Ivica Osim

Ivica Osim
Osim giving an interview in 1999
President of the Football Association of Bosnia and Herzegovina normalization committee
In office 18 April 2011 – 13 December 2012
Preceded by	Sulejman Čolaković Bogdan Čeko Iljo Dominković (as Members of the Presidency)
Succeeded by	Elvedin Begić (as sole President)
Personal details
Born	Ivan Osim (1941-05-06)6 May 1941 Sarajevo, Independent State of Croatia (modern-day Bosnia and Herzegovina)
Died	1 May 2022(2022-05-01) (aged 80) Graz, Austria
Resting place	Bare Cemetery, Sarajevo
Nationality	Bosnian
Height	1.89 m (6 ft 2 in)
Spouse	Asima Osim ​ (m. 1965)​
Children	3, including Amar
Parents	Karolina Osim (mother) Mihail Osim (father)
Association football career Position(s) Midfielder Youth career 1954–1959 Željezničar Senior career* Years Team Apps (Gls) 1959–1968 Željezničar 166 (56) 1968 Zwolsche Boys 2 (0) 1969–1970 Željezničar 54 (9) 1970–1972 Strasbourg 58 (16) 1972–1975 Sedan 105 (16) 1975–1976 Valenciennes 30 (1) 1976–1978 Strasbourg 32 (4) Total 447 (102) International career 1964–1969 Yugoslavia 16 (8) Managerial career 1978–1986 Željezničar 1986–1992 Yugoslavia 1991–1992 Partizan 1992–1994 Panathinaikos 1994–2002 Sturm Graz 2003–2006 JEF United Chiba 2006–2007 Japan Medal record Men's Football Representing  Yugoslavia European Championship 1968 Italy Team *Club domestic league appearances and goals

Ivan Osim (6 May 1941 – 1 May 2022), best known as Ivica Osim, was a Bosnian professional footballer and football manager.^[1] He is widely regarded as one of the greatest Bosnian football managers of all time and as one of the most influential football managers in the former Yugoslavia.^[2]

As a player, Osim was in the Yugoslavia national team and played at the 1964 Summer Olympics. He also represented Yugoslavia at UEFA Euro 1968, where he won a silver medal and was voted into the Team of the Tournament. As a manager, Osim won a bronze medal with Yugoslavia at the 1984 Summer Olympics as an assistant, and reached the quarter-finals of the 1990 FIFA World Cup as head coach of the Yugoslavia national team.^[3] He also reached the 1984–85 UEFA Cup semi-finals as manager of his hometown club Željezničar.

Osim was head coach of the Japan national team, before suffering a stroke in November 2007 and subsequently leaving the post. In April 2011, FIFA announced that he had become president of the interim committee to run the Football Association of Bosnia and Herzegovina after the country was suspended from all international competitions.^[4] He served until December 2012.

Osim died in May 2022, after years of health issues following his stroke.^[5]