Ivica Horvat

Ivica Horvat

Personal information
Full name	Ivan Horvat
Date of birth	(1926-07-16)16 July 1926[1]
Place of birth	Sisak, Kingdom of SCS (now Croatia)
Date of death	27 August 2012(2012-08-27) (aged 86)[1]
Place of death	Krk, Croatia
Height	1.89 m (6 ft 2 in)
Position(s)	Centre-back[1]
Youth career
1940–1945	Ferraria Zagreb
Senior career*
Years	Team	Apps	(Gls)
1945–1957	Dinamo Zagreb	230	(2)
1957–1961	Eintracht Frankfurt	56	(0)
Total		286	(2)
International career
1946–1956	Yugoslavia	60	(0)
Managerial career
1961–1964	Eintracht Frankfurt (assistant)
1964–1965	Eintracht Frankfurt
1967–1968	Dinamo Zagreb
1970	PAOK
1971–1975	Schalke 04
1975–1976	Rot-Weiss Essen
1978–1979	Schalke 04
Medal record Men's football Representing  Yugoslavia Olympic Games 1952 Helsinki Team
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Ivan "Ivica" Horvat (16 July 1926 – 27 August 2012) was a Croatian professional football player and manager who capped for Yugoslavia. In 2004 he received the Croatian Olympic Committee's Matija Ljubek Award.^[2]

Playing career

Club

Horvat played from 1945 until 1957 for Dinamo Zagreb. In 1957 he moved to Germany to Eintracht Frankfurt, where he stayed until the end of his career.

International

In the Yugoslavia national team Horvat appeared from 1946 until 1956 in 60 fixtures. He took part in the World Cup in 1950 and 1954.

He also played with the Yugoslav team at the 1952 Summer Olympics in Helsinki and won the silver medal.^[3] In the final, Yugoslavia lost to the rising star of the 1950s, Hungary.

In the quarterfinals of the 1954 World Cup the Plavi lost due to an own goal from Horvat with 0–1. This goal was scored in the 10th minute and remained the fastest own goal in World Cup history until 2006 the Paraguayan Carlos Gamarra hit between his own posts against England after three minutes.

His final international was a November 1956 friendly match away against England.^[4]

Honours

• Yugoslav champion: 1948, 1954^[1]
• Yugoslav Cup: 1951^[1]
• German champion: 1959
• Silver medal Olympic Games: 1952

Managerial career

From 1961 until 1979 Horvat worked as manager, in the beginning as assistant at Eintracht Frankfurt and became successor of the manager legend Paul Oßwald in 1964. But Frankfurt could not convince in the Bundesliga and Horvat was sacked in 1965. He was succeeded by Elek Schwartz.

With Dinamo Zagreb he won the Inter-Cities Fairs Cup, the predecessor of the UEFA Cup, in 1967 in the final matches against Leeds United (2–0, 0–0) after previous manager Branko Zebec left club.

From 1971 he worked in the Bundesliga again, this time for FC Schalke 04, winning the DFB-Pokal in 1972 and becoming runner-up in the league. In 1975 Horvat moved to Rot-Weiss Essen, he stayed there until September 1976.

In the beginning of the 1978–1979 Horvat returned to Schalke but due to the team's bad performances and an embarrassing derby loss against Bochum he was fired in March. Thereupon Horvat finished his managing career.

Honours

• Inter-Cities Fairs Cup 1967
• DFB-Pokal 1972

References

External links

• Ivica Horvat at FIFA (archived) 
• Ivica Horvat at National-Football-Teams.com 
• Ivica Horvat at Olympics.com 
• Ivica Horvat at Olympedia 
• Ivica Horvat at Reprezentacija.rs (in Serbian) (archive)
• Ivan Horvat at eintracht-archiv.de (in German)

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