Miroslav Blažević

Miroslav Blažević
Miroslav Blažević (2009)
Personnel
Surname	Miroslav "Ćiro" Blažević
birthday	February 10, 1935
place of birth	Travnik ,  Kingdom of Yugoslavia
position	striker
Juniors
Years	station
	NK Travnik
Men's
Years	station	Games (goals) 1
	NK Travnik
	FK Sarajevo
	NK Rijeka
	Dinamo Zagreb
	Vevey Sports
	FC Sion
Stations as a trainer
Years	station
1968-1971	Vevey Sports
1971-1976	FC Sion
1976	Switzerland
1976-1979	Lausanne sport
1980-1981	NK Rijeka
1981-1983	Dinamo Zagreb
1983-1985	Grasshoppers Zurich
1985	FK Pristina
1985-1988	Dinamo Zagreb
1988-1991	FC Nantes
1991-1992	PAOK Saloniki
1992-1994	Dinamo Zagreb
1994-2000	Croatia
2001-2002	Iran
2002	NK Osijek
2002-2003	Dinamo Zagreb
2003	NK Mura
2003-2005	NK Varteks Varaždin
2005	Hajduk Split
2005-2006	Neuchâtel Xamax
2006-2008	NK Zagreb
2008-2009	Bosnia Herzegovina
2010	Shanghai Shenhua
2010-2011	China U 23
2011–2012	Mes Kerman
2012-2013	NK Zagreb
2013-2014	FK Sloboda Tuzla
2014-2015	NK Zadar
1 Only league games are given.

Miroslav "Ćiro" Blažević [ ˈmirɔslaːʋ ˈɕiːrɔ ˈblaːʒɛʋitɕ ] (born February 10, 1935 in Travnik , Kingdom of Yugoslavia ) is a football coach from Bosnia and Herzegovina . He is also a citizen of Croatia and Switzerland .

Career as a coach

The native Bosnian Croat Blažević grew up in Travnik and began a career as a cross-country skier. In 1953 he was Yugoslavian champion in cross-country skiing. That was the first time that no Slovene won this title. At the age of 18 he decided to play football and first played for NK Travnik, then moved to FK Sarajevo . His other stations were NK Rijeka and Dinamo Zagreb . Internationally, he played for the Swiss football clubs Vevey-Sports and FC Sion .

Blažević began his coaching career in 1968 in Switzerland. Until 1979 he coached several Swiss teams, including the national team for a year . The greatest success during this time was winning the national Swiss Cup competition with FC Sion in 1974.

In 1979 Blažević returned to Yugoslavia. In 1980 he took over the coaching position at Dinamo Zagreb, in 1982 he led the team back to the Yugoslav championship for the first time in 24 years and in 1983 to the Yugoslav Cup victory.

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In the same year Blažević left the country for Switzerland again. He himself claims today that because of his Croatian nationalist orientation he threatened imprisonment and had to flee.

From 1983 to 1985 Blažević trained the Grasshoppers Zurich , with whom he became Swiss champion in 1984. After his return, he achieved cult status similar to that in Croatia in the autonomous province of Kosovo . Under his leadership, the capital club KF Prishtina rose to the first Yugoslav league. After another four years abroad, at FC Nantes and PAOK Saloniki , Blažević returned to Dinamo Zagreb in 1992 , which was now Građanski and later Croatia Zagreb. With Croatia he won the Croatian Championship in 1993 and the Croatian Cup in 1994.

In 1994 Blažević became the coach of the Croatian national soccer team . With him Croatia qualified for the European Championship in 1996 and reached the quarter-finals. But his biggest coup was still ahead of him. He led the Croatian team to their first World Cup participation in 1998 and finished third. Blažević continued his work until November 2000, but in the meantime missed with his team the qualification for the EM 2000 . After a moderate start to qualifying for the 2002 World Cup , he resigned.

Shortly thereafter, Blažević got another chance to participate in the 2002 World Cup . He accepted the post as Iranian national coach. With Iran he failed in the play-offs. After these failures Blažević worked again as a club coach. First, he saved NK Osijek from relegation before going back to Dinamo Zagreb . He won Dinamo championship in 2003, but had fallen out with Vice-President Zdravko Mamić and left Zagreb again. Blažević then worked for a few months at the Slovenian club NK Mura before Croatia's NK Varteks Varaždin signed him .

In 2005, Blažević became the coach of Hajduk Split . A task that he says he has long wanted to pursue. However, since the rivalry between Hajduk and Dinamo is extreme in Croatia, his work was not a good star from the start. Many Hajduk fans turned down the long-time Dinamo coach. When Hajduk went 5-0 at home in the Champions League qualification under Blažević , "Ćiro" was forced to resign.

On September 27, 2005, just nine days after leaving Hajduk Split, Neuchâtel Xamax signed him. In the 2006/07 season he returned to Croatia and again coached a Zagreb club, but this time the competitor NK Zagreb .

In July 2008 he took over the coaching position of the Bosnian-Herzegovinian national soccer team . After a good performance of the national team in qualifying for the 2010 World Cup , which ended in the play-offs, there were disagreements with the association and, among other things, a dispute with the Bosnian playmaker Zvjezdan Misimović . Following Misimović's announcement that he would be leaving the national team, Blažević said it would be better for Misimović to stay and leave.

In the spring of 2009, Miroslav Blažević took over the office of the club coach of the Chinese first division club Shanghai Shenhua and started successfully, already after the 7th match day he was with Shanghai on the 1st place of the table. After one year of engagements at the Iranian first division club Mes Kerman and at NK Zagreb , he was head coach at FK Sloboda Tuzla in 2014 . In the 2014/2015 season Blažević was head coach at the Croatian first division club NK Zadar . He left the club in January 2015.

Web links

• Miroslav Blažević in the database of weltfussball.de

Individual evidence

1. ↑ At the age of 78: Blazevic hires as a trainer in Tuzla. On: handelsblatt.de, January 17, 2014 ( Memento of the original from February 24, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.