Who is Bora Milutinovi? Bora was the U.S. World Cup head coach in 1994. Also, he comes from a soccer family, he and his two brothers Miloš and Milorad played together for Partizan. Unfortunately, he lost both parents at an early age. His father was killed in World War II and his mother died due to tuberculosis soon after the war was over. He is now 79 years old living his best life with his wife Mari and his daughter Darinka in California. Most importantly, he was a great soccer player before starting his coaching career.He was a midfielder with 24 goals in his career. He played from 1954–1958 at FK BOR and he played for 8 other teams in his soccer career. His favorite was UNAM Pumas. He liked that club so much that after he was done playing with them he applied to become assistant coach of the team. As a result, he got the job. They won the league that season but the following year the club decided to change their manager. That's when they called Bora. "Bora, would you help us while we find a manager?" And he accepted the job. The situation was meant to be temporary but ended up lasting seven years.
Milutinovi in total coached 19 international and regular club teams. He started coaching the U.S. team in 1991 and was really focused on getting good forwards who could play major role in retooling the team traditionally stagnant and clumsy offense.Who who he had in mind were Roy Wegerle a forward from London but born in U.S., Ernie Stewart number one scorer in dutch at the time, and Henry Gutierres a star from North Carolina State. Then, he started preparing them for the world cup. When the time came he led them all the way to Round 16, when they eventually lost 1–0 to Brazil on Independence Day. After many years working with the U.S. soccer team Bora decided he no longer wanted this position. They wanted him to coach and be an administrator, but Miltinovic wanted no part of being an administrator. He led the U.S. team for the last time ever coaching them to the first round of CONCACAF qualifiers before resigning on June 30, 2004. After he resigned other countries tried to hire him as their head coach. For example, Chile wanted him as its national team coach and so did Ecuador and Uruguay. Japan tried to lure him with offers to coach either its national team or a J-League team. Top first-division clubs in Argentina tried to sign him as well. But he said no because he was happy living in the United States with his wife and daughter.