Croatia's famed football coach Miroslav Blazevic died in the capital Zagreb after a long fight with cancer.
Miroslav Blazevic celebrating after Croatia beat the Netherlands at the Parc des Princes in Paris to take third place in the 1998 World CupZAGREB - Croatia's famed football coach Miroslav Blazevic, who led the country to a third place finish at the 1998 World Cup, died on Wednesday, the national football federation said. He was 87.
In the early 1960s, he began coaching in Switzerland and moved in 1979 to Croatia, which was then part of the former Yugoslavia. Eloquent and charismatic, Blazevic remained popular throughout the former Yugoslavia long after he retired in 2015.
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