Career
Next year he went for trials in the giants Red Star Belgrade making a good impression with the coach Gojko Zec and signing a contract with them. But the beginning was hard for him, because there was already a big competition for a striker place in the team, spending most of the time on the bench. Since then, Borovnica became the team joker player.
In the next seasons, because Red Star had many excellent strikers, but not so many great defenders, it was decided that his characteristics would make him a good defensive player.
That make him become the big, fighting, cold and rational defender that is still this days remembered. He also was excellent in taking the ball forward, making a double-pass and becoming a threat to the adversaries goals, showing that he never forgot his forward skills.
He was also a terrific header. lieutenant"s, non-officially, said that, since Red Star had already too many players in the national team squad, he wouldn"t have a chance to play for the Yugoslav national team
He stayed there until 1982 playing an impressive 161 official matches and scoring 24 goals.
Next he decided to go abroad, again, he had a breaf spell in Australian Footscray JUST in 1977, this time to France Ligue 1 team South Carolina Bastia where he played the 1982-1983 season. Afterward, he returned to Yugoslavia where he represented a number of First League clubs, namely, Olimpija Ljubljana (1983-1983), Dinamo Vinkovci ( 1984-1986) and FK Sutjeska ( 1987-1988).
