Biography
Ivitsa Olich is a former football player, and now the coach does not hide that he loves equally strongly and football, and his family. At the first adult match for the national team, in which the striker scored a victorious goal, a man put on a shirt with a photo of his newborn son. All transitions to new teams man agreed with his family, which is not ashamed.Childhood and youth
Ivitsa was born on January 14, 1979 in the village of Davor, located in the eastern part of Croatia. The early years of the boy fell during the war. The Orel House was located near the habitat of Serbs, who loyally belonged to the residents of the village.
Finance in the family has always lacked. Mother, father and Ivitsa existed for money that earned the elder brother of the future football player.
There was nothing to take himself to take himself, so the teenager spent his free time on a football field. If Ivitsa lacked knowledge and skills, but the speed that Olied developed, allowed him to gain himself in the youth football club "Pierce".
Career footballer
In 1996, the athlete leaves his native village and moves to Slavonski-Brod, where he begins to play for youth "Marsonia", which concluded with the player the first professional contract.In parallel with the move to the biography of Olizh, another joyful news - the attacker is invited to the youth team of Croatia. In total, the athlete will play for the national team (and youth, and adult) of 18 years.
After 2 years of promising player (height - 182 cm, the weight - 85 kg) bought the German club "Gerta", but the Olich is not held in a new place. The coaching composition of the new team immediately understands that Ivice lacks gaming practice, so after a year the football player returns to the native "Marsonia".
Failure in the German club hurts the athlete's pride of the athlete, and the Olich throws all his strength to prove those surrounding their own abilities. Battures do not pass in vain. The progressive with an incredible speed of the football player is invited to Zagreb.
In 2002, after the Croatian championship, where the new Ivice team takes gold, the player became interested in scouts of Kiev "Dynamo" and CSKA. In the battle for a talented striker won the second. Olich concluded a 4-year contract with CSKA and moved to Moscow, which frightened a young man with his unknown and constant traffic jams.
Over the next years, the Croatian footballer has established itself as a real professional. In the team, the athlete performed at number 9. The club fans loved the new player for its performance. Even the 2005 UEFA Cup received shortly before the Nose Fracture could not stop Olich. The athlete insisted to go out on the field in the starting lineup. The only concession of Ivitsa became a special mask, which secured the face of a man from a repeated injury.
Later, the athlete said that during the tournament, Russian President Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin was ill not for CSKA, but for Zenit, though he was happy to success the team, which for the first time in history, beat Portuguese "Sporting" with a score of 3: 1, won the European Cup.
In 2007, the attacker himself expressed a desire to leave the club. Football analysts argued that the solution was dictated by exacerbated competition in a team. The footballer himself stated in an interview that his wife persuaded him for the transition, who wanted to move closer to his relatives.
The next turn of the sports career Olizh became "Hamburg". For 2 years, which a man spent in a new club, the team will be chosen from a difficult situation and firmly just rises in the middle of the tournament table. A lot of help in this will be headed goals scored by the Croatian striker. At this time, Ivitsa occupied the 2nd place in the magnitude of the salary among the players of the club. According to Sportbild, Forward received € 2.7 million per year.
In 2009, the footballer received a tempting offer from "Bavaria". The first season for the new club fastened the leader's place behind the player, but the knee injury noticeably weakened the player's position. The athlete was less likely to release on the field, and the feasible hip injury in the match with Hamburg and for a long time left Olich in the spare.
In April 2012, rumors appeared among sports journalists that Ivitsa intends to move to Lazio. But gossip proved to be unfounded. In fact, the football player concluded a contract with Wolfsburg. Restoring after injury, the striker showed his best shape and for 2 years improved statistics, twice received the title of the best team scorer.
From the first days, Olich established a high bar, which he adhered to 2016 until he moved to Munich 1860. Before this, Ivitsa returned to Hamburg for a short time (January 2015 - Summer 2016) - a crisis reappeared at the club, and the coaching staff strengthened the team by a proven player.
Coaching
In June 2017, Ivitsa Olicy officially completed a footballer's career, declaring his decision at a press conference. After 3 months, it became known that a former athlete was appointed by one of their coaches of the Croatia national team, which went to the World Championship - 2018 to Russia and won silver medals, passing forward only France.
On the Internet, a video appeared on the Internet, at which a player of the Croatian national Domagoa species uses alcohol and shouts: "Glory to Ukraine! Belgrade Gori! " After these words, the camera snatches the Olich sitting nearby. It is not known when the appeal was shot, but the anonymous users claimed that so the national team of Croatia celebrated the victory over the Russian national team.
The roller instantly scattered between the users of Twitter and Instagram. In the squeezed dates of FIFA analyzed the video and decided not to punish the football player and coach. It was found that the phrase of the football player calls on the fans and his friends going to Belgrade's Kiev restaurant, to mark the team victory. Nevertheless, the shot frames became the second provocative roller in the network after the victory of Croatia over Russia.
A couple of days after the scandal, the final match for the championship in the world championship took place. In an interview that followed France, Ivitsa said that the judge was dissatisfied with the decision. The arbiter undeservedly prescribed a penalty at the Gate of Croatia and thus determined the outcome of the match. The man is confident that the decision was dictated by more political motives than sports.
Personal life
With the future wife, the athlete met in 1998. At that moment, Ivitsa did not plan to arrange a personal life. He came to Berlin to the training session and met Natalie there. Sympathy between young people rose immediately. For the sake of his beloved, the football player even began to learn German (Natalie - German by nationality).A year later, Olieze moved back to Croatia, and after a couple of months, not to withstand separation, Natalie flew behind a man. Soon the wedding took place. Happy family raises three children: Lukuk, Antonio and Laura. Boys, like the Father, decided to link lives with football and are already trained in youth European teams.
Ivitsa Olich now
Career Ivitsa Olich and now closely connected with football. In 2020, the athlete performed as part of the Stars team at the Legend Cup, held at the Little Sports Arena "Luzhniki". For the first time in the history of the tournament, the victory did not preserve the Russian team, but the national team of stars of football, which won in the final match with a score of 6: 5.
Blider Denis Romantz devoted a great post of sports biography Olich, where he told about his talent, achievements and features as a football player and further development as a coach. Publication, saturated with quotes of the Croatian athlete itself, ends with the words:
"I have long understood that Russia is a happy country for me."On March 23, 2021, Ivitsa Olizh appointed the position of head coach CSKA, where he got from the post in the national team of Croatia, where he helped Zlatko Dulita. On the same day, the former leader Viktor Goncharenko visited the team training in order to say goodbye to athletes and wish good luck to her successor.
However, already in June, CSKA headquarters confirmed that he said goodbye to the coach.
Achievements
Zagreb.
- 2001/02 - Champion of Croatia
Dynamo (Zagreb)
- 2002/03 - Champion of Croatia
CSKA (Moscow)
- 2003, 2005, 2006 - Champion of Russia
- 2004/2005, 2005/2006 - Russian Cup owner
- 2004, 2006 - Winner of the Super Cup of Russia
- 2004/2005 - Winner of the UEFA Cup
Bavaria
- 2009/10 - Champion of Germany
- 2009/10 - German Cup owner
- 2010 - owner of the supercube of Germany
Personal achievements
- 2001/2002, 2002/2003 - the best scorer of the Croatian Championship
- 2002, 2003 - Football Player of the Year in Croatia (Sportske Noosti)
- 2009, 2010 - Football Player in Croatia (Večernji List)
- 2003, 2004 - in the lists of 33 best players of the Russian Championship
- 2003 - in the framework of the Golden Horseshoe premium once received the "silver horseshoe"