Career
After this success, the BSK"s coach Aco Mastala received a proposal to move to the city"s main club FK Borac Banja Luka, which he accepted and brought along some of the players that helped him previously, between them, obviously, Velimir Sombolac. While in Borac, Velimir"s good exhibitions didn"t passed unnoticed, and, beside starting to represent the Yugoslav under-21 team, two seasons after he came there, received an invitation to move to one of the greatest Yugoslav clubs, the Belgrade"s FK Partizan. In 1965 he moved to NK Olimpija Ljubljana where he will play until 1970.
Together with Smajlović Arslanagić and, again, Šoškić, they would make Olimpija one of the most attractive Yugoslav First League teams.
In 1970, instead of moving abroad, as many other Yugoslav players in that period and with his age did, he will move to Second League NK Orijent Rijeka where he would play one season, before returning to FK Borac Banja Luka where he will hang on his boots in 1973. Afterward, Sombolac also played five matches for the national football team
Right after retiring, in 1973, he took charge of a small regional club called FK Sloga Gornji Pogradec, that provided him with crucial experience for returning, in 1974, to Borac, to become the assistant manager until 1976. During this years, Borac played one Yugoslav Cup final, will play in the European Cup Winners Cup and gained promotion to the Yugoslav First League.
Then he will take charge as main manager of FK Kozara Gradiška.
After three seasons there, he stayed in the club, but he founded his true vocation, that was working with youth. After the break-up of, he will work at the Republika Srpska Football Federation, helping to form all the youth categories teams, and will become the main manager of the Republika Srpska national football team