Miroslav Blažević passed away on the present day before the year after a long fight with cancer.
Although they often circled jokes about how to hide year, according to official data was born on 10. February 1935. years in Travnikas a sixth child in the family of Mother Kate and father Mate.
Nickname Ćiro He got still as a boy, but his mother awful to that name and asked her to call him that because he was fallen. Namely, on one child’s play the main character was doll Cyro, who spoke just like Little Miroslav, as if he had a voice man.
She called him Brother Because his sister Josephin called Seka.
When he came to DinamoThe teammates called him MilderAs by the surname, and he wrote his mother that the Travnik Svetac Petar Barbarić answered prayers. But when the travnigrani recognized him in the field and began to scan “Ćiro, Ćiro“It was over.
The boy’s nickname was received and followed him throughout his life and career.
So although his life marked football, Blažević was a very good skier in the youth and became “The first Bosnian who beat Slovenes in skiing“.
At the competition in 1952. year as a representative of the Travnik selection won the first place in skiing at 10 kilometers.
Two years later he was supposed to go to the ski championship in Mrkopaljbut previously stopped by to Zagreb to visit the sisters, and there he ran into a former trainer from Travnik, who invited him to come to Dinamo.
Ćiro Blažević: “Sine, you are a happy man because you are a wide hill coach”
Blažević He accepted the invitation, left skiing, but before arriving in Dinamo, he had to serve the army, just when the military time was extended for 24 months, which means he lost two years.
After he came out of the army instead of in Dinamo, he went to Riverwhere he met his wife Zdenka and got a daughter BarbaraBut because of the problematic knee career she didn’t last for him.
After leaving the river, he spent three years in Switzerlandu Siono and Moutierin 1966, to end the toy career with 31 year.
First coaching The job got two years later, also in Switzerland, in Veveyuand in 1976. was a Swiss national team in two games as a temporary menu.
In River has returned as a coach in 1979 and a year later in Dinamowhere the legendary title in 1982. introduced him in the legend.
Later is S Croatian 1998. Won the world bronze.
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