Ćiro Blažević
Managing Bosnia and Herzegovina in 2009
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| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Full name | Miroslav Blažević | ||
| Date of birth | 10 February 1935 | ||
| Place of birth | Travnik, Kingdom of Yugoslavia | ||
| Playing position | Midfielder | ||
| Youth career | |||
| Travnik | |||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| 1957–1958 | Dinamo Zagreb | ||
| 1958–1959 | FK Sarajevo | ||
| 1959–1964 | Rijeka | ||
| 1964–1966 | Sion | ||
| Teams managed | |||
| 1968–1971 | Vevey | ||
| 1971–1976 | Sion | ||
| 1976 | Switzerland | ||
| 1976–1979 | Lausanne-Sport | ||
| 1979–1980 | Rijeka | ||
| 1980–1983 | Dinamo Zagreb | ||
| 1983–1985 | Grasshopper | ||
| 1985 | FC Prishtina | ||
| 1986–1988 | Dinamo Zagreb | ||
| 1988–1991 | Nantes | ||
| 1991–1992 | PAOK | ||
| 1992–1994 | Dinamo Zagreb | ||
| 1994–2000 | Croatia | ||
| 2001 | Iran | ||
| 2002 | Osijek | ||
| 2002–2003 | Dinamo Zagreb | ||
| 2003 | Mura | ||
| 2003–2005 | Varteks | ||
| 2005 | Hajduk Split | ||
| 2005–2006 | Neuchâtel Xamax | ||
| 2006–2008 | NK Zagreb | ||
| 2008–2009 | Bosnia and Herzegovina | ||
| 2009–2010 | Shanghai Shenhua | ||
| 2010–2011 | China U23 | ||
| 2011–2012 | Mes Kerman | ||
| 2012–2013 | NK Zagreb | ||
| 2014 | Sloboda Tuzla | ||
| 2014 | Zadar | ||
| * Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only. |
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Miroslav "Ćiro" Blažević (Serbo-Croatian pronunciation: [mǐroslaʋ tɕǐːro blǎːʒeʋitɕ] (
listen); born 10 February 1935) is a Bosnian retired football manager and player. His professional playing career spanned 1957–1968, during which he played for several first-league Yugoslav teams. As a manager, his most successful period was with the Croatian national team, which he led to the quarter-finals in the 1996 European championship and won third place at the 1998 FIFA World Cup.
Parallel to his coaching, Blažević also maintains an off-and-on political career in Croatia where he is known as "Trener svih trenera" (the "Coach of all coaches").
Blažević was born to a Bosnian Croat family in Travnik, Drina Banovina, Kingdom of Yugoslavia. He began his youth career in local team NK Travnik, after which he moved to Zagreb and joined Dinamo Zagreb. His career as a player was, by his own admission, average; therefore, he began his coaching career at a relatively early age. As a player, he played for Dinamo Zagreb, Lokomotiva Zagreb, Zagreb, Rijeka, Sarajevo, and Sion. He started as a coach where he ended his playing days—in Switzerland. He first led FC Vevey (1968–71) then his former team FC Sion (1971–76), FC Lausanne-Sport (1976–79) and finally Switzerland's national team (as interim coach for two games in 1976).
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