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{{Short description|Croatian footballer}}
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{{Infobox football biography
| name= Ivica Horvat
| image =
| fullname = Ivan Horvat
| height = {{height|m=1.89|precision=0}}
| birth_date  = {{Birth date|1926|7|16|df=y}}
| birth_place = [[Sisak]], [[Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes]]<br />{{small|(now [[Croatia]])}}
| death_date  = {{Death date and age|2012|08|27|1926|07|16|df=y}}<ref name="JL"/>
| death_place = [[Njivice, Croatia|Njivice]] near [[Omišalj]], Croatia
| currentclub =
| position = [[Defender (association football)#Centre-back|Centre-back]]<ref name="JL"/>
| youthyears1 = 1940–1945
| youthclubs1 = [[ŠK Ferraria|Ferraria Zagreb]]
| years1 = 1945–1957 
| years2 = 1957–1959
| clubs1 = [[GNK Dinamo Zagreb|Dinamo Zagreb]] 
| clubs2 = [[Eintracht Frankfurt]]
| caps1 = 230
| caps2 = 56
| goals1 = 2
| goals2 = 0 
| totalcaps = 286
| totalgoals = 2
| nationalyears1 = 1946–1956
| nationalteam1 = [[Yugoslavia national football team|Yugoslavia]]
| nationalcaps1 = 60
| nationalgoals1 = 0 
| manageryears1 = 1961–1964 
| manageryears2 = 1964–1965 
| manageryears3 = 1967–1968 
| manageryears4 = 1970 
| manageryears5 = 1971–1975 
| manageryears6 = 1975–1976 
| manageryears7 = 1978–1979
| managerclubs1 = [[Eintracht Frankfurt]] (assistant) 
| managerclubs2 = [[Eintracht Frankfurt]] 
| managerclubs3 = [[GNK Dinamo Zagreb|Dinamo Zagreb]] 
| managerclubs4 = [[PAOK F.C.|PAOK]] 
| managerclubs5 = [[FC Schalke 04|Schalke 04]] 
| managerclubs6 = [[Rot-Weiss Essen]] 
| managerclubs7 = [[FC Schalke 04|Schalke 04]]
| pcupdate =
| ntupdate =
| medaltemplates      =
{{MedalSport | Men's [[Association football|football]]}}
{{MedalCountry | {{fb|YUG}} }}
{{MedalCompetition|[[Olympic Games]]}}
{{MedalSilver|[[1952 Summer Olympics|1952 Helsinki]]|[[Football at the 1952 Summer Olympics|Team]]}}
}}
'''Ivan''' "'''Ivica'''" '''Horvat''' (16 July 1926 – 27 August 2012) was a Croatian and Yugoslav professional [[association football|football]] [[Football player|player]] and [[Manager (association football)|manager]]. 

He spent most of his playing career in the 1940s and 1950s with [[Dinamo Zagreb]], with whom he won two [[Yugoslav First League|Federal League]] championships of Yugoslavia and one [[Marshal Tito Cup]]. Regarded as one of the best defenders in the country at the time, Horvat also earned 60 international caps for [[Yugoslavia national football team|Yugoslavia]], and was part of the national squad at the [[1950 FIFA World Cup|1950]] and [[1954 FIFA World Cup|1954]] World Cups, as well as the [[1952 Olympics]] in [[Helsinki]], where they were silver medalists.

In 1957 he went abroad to join [[Eintracht Frankfurt]], helping them win their first and only [[West German]] championship in 1959 before retiring from active football. He spent the next two decades working in club management, notably leading Dinamo Zagreb to their historic 1966–67 [[Inter-Cities Fairs Cup]] win, and also winning the 1972 [[DFB-Pokal]] with [[FC Schalke 04|Schalke 04]], the German club's first domestic trophy after a 14-year drought.

==Playing career==
===Club===
Horvat played from 1945 until 1957 for [[NK Dinamo Zagreb|Dinamo Zagreb]]. In his last season with Dinamo he also appeared in three matches for Zagreb XI in the [[Inter-Cities Fairs Cup]] in 1956–57.

In 1957 he moved to West Germany, to join [[Eintracht Frankfurt]], where he stayed for two seasons. In his first season, under coach [[Adolf Patek]], Eintracht finished third in the regional [[1957–58 Oberliga|1957–58 Oberliga Süd]]. In the following year, this time under [[Paul Oßwald]], the club won the [[1958–59 Oberliga]] title and went on to win the [[1959 German football championship]] playoff, although Horvat did not play in the historic [[1959 German football championship final|final]] in Berlin, which pitched Eintracht against [[Kickers Offenbach]] coached by Horvat's former manager at Dinamo [[Bogdan Cuvaj]].

===International===
In the [[Yugoslavia national football team|Yugoslavia national team]] Horvat appeared from 1946 until 1956 in 60 fixtures. He took part in the [[FIFA World Cup|World Cup]] in [[1950 FIFA World Cup|1950]] and [[1954 FIFA World Cup|1954]].

He also played with the Yugoslav team at the [[1952 Summer Olympics]] in Helsinki and won the silver medal.<ref>{{cite Sports-Reference |url=https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/ho/ivica-horvat-1.html |title=Ivica Horvat |access-date=2019-03-08 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161203081859/https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/ho/ivica-horvat-1.html |archive-date=2016-12-03}}</ref> In the final, Yugoslavia lost to the rising star of the 1950s, [[Hungary national football team|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 [[2006 FIFA World Cup|2006]] the [[Paraguay]]an [[Carlos Gamarra]] hit between his own posts against [[England national football team|England]] after three minutes.

His final international was a November 1956 [[friendly match]] away against [[England national football team|England]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://eu-football.info/_player.php?id=8641|title=Player Database|accessdate=30 July 2022|website=EU-football}}</ref>

==Managerial career==
From 1961 until 1979 Horvat worked as manager, in the beginning as assistant at [[Eintracht Frankfurt]] and became successor of the manager legend [[Paul Oßwald]] in 1964. But Frankfurt could not convince in the Bundesliga and Horvat was sacked in 1965. He was succeeded by [[Elek Schwartz]].

With [[NK Dinamo Zagreb|Dinamo Zagreb]] he won the [[Inter-Cities Fairs Cup]], the predecessor of the [[UEFA Cup]], in [[Inter-Cities Fairs Cup 1966–67|1967]] in the final matches against [[Leeds United F.C.|Leeds United]] (2–0, 0–0) after previous manager [[Branko Zebec]] left club.

From 1971 he worked in the Bundesliga again, this time for [[FC Schalke 04]], winning the [[DFB-Pokal]] in [[1971–72 DFB-Pokal|1972]] 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 [[VfL Bochum|Bochum]] he was fired in March. Thereupon Horvat finished his managing career.

==Later life==
In 2004 he received the [[Croatian Olympic Committee]]'s Matija Ljubek Award.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.olympedia.org/athletes/27907 |title=Ivica Horvat |publisher=Olympedia |access-date=5 November 2021}}</ref>

Horvat died on 27 August 2012, aged 86, while on vacation at his family's holiday home in [[Njivice, Croatia|Njivice]] on the island of [[Krk]].<ref name="JL"/>

== Honours ==
===Player===
;Dinamo Zagreb<ref name="JL" />
*Yugoslav league championship – Winner: [[1947–48 Yugoslav First League|1947–48]], [[1953–54 Yugoslav First League|1953–54]]; runner-up: [[1946–47 Yugoslav First League|1946–47]], [[1951 Yugoslav First League|1951]]
*[[Yugoslav Cup|Marshal Tito Cup]] – Winner: [[1951 Yugoslav Cup|1951]]; runner-up: 1950

;Eintracht Frankfurt
*[[List of German football champions|West German championship]] – Winner: [[1959 German football championship|1959]]

;Yugoslavia
*[[1946 Balkan Cup]]: Runner-up
*[[1950 FIFA World Cup]]: 5th place
*[[Football at the 1952 Summer Olympics|1952 Summer Olympics]]: Silver medal
*[[1954 FIFA World Cup]]: 8th place

===Manager===
;Dinamo Zagreb
*[[Inter-Cities Fairs Cup]]: [[1967 Inter-Cities Fairs Cup final|1966–67]]

;Schalke 04
*[[DFB-Pokal]]: [[1971–72 DFB-Pokal|1971–72]]

==References==
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| url=http://www.jutarnji.hr/umro-nogometas-ivica-horvat/1050397/
| title=Umro legendarni nogometaš Dinama Ivica Horvat
| date=28 August 2012
| agency=[[HINA]]
| work=[[Jutarnji list]]
| language=hr
| access-date=28 August 2012
| archive-date=11 March 2016
| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160311073559/http://www.jutarnji.hr/umro-nogometas-ivica-horvat/1050397/
| url-status=dead
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==External links==
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* {{Reprezentacija|horvat-ivan}} ([https://web.archive.org/web/20120607220056/http://www.reprezentacija.rs/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=1093 archive])
* [http://www.eintracht-archiv.de/horvat.html Ivan Horvat at eintracht-archiv.de] {{in lang|de}}

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