Ivan "Ivica" Horvat (16 July 1926 – 27 August 2012) was a Croatian professional

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player and

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who capped for Yugoslavia. In 2004 he received the Croatian Olympic Committee's Matija Ljubek Award.

Playing career

Club

Horvat played from 1945 until 1957 for Dinamo Zagreb. In 1957 he moved to Germany to

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, where he stayed until the end of his career.

International

In the Yugoslavia national team Horvat appeared from 1946 until 1956 in 60 fixtures. He took part in the World Cup in

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and

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. He also played with the Yugoslav team at the

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in Helsinki and won the silver medal. In the final, Yugoslavia lost to the rising star of the 1950s, Hungary. In the quarterfinals of the 1954 World Cup the ''Plavi'' lost due to an own goal from Horvat with 0–1. This goal was scored in the 10th minute and remained the fastest own goal in World Cup history until

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the Paraguayan

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hit between his own posts against England after three minutes. His final international was a November 1956 friendly match away against England.

Honours

* Yugoslav champion:

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* Yugoslav Cup: 1951 *

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* Silver medal Olympic Games:

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Managerial career

From 1961 until 1979 Horvat worked as manager, in the beginning as assistant at

and became successor of the manager legend

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in 1964. But Frankfurt could not convince in the Bundesliga and Horvat was sacked in 1965. He was succeeded by

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. With Dinamo Zagreb he won the

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, the predecessor of the UEFA Cup, in

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in the final matches against Leeds United (2–0, 0–0) after previous manager Branko Zebec left club. From 1971 he worked in the Bundesliga again, this time for

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, winning the DFB-Pokal in

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and becoming runner-up in the league. In 1975 Horvat moved to Rot-Weiss Essen, he stayed there until September 1976. In the beginning of the 1978–1979 Horvat returned to Schalke but due to the team's bad performances and an embarrassing derby loss against

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he was fired in March. Thereupon Horvat finished his managing career.

Honours

* DFB-Pokal

References

External links

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