Sinisa Mihajlovic (Born February 20, 1969) is a Serbian football manager and former player. Currently in charge of Serie A club Fiorentina since June 2010.
Mihajlović has 63 caps and scored 9 goals for the Yugoslav and Serbia and Montenegro national team. He played in the 1998 FIFA World Cup and UEFA Euro 2000 tournaments.
He is considered one of the best free kick takers of all time, and holds the all-time Serie A free-kick record with 38 goals scored from free-kicks during his fourteen seasons in the top Italian league.
Coaching
After retiring from playing at Inter, Mihajlović right away began a coaching career at the club as assistant to head coach Roberto Mancini. Mihajlović and Mancini share a longtime friendship after playing together at Sampdoria and Lazio.
Mihajlović's free-kick expertise has been praised by Zlatan Ibrahimović, who after several successful free-kicks in thanked the then assistant coach Mihajlović who had trained him for 2 years at Inter.
Mancini was fired in June 2008 by club president Massimo Moratti at the end of the 2007–08 season to make way for Jose Mourinho and Mihajlović left the club on the same occasion
Fiorentina
On June 3, 2010 Mihajlović was announced as the new head coach of Fiorentina, replacing outgoing Cesare Prandelli who left the Tuscan club after getting appointed by the Italian Football Federation to become the new Italy national football team manager.
During the summer 2011 transfer season, Mihajlović was strongly linked with a return to Inter in head coaching capacity, with certain Italian papers even reporting the specific date of his unveiling at the nerazzuri following supposed succesful negotiations with Inter's sporting director Marco Branca. However, Mihajlović immediately denied those claims, pledging to stay on in Florence. |
