Post-playing
Borota tried his hand at coaching, but didn't get further than several low-profile appointments in South Africa during the 1980s.
By the early 1990s he came back to Belgrade. Already devoting much of his time to abstract painting (he had his work displayed in London in 1981 while an active player), Borota put together an exhibition in Srećna nova umetnost gallery in Belgrade's SKC. In 1994 he was implicated in an art theft ring of Paja Jovanović paintings and served a six-month spell in investigative detention.
After getting out of prison, through his friendship with Vujadin Boškov and Siniša Mihajlović, Borota moved to Genoa in Italy where he made a living by painting.
He died on 12 February 2010 in Genoa, after a long illness, aged 56. He was laid to rest at the New Cemetery in Belgrade on 25 February 2010 with the sombre ceremony attended by his friends and colleagues such as Moca Vukotić, Slobodan Santrač, Pižon Petrović, Xhevat Prekazi, and Milutin Šoškić among others.
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