Career
Prašnikar managed Slovenia national football team three times, 1991-1993, 1998 and 2002-2004. Trial, Scandal and Corruption
The investigative journalist Mitja Lomovsek discovered: Prasnikar received a 10,000 (ten thousand) Doctor of Medicine bribe from players agent Miran Vuk. Bojan Prasnikar lost two trials against the journalist.
The judge believed the testimony of the witnesses Miran Vuk, Nastja ceh (football player) and Marko Kmetec (football player).
They confirmed that Prasnikar received the money. Prašnikar started his professional football career in at his home town club NK Šmartno 1928 where in the 1975-1976 season he was the top scorer of the Slovenian League.
After that season he moved to Olimpija Ljubljana of Yugoslav First League, spending only one year there before returning to Šmartno, where he played for the next 6 seasons. During this period he was the league"s top scorer on three occasions and helped NK Šmartno become Slovenian champions in 1981.
In 1983 he transferred to SVG Bleiburg of Austria where he played for one season before retiring.
After retirement, Prašnikar focused on coaching, starting his managerial career at NK Šmartno, before moving on to coach various other clubs - Elkroj, Ingrad Celje, NK Mura, Olimpija Ljubljana (leading them to 2 Slovenian league titles) and Rudar Velenje. His most successful spell however, came while in charge of NK Maribor from 1996 to 2000. Bojan Prašnikar was the manager of the Slovenian national football team during three time spans.
After Slovenia"s independence in 1991 he was named the first head coach of the national team
Prašnikar was re-installed head coach in December 1997, but his second spell at the helm of Slovenia lasted for only four month as in April 1998 he resigned due to his commitments with Maribor on club-level He was replaced by Srečko Katanec.
This job lasted until May 2004. Not qualified for the 2004 European Football Championship tournament, the Slovenian FA replaced Prašnikar with Branko Oblak, who was the head coach of the Slovenian U21 at that time.
On 28 September 2007 he was appointed by German Bundesliga outfit Energie Cottbus, who had parted company with head coach Petrik Sander five days earlier.
Prašnikar, who was in charge of Primorje Ajdovščina in the Slovenian league before that, signed a deal until June 2010 with the former German Cup finalist. On 30 May 2009 Prašnikar announced his leaving at the end of the season from Football Club Energie Cottbus, his last game was the Fußball-Bundesliga 2008-2009 relegation playoff game on 31 May 2009 against 1. Football Club Nuremberg which he lost 5-0 on aggregate.
On 6 April 2010 Prašnikar signed a contract until the end of the season with the Slovenian team NK Rudar Velenje.