Boško Gjurovski

Boško Gjurovski (born 28 December 1961) is a Macedonian professional football former player who played as a midfielder and a current manager.
He is the elder brother of Milko Djurovski and the uncle of Mario Djurovski.
Playing career
Club
He was a long-time servant of Red Star Belgrade, where he played for eleven years. He was very much loved by Red Star fans, especially after his brother, Milko, joined bitter rivals FK Partizan. He was known for excellent defending skills, great tackling and powerful shooting. In 1989, he joined Swiss side Servette FC, where he stayed for six seasons and ended his career.
International
He made his senior debut for Yugoslavia in a December 1982 European Championship qualification match against Wales and earned a total of 4 caps, scoring no goals. In 1994, just like his brother Milko, Djurovski accepted a call-up to represent the country of his birth. He made his senior debut for Macedonia in a March 1994 friendly match against Slovenia in Skopje and earned a total of 7 caps, scoring all of his 3 international goals in a match against Cyprus. His final international was a June 1995 European Championship qualification match against Belgium.
Managerial career
Gjurovski commenced his coaching career at his former club Servette FC as an assistant, and remained in that position for several seasons, in which they won a Swiss title and finished up runner up in another 2. He left this role to take up another assistant's role at his other former club Red Star Belgrade after this, and also remained in that role for one season.
In November 2002, he became the new coach of FK Rad, after steering FK Radnički Obrenovac to promotion the season earlier. He left FK Rad after only 1 season, citing differences between the club board & himself.
Gjurovski was appointed as Red Star Belgrade head coach in March 2007 after Dušan Bajević walked out on the club. Đurovski did well and won the league title in his first season as senior coach 2006–07 season. However, the following 2007-08 started poorly from the get-go as the team struggled & just managed to qualify for the Champions League 2nd qualifying round with a lot of difficulties, beating Levadia in Belgrade 1:0 and losing in Tallinn 1:2. Gjurovski was sacked after that game. He remained in the Red Star organization, however, moving to the position of the club's chief scout.
Just months after his sacking as head coach of Red Star Belgrade, Gjurovski was targeted for the assistant's role at J1 League underachiever Nagoya Grampus. It was rumored after this that Gjurovski was ultimately sacked by then red star President Dragan Stojković due to the fact that he would be taking the senior coaching position at Nagoya & was determined to take Gjurovski with him as his number 2.
After a 2-year rebuild, Stojković & Gjurovski managed to steer Nagoya to a long-awaited 2nd J-League championship.
On 26 November 2013 Gjurovski was appointed as a head coach of the North Macedonia national football team, but was sacked due to poor results on 7 April 2015.
On 7 May 2017, Gjurovski became the internal coach of Red Star Belgrade, after the departure of Miodrag Božović after a Red Star loss against Voždovac, losing the first place to Partizan.
On 20 March 2022, Gjurovski signed a contract with Paradou AC.
Managerial statistics
Honours
Player
Red Star Belgrade
Yugoslav First League: 1979–80, 1980–81, 1983–84, 1987–88
Yugoslav Cup: 1981–82, 1984–85
Servette
Swiss Super League: 1993–94
Manager
Radnički Obrenovac
Second League of FR Yugoslavia: 2001–02
Red Star Belgrade
Serbian SuperLiga: 2006–07
Serbian Cup: 2006–07
Politics
In 2020, he decided to join politics claiming that he wants to fight for agrarian rights, natural environment, and the development of sport in Serbia. He received thirteenth position on a combined electoral list of the right-wing Healthy Serbia, and Better Serbia in the 2020 Serbian parliamentary election.
Gjurovski, who was present at the famous football match between Hajduk Split and Red Star Belgrade when Josip Broz Tito died, has expressed yugo-nostalgic sentiments, saying that "life was nice in the time of Broz."
Personal life
Gjurovski was born in Tetovo in 1961, while his father Cvetko Gjurovski (born as Cvetko Stojanović), an ethnic Serb from Belgrade and moved to Macedonia at the beginning of World War II. His paternal grandfather fought for the Royal Serbian Army in World War I and retreated with the Serbian Army to Corfu. According to Gjurovski, his father's original surname Stojanović was changed to Gjurovski after the establishment of the new communist regime in Macedonia and Yugoslavia.
References
External links
Profile at MacedonianFootball.com
RSSSF
1961 births
Living people
Sportspeople from Tetovo
Men's association football midfielders
Yugoslav men's footballers
Yugoslavia men's international footballers
Macedonian men's footballers
North Macedonia men's international footballers
Dual men's international footballers
Red Star Belgrade footballers
Servette FC players
Yugoslav First League players
Swiss Super League players
Macedonian expatriate men's footballers
Expatriate men's footballers in Switzerland
Macedonian expatriate sportspeople in Switzerland
Macedonian football managers
Servette FC managers
FK Rad managers
Red Star Belgrade non-playing staff
Red Star Belgrade managers
paradou AC managers
North Macedonia national football team managers
Nagoya Grampus managers
Kyoto Sanga FC managers
J1 League managers
J2 League managers
Expatriate football managers in Switzerland
Expatriate football managers in Serbia
Macedonian expatriate sportspeople in Serbia
Expatriate football managers in Japan
Macedonian expatriate sportspeople in Japan
Serbian people of Macedonian descent
Macedonian people of Serbian descent
Serbs of North Macedonia