International
As he came into his own with FK Partizan during league-winning the 1977-78 season, Borota started getting national team callups as well.
The 26-year-old Hajduk Split's keeper Ivan Katalinić had been the national team's first choice goalie at the time under 3-man head coaching commission (consisting of Marko Valok, Stevan Vilotić, and Gojko Zec) as well as under previous head coach Ivan Toplak, however, the team's faltering 1978 World Cup qualifying campaign with two opening losses that led to Toplak's removal prompted a need to look at other options in goal as well.
The coaching triumvirate of Valok, Vilotić and Zec gave 25-year-old Borota a debut as second half substitute for Katalinić on 5 October 1977 in the away friendly versus Hungary.
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