Josip Kuže
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| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Date of birth | 13 November 1952 | ||
| Place of birth | Vranje, FPR Yugoslavia | ||
| Date of death | 16 June 2013 (aged 60) | ||
| Place of death | Zagreb, Croatia | ||
| Playing position | Defender | ||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| 1971–1981 | Dinamo Zagreb | 384 | (14) |
| Teams managed | |||
| 1982–1984 | Sydney Croatia | ||
| 1985–1986 | BSK Slavonski Brod | ||
| 1986–1988 | Dinamo Zagreb (youth) | ||
| 1988–1989 | Borac Banja Luka | ||
| 1989–1990 | Dinamo Zagreb | ||
| 1991–1992 | Rot-Weiß Erfurt | ||
| 1992–1994 | Mainz 05 | ||
| 1996–1997 | Gamba Osaka | ||
| 1998–1999 | NK Zagreb | ||
| 2000 | Chemnitz | ||
| 2003–2004 | Inter Zaprešić | ||
| 2005–2006 | Dinamo Zagreb | ||
| 2007 | Rijeka | ||
| 2007 | Varteks | ||
| 2007–2008 | Rwanda | ||
| 2008 | JEF United Chiba | ||
| 2009–2011 | Albania | ||
| 2012 | Tianjin Teda | ||
| * Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only. |
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Josip Kuže (13 November 1952 - 16 June 2013) was a Croatian football coach and former player. He was a player and later coach of Dinamo Zagreb where he played from 1971-1981 making a total of 384 appearances and scoring 14 goals.
He was a professional football player with Dinamo Zagreb, winning 11 Yugoslavian U-21 caps. He played a minor role among the great players who still have their huge amount of respect today, mostly because in 1967 he was part of a team that won the UEFA cup and in 1982 a Yugoslavian championship. During his playing years with Dinamo as a defender from 1971 to 1981 he played in 384 games scoring 14 goals. Kuže scored only 1 goal in 1975/1976 season. During his career he played alongside Balkan footballing greats such as Zlatko Kranjčar, Snješko Cerin, Srećko Bogdan, Velimir Zajec, Ivica Senzen, Marko Mlinarić, Ismet Hadžić, Boro Cvetković and Stjepan Deverić.
After his playing career finished he started as coach of Sydney Croatia (1982–84) then he coached clubs such as BSK Slavonski Brod (1985–86), Dinamo Zagreb youth (1986–88), Borac Banja Luka (1988–89) before he became Dinamo Zagreb's coach in (1989–91). In 1991, he started coaching in Germany with FC Rot-Weiß Erfurt (1991–92) and later accepted the job from league-competition FSV Mainz 05, and stayed there until 1994. From 1995-98, he coached Japanese side Gamba Osaka. Kuže came back to Croatia to coach NK Zagreb (1998–99) and had a short stint with FC Chemnitz in 2000 and proceeded to coach Gamba Osaka again from 2000-2002. He then went to manage Inter Zaprešić from 2003–04 and in 2005 he took over coaching of Dinamo Zagreb again, winning the league title in his first year as coach.
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