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Miroslav Blažević

April 24, 2023

Miroslav "Ćiro" Blažević (Croatian pronunciation: [mîroslaʋ tɕǐːro blǎːʒeʋitɕ] (listen);[1][2][3] 9 February 1935 – 8 February 2023) was a Bosnian-Croatian professional football manager and player.

Miroslav Blažević
Blažević as manager of Bosnia and Herzegovina in 2009
Personal information
Date of birth (1935-02-09)9 February 1935
Place of birth Travnik, Kingdom of Yugoslavia
Date of death 8 February 2023(2023-02-08) (aged 87)
Place of death Zagreb, Croatia
Position(s) Right winger
Youth career
Travnik
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
1954–1955 Dinamo Zagreb 0 (0)
1955–1957 Lokomotiva Zagreb 4 (0)
1957–1959 Sarajevo 14 (0)
1959–1963 Rijeka 48 (4)
1963–1965 Sion
1965–1966 Moutier
Total 66 (4)
Managerial career
1968–1971 Vevey
1971–1976 Sion
1976 Switzerland
1976–1979 Lausanne-Sport
1979–1980 Rijeka
1980–1983 Dinamo Zagreb
1983–1985 Grasshopper
1985 Prishtina
1985–1988 Dinamo Zagreb
1988–1991 Nantes
1991–1992 PAOK
1992–1994 Croatia Zagreb
1994–2000 Croatia
2001 Iran
2002 Osijek
2002–2003 Dinamo Zagreb
2003 Mura
2003–2005 Varteks
2005 Hajduk Split
2005–2006 Neuchâtel Xamax
2006–2008 Zagreb
2008–2009 Bosnia and Herzegovina
2009–2010 Shanghai Shenhua
2010–2011 China U-23
2011–2012 Mes Kerman
2012–2013 Zagreb
2014 Sloboda Tuzla
2014–2015 Zadar
Honours
Men's football
Representing  Croatia (as manager)
FIFA World Cup
1998 France
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

His professional playing career spanned from 1954 to 1966, during which he played for Dinamo Zagreb, Lokomotiva Zagreb, Sarajevo, Rijeka and Swiss clubs Sion and Moutier.

As a manager, his most successful period was with the Croatia national team, which he led to the quarter-finals in the 1996 European Championship and won third place at the 1998 FIFA World Cup. He also managed the following national teams: Switzerland, Iran, Bosnia and Herzegovina and China Olympic. Blažević also had successful spells at Vevey, Sion, Lausanne-Sport, Rijeka, Dinamo Zagreb, Grasshopper Zürich, Prishtina, Osijek, Varteks, Zagreb, Shanghai Shenhua and Sloboda Tuzla.

From 29 March 1993 to 23 February 1995 he was president of Dinamo Zagreb.[4]

Blažević maintained a colourful public persona in Croatia, where he was reverently known as "trener svih trenera" (the "coach of all coaches").[5][6]

Early life

Blažević was born to a Bosnian Croat[7] family in Travnik, Kingdom of Yugoslavia (in present-day Bosnia and Herzegovina) on 9 February 1935. However, his parents did not register his birth until the next day, resulting in his official birthday being listed as 10 February.[8] He was the youngest of eight children.[9] In his teens he trained skiing.[10][11]

Playing career

Blažević began his youth career in local team NK Travnik, after which he moved to Zagreb and joined Dinamo Zagreb. His career as a player was, by his own admission, average; therefore, he began his coaching career at a relatively early age. As a player, he played for Dinamo Zagreb, Lokomotiva Zagreb, Rijeka, Sarajevo, and Sion. He ended his career at Moutier in 1966 after gaining promotion to LNA.[12]

Managerial career

Coaching in Switzerland

Blažević started as a coach where he ended his playing days in Switzerland. He first led FC Vevey (1968–71)[13] then his former team FC Sion (1971–76), FC Lausanne-Sport (1976–79) and finally Switzerland's national team (as interim coach for two games in 1976).[14] With Sion he won the Swiss Cup with club as a player and as manager in 1974.

NK Rijeka

Blažević returned to Yugoslavia in 1979 to coach Rijeka. Rijeka finished tenth in the 1979–80 season. Although not a very good league season the club got to the quarter-finals of 1979–80 European Cup Winners' Cup where they lost to Juventus. NK Rijeka's best European placement. Blažević also lost the 1979–80 Balkans Cup final to Studențesc București.[15]

Success with Dinamo

Blažević took over Dinamo Zagreb on 11 December 1980, one of Yugoslavia's big four clubs (the other three being Hajduk Split, Red Star Belgrade and Partizan) in 1980. After a mediocre first season, in which Dinamo finished fifth, Blažević became an instant club legend in the 1981–82, winning the first Yugoslav league title for the Zagreb outfit after a 24-year drought.

Next year, Dinamo won the Yugoslav Cup and led a long battle with Partizan and Hajduk Split in the league. Partizan became 1983 champions and Blažević left Dinamo for the first time.

Grasshopper and Prishtina

Blažević went back to Switzerland, winning the Swiss Championship with Grasshopper-Club Zurich in 1984. He advanced to the second round of 1984–85 European Cup where he lost to Juventus. After a less than expected second season Blažević left Grasshopper mid-season.

In 1985, Blažević was once again in Yugoslavia, this time as manager of Kosovo's KF Prishtina. Under Blažević's leadership Prishtina achieved First Division status. To this day he is noted as a club legend.[16]

Second stint at Dinamo, Nantes and PAOK

In the same year he became Dinamo Zagreb's coach for second time; during this period he failed to accomplish any significant results and therefore left again in 1988. His next team was FC Nantes of France; Blažević was there until 1990. After Nantes he spent a season in Greek club PAOK FC.[17]

Croatia tenure

In the 1990s, with Croatia gaining independence, Blažević joined the Croatian Democratic Union (HDZ) and became President Tuđman's admirer and close friend. For the third time he became Dinamo (then named NK Croatia Zagreb) coach and president at the same time. He won the 1993 Croatian Championship and 1994 Croatian Cup, but then left his favorite club once more, citing his reasons for doing so as needing to focus on managing the Croatian national team.

Blažević was national team manager from 1994 on a part-time basis, but only a year later it became a full-time job as Croatia faced its first qualifying cycle for the European Championship. Croatia won the first place in qualifying group, sensationally ahead of Italy and directly entered Euro 96 in England. Blažević was about to gain some worldwide fame.

From January to June 1996 Blažević took up a position as an advisor at HNK Rijeka to help newly appointed coach Nenad Gračan save his former club from relegation.[18]

Croatia passed group stage with wins against Turkey and current European champions Denmark and loss to Portugal, to face Germany in quarter-finals. Germany won 2–1 and eventually went on to win the event.

However, greatest things lay ahead, as Croatia was trying to qualify to the 1998 FIFA World Cup in France. They won second place in the qualifying group behind Denmark and ousted Ukraine in a play-off for the tournament.

Blažević's Croatia squad for the 1998 World Cup included the likes of Zvonimir Boban, Davor Šuker and Slaven Bilić. In France they created one of the greatest all-time World Cup sensations by winning the third place play-off. In the group stage, Croatia eliminated Japan and Jamaica, suffering a insignificant loss to Argentina in the final game. In the knockout stages they passed by Romania, winning 1–0 from a penalty kick. This prepared them for a quarter-final against Germany. Croatia beat Germany 3–0. However, Croatia were stopped by the hosts France in the semifinal. Blažević made a critical coaching decision in that semi-final as he failed to insert his most talented player Robert Prosinečki when the game was in the balance at 1–1. Instead he opted for Silvio Marić to replace the injured Boban after half-time and Croatia eventually lost the game 2–1. In the third-place match, Prosinečki started in Boban's stead; his fielding proved fruitful as he scored the opening goal and assisted for the second, becoming man of the match. Croatia won against the Netherlands 2–1 to claim their first bronze.

The rest of his stint as Croatian manager was less successful. Croatia failed to qualify for Euro 2000, after finishing a third in a qualifying group behind FR Yugoslavia and Ireland. Blažević retained his position and began to build a new team, filled with younger players for the 2002 FIFA World Cup. However, after Croatia opened the qualifiers with two draws, he was forced to resign in autumn 2000.

Iran tenure and return to Croatia

Well known throughout the football world for his 1998 World Cup sensation, Blažević accepted an offer to lead the Iranian national team midway through the 2002 World Cup qualification process. Coming in ahead of the final qualifying round, he quickly developed a following among many of the Iranian fans. He kept the 3–5–2 formation that Iran had played with previously in the 96 Asian Cup, in which Iranian national team had won third place. He also introduced new players to Team Melli such as Rahman Rezaei, Javad Nekounam, and Ebrahim Mirzapour. Known as loudmouth and showman, Blažević stayed true to form by claiming he would hang himself from the goalposts if Iran failed to beat Ireland in the deciding qualification playoff for the 2002 World Cup.[19] Ireland won 2–1 on aggregate, the defeat that marked the end of Blažević's time in Iran as his assistant Branko Ivanković took over.

Blažević returned to Croatia, first saving NK Osijek from relegation and then again in Dinamo. In his fourth term as Dinamo coach, Blažević won the Croatian Championship in 2003, but left again same year after clashing with his long-time friend, Dinamo's vice president Zdravko Mamić.

Blažević then led Slovenian NK Mura for few months before becoming the coach of Croatian side NK Varteks, a post he held until 31 May 2005.[20] While at Varteks Zlatko Dalić was his assistant coach.[21]

Short stint at Hajduk

Blažević controversially announced that he was going to coach Hajduk Split in 2005–06, having expressed his desire to coach the southern Croatian side for decades; many fans were skeptical due to his association with Hajduk Split's derby rival Dinamo Zagreb. His arrival caused a great deal of media controversy; Hajduk Split fans had differing opinions, with a significant number seeing Blažević as a "miracle worker" that would help Hajduk Split regain its former glory.

Hajduk Split under Blažević's leadership immediately got eliminated from European competitions, following an 8–0 aggregate defeat to Hungarian side Debreceni VSC; the 5–0 second leg loss is considered one of Hajduk Split's worst losses in European competitions. This was followed by a series of losses and unsatisfying results at the beginning of the new league season, which finally forced Blažević to resign on 18 September. He was replaced by Igor Štimac, former Hajduk Split player and one of his main supporters in club administration.

Neuchâtel and NK Zagreb

In October 2005, he went back to Switzerland and coached Neuchâtel Xamax, replacing Alain Geiger in an attempt to save the club from relegation after they had won just one out of their first ten games of the season. Although Blažević achieved some notable victories with Neuchâtel against Swiss powerhouses FC Basel and FC Zurich, they finished the season in ninth place (in a ten-club league) and went to relegation playoff. They were eventually relegated after losing to another Swiss team Blažević had managed 35 years earlier, FC Sion, 3–0 on aggregate, and his tenure there ended in June 2006.

Once again, he returned to Croatia, this time to take over NK Zagreb. The club experienced a successful 2006–07 season which saw them finish third behind Dinamo Zagreb and Hajduk Split and earned them a spot in Intertoto Cup 2007. However, in the following season the team made for an early exit, losing against their first Intertoto opponent Vllaznia on away goals. After Ivica Vrdoljak and Mario Mandžukić were transferred to city rivals Dinamo Zagreb at the beginning of the season, the team saw a string of mediocre results before finishing the season sixth. Immediately after the last game of the season, Blažević announced that his stint at NK Zagreb had come to an end by mutual consent between him and the club's chairman.[22]

Bosnia and Herzegovina

 
Blažević as Bosnia and Herzegovina manager in 2009

On 10 July 2008, Blažević was appointed head coach of Bosnia and Herzegovina national football team[23] replacing Meho Kodro who had been dismissed two months earlier by the Bosnian FA (FSBiH) officials after reportedly refusing to take charge of the national team for a friendly against Iran.[24] Since Kodro's dismissal was seen by many fans as the latest in a series of problematic decisions by the much-maligned FA leadership, Blažević was thus, by proxy, not welcomed with open arms by certain sections of the public upon his arrival. With the national team in complete disarray and many players refusing to even answer call-ups by interim head coach Denijal Pirić, the appointment of Blažević was seen by many fans as FA's desperate makeshift solution designed to appease the public in the wake of the ongoing two-month fiasco by bringing in a fairly established name. However, combining his carefully crafted showman public persona with some decent initial results on the pitch, Blažević quickly managed to charm most of the public into getting behind him. By his own admission, Blažević had already been close to getting the Bosnia-Herzegovina national team job six years earlier in 2002,[25] but ended up not getting hired due to influential FSBiH executive Jusuf Pušina who considered Blažević unsuitable for the job because of the coach's association with the Croatian wartime president Franjo Tuđman and his political party.[26]

Staying true to all the staples of his coaching style from his previous places of employment, seventy-four-year-old Blažević quickly became the media favourite in Sarajevo. Always ready for a sound bite, he gave bombastic interviews, cheekily delivering bold statements and sweeping promises.

Bosnia under Blažević has qualified for the 2010 FIFA World Cup qualifier playoffs, playing a game against Portugal. In Lisbon, Portugal, Bosnia lost 1–0, with a goal scored by Bruno Alves. In Zenica, Bosnia lost 1–0 against Portugal, with a goal scored by Raul Meireles. He was appointed manager to the Bosnia-Herzegovina team on 10 July 2008[23] and announced on 11 December 2009 his demission. His dismissal was preceded by criticism from Bosnian fans and journalists following Blažević's attack on fan-favorite Zvjezdan Misimović, blaming him for the defeat against Portugal.[27]

Shanghai Shenhua

After his recession as head coach of the Bosnia and Herzegovina national football team he signed one day later on 12 December 2009 for Shanghai Shenhua.[28] He finished the 2010 Chinese Super League season in a high third-place position qualifying for the AFC Champions League.[29]

China Olympic

Blažević was appointed manager of the Chinese Olympic team on 30 November 2010.[30] He resigned from his position in June 2011 after they failed to qualify to the 2012 Summer Olympics.

Mes Kerman

On 28 August 2011, Iran Pro League side Mes Kerman announced that they will sign a contract with Blažević to replace Samad Marfavi who had resigned two days earlier.[31] On 31 August 2011, he returned to Iran after ten years and signed a one-year contract with Mes. On 9 September 2011, his side plays a match against Damash Gilan with a 1–1 draw.[32] He started his career in the club successfully, but after the weeks, Mes returned to the relegation zone. He was sacked as club's head coach on 14 February 2012 and was appointed technical director of the club.

NK Zagreb

In November 2012 he returned to NK Zagreb to help the club stay in the Prva HNL since they were in the relegation zone. In the beginning he started to have decent results like defeating Dinamo Zagreb on home ground but later his team started to decline in results. In December 2012 he almost left the club because he had a serious argument with the NK Zagreb chairman but he decided to stay. In May 2013 after NK Zagreb failed to secure a place in the Prva HNL and finished at the bottom of the league he announced his retirement from professional football at the end of the season.[33]

Sloboda Tuzla

In January 2014, after refusing to take over the Croatian Second Football League club NK Solin, Blažević signed with the Bosnian Sloboda Tuzla playing in the second level Bosnian League.[34] He took over the club while it was second on the league table and agreed to lead the club until the end of the season with the goal to reach the top level Bosnian league, He succeeded, with Sloboda winning 13 and drawing 1 of his 15 matches in charge to win the First League of the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina with a record total of 71 points from their 30 league games in the season.

Zadar

On 2 September 2014, after Sloboda Tuzla, he was named the manager of Croatian First Football League club NK Zadar, but he parted ways with the club and finished his coaching career on 2 January 2015.[35][36]

Personal life and death

 
Blažević playing chess at a public event in Zagreb, 2016

Blažević married Zdenka Đorđević in 1962. The couple had three children and five grandchildren.[37] Apart from Croatian, he also held Swiss citizenship.[38]

Blažević died of prostate cancer in Zagreb on 8 February 2023, one day before his 88th birthday.[39] He was buried at Zagreb's Mirogoj Cemetery on 15 February.[40]

Political engagement

Blažević was an admirer of Franjo Tuđman with whom he maintained a friendship as well. Blažević was also a member of the former Croatian president Tuđman's conservative political party HDZ, but he publicly disagreed with his successor, the pro-European centrist politician Ivo Sanader. Because of this, Blažević left the party in 2000 shortly after Tuđman's death, and then decided to run for President of Croatia as an independent candidate.[41] Polls predicting the 2005 presidential election results usually gave him 1–2% of the vote. In the end he received 17,847 votes (0.80%) and was eliminated in the first round of the election.

Following the presidential elections debacle he quit politics, until he appeared once again four years later at the 2009 Zagreb local elections where he successfully ran as HDZ candidate for the city council. He claimed that prime minister Ivo Sanader had talked him into re-joining the party and running for office.[42] He was at the time the oldest serving member of the Zagreb City Council and a member of the city board for naming streets and squares.[43]

During World War II in Yugoslavia, Blažević's two brothers, Anto and Joso, were members of the Ustaše, a fascist organization which ruled Croatia at the time. They were both killed in combat, aged seventeen. Speaking of his brothers, Blažević stated: "I will never try to justify what they did, just like my father never tried to justify it. No normal person can support that which goes against humanity and civilised behaviour".[44]

Controversy

Robert Prosinečki

At the end of the 1986–87 season at Dinamo Zagreb, Blažević sent eighteen-year-old prospect Robert Prosinečki away from the club, famously stating he "would eat his coaching diploma if Prosinečki ever became a real [quality] football player". In the summer of 1987, Prosinečki moved to Yugoslav First League rivals Red Star Belgrade where he would go on to develop into one of the best players in Yugoslavia, winning three league titles, one cup trophy, and the European Cup title over the course of the following four years followed by a prominent transfer to Real Madrid and later Barcelona.[45]

During his head coaching tenure with Croatia, Blažević frequently called up Prosinečki as the player became a crucial part of the team and the two seemingly mended fences.

Their ambivalent relationship took a turn for the worse again at Croatia's 1998 FIFA World Cup semi-final match against France when Blažević did not let twenty-nine-year-old Prosinečki enter the contest until the 89th minute with Croatia down 1–2 after leading at the start of the second half and being tied until the 70th minute. Many sports journalists and supporters have claimed that Croatia would have reached the final had Prosinečki been given meaningful playing time in the match. Blažević has since claimed that Prosinečki "feigned picking up an injury" during training the day before the match.[46] Prosinečki commented on the match in 2014 by saying: "We are on good terms today, I appreciate him [Blažević] because he is unique. A man like him is born once in a lifetime, that's for sure. He has his flaws just like we all have, but he has his virtues too. For some reason, he always had problems with me. Had I played the match against France for at least half an hour I believe I would have, at the very least, been able to do something [positive]. Maybe we could have been champions, I don't know! I'm not angry, that would not be an accurate description of my feelings [on this]. Let's just say that I think of it as his mistake that he has to deal with."[47]

Affaire VA-OM

On 20 October 1995 at Geneva Airport, while waiting to board a flight to Brussels, Blažević was taken into custody by the French financial police on match-fixing and corruption accusations stemming from his time in Nantes.[48] The arrest occurred as part of a wide-ranging football bribery scandal in France, known in the country as Affaire VA-OM, and was based on former Olympique Marseille director Jean-Pierre Bernès' July 1995 testimony, claiming that FC Nantes head coach Blažević took a ₣420,000 bribe to fix the Marseille vs. Nantes French Division 1 league match on 25 November 1989 that ended in a 0–0 draw.[48][49]

Blažević was released from Luynes Prison on 6 November 1995 on a ₣100,000 bail and was not called up again after giving his statement.[50]

Referee incident

After his first match as manager of Osijek on 6 March 2002 Blažević lost to Dinamo Zagreb. After the match he was accused of verbal abuse and assaulting the referee Ivan Novak.[51] Blažević was found guilty by disciplinary judge Krešimir Vlajčević and fined 6000kn and got a three-month suspension.[52]

Career statistics

  • Incomplete
Appearances and goals by club, season and competition[53]
Club Season League Yugoslav Cup Total
Division Apps Goals Apps Goals Apps Goals
Dinamo Zagreb 1954–55 Yugoslav First League 0 0 0 0 0 0
Lokomotiva Zagreb 1955–56 Yugoslav Second League (I Zone) — — 0 0
1956–57 Yugoslav First League 4 0 0 0 4 0
Total 4 0 0 0 4 0
Sarajevo 1957–58 Yugoslav Second League (II A Zone) — — 0 0
1958–59 Yugoslav First League 14 0 — 14 0
Total 14 0 0 0 14 0
Rijeka 1959–60 Yugoslav First League 10 2 — 10 2
1960–61 20 2 — 20 2
1961–62 4 0 — 4 0
1962–63 14 0 — 14 0
Total 48 4 0 0 48 4
Career total 66 4 0 0 66 4

Managerial statistics

Club statistics

As of 12 December 2014[54][55][56][57][58]
*Dates of first and last games under Blažević; not dates of official appointments

National teams statistics

Team Tenure Played Won Drawn Lost Win % Points per game Honours
  Switzerland[14]   September 1976 – October 1976 2 0 0 2 0.00 0.00
Croatia March 1994 – November 2000 73 36 22 15 49.31 1.78 1996 Euro – Quarter-final
1998 World Cup – Third place
Iran  January 2001 – November 2001  19 10 4 5 53 1.78
 Bosnia and Herzegovina   July 2008 – December 2009 17 8 2 7 47.05 1.52
 China Olympic   November 2010 – August 2011 5 2 1 2 50.00 1.50
Totals 108 55 28 28 50 1.75

Filmography

Film

Year Film Role Notes
2004 Years of the Blazers Himself Documentary film
2011 Ćiro Himself Documentary film
2012 Montevideo, God Bless You! Ante Pandaković Credited as Miroslav Ćiro Blažević
2016 Vinko & little red riding hood Himself Online short film

Television

Year Film Role Notes
1983 Smogovci Manager of Dinamo Zagreb Episode: "Patnje i stradanja Dunje i Mazala". Credited as Miroslav Ćiro Blažević.
1992–2008 Nightmare Stage Himself Multiple appearances
2001 Svlačionica Himself Episode: Robert Prosinečki
2006 Kazalište u kući Lonely man Episode: Usamljena srca
2007–2008 Ćiroskop Himself Host of the show.
2009 Moja 3 zida Himself Episode: 1.3
2009 IN magazin Himself Hidden camera
2011-2012 Studio 45 Himself 3 appearances
2015 N1 Pressing Himself Interview 16.02.2015.
2016 Ko te šiša Himself TV movie
2017 Nikad nije kasno Himself Episode: 1.1

Music videos

Year Video Role Authors
1998 Neka pati koga smeta Himself Baruni
2004 Ako zabijemo gol Himself General Woo & Nered

Source: Miroslav Blazevic IMDb

Honours

Player

Lokomotiva Zagreb

Sarajevo

Sion

Manager

Vevey

Sion

Dinamo Zagreb

Grasshopper

Hajduk Split

Sloboda Tuzla

Croatia

Individual

Orders

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miroslav, blažević, miroslav, Ćiro, blažević, croatian, pronunciation, mîroslaʋ, tɕǐːro, blǎːʒeʋitɕ, listen, february, 1935, february, 2023, bosnian, croatian, professional, football, manager, player, blažević, manager, bosnia, herzegovina, 2009personal, infor. Miroslav Ciro Blazevic Croatian pronunciation miroslaʋ tɕǐːro blǎːʒeʋitɕ listen 1 2 3 9 February 1935 8 February 2023 was a Bosnian Croatian professional football manager and player Miroslav BlazevicBlazevic as manager of Bosnia and Herzegovina in 2009Personal informationDate of birth 1935 02 09 9 February 1935Place of birthTravnik Kingdom of YugoslaviaDate of death8 February 2023 2023 02 08 aged 87 Place of deathZagreb CroatiaPosition s Right wingerYouth careerTravnikSenior career YearsTeamApps Gls 1954 1955Dinamo Zagreb0 0 1955 1957Lokomotiva Zagreb4 0 1957 1959Sarajevo14 0 1959 1963Rijeka48 4 1963 1965Sion1965 1966MoutierTotal66 4 Managerial career1968 1971Vevey1971 1976Sion1976Switzerland1976 1979Lausanne Sport1979 1980Rijeka1980 1983Dinamo Zagreb1983 1985Grasshopper1985Prishtina1985 1988Dinamo Zagreb1988 1991Nantes1991 1992PAOK1992 1994Croatia Zagreb1994 2000Croatia2001Iran2002Osijek2002 2003Dinamo Zagreb2003Mura2003 2005Varteks2005Hajduk Split2005 2006Neuchatel Xamax2006 2008Zagreb2008 2009Bosnia and Herzegovina2009 2010Shanghai Shenhua2010 2011China U 232011 2012Mes Kerman2012 2013Zagreb2014Sloboda Tuzla2014 2015ZadarHonours Men s footballRepresenting Croatia as manager FIFA World Cup1998 France Club domestic league appearances and goalsHis professional playing career spanned from 1954 to 1966 during which he played for Dinamo Zagreb Lokomotiva Zagreb Sarajevo Rijeka and Swiss clubs Sion and Moutier As a manager his most successful period was with the Croatia national team which he led to the quarter finals in the 1996 European Championship and won third place at the 1998 FIFA World Cup He also managed the following national teams Switzerland Iran Bosnia and Herzegovina and China Olympic Blazevic also had successful spells at Vevey Sion Lausanne Sport Rijeka Dinamo Zagreb Grasshopper Zurich Prishtina Osijek Varteks Zagreb Shanghai Shenhua and Sloboda Tuzla From 29 March 1993 to 23 February 1995 he was president of Dinamo Zagreb 4 Blazevic maintained a colourful public persona in Croatia where he was reverently known as trener svih trenera the coach of all coaches 5 6 Contents 1 Early life 2 Playing career 3 Managerial career 3 1 Coaching in Switzerland 3 2 NK Rijeka 3 3 Success with Dinamo 3 4 Grasshopper and Prishtina 3 5 Second stint at Dinamo Nantes and PAOK 3 6 Croatia tenure 3 7 Iran tenure and return to Croatia 3 8 Short stint at Hajduk 3 9 Neuchatel and NK Zagreb 3 10 Bosnia and Herzegovina 3 11 Shanghai Shenhua 3 12 China Olympic 3 13 Mes Kerman 3 14 NK Zagreb 3 15 Sloboda Tuzla 3 16 Zadar 4 Personal life and death 5 Political engagement 6 Controversy 6 1 Robert Prosinecki 6 2 Affaire VA OM 6 3 Referee incident 7 Career statistics 8 Managerial statistics 8 1 Club statistics 8 2 National teams statistics 9 Filmography 9 1 Film 9 2 Television 9 3 Music videos 10 Honours 10 1 Player 10 2 Manager 10 3 Individual 11 Orders 12 References 13 External linksEarly life EditBlazevic was born to a Bosnian Croat 7 family in Travnik Kingdom of Yugoslavia in present day Bosnia and Herzegovina on 9 February 1935 However his parents did not register his birth until the next day resulting in his official birthday being listed as 10 February 8 He was the youngest of eight children 9 In his teens he trained skiing 10 11 Playing career EditBlazevic began his youth career in local team NK Travnik after which he moved to Zagreb and joined Dinamo Zagreb His career as a player was by his own admission average therefore he began his coaching career at a relatively early age As a player he played for Dinamo Zagreb Lokomotiva Zagreb Rijeka Sarajevo and Sion He ended his career at Moutier in 1966 after gaining promotion to LNA 12 Managerial career EditCoaching in Switzerland Edit Blazevic started as a coach where he ended his playing days in Switzerland He first led FC Vevey 1968 71 13 then his former team FC Sion 1971 76 FC Lausanne Sport 1976 79 and finally Switzerland s national team as interim coach for two games in 1976 14 With Sion he won the Swiss Cup with club as a player and as manager in 1974 NK Rijeka Edit Blazevic returned to Yugoslavia in 1979 to coach Rijeka Rijeka finished tenth in the 1979 80 season Although not a very good league season the club got to the quarter finals of 1979 80 European Cup Winners Cup where they lost to Juventus NK Rijeka s best European placement Blazevic also lost the 1979 80 Balkans Cup final to Studențesc București 15 Success with Dinamo Edit Blazevic took over Dinamo Zagreb on 11 December 1980 one of Yugoslavia s big four clubs the other three being Hajduk Split Red Star Belgrade and Partizan in 1980 After a mediocre first season in which Dinamo finished fifth Blazevic became an instant club legend in the 1981 82 winning the first Yugoslav league title for the Zagreb outfit after a 24 year drought Next year Dinamo won the Yugoslav Cup and led a long battle with Partizan and Hajduk Split in the league Partizan became 1983 champions and Blazevic left Dinamo for the first time Grasshopper and Prishtina Edit Blazevic went back to Switzerland winning the Swiss Championship with Grasshopper Club Zurich in 1984 He advanced to the second round of 1984 85 European Cup where he lost to Juventus After a less than expected second season Blazevic left Grasshopper mid season In 1985 Blazevic was once again in Yugoslavia this time as manager of Kosovo s KF Prishtina Under Blazevic s leadership Prishtina achieved First Division status To this day he is noted as a club legend 16 Second stint at Dinamo Nantes and PAOK Edit In the same year he became Dinamo Zagreb s coach for second time during this period he failed to accomplish any significant results and therefore left again in 1988 His next team was FC Nantes of France Blazevic was there until 1990 After Nantes he spent a season in Greek club PAOK FC 17 Croatia tenure Edit In the 1990s with Croatia gaining independence Blazevic joined the Croatian Democratic Union HDZ and became President Tuđman s admirer and close friend For the third time he became Dinamo then named NK Croatia Zagreb coach and president at the same time He won the 1993 Croatian Championship and 1994 Croatian Cup but then left his favorite club once more citing his reasons for doing so as needing to focus on managing the Croatian national team Blazevic was national team manager from 1994 on a part time basis but only a year later it became a full time job as Croatia faced its first qualifying cycle for the European Championship Croatia won the first place in qualifying group sensationally ahead of Italy and directly entered Euro 96 in England Blazevic was about to gain some worldwide fame From January to June 1996 Blazevic took up a position as an advisor at HNK Rijeka to help newly appointed coach Nenad Gracan save his former club from relegation 18 Croatia passed group stage with wins against Turkey and current European champions Denmark and loss to Portugal to face Germany in quarter finals Germany won 2 1 and eventually went on to win the event However greatest things lay ahead as Croatia was trying to qualify to the 1998 FIFA World Cup in France They won second place in the qualifying group behind Denmark and ousted Ukraine in a play off for the tournament Blazevic s Croatia squad for the 1998 World Cup included the likes of Zvonimir Boban Davor Suker and Slaven Bilic In France they created one of the greatest all time World Cup sensations by winning the third place play off In the group stage Croatia eliminated Japan and Jamaica suffering a insignificant loss to Argentina in the final game In the knockout stages they passed by Romania winning 1 0 from a penalty kick This prepared them for a quarter final against Germany Croatia beat Germany 3 0 However Croatia were stopped by the hosts France in the semifinal Blazevic made a critical coaching decision in that semi final as he failed to insert his most talented player Robert Prosinecki when the game was in the balance at 1 1 Instead he opted for Silvio Maric to replace the injured Boban after half time and Croatia eventually lost the game 2 1 In the third place match Prosinecki started in Boban s stead his fielding proved fruitful as he scored the opening goal and assisted for the second becoming man of the match Croatia won against the Netherlands 2 1 to claim their first bronze The rest of his stint as Croatian manager was less successful Croatia failed to qualify for Euro 2000 after finishing a third in a qualifying group behind FR Yugoslavia and Ireland Blazevic retained his position and began to build a new team filled with younger players for the 2002 FIFA World Cup However after Croatia opened the qualifiers with two draws he was forced to resign in autumn 2000 Iran tenure and return to Croatia Edit Well known throughout the football world for his 1998 World Cup sensation Blazevic accepted an offer to lead the Iranian national team midway through the 2002 World Cup qualification process Coming in ahead of the final qualifying round he quickly developed a following among many of the Iranian fans He kept the 3 5 2 formation that Iran had played with previously in the 96 Asian Cup in which Iranian national team had won third place He also introduced new players to Team Melli such as Rahman Rezaei Javad Nekounam and Ebrahim Mirzapour Known as loudmouth and showman Blazevic stayed true to form by claiming he would hang himself from the goalposts if Iran failed to beat Ireland in the deciding qualification playoff for the 2002 World Cup 19 Ireland won 2 1 on aggregate the defeat that marked the end of Blazevic s time in Iran as his assistant Branko Ivankovic took over Blazevic returned to Croatia first saving NK Osijek from relegation and then again in Dinamo In his fourth term as Dinamo coach Blazevic won the Croatian Championship in 2003 but left again same year after clashing with his long time friend Dinamo s vice president Zdravko Mamic Blazevic then led Slovenian NK Mura for few months before becoming the coach of Croatian side NK Varteks a post he held until 31 May 2005 20 While at Varteks Zlatko Dalic was his assistant coach 21 Short stint at Hajduk Edit Blazevic controversially announced that he was going to coach Hajduk Split in 2005 06 having expressed his desire to coach the southern Croatian side for decades many fans were skeptical due to his association with Hajduk Split s derby rival Dinamo Zagreb His arrival caused a great deal of media controversy Hajduk Split fans had differing opinions with a significant number seeing Blazevic as a miracle worker that would help Hajduk Split regain its former glory Hajduk Split under Blazevic s leadership immediately got eliminated from European competitions following an 8 0 aggregate defeat to Hungarian side Debreceni VSC the 5 0 second leg loss is considered one of Hajduk Split s worst losses in European competitions This was followed by a series of losses and unsatisfying results at the beginning of the new league season which finally forced Blazevic to resign on 18 September He was replaced by Igor Stimac former Hajduk Split player and one of his main supporters in club administration Neuchatel and NK Zagreb Edit In October 2005 he went back to Switzerland and coached Neuchatel Xamax replacing Alain Geiger in an attempt to save the club from relegation after they had won just one out of their first ten games of the season Although Blazevic achieved some notable victories with Neuchatel against Swiss powerhouses FC Basel and FC Zurich they finished the season in ninth place in a ten club league and went to relegation playoff They were eventually relegated after losing to another Swiss team Blazevic had managed 35 years earlier FC Sion 3 0 on aggregate and his tenure there ended in June 2006 Once again he returned to Croatia this time to take over NK Zagreb The club experienced a successful 2006 07 season which saw them finish third behind Dinamo Zagreb and Hajduk Split and earned them a spot in Intertoto Cup 2007 However in the following season the team made for an early exit losing against their first Intertoto opponent Vllaznia on away goals After Ivica Vrdoljak and Mario Mandzukic were transferred to city rivals Dinamo Zagreb at the beginning of the season the team saw a string of mediocre results before finishing the season sixth Immediately after the last game of the season Blazevic announced that his stint at NK Zagreb had come to an end by mutual consent between him and the club s chairman 22 Bosnia and Herzegovina Edit Blazevic as Bosnia and Herzegovina manager in 2009 On 10 July 2008 Blazevic was appointed head coach of Bosnia and Herzegovina national football team 23 replacing Meho Kodro who had been dismissed two months earlier by the Bosnian FA FSBiH officials after reportedly refusing to take charge of the national team for a friendly against Iran 24 Since Kodro s dismissal was seen by many fans as the latest in a series of problematic decisions by the much maligned FA leadership Blazevic was thus by proxy not welcomed with open arms by certain sections of the public upon his arrival With the national team in complete disarray and many players refusing to even answer call ups by interim head coach Denijal Piric the appointment of Blazevic was seen by many fans as FA s desperate makeshift solution designed to appease the public in the wake of the ongoing two month fiasco by bringing in a fairly established name However combining his carefully crafted showman public persona with some decent initial results on the pitch Blazevic quickly managed to charm most of the public into getting behind him By his own admission Blazevic had already been close to getting the Bosnia Herzegovina national team job six years earlier in 2002 25 but ended up not getting hired due to influential FSBiH executive Jusuf Pusina who considered Blazevic unsuitable for the job because of the coach s association with the Croatian wartime president Franjo Tuđman and his political party 26 Staying true to all the staples of his coaching style from his previous places of employment seventy four year old Blazevic quickly became the media favourite in Sarajevo Always ready for a sound bite he gave bombastic interviews cheekily delivering bold statements and sweeping promises Bosnia under Blazevic has qualified for the 2010 FIFA World Cup qualifier playoffs playing a game against Portugal In Lisbon Portugal Bosnia lost 1 0 with a goal scored by Bruno Alves In Zenica Bosnia lost 1 0 against Portugal with a goal scored by Raul Meireles He was appointed manager to the Bosnia Herzegovina team on 10 July 2008 23 and announced on 11 December 2009 his demission His dismissal was preceded by criticism from Bosnian fans and journalists following Blazevic s attack on fan favorite Zvjezdan Misimovic blaming him for the defeat against Portugal 27 Shanghai Shenhua Edit After his recession as head coach of the Bosnia and Herzegovina national football team he signed one day later on 12 December 2009 for Shanghai Shenhua 28 He finished the 2010 Chinese Super League season in a high third place position qualifying for the AFC Champions League 29 China Olympic Edit Blazevic was appointed manager of the Chinese Olympic team on 30 November 2010 30 He resigned from his position in June 2011 after they failed to qualify to the 2012 Summer Olympics Mes Kerman Edit On 28 August 2011 Iran Pro League side Mes Kerman announced that they will sign a contract with Blazevic to replace Samad Marfavi who had resigned two days earlier 31 On 31 August 2011 he returned to Iran after ten years and signed a one year contract with Mes On 9 September 2011 his side plays a match against Damash Gilan with a 1 1 draw 32 He started his career in the club successfully but after the weeks Mes returned to the relegation zone He was sacked as club s head coach on 14 February 2012 and was appointed technical director of the club NK Zagreb Edit In November 2012 he returned to NK Zagreb to help the club stay in the Prva HNL since they were in the relegation zone In the beginning he started to have decent results like defeating Dinamo Zagreb on home ground but later his team started to decline in results In December 2012 he almost left the club because he had a serious argument with the NK Zagreb chairman but he decided to stay In May 2013 after NK Zagreb failed to secure a place in the Prva HNL and finished at the bottom of the league he announced his retirement from professional football at the end of the season 33 Sloboda Tuzla Edit In January 2014 after refusing to take over the Croatian Second Football League club NK Solin Blazevic signed with the Bosnian Sloboda Tuzla playing in the second level Bosnian League 34 He took over the club while it was second on the league table and agreed to lead the club until the end of the season with the goal to reach the top level Bosnian league He succeeded with Sloboda winning 13 and drawing 1 of his 15 matches in charge to win the First League of the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina with a record total of 71 points from their 30 league games in the season Zadar Edit On 2 September 2014 after Sloboda Tuzla he was named the manager of Croatian First Football League club NK Zadar but he parted ways with the club and finished his coaching career on 2 January 2015 35 36 Personal life and death Edit Blazevic playing chess at a public event in Zagreb 2016 Blazevic married Zdenka Đorđevic in 1962 The couple had three children and five grandchildren 37 Apart from Croatian he also held Swiss citizenship 38 Blazevic died of prostate cancer in Zagreb on 8 February 2023 one day before his 88th birthday 39 He was buried at Zagreb s Mirogoj Cemetery on 15 February 40 Political engagement EditBlazevic was an admirer of Franjo Tuđman with whom he maintained a friendship as well Blazevic was also a member of the former Croatian president Tuđman s conservative political party HDZ but he publicly disagreed with his successor the pro European centrist politician Ivo Sanader Because of this Blazevic left the party in 2000 shortly after Tuđman s death and then decided to run for President of Croatia as an independent candidate 41 Polls predicting the 2005 presidential election results usually gave him 1 2 of the vote In the end he received 17 847 votes 0 80 and was eliminated in the first round of the election Following the presidential elections debacle he quit politics until he appeared once again four years later at the 2009 Zagreb local elections where he successfully ran as HDZ candidate for the city council He claimed that prime minister Ivo Sanader had talked him into re joining the party and running for office 42 He was at the time the oldest serving member of the Zagreb City Council and a member of the city board for naming streets and squares 43 During World War II in Yugoslavia Blazevic s two brothers Anto and Joso were members of the Ustase a fascist organization which ruled Croatia at the time They were both killed in combat aged seventeen Speaking of his brothers Blazevic stated I will never try to justify what they did just like my father never tried to justify it No normal person can support that which goes against humanity and civilised behaviour 44 Controversy EditRobert Prosinecki Edit At the end of the 1986 87 season at Dinamo Zagreb Blazevic sent eighteen year old prospect Robert Prosinecki away from the club famously stating he would eat his coaching diploma if Prosinecki ever became a real quality football player In the summer of 1987 Prosinecki moved to Yugoslav First League rivals Red Star Belgrade where he would go on to develop into one of the best players in Yugoslavia winning three league titles one cup trophy and the European Cup title over the course of the following four years followed by a prominent transfer to Real Madrid and later Barcelona 45 During his head coaching tenure with Croatia Blazevic frequently called up Prosinecki as the player became a crucial part of the team and the two seemingly mended fences Their ambivalent relationship took a turn for the worse again at Croatia s 1998 FIFA World Cup semi final match against France when Blazevic did not let twenty nine year old Prosinecki enter the contest until the 89th minute with Croatia down 1 2 after leading at the start of the second half and being tied until the 70th minute Many sports journalists and supporters have claimed that Croatia would have reached the final had Prosinecki been given meaningful playing time in the match Blazevic has since claimed that Prosinecki feigned picking up an injury during training the day before the match 46 Prosinecki commented on the match in 2014 by saying We are on good terms today I appreciate him Blazevic because he is unique A man like him is born once in a lifetime that s for sure He has his flaws just like we all have but he has his virtues too For some reason he always had problems with me Had I played the match against France for at least half an hour I believe I would have at the very least been able to do something positive Maybe we could have been champions I don t know I m not angry that would not be an accurate description of my feelings on this Let s just say that I think of it as his mistake that he has to deal with 47 Affaire VA OM Edit On 20 October 1995 at Geneva Airport while waiting to board a flight to Brussels Blazevic was taken into custody by the French financial police on match fixing and corruption accusations stemming from his time in Nantes 48 The arrest occurred as part of a wide ranging football bribery scandal in France known in the country as Affaire VA OM and was based on former Olympique Marseille director Jean Pierre Bernes July 1995 testimony claiming that FC Nantes head coach Blazevic took a 420 000 bribe to fix the Marseille vs Nantes French Division 1 league match on 25 November 1989 that ended in a 0 0 draw 48 49 Blazevic was released from Luynes Prison on 6 November 1995 on a 100 000 bail and was not called up again after giving his statement 50 Referee incident Edit After his first match as manager of Osijek on 6 March 2002 Blazevic lost to Dinamo Zagreb After the match he was accused of verbal abuse and assaulting the referee Ivan Novak 51 Blazevic was found guilty by disciplinary judge Kresimir Vlajcevic and fined 6000kn and got a three month suspension 52 Career statistics EditIncompleteAppearances and goals by club season and competition 53 Club Season League Yugoslav Cup TotalDivision Apps Goals Apps Goals Apps GoalsDinamo Zagreb 1954 55 Yugoslav First League 0 0 0 0 0 0Lokomotiva Zagreb 1955 56 Yugoslav Second League I Zone 0 01956 57 Yugoslav First League 4 0 0 0 4 0Total 4 0 0 0 4 0Sarajevo 1957 58 Yugoslav Second League II A Zone 0 01958 59 Yugoslav First League 14 0 14 0Total 14 0 0 0 14 0Rijeka 1959 60 Yugoslav First League 10 2 10 21960 61 20 2 20 21961 62 4 0 4 01962 63 14 0 14 0Total 48 4 0 0 48 4Career total 66 4 0 0 66 4Managerial statistics EditClub statistics Edit As of 12 December 2014 54 55 56 57 58 Club From To Competition RecordP W D L Win Vevey Sports 05 1968 1971 1 Liga 48 32 8 8 0 66 67Nationalliga B 26 8 6 12 0 30 77Swiss Cup 7 4 0 3 0 57 14Vevey Sports 05 Total 81 44 14 23 0 54 32FC Sion 11 September 1971 12 June 1976 Nationalliga A 125 45 42 38 0 36 00Swiss Cup 19 10 5 4 0 52 63Swiss League Cup 11 5 2 4 0 45 45UEFA Cup 2 1 0 1 0 50 00European Cup Winners Cup 2 1 0 1 0 50 00FC Sion Total 159 62 49 48 0 38 99FC Lausanne Sport 14 August 1976 13 June 1979 Nationalliga A 96 43 21 32 0 44 79Swiss Cup 9 6 2 1 0 66 67Swiss League Cup 6 4 0 2 0 66 67FC Lausanne Sport Total 111 53 23 35 0 47 75HNK Rijeka 15 July 1979 7 December 1980 First League 51 19 12 20 0 37 25Yugoslav Cup 2 0 2 0 00 0 00European Cup Winners Cup 6 2 2 2 0 33 33NK Rijeka Total 59 21 16 22 0 35 59Dinamo Zagreb 2 March 1980 26 June 1983 First League 85 38 33 14 0 44 71Yugoslav Cup 12 9 1 2 0 75 00European Cup 2 1 0 1 0 50 00Dinamo Zagreb Total 98 48 34 16 0 48 98Grasshopper 10 August 1983 2 December 1984 Nationalliga A 46 26 10 10 0 56 52Swiss Cup 7 5 1 1 0 71 43European Cup 6 1 1 4 0 16 67Grasshopper Total 59 32 12 15 0 54 24FK Pristina 21 April 1985 23 June 1985 First League 9 6 1 2 0 66 67FK Pristina Total 9 6 1 2 0 66 67Dinamo Zagreb 2 August 1985 12 June 1988 First League 102 41 33 28 0 40 20Yugoslav Cup 7 2 4 1 0 28 57Dinamo Zagreb Total 109 43 37 29 0 39 45FC Nantes 15 July 1988 27 January 1991 Division 1 98 34 36 28 0 34 69Coupe de France 8 5 1 2 0 62 50FC Nantes Total 106 39 37 30 0 36 79PAOK FC 9 September 1991 22 March 1992 Superleague 25 11 10 4 0 44 00Greek Cup 8 4 2 2 0 50 00UEFA Cup 4 1 1 2 0 25 00PAOK FC Total 36 15 13 8 0 41 67Croatia Zagreb 23 August 1992 12 June 1994 Prva HNL 64 41 15 8 0 64 06Croatian Cup 15 11 1 3 0 73 33Croatian Super Cup 2 0 2 0 00 0 00UEFA Champions League 4 3 0 1 0 75 00Croatia Zagreb Total 85 55 18 12 0 64 71Croatia Zagreb 15 September 1995 26 October 1995 Prva HNL 3 2 0 1 0 66 67Croatian Cup 1 0 0 1 00 0 00UEFA Cup Winners Cup 2 1 0 1 0 50 00Croatia Zagreb Total 6 3 0 3 0 50 00NK Osijek 6 March 2002 4 May 2002 Prva HNL 9 5 2 2 0 55 56NK Osijek Total 9 5 2 2 0 55 56Dinamo Zagreb 20 July 2002 31 May 2003 Prva HNL 32 25 3 4 0 78 13Croatian Cup 1 0 1 0 00 0 00Croatian Super Cup 1 0 1 0 00 0 00UEFA Cup 4 2 0 2 0 50 00Dinamo Zagreb Total 38 27 5 6 0 71 05NK Mura 20 July 2003 17 September 2003 PrvaLiga 8 3 1 4 0 37 50Slovenian Cup 2 1 0 1 0 50 00NK Mura Total 10 4 1 5 0 40 00NK Varteks 4 October 2003 28 May 2005 Prva HNL 55 20 13 22 0 36 36Croatian Cup 13 7 4 2 0 53 85UEFA Cup 1 0 0 1 00 0 00NK Varteks Total 69 27 17 25 0 39 13Hajduk Split 15 July 2005 17 September 2005 Prva HNL 8 3 2 3 0 37 50Croatian Super Cup 1 0 1 0 00 0 00UEFA Champions League 2 0 0 2 00 0 00Hajduk Split Total 11 3 3 5 0 27 27Neuchatel Xamax 25 September 2005 21 May 2006 Super League 29 8 6 15 0 27 59Swiss Cup 1 0 0 1 00 0 00Neuchatel Xamax Total 30 8 6 16 0 26 67NK Zagreb 29 July 2006 10 May 2008 Prva HNL 66 29 15 22 0 43 94Croatian Cup 10 4 2 4 0 40 00UEFA Intertoto Cup 2 1 0 1 0 50 00NK Zagreb Total 78 34 17 27 0 43 59Shanghai Shenhua 2 March 2010 6 November 2010 Super League 30 14 6 10 0 46 67Shanghai Shenhua Total 30 14 6 10 0 46 67Mes Kerman 9 September 2011 8 February 2012 Pro League 20 7 5 8 0 35 00Hazfi Cup 4 2 1 1 0 50 00Mes Kerman Total 24 9 6 9 0 37 50NK Zagreb 9 November 2012 26 May 2013 Prva HNL 19 5 3 11 0 26 32NK Zagreb Total 19 5 3 11 0 26 32FK Sloboda Tuzla 2 March 2014 31 May 2014 First League of the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina 15 13 1 1 0 86 67FK Sloboda Tuzla Total 15 13 1 1 0 86 67NK Zadar 14 September 2014 2 January 2015 Prva HNL 12 2 2 8 0 16 67Croatian Cup 2 2 0 0 100 00NK Zadar Total 14 4 2 8 0 28 57Totals 1 265 574 323 368 0 45 38 Dates of first and last games under Blazevic not dates of official appointmentsNational teams statistics Edit Team Tenure Played Won Drawn Lost Win Points per game Honours Switzerland 14 September 1976 October 1976 2 0 0 2 0 00 0 00Croatia March 1994 November 2000 73 36 22 15 49 31 1 78 1996 Euro Quarter final1998 World Cup Third placeIran January 2001 November 2001 19 10 4 5 53 1 78 Bosnia and Herzegovina July 2008 December 2009 17 8 2 7 47 05 1 52 China Olympic November 2010 August 2011 5 2 1 2 50 00 1 50Totals 108 55 28 28 50 1 75Filmography EditFilm Edit Year Film Role Notes2004 Years of the Blazers Himself Documentary film2011 Ciro Himself Documentary film2012 Montevideo God Bless You Ante Pandakovic Credited as Miroslav Ciro Blazevic2016 Vinko amp little red riding hood Himself Online short filmTelevision Edit Year Film Role Notes1983 Smogovci Manager of Dinamo Zagreb Episode Patnje i stradanja Dunje i Mazala Credited as Miroslav Ciro Blazevic 1992 2008 Nightmare Stage Himself Multiple appearances2001 Svlacionica Himself Episode Robert Prosinecki2006 Kazaliste u kuci Lonely man Episode Usamljena srca2007 2008 Ciroskop Himself Host of the show 2009 Moja 3 zida Himself Episode 1 32009 IN magazin Himself Hidden camera2011 2012 Studio 45 Himself 3 appearances2015 N1 Pressing Himself Interview 16 02 2015 2016 Ko te sisa Himself TV movie2017 Nikad nije kasno Himself Episode 1 1Music videos Edit Year Video Role Authors1998 Neka pati koga smeta Himself Baruni2004 Ako zabijemo gol Himself General Woo amp NeredSource Miroslav Blazevic IMDbHonours EditPlayer Edit Lokomotiva Zagreb Yugoslav Second League 1955 56Sarajevo Yugoslav Second League 1957 58Sion Swiss Cup 1965Manager Edit Vevey 1 Liga 1969 70Sion Swiss Cup 1974Dinamo Zagreb Yugoslav First League 1981 82 Yugoslav Cup 1982 83 Prva HNL 1992 93 2002 03 Croatian Cup 1993 94 Croatian Super Cup 2002Grasshopper Swiss Super League 1983 84Hajduk Split Croatian Super Cup 2005Sloboda Tuzla First League of FBiH 2013 14Croatia FIFA World Cup third place 1998Individual Edit Franjo Bucar State Award for Sport 1998 two awards 2007 Bosnia and Herzegovina Manager of the Year 2009Orders Edit Order of Danica Hrvatska with face of Franjo Bucar 1995 59 Order of Duke Branimir with Necklace 1998 60 References Edit mȋr Hrvatski jezicni portal in Serbo Croatian Retrieved 17 March 2018 Mȉroslav Ciril Hrvatski jezicni portal in Serbo Croatian Retrieved 17 March 2018 Ciro Blȃz Hrvatski jezicni portal in Serbo Croatian Retrieved 17 March 2018 Blazevic Predsjednici kroz povijest povijest gnkdinamo hr in Croatian Retrieved 15 December 2018 Krajcar Drazen Trener svih trenera i vjecni sarmer 1935 Povijet hr Retrieved 22 December 2022 Najdirljiviji trenutak Trenera svih trenera slomile emocije nakon sto mu je masa pocela skandirati Sportske Novosti Jutarnji hr 18 December 2022 Retrieved 22 December 2022 Miroslav Ciro Blazevic Ja kao Tito O moj Boze 24sata OTISAO DAN PRIJE 88 ROĐENDANA Najgori mu je bio kad mu je stradala supruga imala je 3 posto sanse da prezivi Story hr Retrieved 11 February 2023 Otisao je tek iduci dan i tako je 10 veljace postao sluzbeni datum iako ja znam da je to ovaj danasnji Kako je Ciro dobio nadimak Ciro Sve je pocelo kad je imao samo pet godina dnevnik hr 8 February 2023 Retrieved 11 February 2023 Velika ispovijest Cire Blazevica 20 godina od one utakmice priznao najvecu gresku u karijeri 14 February 2018 Retrieved 15 December 2018 Ќiro Blazheviќ Vo mene teche makedonska krv ќe ve odnesev na Evro 2012 10 December 2018 Histoire du club Retrieved 15 December 2017 Miroslav Blazevic Retrieved 13 December 2017 a b Switzerland International Matches since 1905 RSSSF 16 May 2008 Retrieved 11 July 2008 Dan kada je na Kantridi i Juventus igrao bunker hocuri com 5 March 2017 Retrieved 15 December 2018 Kad je Ciro bio Qiro Moja placa na Kosovu bila je pravo zlato 24sata 6 October 2016 Retrieved 2 December 2018 Ciro Cast mi je sto Tarik radi monodramu o meni scena hr 27 February 2017 Retrieved 2 December 2018 Predsjednici i treneri nk rijeka hr Retrieved 15 December 2018 Blazevic manages to unite Bosnia The Independent 6 September 2009 Retrieved 28 April 2013 Ciro Varteks je zajebata momcad index hr 23 May 2005 Retrieved 3 December 2018 Davorka Dalic ponovno osvaja Odusevila je i Ciru Blazevica 24 Sata 20 July 2018 Retrieved 15 December 2018 Ciro odlazi iz Kranjceviceve Sportnet hr in Croatian 9 May 2008 Retrieved 4 June 2008 a b Bosnia Herzegovina turn to Blazevic UEFA com 10 July 2008 Retrieved 11 July 2008 Kodro fired as Bosnia Herzegovina boss UEFA com 17 May 2008 Retrieved 11 July 2008 Blazevic on tv1 on YouTube January 2011 Blazevic on Nova TV on YouTube Ciro Strucnjak glumac i manipulator 10 December 2009 Archived from the original on 13 December 2009 Retrieved 22 March 2010 Bosniens Nationaltrainer Blazevic wirft das Handtuch History Ciro preuzima kinesku olimpijsku reprezentaciju Blazevic will coach Mes Kerman Blaz in Iran after 10 years HRT Naslovnica Senzacija iz Tuzle Ciro odbio Solin i Kinu i postao trener Slobode jutarnjilist hr in Croatian 11 January 2014 Retrieved 17 January 2014 Hrvatska nogometna legenda na Stanovima Miroslav Ciro Blazevic novi je trener NK Zadra www antenazadar hr in Croatian 2 September 2014 Retrieved 3 December 2018 Ciro odlazi iz Zadra Nisam javio nikome kome cu Sine kluba jednostavno vise nema jutarnjilist hr in Croatian 2 January 2015 Retrieved 3 December 2018 Miroslav Ciro Blazevic Trener svih trenera ba ekapija com 6 June 2012 Retrieved 2 December 2018 World Football Preminuo je Ciro Blazevic otisao je dan prije 88 rođendana Vecernji list 8 February 2023 Retrieved 8 February 2023 UZIVO Oprostaj od Cire Evo tko ce sve stajati uz lijes u tijeku je komemoracija stigle brojne legende Gol hr in Croatian 15 February 2023 Retrieved 15 February 2023 Ex Croatia Coach Runs For President Miroslav Ciro Blazevic So Much More Than A Coach Soccerphile com Retrieved 11 July 2008 Ciro Blazevic usao u zagrebacku Gradsku skupstinu kao clan HDZ a in Croatian 24 sata 27 May 2009 Archived from the original on 28 July 2011 Retrieved 27 October 2009 Miroslav Blazevic in Croatian Zagreb hr Sluzbene stranice Grada Zagreba Archived from the original on 28 September 2011 Retrieved 27 October 2009 Ciro Blazevic Sta Simunic zna sta su NDH i ustase What does Simunic know about the NDH and the Ustase Telegraf 20 November 2013 Retrieved 29 December 2013 Kako je Zuti zavrsio u Zvezdi Da Dzajic nije zurio na more uzeli bi i Bobana Telegraf 20 November 2018 Retrieved 15 December 2018 Prosinecki je glumio ozljedu prije Francuske a u Zvezdi nece uspjeti Vecernji list 17 April 2011 Retrieved 15 December 2018 Legende kockastih Da sam igrao s Francuskom bili bi prvi 24 sata 24 April 2014 Retrieved 15 December 2018 a b Fiere Remy 25 October 1995 Blazevic l ex entraineur du FC Nantes ecroue Il est implique dans l affaire de l OM Liberation Retrieved 22 March 2022 Erhel Catherine 10 July 1995 OM Bernes avoue par bribes A nouveau mis en examen il reconnait avoir achete des matchs Liberation Retrieved 22 March 2022 CIRO BLAZEVIC I AFERA TAPIE What does Simunic know about the NDH and the Ustase Aimpress ch 19 November 1995 Retrieved 15 December 2018 Ciro i Novak jos bez presude Sportnet rtl hr 14 March 2002 Retrieved 15 December 2018 Ciri tri mjeseca suspenzije i novcana kazna Vecernji list 23 March 2002 Retrieved 15 December 2018 HNK Rijeka nk rijeka hr Retrieved 29 October 2018 Miroslav Blazevic s Managerial statistics in Prva HNL hrnogomet com 26 October 2017 Retrieved 12 October 2017 2010年中超联赛战绩 www shenhuafc com cn 1 January 2011 Retrieved 2 December 2018 Switzerland Retrieved 2 December 2018 Yugoslavia Retrieved 2 December 2018 Slovenia Retrieved 11 December 2018 Odluku Kojom Se Odlikuju Redom Danice Hrvatske S Likom Franje Bucara in Croatian hrvatska poslovniforum hr Predsjednik Tudjman Odlikovao Hrvatsku Nogometnu Reprezentaciju in Croatian hrt hr Archived from the original on 8 November 2016 External links Edit Wikimedia Commons has media related to Miroslav Blazevic Miroslav Blazevic at zagreb hr Miroslav Blazevic World Football Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php 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