Husref Musemić

Born in the town of Janja, near Bijeljina, SR Bosnia and Herzegovina, SFR Yugoslavia, Musemić began his career playing at local club Radnik Bijeljina, which played in the Yugoslav Second League group West. In 1979, he joined Yugoslav First League side FK Sarajevo, where he played for 6 seasons. He was an important member of the memorable Sarajevo squad that won the 1984–85 Yugoslav First League, which earned him a move that summer to Red Star Belgrade. In Belgrade, Musemić represented the red & whites for the following four seasons, winning another Yugoslav First League title in the 1987–88 season. He moved abroad in summer of 1989 to join Hearts in Scotland, but he only played the first half of the 1989–90 Scottish Premier Division, though scoring a derby winner against Hibernian in August 1989, though, to cement his place in Hearts' history books. During the winter break he returned to Yugoslavia and joined his former club, FK Sarajevo. By then, Sarajevo had already lost many of the championship winning squad of 1985, so a year later, Musemić moved abroad again, this time to the Netherlands by joining Twente. He played nine games in the second half of the 1990–91 Eredivisie season, but in the following season he only managed to play one match, so he spent the second part of the season playing with FC VVV. He however played no official games for them. Before retiring, Musemić played in Germany between 1992 and 1994 with SC Pfullendorf in the Oberliga Baden-Württemberg where…

Musemić made his debut and played his only match for the Yugoslavia national team in a friendly match played in Timișoara, Romania, on 30 March 1983, in a Yugoslav victory of 2–0 against Romania. Later, after the break-up of Yugoslavia, in 1995, he played in the first half of the first ever official match of the Bosnia and Herzegovina national team, away against Albania.

Early career

After retiring from playing, Musemić began his managerial career. Initially, he worked at Sarajevo as an assistant to managers Mehmed Janjoš and Nermin Hadžiahmetović. Afterwards he managed Đerzelez in the late 1990s, before becoming Sarajevo's main manager and winning the 2004–05 Bosnian Cup and two years later, the 2006–07 Bosnian Premier League. After Sarajevo, Musemić managed Olimpik, with whom he won the 2008–09 First League of FBiH and got them promoted to the Bosnian Premier League. He also managed Sloboda Tuzla and Mladost Doboj Kakanj. While at Sloboda, Musemić also had good success, finishing 2nd in the 2015–16 Premier League season and being the 2015–16 Bosnian Cup runner-up. In between his two appointments at Olimpik, from 29 June 2011 until 2012, he was head coach of the Bosnia and Herzegovina U18 national team.

Return to Sarajevo

In August 2017, for the fifth time in his career, Musemić was appointed manager of Sarajevo. In November 2017, he overtook Miroslav Brozović as Sarajevo's manager with the most wins in the club's history. In the 2018–19 season, he had for a second time in his career won the Bosnian Cup after Sarajevo beat Široki Brijeg in the final on 15 May 2019. Just three days after the cup success, on 18 May 2019, Musemić led Sarajevo to a 4–0 home league win against Zvijezda 09 and won the league title with Sarajevo once again and also won the club's first ever double in history, as well as also the first double ever…

Musemić's older brother, Vahidin, was also a professional footballer, and is one of Sarajevo's greatest ever players.