Ivica Horvat
Ivan " Ivica " Horvat (* July 16, 1926 in Sisak, Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes; † August 27, 2012 on Krk, Croatia) was a Yugoslav football player and coach. As a player and a coach, he also worked for clubs in the Federal Republic of Germany.
Club career as a player
Horvat began playing football in 1939 when ŠK Ferraria Zagreb, where he played until 1942. He played from 1945 to 1957 for Dinamo Zagreb, where he debuted in the first team on 22 July 1945. Overall, he came to 208 appearances for Dinamo in which he scored 2 goals. In 1957 he moved to Germany to Eintracht Frankfurt, where he remained until his career end. Horvat was as for that time hulking stopper to the stars and the fundamental pillars of Frankfurt's championship team in 1959, alongside the Hungarian István Sztani goal scorers and playmaker Alfred Pfaff. However, unlike Sztani and Pfaff Horvat was injured - he retired in the third final game on May 30 in a 2-1 home victory against 1 FC Köln, a serious injury - not to participate in the championship final against Kickers Offenbach. The injury ultimately led to the end of his playing career. Overall, he came to 56 appearances for Eintracht in the Football Oberliga Süd.
National
In the Yugoslav national Horvat played from 1946 to 1959 a total of 60 games. He participated with the team at the World Championships in 1950 and 1954.
He was also player of the Yugoslavian team that won the silver medal in Helsinki at the 1952 Olympics. In the final, while the Yugoslavs were subject to the distinguished Hungarian miracle team of the 1950s.
In the quarter- finals of the 1954 World Cup Yugoslavia defeated the German team after an own goal by Horvat with 0:2 ( second German goal from Rahn ); this shot in the 10th minute own goal was the fastest in World Cup history, to the Paraguayan Carlos Gamarra met at the 2006 World Cup against England after three minutes into his own net.
Career as a coach
From 1961 to 1979 he worked as a coach, first as an assistant coach at Eintracht Frankfurt until he succeeded by Paul Oßwald head coach in 1964. As Frankfurt but in the league could not convince Horvat was released in 1965. His successor was Elek Schwartz.
With Dinamo Zagreb he won in 1967 with Branko Zebec equivalent rank as assistant coach in the final matches against Leeds United ( 2-0, 0-0) the Fairs Cup, the forerunner of the UEFA Cup.
From 1971 he was back in the Bundesliga group, with operations at FC Schalke 04, with whom he was in 1972 Cup winner and runner-up. In 1975, Horvat to Rot-Weiss Essen, which he coached until September 1976.
He then trained in the season 1976 /77 and 1977/78 second division Westfalia Herne.
At the beginning of the season 1978/1979 Horvat returned once to Schalke, but was dismissed again in March after poor performances of the team and a 1-3 defeat in the derby against Bochum. Then Horvat finished his coaching career.
Achievements
Title as a player
- Yugoslav champion in 1948, 1954.1958
- Yugoslavian Cup Winner 1951
- German Champion 1959
- Silver Medal Olympic Games 1952
Title as coach
- Fairs Cup 1967
- German Cup winner 1972