Ivica Osim

Ivica Osim (6 May 1941 – 1 May 2022) was a Bosnian professional footballer and football manager. As a player, he was a member of the Yugoslavia national team and played in the 1964 Summer Olympics.

Ivica Osim

Quotes

• Inevitably you start to loose ideas and authority. You don’t want to provoke crises, but you need problems so you can create solutions.
  • 2009, on coaching in Japan. "Ivica Osim: a Yugoslavian football giant who twice rejected Real Madrid", The Guardian, 2022-05-02.
• A team is successful when they make a difference, not because of their trophies.
  • Osim. Trainerlegende Ivica Osim ist tot, "Erfolgreich ist eine Mannschaft, wenn sie etwas bewegt, nicht aufgrund ihrer Pokale.". orf.at, 2022-05-01.
• Normally, cultures don't fight. That is why they are cultures: because they do not wage wars.
  • Osim, before leaving from Graz to Japan, asked about the Irak war, and a so called "war of cultures", Normalerweise kämpfen Kulturen nicht, der Standard, 2003-12-19.
• This sphere has enough problems as it is, and slowly we could start thinking about how we can live better together. I ask myself: Aren't they starting to get a headache from the constant warfare?
  • Osim, before leaving from Graz to Japan, asked about the Irak war, and a so called "war of cultures", Normalerweise kämpfen Kulturen nicht, der Standard, 2003-12-19.
• In modern football all teams run and fight. Football needs to come back a little to be a game, if it is even coming back. If there is too much tactics, too much money, too much fight, maybe the people do not want to see it any more. Football is a game.
  • Osim 1994, 1994: Mit Hannes Kartnig geht es bei Sturm Graz aufwärts.
• You don't dig a new well if you have water in an old well. If we are going to build a team, we must build it around a group of experienced players.
  • Osim, Osim quotes.

Quotes about Osim

• When we were ahead, he he saw the most serious problems in our game. When we were behind, he stayed calm, relaxed, gave hints what we are able to do, what we could do better.
  • Mario Haas, on Sturm Graz Championsleage success 2000. SK Sturm Graz Highlights SK Sturm Graz Highlights.