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  1. Jul 26, 2022 · A sports journalist reflects on the legacy of the stern-but-amiable Osim. The death of former Japanese national soccer team manager Ivica Osim on May 1 was met in Japan with an outpouring of ...

  2. May 2, 2022 · Former Japan and Yugoslavia national soccer team manager Ivica Osim has died, Austrian club Sturm Graz, one of the clubs he piloted, said Sunday without specifying the cause. He was 80. Born in Sarajevo, Osim leaves behind a large legacy due to the unifying role he had in Bosnia and Herzegovina and the wider Balkans region after the breakup of Yugoslavia.

  3. OSIM can be seen as a coach who had a substantial influence on Japanese football at the dawn of the 21st century. In particular, the policy for nurturing players and strengthening teams developed by the JFA (known as the “Japanese Way”) had its inception in the concept of “Japanizing Japanese soccer” which OSIM outlined in 2006 when he took over as national team coach.

  4. May 2, 2022 · TOKYO (Jiji Press) — Ivica Osim, former head coach of Japan’s national soccer team, died in the Austrian city of Graz on Sunday morning. He was 80. Osim was born in Sarajevo, Yugoslavia, currently the capital of Bosnia and Herzegovina, in 1941. He participated in the 1964 Tokyo Summer Olympic Games as a member of Yugoslavia’s national soccer team. He became head coach of Yugoslavia’s ...

  5. May 1, 2022 · Ivica Osim was born in Sarajevo in 1941. As he grew up in Grbavica, he actively started coaching football at Zeljeznicar. After leaving the juniors, he started playing for the first team in the 1959/1960 season, and for the club from Grbavica he played for a total of 11 years and during that time he collected 250 official appearances and scored 75 goals.

  6. This is the profile site of the manager Ivica Osim. The site lists all clubs he coached and all clubs he played for.

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  8. May 1, 2023 · Bosnia’s legendary football player and expert, Ivica Osim, died one year ago today in the Austrian city of Graz. The football expert, nicknamed Svabo, was born on May 6, Sarajevo in 1941. He was building up his youth football career in the Zeljeznicar football club from 1954 to 1959.

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