Ivica Osim
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Osim conducting a radio interview in June 1999 during his time coaching Sturm Graz.
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| Date of birth | 6 May 1941 | ||||||||||||||
| Place of birth | Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina | ||||||||||||||
| Height | 1.89 m (6 ft 2 1⁄2 in) | ||||||||||||||
| Playing position | Midfielder | ||||||||||||||
| Youth career | |||||||||||||||
| 1954–1959 | Željezničar | ||||||||||||||
| Senior career* | |||||||||||||||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) | ||||||||||||
| 1959–1968 | Željezničar | 166 | (56) | ||||||||||||
| 1968 | Zwolsche Boys | 2 | (0) | ||||||||||||
| 1969–1970 | Željezničar | 54 | (9) | ||||||||||||
| 1970–1972 | Strasbourg | 58 | (16) | ||||||||||||
| 1972–1975 | Sedan | 105 | (16) | ||||||||||||
| 1975–1976 | Valenciennes | 30 | (1) | ||||||||||||
| 1976–1978 | Strasbourg | 32 | (4) | ||||||||||||
| Total | 447 | (102) | |||||||||||||
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| 1964–1969 | Yugoslavia | 16 | (8) | ||||||||||||
| Teams managed | |||||||||||||||
| 1978–1986 | Željezničar | ||||||||||||||
| 1986–1992 | Yugoslavia | ||||||||||||||
| 1991–1992 | Partizan | ||||||||||||||
| 1992–1994 | Panathinaikos | ||||||||||||||
| 1994–2002 | Sturm Graz | ||||||||||||||
| 2003–2006 | JEF United Chiba | ||||||||||||||
| 2006–2007 | Japan | ||||||||||||||
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| * Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only. |
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Ivan "Ivica" Osim (born 6 May 1941) is a Bosnian former football player and manager. He was most recently head coach of Japan, before he suffered a stroke in November 2007 and left the post. On 18 April 2011 FIFA announced that Osim will head an interim committee to run the Football Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina after the country was suspended from all international competitions.
As a player, he was a member of the Yugoslavia national team and played in the 1964 Olympics. As assistant manager, he won a bronze medal with Yugoslavia at the 1984 Olympics, and reached the quarterfinals of the 1990 FIFA World Cup as the manager of Yugoslavia.
Born during World War II in Sarajevo, precisely one month after the Nazi German invasion of Yugoslavia, to Slovene-German father Mihail "Puba" Osim who worked as machinist at the railways and Polish-Czech mother Karolina. Both of his parents were also born in Sarajevo. Following the end of the WWII, he started playing football in the FK Željezničar Sarajevo's youth system. He studied mathematics at the University of Sarajevo.
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