Tomislav Ivić (; 30 June 1933 – 24 June 2011) was a Croatian professional

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player and manager. Often described as a brilliant strategist, Ivić is credited with helping develop the modern style of the game. In April 2007, Italian sports daily ''

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'' proclaimed him as the most successful football manager in history, due to his seven league titles won in five countries.

Managerial career

Ivić managed teams in 14 countries along with four national teams, and he won titles and cups in seven countries:

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, the

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, Portugal,

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and

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. Ivić never won the league title in

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. Ivić won seven top flight championships (three in Yugoslavia and one each in the Netherlands, Belgium, Portugal and France); six national cups (four in Yugoslavia and one each in Spain and Portugal); an

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and an Intercontinental Cup. In Croatia, Ivić coached RNK Split,

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and (in one match replacing suspended

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) the Croatia national team; in the Netherlands,

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; in Belgium,

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and

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; in Turkey, Galatasaray and Fenerbahçe; in Italy,

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; in Greece, Panathinaikos; in Portugal,

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and Benfica; in France,

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and

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(the latter, his last club before retiring in 2002); in Spain,

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; in the United Arab Emirates, Al Wasl and the UAE national team; and in Iran,

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and the Iran national selection.

Early years

Ivić's coaching career began with a year-long engagement in RNK Split from 1967 to 1968. In that season, his team finished 8th in the

Yugoslav Second League Yugoslav Second League ( Bosnian: ''Druga savezna liga,'' Croatian: ''Druga savezna liga'', Serbian: ''Друга савезна лига'', Slovenian: ''Druga zvezna liga'', Macedonian: ''Втора сојузна лига'', ''Vtora sojuzna l ...

West Division. From 1968 to 1972, he was the coach at the

Academy. At the end of the 1971-72 season, he replaced Slavko Luštica as Hajduk Split's first team manager. His first and only game was a 2-1 win over

in the 1972 Yugoslav Cup Final. The season after, he was coaching the then second division team

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, finishing 5th.

Hajduk Split golden generation and years at Ajax

In 1973, Ivić came back as coach. He knew what potential lay in the youngsters who had been in his charge at the academy, and immediately gave many of them a taste of first-team action. The talented youngster such as

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, Šime Luketin, and Slaviša Žungul developed to be key players under Ivic. In the 1973-1974 season, Hajduk Split won the

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for the first time in their history. The team finished 1st in the league with the same points collected with Velež Mostar but a better

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. Hajduk Split defeated

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in the final of the 1973 Yugoslav Cup. Hajduk Split successfully defended both titles and won the double for 2 years in a row. In the European Cup, they were eliminated in the Second Round by

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. In the 1975-1976 season, the title race was very intense and emotional. On matchday 27th, there was a match between Hajduk Split, second in the league, and Partizan, the league leader at the time. Ivić's team dominated the game and managed to crush them 6-1 on their home ground. That game represents "the Hajduk Split golden generation" and Ivić's

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tactic. Hajduk Split and Partizan battled it out until the last match of the season, in which Hajduk Split unexpectedly drew with

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but that was enough for them to qualify as champion as Partizan still could not beat Olimpija in the 90th minute. However, the referee extended the game until Partizan ultimately scored and was crowned champion. The team's performance in the European Cup was improved, Hajduk Split beat

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and Molenbeek on their way to face

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in the quarter final. They got eliminated in extra time. Ivić left Hajduk Split at the end of the season. Ivić joined

in 1976, he guided them to their 17th Eredivisie in his first season. Ajax was eliminated from the UEFA Cup in the first round after a 2-0 loss to

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, despite winning 1-0 at home. In the 1977-78 season, Ajax finished second in Eredivisie and lost the final of the KNVB Cup to AZ. Ajax returned to compete in the European Cup, eliminated by Juventus in the quarter final. During his 2 seasons with Ajax, Ivić had his team play counter-attack style which was against the club's culture. A group of players led by Ruud Krol initially opposed his style but later believed in his approach. He left Ajax at the end of the season to rejoin Hajduk Split. Ivić returned to Hajduk Split for the third time in 1978. He won another yugoslav league title in his first season back, the club first league title since he done it in the 1974-75 season. Ivić's team stayed strong in the second half of the season after Slaviša Žungul left for the United States in December 1978. In the 1979-80 season, Hajduk Split was underperforming. They were knocked out in the first round of the Yugoslav Cup, and after seven winless games from April to June, the team sat in fifth of the table and ended the season there. Ivić left Hajduk Split, marking the end of their golden generation.

Anderlecht

Ivić joined

in the summer of 1980. He introduced a defensive style of football as he had done with Ajax, but with high pressing. Anderlecht lost multiple key players that summer, including Rob Rensenbrink, Gilbert Van Binst, François Van der Elst and Nico de Bree. Ivić brought in

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and transformed him to become a libero.Steegen, D. & Van Loock, S. (2008) ''100 jaar Royal Sporting Club Anderlecht''. Leuven: Uitgeverij Van Halewyck In his first season, Anderlecht became champions for the first time in seven years, with an eleven-point lead over second place

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. The following season, Anderlecht lost their first

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. They finished second in the league, two points behind Standard Liège. In the European Cup, Ivić's team has an impressive performance. They beat Trapattoni's

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in the second round and

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in the quarter final, only to be eliminated by the eventual winner,

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in the semi-final. In the summer of 1982, chairman Constant Vanden Stock brought the Belgian national team's striker duo,

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and

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to Anderlecht. However, Ivić did not agree because he thought the duo would not suit his system.Van Loock, S. (2004) ''Michel Verschueren: De zilveren vos van Anderlecht''. Leuven: Uitgeverij Van Halewyck Anderlecht has struggled to deliver good results, they lost 4-1 to Standard Liège on the seventh matchday and dropped to seventh in the table. After a 2–1 defeat against Waregem on the eighth matchday, Ivić was dismissed and replaced by Paul Van Himst.

Galatasaray

Ivić joined Galatasaray in 1983, He coached them for one season. Galatasaray finished third in the Turkish First Football League and were eliminated in quarter final of the

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. He parted ways with the club at the end of the season.

Dinamo Zagreb

Ivić returned to Yugoslavia in 1984, this time to join

. Unfortunately, Dinamo Zagreb finished outside the top five, meaning they did not qualify for European football. After a poor result, Ivić was dismissed before the season ended. Zdenko Kobešćak took over as an interim coach and reached the 1984–85 Yugoslav Cup final.

Avellino

On July 11, 1985,

presented Tomislav Ivić as the club's technical director. Despite his role, he would be on the bench in every match like a coach. He was supported by the Italian Enzo Robotti, who was officially a coach. After a poor start to the season, he was accused of having issues with the players and a lack of knowledge of Italian football. Avellino was fighting hard to avoid relegation, they earned some good results against big teams such as a 1-0 win over Inter and Roma and a draw with

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and

. The two defeats in February and a draw against Pisa, the other relegation battle team, resulted in Avellino being fourth-last on the table with one point over the relegation zone. Ivić was sacked on 24th February 1986 and Robotti continued his role until the end of the season. There was a report that Ivić did not expect to be sacked and Avellino's fans were furious with the board's decision.

Panathinaikos

On June 10, 1986, Panathinaikos announced that Tomislav Ivić had been appointed as the club's new manager. After one win in six matches in the league, and being knocked out in the first round of the European Cup, he was dismissed on November 2 after about five months in the job.

European and international club competitions

He took

to the

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quarter final two times: 1975–76 and in 1979–80; he also reached it with

in 1977–78. His biggest achievement in the

was reaching the semi-finals during the 1981–82 season with

. With Porto, he won the 1987 European Super Cup and the 1987 Intercontinental Cup. Ivić has one of the best Champions League win ratios, having won 29 out of 46 matches with a ratio of 63.0%.

International career

He was national team head coach of

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and even

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for one match as caretaker manager subbing in for

. While UAE head coach, Ivić lost the

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final against

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on penalties.

Retirement

In 2001, under the advisement of his doctor Ivić retired from coaching so he could be under less stress. Three years later, he coached

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for a season before taking up the youth selections of

Death

Ivić died on 24 June 2011, six days before his 78th birthday, in his hometown of Split. He was reportedly suffering from

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troubles, as well as

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Managerial statistics

Club

: *Dates of first and last games under Ivić not dates of official appointments

National teams

: *Dates of first and last games under Ivić; not dates of official appointments

Honours

Manager

Hajduk Split (Youth) * Yugoslav Youth Cup: 1970, 1971, 1972 Hajduk Split *

Yugoslav First League The Yugoslav First League ( Bosnian: Prva savezna liga u fudbalu, sr-Cyrl-Latn, Прва савезна лига у фудбалу, Prva savezna liga u fudbalu, , , , , ) was the premier football league in the Kingdom of Yugoslavia (1918–1941) ...

: 1973–74, 1974–75, 1978–79 *

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: 1971–72,

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, 1975–76 Ajax *

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: 1976–77 Anderlecht *

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: 1980–81 Porto *

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: 1987–88 *

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: 1988 *

Supertaça Cândido de Oliveira The Supertaça Cândido de Oliveira (; English: Cândido de Oliveira Super Cup, or simply Portuguese Super Cup) is an annual Portuguese association football, football match played since 1979 between the winners of the top-tier league (Primeira L ...

1993 The United Nations General Assembly, General Assembly of the United Nations designated 1993 as: * International Year for the World's Indigenous People The year 1993 in the Kwajalein Atoll in the Marshall Islands had only 364 days, since its ...

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1987 Events January * January 1 – Bolivia reintroduces the Boliviano currency. * January 2 – Chadian–Libyan conflict – Battle of Fada: The Military of Chad, Chadian army destroys a Libyan armoured brigade. * January 3 – Afghan leader ...

* Intercontinental Cup:

Al-Ittihad * Saudi Crown Prince Cup:

2004 2004 was designated as an International Year of Rice by the United Nations, and the International Year to Commemorate the Struggle Against Slavery and Its Abolition (by UNESCO). Events January * January 3 – Flash Airlines Flight 60 ...

United Arab Emirates *

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runner-up:

1996 1996 was designated as: * International Year for the Eradication of Poverty Events January * January 8 – A Zairean cargo plane crashes into a crowded market in the center of the capital city of the Democratic Republic of the Congo ...

Individual

*Hajduk Split golden badge: 1975 *Golden badge and charter by the city of

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awarded by

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: 1990 *

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trophy: 2003 *Most successful manager in history by ''

'': 2007 *

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sports house hall of fame: 2009 * Heart of Hajduk Award: 2011 ''(postmortem)'' * ''World Soccer'' 36th Greatest Manager of All Time: 2013 *''

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'' 42nd Greatest Manager of All Time: 2019

Orders

* Order of Danica Hrvatska with face of Franjo Bučar – 1995

References

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