Otto Barić
Otto Barić ( born June 19, 1933, iron Kappel, Carinthia, Austria ) is a former Yugoslav football player and later Yugoslav and Croatian football coach.
Career
Growing up is Barić in Zagreb, where he began his footballing career at Dinamo Zagreb and Zagreb locomotive. It was followed by a successful international coaching career for which he can produce trainer certificates of three countries (acquired in 1970 in Cologne, in 1972 in Vienna and 1975 in Zagreb).
Career as a coach
Barić began his coaching career in Germany, where he worked towards the end of the 1960s some unterklassige teams. In 1970 he was invited by Austrian Bundesliga FC Wacker Innsbruck committed as the new coach and could here claim his first title. In 1974 he went back to his home country before he was brought in 1980 by SK Sturm Graz back to Austria.
The biggest international successes in 84 European matches as responsible, he celebrated with SK Rapid Vienna in 1985 and SV Austria Salzburg in 1994, when he pushed forward each to the final of the Cup Winners' Cup competition and the UEFA Cup. A commitment in the German Bundesliga with VfB Stuttgart, he took over the 1985/86 season was unsuccessful. Soon after the start of the second half of this season, he was released. At the European Championships in England in 1996, he supervised the Croatian national team boss Miroslav Blažević as assistant coach.
After his successful time in Salzburg, where he came up in the UEFA Cup final and took part in the Champions League, he subsequently moved to his parent club Dinamo Zagreb and then to Fenerbahce. With two clubs he reached good results, but no title.
He succeeded by Herbert Prohaska, who resigned after the 0:9 debacle against Spain, coach of the Austrian national team in 1999. The qualification for Euro 2000 Austria missed clear after a further significant 0:5 defeat against Israel. In 2001, Austria under Barić however, to the play-off to qualify for the FIFA World Cup 2002, where they failed in the late bronze medalist, Turkey. This had the consequence that Barić 2001 resigned as team manager and Hans Krankl 2002 his successor took over.
As the head of the Croatian national team, he qualified for the Euro 2004 football championships in Portugal. Then Barić worked as an observer and adviser of FK Austria Wien and as sports director at Dinamo Zagreb, where he gave up this position after a short time because he could not implement his ideas.
As far last coach underway Movement, he served as team leader of the Albanian national team, he oversaw during qualifying for the 2008 European Football Championship.
His nickname Otto " Maximum " Barić he owes to the use of his favorite word " maximum " (which he pronounces " maximum "). He is not afraid of this word constantly to use (examples: maximum input, maximum concentration).
2007 Barić was condemned by UEFA because of homophobic remarks in an interview with the Croatian magazine Jutarnji list in 2004 to a fine of 1825 euros. In an interview with the magazine Barić had declared: " I know that there are no homosexuals in my team. I know a gay within ten minutes, and I do not want to have in my team, "In 2004 he had an interview with the Swiss newspaper Blick made a similar statement: ". My players have to be real men. So homosexuals can not play with me, more than against me. "