsters made their way to first team, and in 2005 and 2006 he became coach with Josip Kuže of first team

. They took Dinamo from 7th place to winning first place with these youngsters who are leading players today, not only in Dinamo but in national team, too.

Albania national team

In 2009, he arrived in

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and the Albanian Football Association appointed him as assistant coach of Josip Kuže at the

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. After Kuže's medical problems, Džemal was appointed as a caretaker coach of the

in October 2010. Then following the departure of Kuže after the end of the UEFA Euro 2012 qualifying, Mustedanagić was a temporary coach of Albania for two friendly matches in November 2011 against

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on 11 November and

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on 15 November. In 2011, he took charge of the Albania national under-17 football team and in his debut he qualified the team to the next round of

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, the Elite round. In November 2017 he was charged to run at the same time the Albania national under-16 team. He participated in the 2017 Mercedez Benz Aegean Cup International Youth Tournament in

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, recording a 0–1 loss in the first match against Azerbaijan U16 on 20 November, a 0–0 draw in the second match against hosts Turkey U16 on 21 November and a 2–1 loss in the last match against Kosovo U16 on 23 November.

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