Josip Skoblar

Josip Skoblar
Personnel
birthday	March 12, 1941
place of birth	Privlaka ,  KGR Yugoslavia
size	182 cm
position	Center Forward
Men's
Years	station	Games (goals) 1
1958-1959	NK Zadar
1959-1966	OFK Belgrade	162 (63)
1966-1967	Olympique Marseille	15 (13)
1967-1970	Hannover 96	57 (30)
1970-1974	Olympique Marseille	158 (138)
1975-1977	HNK Rijeka	36 (10)
National team
Years	selection	Games (goals)
1961-1967	Yugoslavia	32 (11)
Stations as a trainer
Years	station
1983-1987	HNK Rijeka
1987	Hamburger SV
1988-1989	NK Dinamo Zagreb
1989	Real Valladolid
1990-1991	Hajduk Split
1994	Olympique Nîmes
2000	Lebanon
1 Only league games are given.

Josip Skoblar (born March 12, 1941 in Privlaka , Kingdom of Yugoslavia , now Croatia ) is a former Yugoslav football player and coach .

Career

As a player

The striker Skoblar began his career with NK Zadar in 1958. In 1959, at the age of 18, he moved to the top club OFK Belgrade , where he played until 1966. Here he became a Yugoslav national football player and took part in the 1962 World Cup in Chile , where Yugoslavia won in the quarter-finals against Germany and came fourth after losing to Czechoslovakia in the semi-final . Skoblar made 32 international appearances for Yugoslavia and scored 11 goals.

In 1966 he moved abroad to the French club Olympique Marseille . Despite his high hit rate (13 goals in 15 first division appearances ), he left Marseille after less than a year and went to the Bundesliga for Hannover 96 , for which he scored 30 goals in 57 Bundesliga games within three years.

In 1970 he returned to Olympique Marseille, where he shot himself into the hearts of the fans and is still considered the best striker the Phocéens have had in the early 21st century - despite two goal-getters of the size of Gunnar Andersson and Jean-Pierre Papin  - ever had. In his first season after his return, he scored 44 goals in Division 1 , which is still a hit record in the French league. In 1972 he scored 30 goals, in 1973 26 goals (making him top scorer again) and in 1974 20 goals. Skoblar set another "record for the ages" by scoring as many goals in his first 100 league games.

When he ended his playing career in 1975, he had scored 151 goals in 174 point games for Olympique; in addition there were several successes in national and international cup competitions. In 1972 he won the championship and cup (with a Skoblar goal in the 2-1 final victory over SEC Bastia ) and thus the doublé .

As a functionary

From 1977 Skoblar was temporarily employed at Olympique Marseille as a sports director, and in the 1990s as a player scout . In season 1987/88 he trained as successor to Ernst Happel to Hamburger SV , but was released from there after 15 match days after the vice champion and cup winner of the preseason was only in ninth place. He had success as a coach of the HNK Hajduk in 1986/87 and 1990/91.

In 1994 he was the coach of the Olympique Nîmes .

successes

As a player

• National team
  • World Cup fourth: 1962

• OFK Belgrade
  • Yugoslav Cup: 1962, 1966
• Olympique Marseille
  • French champion: 1971, 1972
  • French cup winner: 1972

As a trainer

• Hajduk Split
  • Yugoslav Cup: 1987, 1991

Individually

• Golden shoe for the best goalscorer in Europe: 1970/71
• Top scorer French league: 1971, 1972, 1973
• Best foreign player in the French league: 1970, 1971
• Record top scorer in the French league: 44 hits

Individual evidence

1. ↑ This assessment and all statistical information from Alain Pécheral: La grande histoire de l'OM. Des origines à nos jours. Ed. Prolongations, o. O. 2007 ISBN 978-2-916400-07-5 , pp. 207-211 and appendix pp. 371-491
2. ↑ http://www.rsssf.com/miscellaneous/franpoy.html