Ivica Osim

Ivica Osim
Ivica Osim 1999
Personnel
birthday	May 6, 1941
place of birth	Sarajevo ,  Independent State of Croatia
position	attacking midfield
Men's
Years	station	Games (goals) 1
1959-1968	FK Željezničar Sarajevo	166 (56)
1968	Two boys	2 0(0)
1969-1970	FK Željezničar Sarajevo	54 0(9)
1970-1972	Racing Strasbourg	58 (16)
1972-1975	CS Sedan	105 (16)
1975-1976	Valenciennes FC	30 0(1)
1976-1988	Racing Strasbourg	32 0(4)
National team
Years	selection	Games (goals)
1964-1969	Yugoslavia	16 0(8)
Stations as a trainer
Years	station
1978-1986	FK Željezničar Sarajevo
1986-1991	Yugoslavia
1991-1992	FK Partizan Belgrade
1992-1994	Panathinaikos Athens
1994-2002	SK Sturm Graz
2002-2006	JEF United Ichihara Chiba
2006-2007	Japan
1 Only league games are given.

Ivan "Ivica" Osim (born May 6, 1941 in Sarajevo , Independent State of Croatia ) is a former Yugoslav and Bosnian football player and coach . Osim was the coach of the Japanese national team until the end of November 2007 .

Ivica Osim is married and has three children. He lives most of the time in Graz, Styria .

Career

Osim began his professional career from 1959 to 1968 at FK Željezničar Sarajevo . He then moved to the Première Division in France, where he played for Valenciennes FC , CS Sedan and Racing Strasbourg . He was used a total of 16 times for the Yugoslav national team and scored eight goals. In 1968 Osim was appointed to the all-star team at the European Championship .

In 1978 he ended his active football career and became a coach. Initially he was in charge of Zeljezničar Sarajevo until 1986 (2 x Yugoslav runners-up, cup final, semi-finals UEFA Cup ) and from 1982 to 1984 the Yugoslav Olympic team, with which he won the bronze medal at the 1984 Olympic Games .

In 1986 he took over the Yugoslav national team , with which he reached the quarter -finals of the 1990 World Cup . In 1992 he qualified for the European Championship, but resigned on May 22 because of the nationality conflict. Yugoslavia was one of the favorites for the title with players like captain Dragan Stojković , Darko Pančev , Predrag Mijatović , Davor Šuker , Dejan Savićević , Robert Prosinečki , Elvir Bolić and Zvonimir Boban . Because of the war, Yugoslavia was excluded from the European Championship on May 30th.

Due to his tolerant attitude towards the nationality problem in his native Bosnia-Herzegovina, Osim enjoys a lot of recognition and admiration.

Further stations were FK Partizan Belgrade (June 1991 to May 1992, cup win 92) and Panathinaikos Athens (July 1992 to March 1994, cup winners 93 and 94, runner-up 93).

Change to Sturm Graz

In July 1994 he was surprisingly presented as the new coach at the Austrian medium-sized company Sturm Graz. The commitment goes back to the then Sturm Graz manager Heinz Schilcher , who was a former teammate at Racing Strasbourg and a friend of Osim. Osim began with the then young troupe, which consisted of many homemade players, to work for years and to put his stamp on it. In the following three years Sturm was twice runner-up and won the cup competition. 1998 saw the first national championship win in the club's history. One year later this was even increased by winning the championship, cup and Supercup. The team won the trophy and the Supercup three times each in the Osim era. The team also made it into the Champions League three times in a row . In the 2000/2001 season, the team even managed to finish their group first and make it to the intermediate round of the best 16 teams in Europe. This can be seen as the culmination of the Osim era. In the national championship, however, the team only reached 4th place, which is the worst result under Osim.

Then the first problems arose. The management did not extend the contracts of 13 veteran players and brought in numerous new players, mostly without consulting Osim. Most were third-rate legionnaires promoted by players' agents. From one day to the next, Osim suddenly had only an average legionnaire's troops available and had to start over with finding a team. Nevertheless, he reached the runner-up title again in 2002. In the same year, storm star Ivica Vastić - for Osim the heart of Sturm - left the club. The club failed in the Champions League qualification. During this time, Ivica Osim was repeatedly criticized by club president Hannes Kartnig , which gnawed at Osim's motivation. The situation became too much for Osim and he retired to the press after a game in September 2002.

Century coach

In January 2009, Ivica Osim was voted Trainer of the Century at the celebration of SK Sturm Graz in the Helmut List Hall for the 100th anniversary . The laudation for Osim was given by the Graz author Gerhard Roth .

Coach statistics at Sturm Graz

team	from	to	competition	Results
				Sp.	S.	U	N	T	GT	Diff.	Weight%
SK Sturm Graz	June 1994	September 2002	Football Bundesliga (Austria)	298	159	71	68	539	302	+237	53.4%
			ÖFB Cup	29	25th	0	4th	86	35	+51	86.2%
			ÖFB Supercup	5	3	0	2	11	9	2	60%
			Champions League	24	7th	2	15th	20th	53	−33	29.2%
			UEFA Champions League qualification	10	6th	3	1	22nd	13	+9	60%
			UEFA Cup Winners' Cup	6th	3	2	1	8th	5	+3	50%
			UEFA Cup	2	0	1	1	4th	5	−1	60%
			UEFA Cup qualification	2	0	1	1	1	2	−1	0%
			UEFA Intertoto Cup	2	0	1	1	3	4th	−1	0%
			total	378	203	81	94	694	428	+266	53.7%
Source: transfermarkt.at , status: January 2019

New start in Japan

At the beginning of 2003 Osim received an offer from Japan to train the local club JEF United . He decided to go to Japan for a year. After the end of his contract he broke off his tents in Japan, but since the club tried so hard to get Osim, he signed for 2004. The same happened in 2005, although Osim had already announced his departure here. In 2005 he and his team won the league cup and thus the first title for the club. In the meantime he had already brought his son Amar Osim to the club, who acted as an amateur coach and assistant coach. Osim extended his contract with JEF United for a fourth year, but was presented on July 21, 2006 as the new boss of the Japanese national team . His son Amar succeeded JEF United.

Japan qualified for the 2007 Asian Cup with just one defeat. The tournament itself was not as successful for the Japanese as they had hoped. The defending champion failed in the semifinals. Osim also caused a sensation in the international media, as he harshly criticized the Japanese association for the short preparation phase (the Japanese practically came from the championship to the Asian Cup) and also quarreled with Japanese journalists. Osim answered every question, however harmless, with cynicism and ridicule.

Ivica Osim is also respected for his intellectual abilities, but refuses any glorification of his person, as he emphasizes in his autobiography The Game of Life : "Too much light harms perception." On November 15, 2007 Osim suffered one in his apartment in Tokyo Stroke and was in critical condition with a heart problem. On November 19, it was reported that Osim was out of danger. On November 28th, Osim woke up from his coma. His condition should slowly but surely improve. The next day he was replaced as the Japanese team boss by Takeshi Okada. On December 24th, Ivica Osim was able to leave the intensive care unit and start regeneration therapy. The Japanese Football Association offered him another future collaboration. The Japanese video game manufacturer Sega immortalized him in November 2009 on the cover of the game “J-League Pro Soccer Club o Tsukurou! 6: Pride of J “for the Playstation Portable game console.

Literature by and about Ivica Osim

• Günter Schilhan: My city: Harald Juhnke, Frank Castorf - Berlin, Ephraim Kishon - Tel Aviv, István Szabó - Budapest, Ivica Osim - Sarajevo, The 14th Dalai Lama - Lhasa . Böhlau, Vienna, 2000. ISBN 3-205-98969-4
• Gerald Enzinger, Tom Hofer: Ivica Osim - the game of life. Deuticke, Vienna, 2001. ISBN 3-216-30594-5 (autobiography, recorded by Gerald Enzinger and Tom Hofer, published in German and Japanese).
• Stefan Schennach , Ernst Draxl, Ivica Osim: Ivica Osim - the world is everything the ball is. Wieser, Klagenfurt, 2002, ISBN 3-85129-375-4 .

Web links

Wikiquote: Ivica Osim  - Quotes

• Literature by and about Ivica Osim in the catalog of the German National Library
• Short biography on kurier.at ( Memento from October 30, 2011 in the Internet Archive )
• Profile at the Serbian Football Association
• Profile at racingstub.com

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Ivica Osim - Portrait of Sturm Graz's former successful coach, kurier.at ( Memento from October 30, 2011 in the Internet Archive )
2. ↑ STANDARD Verlagsgesellschaft mbH (ed.): "Austria's game has become more modern". In: derstandard.at. March 30, 2015, accessed January 7, 2016 . 
3. ↑ Markus Zottler: 100 Years of Sturm Graz - 1st place | Ivica Osim . On sturm12.at , January 5, 2010
4. ↑ sport.orf.at ( Memento of the original from December 23, 2007 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. 
5. ↑ http://kicker.de/news/fussball/intligen/startseite/artikel/372588/
6. ↑ http://www.n4g.com/psp/News-350899.aspx