Ivica Osim

Quotes

• “Inevitably you start to loose ideas and authority. You don’t want to provoke crises, but you need problems so you can create solutions.”
• “A team is successful when they make a difference, not because of their trophies.”
• “Normally, cultures don't fight. That is why they are cultures: because they do not wage wars.”
• “This sphere has enough problems as it is, and slowly we could start thinking about how we can live better together. I ask myself: Aren't they starting to get a headache from the constant warfare?”
• “In modern football all teams run and fight. Football needs to come back a little to be a game, if it is even coming back. If there is too much tactics, too much money, too much fight, maybe the people do not want to see it any more. Football is a game.”
• “You don't dig a new well if you have water in an old well. If we are going to build a team, we must build it around a group of experienced players.”

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Key dates

Born

6 February 1941

Died

1 May 2022

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Wikidata facts

Instance of

human

Given name

Ivan

Gender

male

Citizenship

Bosnia and Herzegovina

Place of birth

Sarajevo

Place of death

Graz

Child

Amar Osim

Educated at

University of Sarajevo

Languages spoken

German

Participant in

1968 UEFA European Championship

Field of work

association football

Sport

association football

Member of team

Yugoslavia men's national football team

Position played

forward

Country for sport

Yugoslavia

Image

Ivica Osim - SK Sturm (1999) (cropped).jpg

Height

+189

Number of children

+3

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