Ivica Osim

Ivan Osim (6 May 1941 – 1 May 2022), best known as Ivica Osim, was a Bosnian professional footballer and football manager. 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.

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 bySulejman Čolaković
Bogdan Čeko
Iljo Dominković (as Members of the Presidency)
Succeeded byElvedin 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)
Died1 May 2022(2022-05-01) (aged 80)
Graz, Austria
Resting placeBare Cemetery, Sarajevo
NationalityBosnian
Height1.89 m (6 ft 2 in)
Spouse
Asima Osim
(m. 1965)
Children3, 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

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. 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. He served until December 2012.

Osim died in May 2022, after years of health issues following his stroke.

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