Admir Adžem

Admir Adžem (born 25 March 1973) is a Bosnian professional football manager and former player who is the current youth coach of UAE Pro League club Al-Wasl.

Admir Adžem
Personal information
Full name Admir Adžem
Date of birth (1973-03-25) 25 March 1973
Place of birth Sarajevo, SFR Yugoslavia
Height 1.73 m (5 ft 8 in)
Position(s) Full-back
Club information
Current team
 Al-Wasl Youth
Youth career
0000–1995 Željezničar
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
1995–1997 Željezničar 32 (5)
1997 Zagreb 5 (0)
1998–1999 Željezničar 19 (0)
1999–2000 Đerzelez 25 (0)
2000–2002 Željezničar 55 (1)
2002–2003 Pogoń Szczecin 19 (0)
2003–2004 Katowice 18 (1)
2004–2005 Željezničar 6 (0)
2005–2007 Zagłębie Sosnowiec 57 (1)
Total 236 (8)
National team
1997–2001 Bosnia and Herzegovina 14 (1)
Teams managed
2014 Željezničar
2015–2017 Željezničar U19
2017–2018 Željezničar
2019–2020 Željezničar U17
2020– Al-Wasl Youth
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only

Club career

In his playing career Adžem was a full-back. It is said that he was a very strong player and that it was really hard to get pass him.

Adžem played for a number clubs. He played for hometown club Željezničar on 4 occasions, Zagreb, Đerzelez, Pogoń Szczecin, GKS Katowice and Zagłębie Sosnowiec where he finished his career.

Adžem played in 104 league games and scored 6 career league goals for Željezničar, with whom he won all of his trophies. While playing for Željezničar he won the Bosnian Premier League 2 times, in the seasons 2000–01 and 2001–02, the Bosnian Cup 1 time, in the 2000–01 cup season, the same year that Željezničar completed the double (won the league and the cup in one season). He also won the Bosnian Supercup 3 times, in 1998, 2000 and in 2001.

For all the other clubs, Adžem made 114 league appearances and scored 1 goal while playing for Katowice, thus in total playing 228 league games and scoring 7 league goals in his career.

He finished his career in 2007 while playing for Zagłębie Sosnowiec at the age of 34.

International career

Adžem made his senior debut for Bosnia and Herzegovina in a February 1997 friendly match against Vietnam and has earned a total of 14 caps, scoring 1 goal. He played in both UEFA Euro 2000 and the 2002 FIFA World Cup qualifying campaigns. His final international was an August 2001 friendly against Iran.[1]

Managerial career

Željezničar

On 6 June 2014, Adžem was named new manager of Željezničar replacing Hajrudin "Dino" Đurbuzović who was sacked earlier in the day.[2] In 22 games Adžem amassed an impressive record of 11 wins, 7 draws and only 4 losses.

On 15 December 2014, Adžem had to be removed from the position of manager due to not having an UEFA Pro Licence to manage a first team of any club. He went back to coach in the club's Youth School while also working on to finish getting his license.[3]

Željezničar U19

Adžem managed a junior side of Željezničar from January 2015 to July 2017 with whom he won the Bosnian league title twice. First time in the 2014–15 season[4] and the second time in the 2016–17 season.[5]

Return to the Željezničar (first team)

On 23 July 2017, Adžem came back to the position of manager of Željezničar's first team after almost 3 years of his first appointment.[6]

In that season Adžem won the club's first trophy in 5 years after beating Krupa in the two legged final of the 2017–18 Bosnian Cup. In the first game, Željezničar beat Krupa 2–0 and in the second game 4–2.[7] He also could have won the double since Željezničar was for the majority of the season first in the league, but eventually finished on second place after a poor finish to the season.[8]

Before the start of the pre-season, on 4 June 2018, Adžem got sacked.[9]

Željezničar U17

In July 2019, Adžem became the new manager of the under-17 team of Željezničar.[10] In his first match as the U17 team manager, Adžem's team beat the Borac Banja Luka U17 team on 20 July 2019 at home, with the result being 2–0 for Željezničar.[11]

Adžem's first loss as the under-17 manager came on 3 August 2019, in a 1–0 away league loss against the under-17 team of Zrinjski Mostar.[12] On 27 July 2020, he left the under-17 team of Željezničar.[13]

Al-Wasl (youth)

On 17 September 2020, it was confirmed that Adžem had become the new youth coach of UAE Pro League club Al-Wasl.[14]

Managerial statistics
As of 7 March 2020[15]
Managerial record by team and tenure
Team From To Record
GWDLWin %
Željezničar June 2014 December 2014 22 11 7 4 050.00
Željezničar U19 January 2015 July 2017 32 25 5 2 078.13[lower-alpha 1]
Željezničar July 2017 June 2018 40 26 7 7 065.00
Željezničar U17 July 2019 July 2020 21 12 3 6 057.14
Total 115 74 22 19 064.35
  1. Counting only the 2016–17 season

Honours

Player

Željezničar

Manager

Željezničar

References
  1. "Player Database". eu-football.info. Retrieved 7 January 2021.
  2. "Admir Adžem novi trener Željezničara" (in Bosnian). Klix.ba. 6 June 2014. Retrieved 6 June 2014.
  3. N.J. (15 December 2014). "Admir Adžem više nije trener Željezničara" (in Bosnian). Klix.ba. Retrieved 15 December 2015.
  4. "Admir Adžem na rukama svoje šampionske generacije" (in Bosnian). sportsport.ba. 13 June 2015. Retrieved 13 June 2015.
  5. "Juniori Željezničara proslavili titulu prvaka BiH". fkzeljeznicar.ba (in Bosnian). 29 May 2017. Retrieved 29 May 2017.
  6. A. Lendo (23 July 2017). "Adžem novi trener Željezničara!" (in Bosnian). sportsport.ba. Retrieved 23 July 2017.
  7. N.K. (9 May 2018). "Željezničar nakon šest godina osvojio Kup Bosne i Hercegovine" (in Bosnian). Klix.ba. Archived from the original on 10 October 2018. Retrieved 9 May 2018.
  8. K.H. (21 May 2018). "Sarajevski derbi pripao Željezničaru, treća pozicija Sarajevu, peta vezana pobjeda GOŠK-a" (in Bosnian). Retrieved 21 May 2018.
  9. K.H. (4 June 2018). "Admir Adžem više nije trener FK Željezničar" (in Bosnian). Klix.ba. Retrieved 4 June 2018.
  10. S. Mlaćo (20 July 2019). "Admiru Adžemu novi posao u FK Željezničar" (in Bosnian). sportsport.ba. Retrieved 20 July 2019.
  11. "OPL: Kadeti Željezničara prvenstvo otvorili pobjedom u Banjaluci". fkzeljeznicar.ba (in Bosnian). 20 July 2019. Retrieved 22 July 2019.
  12. "Pioniri Željezničara trijumfovali u Mostaru, kadeti doživjeli poraz" (in Bosnian). Sport1.ba. 3 August 2019. Retrieved 3 August 2019.
  13. S. Mlaćo (27 July 2020). "Admir Adžem napustio FK Željezničar" (in Bosnian). sportsport.ba. Retrieved 27 July 2020.
  14. A. Čaušević (17 September 2020). "Adžem i zvanično počeo novu trenersku avanturu" (in Bosnian). sportsport.ba. Retrieved 17 September 2020.
  15. "Admir Adžem profile". Sofascore.com (in Croatian). Retrieved 7 March 2020.
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