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{{Short description|Bosnian football manager (1941–2022)}}
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{{Infobox officeholder
| name           = Ivica Osim
| image          = Ivica Osim - SK Sturm (1999) (cropped).jpg
| image_size     = 200px
| caption        = Osim giving an interview in 1999
| office         = President of the [[Football Association of Bosnia and Herzegovina]] normalization committee
| term_start     = 18 April 2011
| term_end       = 13 December 2012
| predecessor    = {{List collapsed|title=''See list''|1=Sulejman Čolaković <br> Bogdan Čeko <br> Iljo Dominković {{small|(as members of the Presidency)}}}}
| successor      = [[Elvedin Begić]] {{small|(as sole President)}}
| birth_name     = Ivan Osim
| birth_date     = {{Birth date|1941|05|06|df=y}}
| birth_place    = [[Sarajevo]], [[Independent State of Croatia]] <br> {{small|(modern-day Bosnia and Herzegovina)}}
| death_date     = {{Death date and age|2022|05|01|1941|05|06|df=y}}
| death_place    = [[Graz]], Austria
| resting_place  = [[Bare Cemetery]], Sarajevo
| nationality    = Bosnian
| height         = 1.89 m
| spouse         = {{marriage|Asima Osim|1965}}
| children       = 3, including [[Amar Osim|Amar]]
| parents        = {{ubl|Karolina Osim (mother)|Mihail Osim (father)}}
| module         =
{{Infobox football biography
| header-color   = lavender
| embed          = yes
| position       = [[Midfielder]]
| youthyears1    = 1954–1959 
| youthclubs1    = [[FK Željezničar Sarajevo|Željezničar]]
| years1         = 1959–1968 
| clubs1         = [[FK Željezničar Sarajevo|Željezničar]] 
| caps1          = 166 
| goals1         = 56
| years2         = 1968
| clubs2         = [[PEC Zwolle|Zwolsche Boys]]
| caps2          = 2
| goals2         = 0
| years3         = 1969–1970 
| clubs3         = [[FK Željezničar Sarajevo|Željezničar]] 
| caps3          = 54
| goals3         = 9
| years4         = 1970–1972 
| clubs4         = [[RC Strasbourg Alsace|Strasbourg]]
| caps4          = 58
| goals4         = 16
| years5         = 1972–1975 
| clubs5         = [[CS Sedan Ardennes|Sedan]]
| caps5          = 105 
| goals5         = 16
| years6         = 1975–1976 
| clubs6         = [[Valenciennes FC|Valenciennes]]
| caps6          = 30
| goals6         = 1
| years7         = 1976–1978 
| clubs7         = [[RC Strasbourg Alsace|Strasbourg]]
| caps7          = 32
| goals7         = 4
| totalcaps      = 447
| totalgoals     = 102
| nationalyears1 = 1964–1969
| nationalteam1  = [[Yugoslavia national football team|Yugoslavia]]
| nationalcaps1  = 16
| nationalgoals1 = 8
| manageryears1  = 1978–1986 
| managerclubs1  = [[FK Željezničar Sarajevo|Željezničar]]
| manageryears2  = 1986–1992 
| managerclubs2  = [[Yugoslavia national football team|Yugoslavia]]
| manageryears3  = 1991–1992 
| managerclubs3  = [[FK Partizan|Partizan]]
| manageryears4  = 1992–1994 
| managerclubs4  = [[Panathinaikos F.C.|Panathinaikos]]
| manageryears5  = 1994–2002 
| managerclubs5  = [[SK Sturm Graz|Sturm Graz]]
| manageryears6  = 2003–2006 
| managerclubs6  = [[JEF United Chiba]]
| manageryears7  = 2006–2007 
| managerclubs7  = [[Japan national football team|Japan]]
| medaltemplates =
{{MedalSport | Men's [[Association football|Football]]}}
{{MedalCountry | {{fb|YUG}} }}
{{MedalCompetition|[[UEFA European Championship|European Championship]]}}
{{MedalSilver | [[UEFA Euro 1968|1968 Italy]] | Team }}
}}}}
'''Ivan Osim''' (6 May 1941 – 1 May 2022), best known as '''Ivica Osim''', was a Bosnian professional [[Football player|footballer]] and [[Manager (association football)|football manager]]. Widely regarded as one of the greatest Bosnian football managers of all time, he is also seen as one of the most influential football managers in the former [[Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia|Yugoslavia]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://sportske.ba/straus-sa-grbavice-veliki-ivica-osim-slavi-80-rodjendan/|title=Štraus sa Grbavice: Veliki Ivica Osim slavi 80. rođendan|date=6 May 2021|access-date=6 May 2021|language=bs|author=E.R.|website=sportske.ba}}</ref>

As a player, Osim was in the [[Yugoslavia national football team|Yugoslavia national team]] and played at the [[Football at the 1964 Summer Olympics|1964 Summer Olympics]]. He also represented Yugoslavia at [[UEFA Euro 1968]], where he won a silver medal and was voted into the [[UEFA European Championship Teams of the Tournament|Team of the Tournament]]. As a manager, Osim won a bronze medal with Yugoslavia at the [[Football at the 1984 Summer Olympics|1984 Summer Olympics]] as an assistant, and reached the quarter-finals of the [[1990 FIFA World Cup]] as head coach of the Yugoslavia national team.<ref name="Wilson-Football-Quarterly">{{cite journal|last1=Wilson|first1=Jonathan|title=Ivica Osim - The great Bosnian coach reflects on the war, Japan and Alan Mullery's lack of fair play|journal=The Blizzard - the Football Quarterly|date=10 December 2012|issue= Seven |pages=41–48|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=JfXYBQAAQBAJ&pg=PA41|access-date=18 December 2016|publisher=Blizzard Media Ltd|language=en}}</ref> He also reached the [[1984–85 UEFA Cup#Semi-finals|1984–85 UEFA Cup semi-finals]] as manager of his hometown club [[FK Željezničar Sarajevo|Željezničar]].

Osim was head coach of the [[Japan national football team|Japan national team]], before suffering a [[stroke]] in November 2007 and subsequently leaving the post.<ref>{{cite news|last=Garber|first=Mario|authorlink=|url=http://www.e-novine.com/intervju/intervju-sport/26233-Nikad-nisam-skrivao-sam-Jugosloven.html |agency=E-Novine |title=Nikad nisam skrivao da sam Jugosloven |date=2009-05-19 |access-date=2022-05-02 |language=sh |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191230165023/http://www.e-novine.com/intervju/intervju-sport/26233-Nikad-nisam-skrivao-sam-Jugosloven.html |archive-date=30 December 2019 |url-status=dead}}</ref> In April 2011, [[FIFA]] announced that he had become president of the interim [[committee]] to run the [[Football Association of Bosnia and Herzegovina]] after the country was suspended from all international competitions.<ref name="balkaninsight">{{cite web|url=http://www.balkaninsight.com/en/article/fifa-and-uefa-to-name-the-emergency-body-to-save-bosnia-s-football|title=FIFA Names Ivica Osim Head of Bosnian Football|language=en|website=balkaninsight.com| date=18 April 2011 |publisher=Balkan Insight|access-date=18 April 2011}}</ref> He served until December 2012.

Osim died in May 2022, after years of health issues following his stroke.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.klix.ba/sport/nogomet/umro-je-legendarni-ivica-osim/220501059|title=Umro je legendarni Ivica Osim|date=1 May 2022|access-date=1 May 2022|language=bs|author=K.H.|publisher=Klix.ba}}</ref>

==Life and family==
Osim was born during [[World War II]] in [[Sarajevo]], precisely one month after the [[Nazi Germany|Nazi German]] [[invasion of Yugoslavia]], to Slovene-German father Mihail "Puba" Osim,<ref name="Plavi vjesnik-1969">{{Cite web|url=http://yugopapir.blogspot.ca/2014/03/ivica-osim-1-deo-memoara-strausa-s.html|title=Ivica Osim, 1. deo memoara "Štrausa s Grbavice": Mislio sam samo na uspjeh mog Željezničara|website=Yugopapir.blogspot.ca|publisher=originally in Plavi vjesnik|date=January–February 1969}}</ref> who worked as a [[machinist]] at the railways, and Polish-Czech mother Karolina. Both of his parents were also born in Sarajevo.<ref>[http://www.manijaci.ba/index.php/novosti/fkz/381-zeljovci-ivica-osim-dio-prvi Ivica Osim] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140506164059/http://www.manijaci.ba/index.php/novosti/fkz/381-zeljovci-ivica-osim-dio-prvi |date=6 May 2014 }} - manijaci.ba</ref> Following the end of the war, he started playing football in the [[FK Željezničar Sarajevo|Željezničar]] youth system. He studied mathematics at the [[University of Sarajevo]].<ref name="Plavi vjesnik-1969"/>

Osim was married to Asima and they had three children, two sons, Selmir and [[Amar Osim|Amar]], and daughter Irma.<ref name="Wilson-Football-Quarterly"/> His son Amar was a football player himself, who afterward also became a successful football manager. Since 1994, Osim had lived with his wife mostly in [[Graz]], Austria.<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.derstandard.at/story/2000013635494/oesterreichs-spielweise-ist-moderner-geworden |title=Österreichs Spiel ist moderner geworden |website=derstandard.at |publisher=STANDARD Verlagsgesellschaft m.b.H. |date=2015-03-30 |access-date=2021-10-09 |language=de}}</ref> Discontinuities only occurred when he lived in Japan during his managerial career there and when he visited Sarajevo in his function as advisor for the [[Football Association of Bosnia and Herzegovina]].

==Club career==
Osim began his professional career with hometown club [[FK Željezničar Sarajevo|Željezničar]] in 1959. He is considered one of the best Bosnians to step on a football pitch and was known as a ruthless dribbler. Osim stayed in Yugoslavia until the end of 1968, as transfers abroad were prohibited for players under 28 at the time. In December 1968, he went to the Netherlands, to play for [[PEC Zwolle|Zwolsche Boys]]. This stay lasted only three months, due to a knee injury. In 1970, Osim signed with [[RC Strasbourg Alsace|Strasbourg]] and played the rest of his career in France, playing also for [[Valenciennes FC|Valenciennes]], [[CS Sedan Ardennes|Sedan]] and again at Strasbourg.<ref name="Wilson-Football-Quarterly"/><ref name="Yugopapir-Najdraži golovi-Plavi vjesnik">{{cite web|title=Ovo su moji najdraži golovi! - Sarajevska legenda - Ivica Osim (1967)|url=http://yugopapir.blogspot.com/2013/05/sportske-legende-ivica-osim-ovo-su-moji.html|website=Yugopapir.blogspot.com|publisher=originally in Plavi vjesnik|access-date=19 December 2016|language=bs}}</ref>

==International career==
[[File:Jugoslovanska nogometna reprezentanca 1968.jpg|thumb|right|Osim (upper row, second from right) with [[Yugoslavia national football team|Yugoslavia]] at [[UEFA Euro 1968]]]]

Osim made his debut for [[Yugoslavia national football team|Yugoslavia]] in an October [[Football at the 1964 Summer Olympics|1964 Olympic Games]] match against [[Morocco national football team|Morocco]], and has earned a total of 16 caps, scoring eight goals. He also played at [[UEFA Euro 1968]] where Yugoslavia reached the [[UEFA Euro 1968 Final|final]], losing to [[Italy national football team|Italy]].<ref name="Wilson-Football-Quarterly"/><ref name="Ivica Osim-at-Reprezentacija-rs">{{cite web|title=Ivica Osim|url=http://www.reprezentacija.rs/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=1368&Itemid=12|website=Reprezentacija.rs|access-date=19 December 2016|language=sh}}</ref>

Osim's final international game was an April 1969 [[1970 FIFA World Cup qualification|World Cup qualification]] match away against [[Spain national football team|Spain]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://eu-football.info/_player.php?id=15713|title=Player Database|website=eu-football.info|accessdate=2021-04-23}}</ref>

==Managerial career==
===Željezničar===
When his playing career ended in 1978, Osim took the managing job at the club where he began playing, [[FK Željezničar Sarajevo|Željezničar]]. He managed the club until 1986, and finished third in the [[Yugoslav First League|Yugoslav championship]] once, reached the [[Yugoslav Cup]] final once and the [[UEFA Europa League|UEFA Cup]] [[1984–85 UEFA Cup#Semi-finals|semi-finals]] once.<ref name="Wilson-Football-Quarterly"/>

===Yugoslavia===
Osim assisted [[Ivan Toplak]], head coach of the Yugoslav Olympic team, at the [[Football at the 1984 Summer Olympics|1984 Summer Olympics]] where Yugoslavia won the [[bronze medal]].

In 1986, he took over the [[Yugoslavia national football team|Yugoslavia national team]]. The first qualifying cycle for [[UEFA Euro 1988]] ended in failure with an embarrassing 1–4 home loss against [[England national football team|England]]. Contrary to expectations and custom considering the fate of Yugoslav head coaches who presided over prior failed qualifying campaigns, Osim was not fired by the [[Football Association of Yugoslavia|Yugoslav FA]] largely thanks to personal authority of FA president [[Miljan Miljanić]] who wanted Osim to be given another chance.<ref>{{YouTube|ORWsrM2UAsg|Savicevic interview}}</ref>

Osim's Yugoslavia rebounded in the [[1990 FIFA World Cup qualification]], finishing ahead of [[France national football team|France]] and [[Scotland national football team|Scotland]]. At the [[1990 FIFA World Cup]], Yugoslavia reached the quarter-finals by eliminating [[Spain national football team|Spain]] 2–1 in the round of 16, and proceeded to face [[Diego Maradona]]'s [[Argentina national football team|Argentina]] in the quarter-finals. Despite losing a defender, [[Refik Šabanadžović]], to a red card at the half an hour mark, Osim's team held on through the entire game and extra time, only to lose on [[Penalty shoot-out (association football)|penalties]].<ref name="Wilson-Football-Quarterly"/><ref name="Hail-Bosnia-Jonathan-Wilson-SI">{{cite news|last1=Wilson|first1=Jonathan|title=HAIL, BOSNIA|language=en|url=https://www.si.com/vault/2014/04/28/106457664/hail-bosnia|newspaper=Sports Illustrated Vault &#124; Si.com|publisher=Sports Illustrated|access-date=18 December 2016}}</ref>

Yugoslavia qualified for [[UEFA Euro 1992]], but Osim resigned on 23 May 1992; as his family in [[Sarajevo]] faced [[Siege of Sarajevo|bombardment]] during the [[Bosnian War]]. "My country doesn't deserve to play in the European Championship," said Osim, "On the scale of human suffering, I cannot reconcile events at home with my position as national manager."<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1992/06/03/sports/03iht-rob_.html|title=The Right Thing, Reluctantly|language=en|date=3 June 1992
|first=Rob|last=Hughes|website=[[The New York Times]]|access-date=15 February 2008}}</ref> Yugoslavia was banned from the event, and its newly independent states have since competed as separate nations. Osim's home national team, [[Bosnia and Herzegovina national football team|Bosnia and Herzegovina]], had to wait further 23 years to qualify for their first major football competition, having done so for the [[2014 FIFA World Cup]] held in Brazil.<ref>{{cite news|title=European World Cup qualifying: Bosnia-Hercegovina reach Brazil| work=BBC Sport |url=https://www.bbc.com/sport/football/24517475#:~:text=Bosnia%2DHercegovina%20have%20qualified%20for,partied%20with%20flares%20and%20fireworks.|access-date=15 October 2013}}</ref>

===Partizan===
Osim became the new manager of [[FK Partizan|Partizan]] in the summer of 1991, in parallel with coaching the Yugoslavia national team. He won the [[1991–92 Yugoslav Cup]] with Partizan, having eliminated his old club Željezničar during the [[1991–92 Yugoslav Cup#Semi-finals|semi-finals]] of the competition.<ref name="Wilson-Football-Quarterly"/>

===Panathinaikos===
After leaving Yugoslavia, Osim managed [[Super League Greece|Greek Alpha Ethniki]] club [[Panathinaikos F.C.|Panathinaikos]] from 1992 to 1994, winning the [[Greek Football Cup|Greek Cup]] and [[Greek Super Cup|Super Cup]] in 1993, as well as finishing second in the league in 1993.

===Sturm Graz===
[[File:Graz Osim 02.jpg|thumb|right|290px|In 2022, following his death, a mural depicting Osim was painted on a street in the [[Graz]] district of [[Puntigam]]]]

In 1994, [[Heinz Schilcher]], whom Osim had played with in [[RC Strasbourg Alsace|Strasbourg]], convinced him to manage Austrian club [[SK Sturm Graz|Sturm Graz]]. Osim led the ''Blackies'' to win the [[Austrian Football Bundesliga|Austrian Bundesliga]] in 1998 and 1999, the [[Austrian Cup]] in 1996, 1997 and 1999 and the [[Austrian Supercup]] in 1996, 1998 and 1999.

The club also appeared in the [[UEFA Champions League]] from 1998 to 2001 under Osim's guidance. Until 2022, Sturm was the only Austrian club to [[2000–01 UEFA Champions League|qualify from their group stage]] and play amongst the last 16 of the Champions League. [[FC Red Bull Salzburg|Red Bull Salzburg]] repeated that achievement in the [[2021–22 UEFA Champions League|2021–22 season]], more than two decades after the Sturm team led by Osim.<ref>{{cite web|title=FC Red Bull Salzburg in last-16 of Champions League|url=https://www.redbull.com/int-en/red-bull-salzburg-champions-league-last-16|website=redbull.com|access-date=11 February 2022}}</ref>

===JEF United Chiba===
From 2003 to 2006, Osim was manager of [[JEF United Chiba]] of the [[J1 League]] and built a contender despite the club's modest means. The club came closest to its first league title in 2003, when it finished third in the season's first stage and second in the second stage. In 2005, JEF United won its first major title with Osim as manager, the [[J.League Cup]].

===Japan===
On 21 July 2006, Osim was appointed head coach of the [[Japan national football team|Japan national team]], replacing Brazilian manager and former player [[Zico (footballer)|Zico]], who had resigned after the end of the [[2006 FIFA World Cup]]. Japan defeated [[Trinidad and Tobago national football team|Trinidad and Tobago]] 2–0 in Osim's debut as head coach on 9 August 2006.

At the [[2007 AFC Asian Cup]], he failed to lead Japan to its third successive title, losing to [[Saudi Arabia national football team|Saudi Arabia]] in the semi-finals and to [[South Korea national football team|South Korea]] in the third place play-off on [[Penalty shoot-out (association football)|penalties]]. Osim said, "I feel like I've dropped my trousers. Twice," in describing his own managerial performance, pointing out that he did not rest the tired players.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://search.japantimes.co.jp/cgi-bin/sc20070730a2.html|newspaper=The Japan Times|date=30 July 2007|first=James|last=Mulligan|title=Osim admits mistakes after disappointing finish in Asian Cup}}</ref> During the tournament, Osim reduced his interpreter to tears during a dressing room tirade, in which he called his players "amateurs" following a 1–1 draw against [[Qatar national football team|Qatar]],<ref>{{cite news|url=http://uk.reuters.com/article/UK_WORLDFOOTBALL/idUKT6098620070710|archive-url=https://archive.today/20130202010957/http://uk.reuters.com/article/UK_WORLDFOOTBALL/idUKT6098620070710|url-status=dead|archive-date=2 February 2013|title=Soccer-Japan coach blasts players, reduces interpreter to tears|language=en|date=10 July 2007|work=Reuters|first=Alistair|last=Himmer}}</ref> and refused to watch the penalty shoot-out against [[Australia men's national soccer team|Australia]] in the quarter-finals, saying "I didn't see it because it was bad for my heart. I don't want to die while I coach Japan's national team. I want to die in my hometown, Sarajevo."<ref name="Reuters stroke">{{cite news|url=http://in.reuters.com/article/idINIndia-00000000000000|title=Japan national coach Osim suffers stroke|language=en|work=[[Reuters]]|date=16 November 2007|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161221002045/http://in.reuters.com/article/idINIndia-00000000000000|archive-date=21 December 2016|df=dmy-all}}</ref>

Osim's remarks gained popularity with Japanese fans, and {{Nihongo|''Words of Osim''|オシムの言葉|Oshimu no kotoba}} ({{ISBN|4797671084}}), a collection of his quotes published in 2005, sold 400,000 copies and was on the bestseller list in Japan.<ref name="Reuters stroke"/>

==Administrative work==
[[File:Nogometni savez BiH.jpg|thumb|right|Osim alongside [[Dušan Bajević]], [[Faruk Hadžibegić]], [[Ivan Ćurković]] and [[Michel Platini]] among others, during his administrative work for the [[Football Association of Bosnia and Herzegovina|Bosnian Football Association]] in 2012]]

On 18 April 2011, [[FIFA]] announced that Osim would head an interim [[committee]] to run the [[Football Association of Bosnia and Herzegovina]] after the country was suspended for two months from all international competitions by FIFA.<ref name="balkaninsight"/> He served as head of the committee until 13 December 2012.

==Health issues and death==
[[File:Funeral of Ivica Osim 10.jpg|thumb|left|175px|Osim's grave covered in flowers on the day of his funeral, 14 May 2022]]

On 16 November 2007, Osim suffered a [[stroke]] at his residence in [[Chiba Prefecture|Chiba]], Japan while watching a friendly match between [[Austria national football team|Austria]] and [[England national football team|England]] on television.<ref name="Reuters stroke"/> He was in a coma for almost three weeks during which time he was visited by notable people of world football like [[Michel Platini]] and [[Sepp Blatter]] among others. Eventually, Osim regained consciousness on 3 December 2007 and asked his wife, Asima, "What's the score?" of the game he was watching at the critical moment when he suffered the stroke. He was then moved from an [[intensive care unit]] to a general ward at the [[Juntendo University]] hospital in [[Urayasu]], Chiba on 23 December.<ref name="Wilson-Football-Quarterly"/>

On 7 December 2007, the [[Japan Football Association|Japan FA]] formally announced the appointment of [[Takeshi Okada]], who coached Japan during the [[1998 FIFA World Cup]], to replace Osim as [[Japan national football team|Japan]] head coach.<ref name=autogenerated1>{{cite news|url=http://soccernet.espn.go.com/news/story?id=487556&cc=5901|title=Okada set for Japanese national team|language=en|website=[[ESPN]]|publisher=ESPN|date=4 December 2007|access-date=4 December 2007|archive-date=25 May 2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110525161540/http://soccernet.espn.go.com/news/story?id=487556&cc=5901|url-status=dead}}</ref>

On 1 May 2022, Osim died at his home in [[Graz]], Austria, five days short of his 81st birthday, after years of health issues following his stroke.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.index.hr/sport/clanak/umro-je-ivica-osim/2360727.aspx|title=Umro je Ivica Osim|date=1 May 2022|access-date=1 May 2022|language=hr|publisher=index.hr}}</ref> After the news of his death, leading regional figures from the world of football and politics paid tribute to him. Croatian football manager and former player [[Velimir Zajec]] said "''Švabo'' has also left. The days in [[Panathinaikos F.C.|Panathinaikos]] are not forgotten. A great coach."<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.klix.ba/sport/nogomet/reakcije-na-smrt-ivice-osima-javljali-se-nogometasi-klubovi-politicari-prijatelji/220501066|title=Reakcije na smrt Ivice Osima, javljali se nogometaši, klubovi, političari, prijatelji...|date=1 May 2022|access-date=1 May 2022|language=bs|author=K.H.|publisher=Klix.ba}}</ref> [[Serbia national football team|Serbia national team]] head coach [[Dragan Stojković]] called Osim an "intelligent man, a football strategist who had great intuition, who was one of the most important football names in the former Yugoslavia and will be remembered that way."<ref>{{cite web|url=https://sportsport.ba/magazin/dragan-stojkovic-piksi-ivica-osim/424495|title=Riječi Piksija Stojkovića jasno pokazuju ko je bio Ivica Osim|date=1 May 2022|access-date=1 May 2022|language=bs|author=M. Šljivak|publisher=sportsport.ba}}</ref> [[Presidency of Bosnia and Herzegovina|Bosnian Presidency]] chairman [[Šefik Džaferović]] said that everyone will remember Osim as a "top footballer and football manager, but also a great man and patriot, with unique charisma and first-class moral qualities."<ref>{{cite web|url=https://avaz.ba/vijesti/bih/738991/dzaferovic-ivicu-osima-cemo-pamtiti-kao-vrhunskog-fudbalera-ali-i-velikog-covjeka|title=Džaferović: Ivicu Osima ćemo pamtiti kao vrhunskog fudbalera, ali i velikog čovjeka|date=1 May 2022|access-date=1 May 2022|language=bs|author=A.O.|publisher=avaz.ba}}</ref>

On 4 May, the coffin with Osim's body was laid out in the middle of the [[Liebenauer Stadium|Merkur Arena]], [[SK Sturm Graz|Sturm Graz]]'s home ground, and thousands of fans were present when the stadium was floodlit for 81 minutes in honour of Osim.<ref>[https://steiermark.orf.at/stories/3154700/ Sturm Graz verabschiedete sich von Ivica Osim], orf.at, 4 May 2022.</ref> He was buried in [[Sarajevo]] at the [[Bare Cemetery]] on 14 May 2022.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.klix.ba/sport/nogomet/ivica-osim-sahranjen-u-sarajevu-hiljade-ljudi-se-oprostilo-od-legende-bh-nogometa/220514015|title=Ivica Osim sahranjen u Sarajevu, hiljade ljudi se oprostilo od legende bh. nogometa|date=14 May 2022|access-date=14 May 2022|language=bs|author=E.B.|publisher=Klix.ba}}</ref> Thousands of people attended Osim's funeral and it was also broadcast live on national television.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://ba.n1info.com/sport-klub/nogomet/uzivo-posljednji-ispracaj-ivice-osima/|title=Na posljednji počinak otišao je naš Švabo, sahranjen Ivica Osim|date=14 May 2022|access-date=14 May 2022|language=bs|author=Esmir Kunić|publisher=n1info.ba}}</ref> He was survived by his wife Asima, their daughter Irma and their two sons, Selmir and [[Amar Osim|Amar]].<ref name="Wilson-Football-Quarterly"/>

In May 2023, the city of Graz renamed the forecourt of the Merkur Arena to ''Ivica-Osim-Platz'' ('Ivica-Osim-Square').<ref>{{Cite web |last= |first= |date=2023-05-24 |title=Graz bekommt Ivica-Osim- und Grete-Schurz-Platz |trans-title=Graz receives Ivica-Osim- and Grete-Schurz-Square |url=https://steiermark.orf.at/stories/3208819/ |access-date=2023-07-01 |website=[[ORF (Broadcaster)|ORF]] Steiermark |language=de-at}}</ref> That same month, the street Zvornička 21 in Sarajevo, where [[FK Željezničar Sarajevo|Željezničar]]'s home ground [[Stadion Grbavica|Grbavica stadium]] is located, was renamed to Ivica Osim Boulevard.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.klix.ba/sport/nogomet/svecano-otkrivena-ploca-s-novim-nazivom-ulice-bulevar-ivice-osima/230516020|title=Svečano otkrivena ploča s novim nazivom ulice Bulevar Ivice Osima|date=16 May 2023|access-date=16 May 2023|language=bs|author=N.K.|publisher=Klix.ba}}</ref>

==Managerial statistics==
{{updated|match played 17 October 2007}}

{| class="wikitable" style="text-align: center"
|+ Managerial record by team and tenure
|-
!rowspan="2"|Team
!rowspan="2"|From
!rowspan="2"|To
!colspan="9"|Record
|-
!G!!W!!D!!L!!Win %
|-
|align=left|[[FK Željezničar Sarajevo|Željezničar]]
|align=left|1 June 1978
|align=left|1 May 1986
{{WDL|301|118|81|102}}
|-
|align=left|[[Yugoslavia national football team|Yugoslavia]]
|align=left|29 October 1986
|align=left|25 March 1992
{{WDL|51|27|10|14}}
|-
|align=left|[[FK Partizan|Partizan]]
|align=left|1 July 1991
|align=left|30 June 1992
{{WDL|42|29|5|8}}
|-
|align=left|[[Panathinaikos F.C.|Panathinaikos]]
|align=left|1 July 1992
|align=left|13 March 1994
{{WDL|72|48|11|13}}
|-
|align=left|[[SK Sturm Graz|Sturm Graz]]
|align=left|1 June 1994
|align=left|14 September 2002
{{WDL|383|207|81|95}}
|-
|align=left|[[JEF United Chiba]]
|align=left|23 January 2003
|align=left|19 July 2006
{{WDL|142|69|40|33}}
|-
|align=left|[[Japan national football team|Japan]]
|align=left|20 July 2006
|align=left|29 November 2007
{{WDL|20|13|2|5}}
|-
!colspan="3"|Career Total
{{WDLtot|1011|511|230|270}}
|}

==Honours==
===Player===
'''Željezničar'''
*[[Yugoslav Second League]]: [[1961–62 Yugoslav Second League#West Division|1961–62]] (West)

'''Strasbourg'''
*[[Ligue 2|French Division 2]]: [[1976–77 French Division 2#Group B|1976–77]]

'''Yugoslavia'''
*[[UEFA European Championship]] runner-up: [[UEFA Euro 1968|1968]]

'''Individual'''
*[[UEFA European Football Championship Teams of the Tournament|UEFA Euro Team of the Tournament]]: [[UEFA Euro 1968|1968]]<ref>{{cite news|date=1 April 2011|title=1968 team of the tournament|work=Union of European Football Associations|url=https://www.uefa.com/uefaeuro-2020/news/0253-0d7bd1acdd1f-b4b923dfd47f-1000--euro-1968-team-of-the-tournament/?iv=true|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200818103907/https://www.uefa.com/uefaeuro-2020/news/0253-0d7bd1acdd1f-b4b923dfd47f-1000--euro-1968-team-of-the-tournament/?iv=true|url-status=dead|archive-date=18 August 2020|access-date=14 May 2020}}</ref>

===Manager===
'''Partizan'''
*[[Yugoslav Cup]]: [[1991–92 Yugoslav Cup|1991–92]]

'''Panathinaikos'''
*[[Greek Football Cup|Greek Cup]]: [[1992–93 Greek Football Cup|1992–93]]
*[[Greek Super Cup]]: [[1993 Greek Super Cup|1993]]

'''Sturm Graz'''
*[[Austrian Football Bundesliga|Austrian Bundesliga]]: [[1997–98 Austrian Football Bundesliga|1997–98]], [[1998–99 Austrian Football Bundesliga|1998–99]]
*[[Austrian Cup]]: 1995–96, 1996–97, [[1998–99 Austrian Cup|1998–99]]
*[[Austrian Supercup]]: 1996, 1998, 1999

'''JEF United Chiba''' 
*[[J.League Cup]]: [[2005 J.League Cup|2005]]

'''Japan'''
*[[Afro-Asian Cup of Nations]]: [[2007 Afro-Asian Cup of Nations|2007]]

==Awards and orders==
===Awards===
*Osim received the [[Sixth of April Sarajevo Award]] in 1990.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://sarajevo.ba/sestoaprilska-nagrada-grada-sarajeva-za-1990-godinu/|title=Šestoaprilska nagrada Grada Sarajeva za 1990. Godinu &#124; Grad Sarajevo|access-date=2019-01-05|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181205135704/http://sarajevo.ba/sestoaprilska-nagrada-grada-sarajeva-za-1990-godinu/|archive-date=2018-12-05|url-status=dead }}</ref>
*Osim was posthumously inducted into the [[Japan Football Hall of Fame]] in 2022.<ref>{{cite web |url= https://www.jfa.jp/eng/about_jfa/hall_of_fame/member/Ivica_OSIM.html|title= Ivica OSIM|access-date= February 19, 2024|work= Japan Football Association}}</ref>

===Orders===
*[[File:JPN Kyokujitsu-sho 4Class BAR.svg|45px|ribbon bar]] [[Order of the Rising Sun|Order of the Rising Sun, 4th Class, Gold Rays with Rosette]]: 2016

==See also==
*[[List of FK Željezničar Sarajevo players]] 
*[[List of FK Željezničar Sarajevo managers]]
*[[List of football managers with the most games]]

==References==
{{Reflist|2}}

==External links==
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{{Wikiquotes}}
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*{{Reprezentacija|osim-ivan}}
*[https://books.google.com/books?id=JfXYBQAAQBAJ&pg=PA41 Ivica Osim - The great Bosnian coach reflects on the war, Japan and Alan Mullery's lack of fair play] by Jonathan Wilson | The Blizzard - The Football Quarterly: Issue Seven
*[http://www.yugopapir.com/2014/03/ivica-osim-2deo-memoara-strausa-s.html Ivica Osim - 2. deo memoara "Štrausa s Grbavice": Fatalna utakmica sa Hajdukom (1969)] - Yugopapir, originally published in ''Plavi vjesnik'' {{in lang|sh}}
*[http://yugopapir.blogspot.com/2013/05/sportske-legende-ivica-osim-ovo-su-moji.html  "Ovo su moji najdraži golovi!"], Sarajevska legenda - Ivica Osim (1967) - Yugopapir, originally published in ''Plavi vjesnik'' {{in lang|sh}}
*[http://www.yugopapir.com/2014/03/ivica-osim-ekskluzivno-sto-nogometasi.html Što nogometaši govore jedni drugima dok traje utakmica?], Ivica Osim ekskluzivno (1967) - Yugopapir, originally published in ''Plavi vjesnik'' {{in lang|sh}}

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