Safet Sušić
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Sušić as manager of Bosnia and Herzegovina in 2013 | |||
| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Date of birth | 13 April 1955 | ||
| Place of birth | Zavidovići, PR Bosnia and Herzegovina, FPR Yugoslavia | ||
| Height | 1.81 m (5 ft 11 in) | ||
| Position(s) | |||
| Youth career | |||
| 1971–1972 | Krivaja | ||
| 1972–1973 | Sarajevo | ||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| 1973–1982 | Sarajevo | 221 | (86) |
| 1982–1991 | Paris Saint-Germain | 287 | (67) |
| 1991–1992 | Red Star | 17 | (3) |
| Total | 525 | (155) | |
| International career | |||
| 1977–1990 | Yugoslavia | 54 | (21) |
| Managerial career | |||
| 1994–1995 | Cannes | ||
| 1996–1999 | İstanbulspor | ||
| 2001 | Al Hilal | ||
| 2004–2005 | Konyaspor | ||
| 2005–2006 | Ankaragücü | ||
| 2006–2007 | Çaykur Rizespor | ||
| 2007–2008 | Çaykur Rizespor | ||
| 2008 | Ankaraspor | ||
| 2009–2014 | Bosnia and Herzegovina | ||
| 2015–2016 | Évian | ||
| 2017 | Alanyaspor | ||
| 2018 | Akhisarspor | ||
| *Club domestic league appearances and goals | |||
Safet "Pape" Sušić (pronounced [sǎfet sûʃitɕ]; born 13 April 1955) is a Bosnian professional football manager and former player. He was a gifted midfielder known for his dribbling skills and technical ability, and is strongly reputed to have been one of the finest European players of his generation. Sušić played for Yugoslavia in two FIFA World Cups, 1982 and 1990, and at UEFA Euro 1984. As a manager, he qualified the Bosnia and Herzegovina national team to the 2014 FIFA World Cup.
Sušić played as an attacking midfielder, often in a role of trequartista or fantasista (i.e. a creative playmaker) and rarely as a second striker for Sarajevo, Paris Saint-Germain and Red Star, and internationally for Yugoslavia. Even more later during his career, he was utilized more in a role of a deep-lying playmaker, both for club and national team. In 2010, France Football voted Sušić as Paris Saint-Germain's best player of all time and the best foreign player of Ligue 1 of all time, with his compatriot and friend who also had a spell with PSG, Vahid Halilhodžić, being voted seventh. As part of the UEFA Jubilee Awards in 2004, the Football Association of Bosnia and Herzegovina chose Sušić as the nation's greatest ever player.
Following his retirement from playing, Sušić started working as a manager. He worked for a number of club sides: Cannes, İstanbulspor, Al Hilal, Konyaspor, Ankaragücü, Çaykur Rizespor, Ankaraspor, Évian, Alanyaspor, Akhisarspor and the Bosnia and Herzegovina national team. Sušić won his only trophy as manager with Akhisarspor, the 2018 Turkish Super Cup.