Miroslav Blažević
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Blažević with Mes Kerman in 2011 | |||||||||||||||||
| Personal information | |||||||||||||||||
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| Date of birth | 9 February 1935 | ||||||||||||||||
| Place of birth | Dolac, Travnik, Kingdom of Yugoslavia | ||||||||||||||||
| Date of death | 8 February 2023 (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 | ||||||||||||||||
| 1986 | Prishtina | ||||||||||||||||
| 1986–1988 | 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 | ||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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| *Club domestic league appearances and goals | |||||||||||||||||
Miroslav "Ćiro" Blažević (Croatian pronunciation: [mîroslaʋ tɕǐːro blǎːʒeʋitɕ] ⓘ; 9 February 1935 – 8 February 2023) was a Bosnian-Croatian professional football manager and player.
A former right winger, 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.
Blažević maintained a colourful public persona in both Bosnia and Herzegovina and Croatia, where he was reverently known as "trener svih trenera" (the "coach of all coaches").