Selver Hodžić (born 12 October 1978) is a Bosnian-Herzegovinian and Swiss former professional

footballer A football player or footballer is a sportsperson who plays one of the different types of football. The main types of football are association football, American football, Canadian football, Australian rules football, Gaelic football, rugby lea ...

who played as a defender. He is currently the manager of the Bosnia and Herzegovina women's national team.

Playing career

Born in

Brčko Brčko ) is a city and the administrative seat of Brčko District, in northern Bosnia and Herzegovina. It lies on the banks of Sava river across from Croatia. As of 2013, it has a population of 39,893 inhabitants. De jure, the Brčko District b ...

SR Bosnia and Herzegovina The Socialist Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina ( sh-Latn-Cyrl, separator=" / ", Socijalistička Republika Bosna i Hercegovina, Социјалистичка Pепублика Босна и Херцеговина), commonly referred to as Socia ...

Yugoslavia , common_name = Yugoslavia , life_span = 1918–19921941–1945: World War II in Yugoslavia#Axis invasion and dismemberment of Yugoslavia, Axis occupation , p1 = Kingdom of SerbiaSerbia , flag_p ...

, Hodžić came to Switzerland as a war refugee in 1993. He played for Zug 94 until 1999, whereupon Hodžić played for a couple of other clubs before signing with

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in 2002. On 27 September 2005, Hodžić became FC Thun's hero with a dramatic winner in the 89th minute against Czech champions

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. On 25 June 2007, the player signed a two-year contract with Israeli Bnei Yehuda Tel Aviv F.C. At the end of the season, he transferred back to Switzerland to

Neuchâtel Xamax Neuchâtel (, ; ; ) is a town, a municipality, and the capital of the Swiss canton of Neuchâtel on Lake Neuchâtel. Since the fusion in 2021 of the municipalities of Neuchâtel, Corcelles-Cormondrèche, Peseux, and Valangin, the city has ap ...

Managerial career

Hodzic became a youth coach at

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and later manager of his former club

Buochs Buochs is a municipalities of Switzerland, municipality in the Cantons of Switzerland, canton of Nidwalden in Switzerland. History Buochs is first mentioned in 1124 as ''Boches''. In 1184, it was mentioned as ''Buoches'', then in 1210 as ''Buches ...

, but left them in 2019. In March, 2024 Hozdic became manager of the

Bosnia & Herzegovina Bosnia and Herzegovina, sometimes known as Bosnia-Herzegovina and informally as Bosnia, is a country in Southeast Europe. Situated on the Balkans, Balkan Peninsula, it borders Serbia to the east, Montenegro to the southeast, and Croatia to th ...

women's first team.

References

1978 births Living people Sportspeople from Brčko District Bosnia and Herzegovina emigrants to Switzerland Swiss people of Bosnia and Herzegovina descent Men's association football defenders Swiss men's footballers Bosnia and Herzegovina men's footballers 21st-century Bosnia and Herzegovina sportsmen FC Luzern players FC Baden players FC Thun players Bnei Yehuda Tel Aviv F.C. players Neuchâtel Xamax FCS players FC Lugano players FC Wohlen players Swiss Super League players Israeli Premier League players Swiss Challenge League players Swiss expatriate men's footballers Bosnia and Herzegovina expatriate men's footballers Expatriate men's footballers in Israel Bosnia and Herzegovina expatriate sportspeople in Israel Swiss expatriate sportspeople in Israel {{Switzerland-footy-defender-stub