On this day, we lost not just a legend, but a good man. ▪️
On his resignation from the Yugoslav national team at the beginning of the aggression against BiH: “My country doesn't deserve to play in the European Championship. On the scale of human suffering, I cannot reconcile… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
Born in #Sarajevo in 1941, he started playing for the first team in the 1959/1960 season. He played for a total of 11 years collecting 250 appearances and 75 goals.
In 1970 he went to France, where he played for Strasbourg, Sedan and Valenciennes.
He ended his playing career in 1978, after which he became a very successful coach. He successfully led #Zeljeznicar from 1978 to 1986. He was also the manager of the Yugoslav national team, Partizan, Panathinaikos, #Sturm, JEF United, and his last coaching engagement was #Japan.
Osim was also became a cult figure, and widely admired in Japan. Such was the case that a book of his collected quotes was published – “Words of Osim” – in 2005 and sold in excess of 400,000 copies, hitting the bestseller charts for a number of weeks. #RIPOsim
The tall blonde #Osim was a creative player with an instinctive ability to read the game and deliver the cutting pass, he also had a natural talent to dribble and beat a player on either side. Rest in peace legend 🇧🇦
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