Tomislav Ivić (football coach)

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Tomislav Ivić
Persdag bij Ajax, nieuwe trainer Ivic, inventory number 928-6992.jpg
Tomislav Ivić 1976 at Ajax Amsterdam
Personnel
birthday June 30, 1933
place of birth Split ,  Yugoslavia
date of death June 24, 2011
Place of death Split ,  Croatia
position midfield
Men's
Years station Games (goals) 1
1953-1957 NCR split 125 (?)
1957-1963 Hajduk Split 11 (?)
Stations as a trainer
Years station
1967-1968 NCR split
1968-1972 Hajduk Split (youth)
1972 Hajduk Split
1972-1973 HNK Šibenik
1973-1974 Yugoslavia
1973-1976 Hajduk Split
1976-1988 Ajax Amsterdam
1978-1980 Hajduk Split
1980-1983 RSC Anderlecht
1983-1984 Galatasaray Istanbul
1984-1985 Dinamo Zagreb
1985-1986 US Avellino
1986 Panathinaikos Athens
1986-1987 Hajduk Split
1987-1988 FC Porto
1988-1990 Paris Saint-Germain
1990-1991 Atlético Madrid
1991 Olympique Marseille
1992 Benfica Lisbon
1993-1994 FC Porto
1994 Croatia
1995 AS Monaco (Assistant)
1995 Fenerbahçe SK
1995-1996 United Arab Emirates
1996 Al-Wasl
1997 Hajduk Split
1997-1998 Iran
1998-1999 Standard Liege
2000 Standard Liege
2001 Olympique Marseille
2003-2004 al-Ittihad
1 Only league games are given.

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

Career

The former striker of RNK Split began his coaching career at his hometown club before he 1971/72 Slavko Luštica at local rivals Hajduk Split replaced. With Hajduk he celebrated two Yugoslav championships and four cup wins until 1976. After two years in the Netherlands with Ajax Amsterdam , with which he became Dutch champion in 1977 , he returned to Hajduk and was again champion with the team in 1979; In 1997/98 he was temporarily active again for three games for the now Croatian club.

From 1980 he was with RSC Anderlecht for three years , which he led to the Belgian championship in his first year. After a one-year interlude in Yugoslavia, this time at Dinamo Zagreb , he came to France for the first time in 1988 to Paris Saint-Germain , where he stayed for two years, for a maximum of one season each at Galatasaray Istanbul , US Avellino , Panathinaikos Athens and FC Porto .

From the second match day of the season he coached Atlético Madrid and became Spanish runner-up with the club around the German Bernd Schuster , the Portuguese Paulo Futre and the Austrian Gerhard Rodax as well as goalkeeper Abel Resino , who conceded a 1,275 minute goal and thus set a world record ten points behind FC Barcelona . Although six defeats and only two wins in the last ten games were not helpful, Atlético had no real chance for the title this season against the Catalans coached by Johan Cruyff , who took the lead on matchday two and never surrendered. In direct comparison with Barcelona, ​​Atlético were ahead with a 2-1 home win and a draw at Camp Nou . But even more important was the 2-0 victory at FC Barcelona in the cup semi-finals, which prepared the entry into the final, where Atlético defeated RCD Mallorca 1-0 in extra time.

At the beginning of the 1991/92 season he took over the French champions and European Cup finalists Olympique Marseille . His defensive tactics were not noticed everywhere. On the 14th matchday on October 19 he suffered the second defeat of the season with Marseille in a 0-1 at AS St. Etienne . The game took place without Marseille star striker Jean-Pierre Papin , who felt injured by throwing a bottle before the game; there was a rerun in January that ended 1: 1. Ivić had a record of just one win, one loss and two draws from the last four league games, but was still one point ahead of AS Monaco . A 3-2 home win in the first leg of the second round of the European Champions' Cup on Wednesday didn't help him. On the next match day, his predecessor Raymond Goethals , who had meanwhile worked as technical director at the club, sat in the coaching bench with Jean Fernandez . Before the end of the month, the management of the association headed by President Bernard Tapie announced that Ivić was emotionally attacked because of the civil war situation in Yugoslavia at the time and was therefore going on vacation for two weeks. With Goethals, Marseille retired from the European Cup after a 2-1 defeat in Prague, but won the national championship. Ivić's league record at Marseille was eight wins, four draws and two defeats with an average of 1.43 points per game, which would have been enough for the title that season. Goethals achieved an average of 1.56 points per game.

At the beginning of the 1992/93 season he was appointed by the Portuguese runner-up SL Benfica as the successor to the Swede Sven-Göran Eriksson . On the eleventh game day he lost 0-1 at FC Porto . After previous defeats against local rivals Sporting Lisbon and FC Famalicão , Benfica was only third, four points behind, whereupon Ivić was replaced by Benfica's "eternal firefighter" António "Toni" Oliveira under the club of João Pinto , Rui Costa , Paulo Futre and Paulo Sousa only lost once and was runner-up and cup winner two points behind Porto. At the beginning of the season he was again coach at FC Porto, which was champion under the Brazilian Carlos Alberto Silva in the previous two years . After the first half of the season, the team led by goalkeeper Vítor Baía , João Pinto and the Bulgarian star striker was four points behind in third place and the later English knight Bobby Robson led the team to the runner-up in the second series.

He then became director of the Croatian national team, which was about to qualify for the European Championship in England. A highlight was the game against the vice world champions Italy on November 19th in Palermo . Coach Miroslav Blažević was suspended from UEFA for that game and so Ivić came to his only appearance as Croatian national coach. In the 2-1 victory of the Croatians, they inflicted only the second defeat in a qualifying game on Italy and Croatia should qualify as group winners. It was also the young Croatia's first qualification for an international competition.

In 1995 he coached AS Monaco and Fenerbahçe Istanbul for some time before he looked after the national team of the Emirates for one year in Dubai and the first division Al-Wasl for two years . From there it went to Pirouzi Tehran ; here he was in charge of the Iranian national team in 1998. Standard Liège and again Olympique Marseille were the last coaching positions before he temporarily retired - only to return to Pirouzi Tehran for a year as sports director in 2003. He then worked for over 70 years as the director of the Standard Liège training center.

His record of having coached national champions in 6 different countries is unmatched: 1974, 1975 and 1979 Hajduk Split in the former Yugoslavia , 1977 AFC Ajax in the Netherlands, 1981 RSC Anderlecht in Belgium, 1986 Panathinaikos Athens in Greece, 1988 FC Porto in Portugal and Olympique Marseille, which was champion of France 1991/92, although Ivić was eliminated there at the end of October 1991.

In later years he settled in his hometown of Split. There he confessed to his first club, the NCR Split , which he described as his great love. He even shed a few tears in front of the camera in mid-2008 when he saw old TV pictures on a Televizija K5 talk show . The trainer, who last suffered from heart problems and diabetes, died on June 24, 2011, just a week before his 78th birthday.

successes

Hajduk Split

Ajax Amsterdam

RSC Anderlecht

Panathinaikos Athens

FC Porto

Atlético Madrid

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Hajdukovi Treneri ( memento of October 3, 2008 in the Internet Archive ), Hajduk Split website, viewed on January 8, 2009
  2. ↑ VIDEO Tomislav Ivic se rasplakao u Mosorovoj emisiji , Slobodna Dalmacija, July 3, 2008.
  3. ↑ Legendary trainer Tomislav Ivic overleden , De Standaard , 24/06/2011, retrieved 26/06/2011
personal data
SURNAME Ivić, Tomislav
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Yugoslav and Croatian football coach
DATE OF BIRTH June 30, 1933
PLACE OF BIRTH Split , Kingdom of Yugoslavia
DATE OF DEATH June 24, 2011
Place of death Split