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Miroslav Blažević

1935 - 2023

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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. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Miroslav Blažević has received more than 402,503 page views. His biography is available in 31 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 30 in 2019). Miroslav Blažević is the 39th most popular coach (down from 36th in 2019), the 17th most popular biography from Bosnia and Herzegovina (up from 19th in 2019) and the most popular Bosnian, Herzegovinian Coach.

Miroslav Blažević is most famous for being the coach of the Croatian national team that won the 1998 FIFA World Cup.

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Among COACHES

Among coaches, Miroslav Blažević ranks 39 out of 328. Before him are Óscar Tabárez, Dušan Ivković, Diego Simeone, Leo Beenhakker, Michael Laudrup, and Manuel Pellegrini. After him are Bernd Schuster, Maurizio Sarri, Sven-Göran Eriksson, Ralf Rangnick, Tomislav Ivić, and Héctor Cúper.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1935, Miroslav Blažević ranks 35. Before him are Bibi Andersson, Omar Bongo, Gherman Titov, Udo Lattek, Adnan Khashoggi, and Harvey J. Alter. After him are Mirella Freni, Giya Kancheli, David Harvey, Jim Peebles, Jerry Lee Lewis, and William Friedkin. Among people deceased in 2023, Miroslav Blažević ranks 37. Before him are Nawaf Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah, Ferid Murad, Jacques Delors, K. Alex Müller, Tony Bennett, and Mohamed Al-Fayed. After him are Wolfgang Schäuble, Paul Berg, Rosalynn Carter, Harry Markowitz, Burt Young, and Alain Touraine.

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In Bosnia and Herzegovina

Among people born in Bosnia and Herzegovina, Miroslav Blažević ranks 17 out of 320. Before him are Lala Mustafa Pasha (1500), Prince Marko (1335), Biljana Plavšić (1930), Vahid Halilhodžić (1952), Vladimir Prelog (1906), and Slobodan Praljak (1945). After him are Zoran Đinđić (1952), Silvana Armenulić (1939), Ivica Osim (1941), Meša Selimović (1910), Fikret Abdić (1939), and Vojislav Šešelj (1954).

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Among COACHES In Bosnia and Herzegovina

Among coaches born in Bosnia and Herzegovina, Miroslav Blažević ranks 1. After him are Safet Sušić (1955), Ljupko Petrović (1947), Vladimir Petković (1963), Dušan Bajević (1948), Zlatko Dalić (1966), Džemaludin Mušović (1944), Mladen Krstajić (1974), Željko Buvač (1961), Mato Neretljak (1979), and Amar Osim (1967).

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