Tomislav Ivić

Tomislav Ivić 1976 Ajax Amsterdam

Tomislav Ivić (* June 30, 1933 in Split, Yugoslavia; † June 24, 2011 in Split, Croatia) was a Yugoslav and Croatian football coach. In his career spanning more than 30 years he coached clubs in ten European and two Asian highest leagues, in addition, he was coach of Croatia, the United Arab Emirates and Iran.

Career

The former striker of NK Split began his coaching career at his hometown club before he / 72 Slavko Luštica replaced in 1971 when local rivals Hajduk. With Hajduk he celebrated until 1976 two Yugoslav championships and four Cups. After two years in the Netherlands at Ajax Amsterdam, with whom he became Dutch champion in 1977, he returned to Hajduk and was again with the team champion in 1979; 1997/98 he was on a transitional basis once worked for three matches for the Croatian club now.

From 1980 he was for three years at RSC Anderlecht, he fought in his first year as the Belgian championship. After a one-year re interlude in Yugoslavia, this time at Dinamo Zagreb, he came across a maximum of one season at Galatasaray, U.S. Avellino, Panathinaikos and FC Porto in 1988 for the first time to France to Paris St. Germain, where he remained two years.

From the second matchday of the season he coached Atlético Madrid and has been with the club for the German Bernd Schuster, the Portuguese Paulo Futre and the Austrian Gerhard Rodax and goalkeeper Abel Resino, who remained 1275 minutes without conceding a goal and thus set a world record, Spanish runner ten points behind FC Barcelona. Although six defeats and only two wins were not helpful in the last ten games, Atlético had this season against the Catalans, coached by Johan Cruijff, who took over the standings on the second match and no more charges, no real shot at the title. In direct comparison with Barcelona Atlético was but a 2-1 home win and a draw at the Camp Nou in front. But even more important was the 2-0 win at FC Barcelona in the Cup semi-finals who prepared the finals, where the Atlético RCD Mallorca defeated in extra time 1-0.

At the beginning of the 1991/92 season, he took over the French champions and European Cup finalists Olympique Marseille. His defensive tactics did not fall all over please. On 14 Round on 19 October, he suffered with Marseille in a 0-1 AS St. Etienne, the second defeat of the season. The match took place without Marseille striker Jean -Pierre Papin, who felt injured by a bottle throwing before the game; there was a rescheduling in January, ended 1:1. This Ivić had a balance of only one win, one loss and two draws from their last four league games, but was still a point ahead of AS Monaco leaders. A 3-2 home win in the first leg of the second round of the European Cup of Champions on Wednesday it did not help him. Already on game next sat his predecessor Raymond Goethals, who in the meantime employed as Technical Director at the club, along with Jean Fernandez on the bench. Was announced by the club's management to president Bernard Tapie end of the month that Ivić emotionally something was attacked because of his term civil war in Yugoslavia and therefore once doing a two week holiday. With Goethals Marseille difference though after a 1-2 defeat in Prague from the European Cup, but won the national championship. The League balance of Ivić at Marseille was eight wins, four draws and two defeats with a points average of 1:43 per game, which would have been enough that season to the title. Goethals reached 1:56 points per game on average.

At the beginning of the season 1992/93 he was appointed by the Portuguese champions SL Benfica as Vice successor of Sweden Sven -Goran Eriksson. On the eleventh Round he lost at FC Porto 0:1. After previous defeats against local rivals Sporting Lisbon and FC Famalicão Benfica was nurmehr four points behind third party, whereupon Ivić by Benfica's " eternal fire fighter " Antonio "Toni" Oliveira was replaced under which the club João Pinto, Rui Costa, Paulo Futre and Paulo Sousa only once and lost two points behind Porto runner and cup winner was. At the beginning of the season he was again coach at FC Porto, who was in the previous two years under the Brazilian Carlos Alberto Silva champion. After the first round the team was goalkeeper Vitor Baia order, João Pinto and the Bulgarian striker with four points behind number one on third parties and the later English Knight Bobby Robson led the team in the second series for runners.

He then became Director of the Croatian national team before were the qualifiers for the European Championship in England. A highlight was the game against the vice world champions Italy on November 19 in Palermo. Coach Miroslav Blažević was blocked by UEFA for this game and so Ivić came to his only use as a Croatian national coach. The 2-1 victory of the Croatians, this Italy added only the second defeat in a qualifying match and Croatia should establish qualification as group winners. This was also the first qualification of young Croatian for an international competition.

In 1995, he coached for some time AS Monaco and Fenerbahçe Istanbul before he spend a year in Dubai in charge of the national team of the Emirates and for two years the first division club Al Wasl, from 1996. From there we went to Pirouzi Tehran; Here he was responsible for 1998, the Iranian national team. Standard Liege and again Olympique Marseille were the last coach stations before he temporarily went into retirement - only to return in 2003 for a year as director of sport to Pirouzi Tehran. He then worked with more than 70 years as director of the training center from Standard Liege.

Unequalled his record is to have trained the national champion in six different countries: in 1974, 1975 and 1979 Hajduk Split in the former Yugoslavia, in 1977 AFC Ajax in the Netherlands, 1981 RSC Anderlecht in Belgium, 1986 Panathinaikos Athens in Greece, 1988 FC Porto in Portugal and Olympique Marseille, the 1991/92 champions of France was, although Ivić there already was eliminated in late October 1991.

In later years, he settled in his native city of Split. He confessed there to his first club, the RNK Split, whom he described as his great love. At the sight of old television images on a talk show of Televiziji K5 he lost mid-2008 on camera even some tears. The last suffering from heart problems and diabetes coach died on 24 June 2011, just a week before his 78th birthday.

Achievements

HNK Hajduk Split

• 3 × Yugoslav champion: 1974, 1975, 1979
• 4 × Yugoslav Cup winner: 1972, 1973, 1974, 1976

Ajax Amsterdam

RSC Anderlecht

Panathinaikos Athens

FC Porto

Atlético Madrid