Ivica Osim
Ivan " Ivica " Osim ( born May 6, 1941 in Sarajevo ) is a former Yugoslav football player, national team and coach. Osim was until end of November 2007 coach of the Japanese national team.
Ivica Osim is married and has three children.
Career
Osim began his professional career in 1959-1968 at FK Željezničar Sarajevo. He then moved into the Première Division to France, where he played for FC Valenciennes, CS Sedan and Racing Strasbourg. It was used a total of 16 times in the Yugoslav national team, scoring eight goals. 1968 Osim was appointed to the All- Star team the championship.
In 1978 he ended his active career as a player and became a coach. First, he was in charge until 1986 zeljeznicar Sarajevo ( 2x Yugoslav vice-champion, Cup Final, UEFA Cup semi-final ) and 1982 to 1984 the Yugoslav Olympic team, with which he took the bronze medal at the 1984 Olympic Games.
In 1986, he took over the Yugoslav national team, with which he reached the quarter -finals of the FIFA World Cup 1990. In 1992, he managed to qualify for the European Championship. Yugoslavia was Captain Dragan Stojkovic with players such as Darko Pančev, Predrag Mijatovic, Davor Šuker, Dejan Savićević, Robert Prosinečki Elvir Bolić and Zvonimir Boban one of the title favorites. Because of the war Yugoslavia but was excluded from the EM.
With its tolerant attitude with respect to the nationality problem in his native Bosnia - Herzegovina Osim enjoys much recognition and worship.
Further stations were FK Partizan Belgrade ( June 1991 to May 1992, Cup victory 92) and Panathinaikos Athens ( July 1992 to March 1994, cup winners 93 and 94, runner 93).
Change to Sturm Graz
In July 1994, he was surprisingly presented as new coach of Austrian SMEs Sturm Graz. The commitment goes back to the former Storm Graz manager Heinz Schilcher, the former team -mate at Racing Strasbourg and friend of Osim was. Osim began with the then young team, which consisted of many self-made players to work for years to come and impose her his stamp. In the following three years storm was twice runner-up and won the Cup competition. 1998 led to the first national championship win in the club's history. This could be a year even increased it again by Championship Cup victory and Supercup could be won. Cup and Supercup won the team in the era Osim each 3 times. Likewise, three times in a row pulled the team into the Champions League one. In the 2000/2001 season the team even managed to complete their group and be the first to move into the second round of the best 16 teams in Europe. This can be viewed as the culmination of the era Osim. In the national championship the team, however, only reached rank 4, which is the worst result under Osim.
Then appeared the first problems. The management did not renew the contracts of 13 veteran players and fetched, usually without consultation with Osim, numerous new players. Most of them were third-rate legionaries who were touted by players' agents. Osim had to start from one day to another suddenly only an average legionary troops available and had with the team finding new. Nevertheless he reached in 2002 again the runner-up title. In the same year storm -Star Ivica Vastić left - for Osim the Heart of storm - the club. The club failed in the Champions League qualifiers. During this time, Ivica Osim was repeatedly subjected to criticism from club president Hannes Kartnig what gnawed at the motivation of Osim. Osim was the whole situation too much, and he told the press after a game in September 2002 his resignation.
Century coach
In January 2009, Ivica Osim became the 100th anniversary elected at the Helmut -List-Halle in the celebration of SK Sturm Graz coach of the century. The eulogy for Osim held in Graz author Gerhard Roth.
Fresh start in Japan
In early 2003 received the offer from Osim Japan the local club JEF United to train. He decided to go for a year to Japan. After end of the contract he broke his tents in Japan, since the club but so tried to Osim, he also wrote for the year 2004. The same thing happened in 2005, although Osim had already announced his retirement here. In 2005 he won with his team the League Cup and thus the first title for the club. Meanwhile, he had also brought his son Amar Osim to the club, who acted as an amateur coach and assistant coach. Osim extended his contract with JEF United to a fourth year, but was presented on 21 July 2006 as the new team manager of the Japanese national team. His son Amar succeeded him at JEF United.
Japan managed to qualify for the Asia Cup in 2007 with only a single defeat. The tournament itself was not as successful as hoped for the Japanese. The defending champions failed in the semifinals. Osim made also in international media sensation, as it the Japanese Association of whether the short preparation phase ( the Japanese came practically from the Championship to the Asian Cup ) hard criticized and docked with Japanese journalists. Each matter how innocuous question was answered by Osim with cynicism and ridicule.
Ivica Osim is also regarded for his intellectual abilities, but denied any glorification of his person, as he points out, the game of life in his autobiography: ". Too much light hurts the perception" On 15 November 2007 Osim suffered in his apartment in Tokyo a stroke and was due to a heart problem in critical condition. On 19 November, it was reported that Osim is out of danger. On November 28, Osim awoke from a coma. His condition should slowly but yet, better. The next day he was replaced as team principal of Japanese Takeshi Okada. On December 24, Ivica Osim could leave the intensive care unit and begin the regeneration therapy. From the Japanese Football Association him another, future cooperation was offered. The Japanese video game maker Sega immortalized him in November 2009 on the cover of the game " J-League Pro Soccer Club o Tsukurou! 6: Pride of J " for the game console Playstation Portable.
Literature by and about Ivica Osim
- Günter Schilhan: My city: Harald Juhnke, Frank Castorf - Berlin, Ephraim Kishon - Tel Aviv, István Szabó - Budapest, Ivica Osim - Sarajevo, The 14th Dalai Lama - Lhasa. Böhlau, Vienna, 2000. ISBN 3-205-98969-4
- Gerald Enzinger, Tom Hofer: Ivica Osim - the game of life. Deuticke, Vienna, 2001. ISBN 3-216-30594-5 ( autobiography, recorded by Gerald Enzinger and Tom Hofer, published in German and Japanese).
- Stefan Achenbach, Serious Draxl, Ivica Osim: Ivica Osim - The world is everything that is the ball. Wieser, Klagenfurt, 2002, ISBN 3-85129-375-4.