Ivan "Ivica" Osim is a Bosnian

Bosnians

Bosnians are people who reside in, or come from, Bosnia and Herzegovina. By the modern state definition a Bosnian can be anyone who holds citizenship of the state. This includes, but is not limited to, members of the constituent ethnic groups of Bosnia and Herzegovina: Bosniaks, Bosnian Serbs and...

 former football

Football (soccer)

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 player and manager. He was most recently head coach of Japan

Japan national football team

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, before he suffered a stroke in November 2007 and left the post. On April 18, 2011 FIFA announced that Osim will head an interim

Interim

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 committee

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 to run the Football Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina after the country was suspended from all international competitions.

As a player, he was a member of the Yugoslavia national team and played in the 1964 Olympics

Football at the 1964 Summer Olympics

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