Ivica Osim Quotes

Bosnian association football player and manager (1941–2022)

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 Bosnian national team and played in the 1964 Summer Olympics.

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Alternative Names: Ivan Osim

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Inevitably you start to loose ideas and authority. You don’t want to provoke crises, but you need problems so you can create solutions.

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.

A team is successful when they make a difference, not because of their trophies.

Normally, cultures don't fight. That is why they are cultures: because they do not wage wars.

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. Trainerlegende Ivica Osim ist tot, "Erfolgreich ist eine Mannschaft, wenn sie etwas bewegt, nicht aufgrund ihrer Pokale.". orf.at, 2022-05-01.