Ivica Horvat
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| Full name | Ivan Horvat | ||||||||||||||
| Date of birth | 16 July 1926 | ||||||||||||||
| Place of birth | Sisak, Kingdom of SCS | ||||||||||||||
| Date of death | 27 August 2012 (aged 86) | ||||||||||||||
| Place of death | Njivice, Krk, Croatia | ||||||||||||||
| Height | 1.89 m (6 ft 2 in) | ||||||||||||||
| Playing position | Centre-back | ||||||||||||||
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| 1940–1945 | Ferraria Zagreb | ||||||||||||||
| Senior career* | |||||||||||||||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) | ||||||||||||
| 1945–1957 | Dinamo Zagreb | 208 | (2) | ||||||||||||
| 1957–1961 | Eintracht Frankfurt | 56 | (0) | ||||||||||||
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| 1946–1956 | Yugoslavia | 60 | (0) | ||||||||||||
| Teams managed | |||||||||||||||
| 1961–1964 | Eintracht Frankfurt (assistant) | ||||||||||||||
| 1964–1965 | Eintracht Frankfurt | ||||||||||||||
| 1967–1968 | Dinamo Zagreb | ||||||||||||||
| 1970 | PAOK | ||||||||||||||
| 1971–1975 | Schalke 04 | ||||||||||||||
| 1975–1976 | Rot-Weiss Essen | ||||||||||||||
| 1978–1979 | Schalke 04 | ||||||||||||||
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Ivan "Ivica" Horvat (16 July 1926 – 27 August 2012) was a Croatian footballer and manager who played for Yugoslavia. In 2004, he received the Croatian Olympic Committee's Matija Ljubek Award.
Horvat played from 1945 until 1957 for Dinamo Zagreb. In 1957 he moved to Germany to Eintracht Frankfurt, where he stayed until the end of his career.
In the Yugoslavia national team Horvat appeared from 1946 until 1956 in 60 fixtures. He took part in the World Cup in 1950 and 1954.
He also played with the Yugoslav team at the 1952 Summer Olympics in Helsinki and won the silver medal. In the final, Yugoslavia lost to the rising star of the 1950s, Hungary.
In the quarterfinals of the 1954 World Cup the Plavi lost due to an own goal from Horvat with 0–1. This goal was scored in the 10th minute and remained the fastest own goal in World Cup history until 2006 the Paraguayan Carlos Gamarra hit between his own posts against England after three minutes.
From 1961 until 1979 Horvat worked as manager, in the beginning as assistant at Eintracht Frankfurt and became successor of the manager legend Paul Oßwald in 1964. But Frankfurt could not convince in the Bundesliga and Horvat was sacked in 1965. He was succeeded by Elek Schwartz.
With Dinamo Zagreb he won the Inter-Cities Fairs Cup, the predecessor of the UEFA Cup, in 1967 in the final matches against Leeds United (2–0, 0–0) after previous manager Branko Zebec left club.
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