| Personal information | ||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Date of birth | (1933-06-19)19 June 1933 | |||||||||||||
| Place of birth | Eisenkappel,Austria | |||||||||||||
| Date of death | 13 December 2020(2020-12-13) (aged 87) | |||||||||||||
| Place of death | Zagreb, Croatia | |||||||||||||
| Youth career | ||||||||||||||
| 1946–1952 | Dinamo Zagreb | |||||||||||||
| Senior career* | ||||||||||||||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) | |||||||||||
| 1952–1958 | Metalac Zagreb | |||||||||||||
| 1958–1963 | Lokomotiva Zagreb | |||||||||||||
| Managerial career | ||||||||||||||
| 1964–1967 | Lokomotiva Zagreb | |||||||||||||
| 1967–1969 | Opel Rüsselsheim | |||||||||||||
| 1969–1970 | Germania Wiesbaden | |||||||||||||
| 1970–1972 | Wacker Innsbruck | |||||||||||||
| 1972–1974 | LASK Linz | |||||||||||||
| 1974–1976 | NK Zagreb | |||||||||||||
| 1974–1979 | Yugoslavia (amateurs) | |||||||||||||
| 1976–1979 | Dinamo Vinkovci | |||||||||||||
| 1980–1982 | Sturm Graz | |||||||||||||
| 1982–1985 | Rapid Vienna | |||||||||||||
| 1985–1986 | VfB Stuttgart | |||||||||||||
| 1986–1988 | Rapid Vienna | |||||||||||||
| 1988–1989 | Sturm Graz | |||||||||||||
| 1990–1991 | Vorwärts Steyr | |||||||||||||
| 1991–1995 | Casino Salzburg | |||||||||||||
| 1995–1996 | Croatia (assistant) | |||||||||||||
| 1996–1997 | Croatia Zagreb | |||||||||||||
| 1997–1998 | Fenerbahçe S.K. | |||||||||||||
| 1998–1999 | LASK Linz | |||||||||||||
| 1999–2001 | Austria | |||||||||||||
| 2002–2004 | Croatia | |||||||||||||
| 2006–2007 | Albania | |||||||||||||
Medal record
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| * Club domestic league appearances and goals | ||||||||||||||
Otto Barić (Croatian pronunciation:[bǎːritɕ];[1] 19 June 1933 – 13 December 2020) was an Austrian-Croatian professionalfootball player and manager.[2][3][4]
Born inEisenkappel, nearKlagenfurt, Barić started his coaching career in 1969 at West German clubGermania Wiesbaden and moved after one season to Austrian clubWacker Innsbruck, where he spent next two seasons and won two consecutive league champions titles before moving toLASK Linz in July 1972. After two seasons with Linz, he went on to coach Croatian clubNK Zagreb and spent two seasons there before moving toDinamo Vinkovci in July 1976. In the late 1970s, he was also the head coach of the Yugoslav amateur national team, a team that consisted of players from theYugoslav Second League, and won two regional and one continental title with the team between 1976 and 1978. At the same time, he spent almost four seasons at Dinamo Vinkovci before returning to Austria in March 1980 to coachSturm Graz. He spent one and a half seasons with Sturm and was then unemployed for a year before starting to coachRapid Wien in July 1982. He led Rapid to three champions titles in theAustrian Bundesliga in 1982, 1983 and 1987, as well as to threeAustrian Cup titles in 1983, 1984 and 1985. In 1985, he also led Rapid to the final match of theUEFA Cup Winners' Cup, but lost the title with a 3–1 defeat againstEverton.[5][6]
Barić left Rapid for German clubVfB Stuttgart in the summer of 1985 and coached the team until March 1986. After three months without a job, he returned to Rapid in June 1986 and went on to coach the team in the following two seasons, winning another Austrian Cup title in 1987. After leaving Rapid in June 1988, he was unemployed for five months before eventually continuing to work as the head coach of Sturm Graz between November 1988 and June 1989.[7]
After leaving Sturm, Barić became head coach ofSK Vorwärts Steyr, another team of the Austrian Bundesliga, for the 1990–91 season. In July 1991, he was engaged byAustria Salzburg. He led Austria Salzburg to two consecutive champions titles in the Austrian Bundesliga in 1994 and 1995, and also managed to qualify for theUEFA Champions League in 1994, thus making Austria Salzburg the first Austrian club to do that. The team finished third in their group behindAjax Amsterdam andA.C. Milan. In the previous 1993–94 season, he led the club to the two-legged final of theUEFA Cup, but lost the title toInter Milan with a 2–0 defeat onaggregate. He coached the Salzburg team until August 1995 and then he left due to differences of opinion between him and some players.[8][9]
He was jobless for a short time after leaving Austria Salzburg and then he worked as an assistant coach in theCroatia national team until the end of the1996 European Championship. In July 1996, he became the head coach ofDinamo Zagreb and led the club to titles in both theCroatian First League andCroatian Cup in only one season he coached the team. In June 1997, he left Dinamo for Turkish clubFenerbahçe, where he worked until March 1999. Barić was then unemployed for a couple of months after leaving Fenerbahçe and subsequently returned to his international career as the head coach of theAustria national team between 1999 and 2001, giving up his position after Austria failed to qualify for the2002 World Cup finals.[10]
In January 2002, Barić went on to coach Austria Salzburg for four months and was then jobless for two months until July 2002, when he was named the head coach of the Croatia national team after his predecessorMirko Jozić was dismissed due to unsuccessful campaign of the team at the2002 World Cup finals.[11]
In July 2002, Barić signed a two-year contract with theCroatian Football Federation and was given a task to bring theCroatia national team to the finals ofUEFA Euro 2004. His first match as manager at Croatia bench was a friendly againstWales on 21 August 2002 inVaraždin. The match ended with a 1–1 draw, which was quite a disappointment. His competitive debut in thequalifying session for the European Championship was even less successful with a goalless draw againstEstonia and one month later the team went on to lose 2–0 againstBulgaria. With diminished chances for advancement to the final tournament, Croatia now had to win as many matches as possible. The start in the year 2003 was successful, with an impressive 4–0 win over solidBelgium at home inZagreb, followed by three consecutive wins, twice against the group underdogsAndorra and once againstEstonia. The team had to achieve an away win against Belgium to secure at least a place in the play-offs, but failed to do that by losing 2–1. Nevertheless, they won the last match against Bulgaria by 1–0 and grabbed the second place due to a better goal difference from that of the Belgian team. In the play-offs, Croatia came to a 2–1 win on aggregate againstSlovenia and qualified for the finals inPortugal.[12]
At the finals, Croatia was drawn into a tough group with defending championsFrance,England andSwitzerland, and advancement to the quarterfinals was relatively unlikely. The team put all their hopes on the opening match against Switzerland, but failed to win as the match ended with a goalless draw. The second match against France started badly for the Croatian team as they were 1–0 down on the halftime afterIgor Tudor scored anown goal, but a strong start into the second half and goals fromMilan Rapaić andDado Pršo put them 2–1 up in the first seven minutes. Nevertheless, France equalised withDavid Trezeguet's goal twelve minutes later and the final score was 2–2. Croatia had to win against England in the last group match to advance to the quarterfinals and managed to achieve a good start whenNiko Kovač scored the opening goal after only four minutes, but England managed to switch the lead 2–1 until the end of the first half with goals fromPaul Scholes andWayne Rooney in the last five minutes. In the second half, England went 3–1 up with another goal from Rooney and Croatian chances to put themselves in the lead once again were down to a minimum. Croatia managed to decrease England's lead when Igor Tudor scored for 3–2, but it took only six minutes beforeFrank Lampard scored the final goal of the match, leading England to a 4–2 win and eliminating the group third-placed Croatia from the tournament. Given that Croatia was expected to progress from the group, the early exit was seen as a major disappointment and Barić's contract was not extended and he left as manager of the Croatia national team in July 2004.[13][14]
After being without a job for nearly two years, Barić returned to coaching as he was named manager of theAlbania national team in June 2006, afterHans-Peter Briegel's contract with the team was not extended. Barić stayed on until the2008 European Championship with hopes to take the team to the final tournament for the first time. Unlike his predecessor, Barić lived inTirana to closely watch theAlbanian First Division and its players.[15]
He debuted with a 2–2 draw againstBelarus on 2 September 2006. Then Albania went on to lose 2–0 at home againstRomania, but the draws againstBulgaria andSlovenia, and the wins 6–0 on aggregate againstLuxembourg, showed the results of his work. Albania might have even won with theNetherlands in Tirana if an own goal of Dutch defenderMelchiot would have not been disallowed by the referee. Barić's values were shown even when he promised to renew the Albania national team and somehow managed to do that. He left out of the squad captainIgli Tare, even though he was a player ofLazio. But he proved this decision right because the team managed to do really well without him. He also gave their debuts to Tirana 19-year-old player,Jahmir Hyka, and 20-year-oldBesa Kavajë player,Andi Lila, not to mention 21-year-oldKristi Vangjeli, who plays forAris in Greece. But theEuro 2008 qualifying campaign ended in shame for Albania, following two heavy losses against Belarus (2–4 at home) and Romania (1–6 inBucharest). Although Barić was suspended for these two matches and both were not directed by him, but by his assistant, he could not accept his player's behavior and announced his withdrawal although he had agreed to an extension of his contract some days before.[16]
Barić died fromCOVID-19 atClinical Hospital Dubrava in Zagreb on 13 December 2020, aged 87.[17][9][18]
Source:[citation needed][19]
| Team | From | To | Record | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| G | W | D | L | Win % | |||
| Lokomotiva Zagreb | 1964 | 1967 | |||||
| Opel Rüsselsheim | 1967 | 1969 | |||||
| Germania Wiesbaden | 1969 | 1970 | |||||
| Wacker Innsbruck | 1 January 1971 | 31 December 1971 | 66 | 24 | 20 | 22 | 036.36 |
| LASK Linz | 1972 | 1974 | 66 | 24 | 20 | 22 | 036.36 |
| NK Zagreb | 1974 | 1976 | |||||
| Yugoslavia Amateurs | 1974 | 1979 | 8 | 6 | 1 | 1 | 075.00 |
| Dinamo Vinkovci | 1976 | 1979 | |||||
| Sturm Graz | 1 July 1980 | 30 June 1982 | 79 | 34 | 18 | 27 | 043.04 |
| Rapid Wien | 1 July 1982 | 30 June 1985 | 137 | 86 | 36 | 15 | 062.77 |
| Stuttgart | 1 July 1985 | 4 March 1986 | 28 | 13 | 6 | 9 | 046.43 |
| Rapid Wien | 1 July 1986 | 11 September 1988 | 139 | 85 | 33 | 21 | 061.15 |
| Sturm Graz | 1 October 1988 | 30 June 1989 | 28 | 14 | 6 | 8 | 050.00 |
| Vorwärts Steyr | 28 July 1990 | 3 May 1991 | 33 | 9 | 11 | 13 | 027.27 |
| Casino Salzburg | 11 July 1991 | 29 August 1995 | 191 | 105 | 48 | 38 | 054.97 |
| Croatia Zagreb | 6 June 1996 | 2 June 1997 | 41 | 34 | 5 | 2 | 082.93 |
| Fenerbahçe | 1997 | 1998 | 41 | 24 | 9 | 8 | 058.54 |
| LASK Linz | 29 July 1998 | 4 December 1998 | 19 | 11 | 2 | 6 | 057.89 |
| Austria | 13 April 1999 | 21 November 2001 | 22 | 7 | 6 | 9 | 031.82 |
| Croatia | July 2002 | July 2004 | 24 | 11 | 8 | 5 | 045.83 |
| Albania | 16 August 2006 | 21 November 2007 | 15 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 026.67 |
| Totals | 937 | 491 | 234 | 212 | 052.40 | ||
Wacker Innsbruck
NK Zagreb
Yugoslavia
Rapid Vienna
Casino Salzburg
Croatia Zagreb
Bartolòmēj, Bárić
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