Miroslav "Ćiro" Blažević
Feb 10, 1935 - Feb 8, 2023(88)
When once the national team members led by Ćira went to Malta, then I, giving advice to Ćira on what is better to buy in the DFS at the Pula airport, earned, in addition to getting to know him, a mancha (tip) with the words: - Son, if this is 9 stamps, here's 10 and a stamp for coffee! –
Thank you, Ćiro, both for the cake and for the honor of having the honor of hanging out with you once!
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On one occasion, students asked Ćira how he overcame the difficult beginnings in Switzerland. And Ćiro then gave them advice that they never forgot...
– We know how you work, you have a free hand, but if you are not profitable, a foot in the ass! –
— They raised to the heavens those follers from the coaches who came to the games even in football boots... as if they were going to play! —
- I told you, woman's head, where to break! - I exclaimed, then immediately eased the situation: - but, well, kudos to you! –
However, you have to walk that way to the bench, and I wasn't sure if I would succeed or if I would collapse in front of them from weakness as if mowed down...
When Ćiro was the coach of the football club Zadar about 10 years ago, he knew how to cheer up the fans regardless of the outcome of the match.
On one occasion, a few years ago, I collected signatures on the Square for the "Rock Club". To my great surprise, Ćiro suddenly appeared.
My wife with me, me like a little child when she sees a lollipop: - Look Ćiro, Ćiro! –, while she dead cold has no idea who it is...
- Neither Zvone nor I would give Šuker for ten Batistutas! –
Thus, at one training session, when the players were doing a low skip through the ladder, Ćiro, according to the good old custom, "educated" shouted...
- I said, even if I didn't believe it. But I said because I was looking for a way to encourage them because I saw that they were all so huddled together... –
When Yugoslavia and Croatia played in '99...
He laughs from under his black Ray Ban glasses and gasses…
Cup final 1994, Croatia - Rijeka, Rijeka lost the first game in Zagreb 2:0, and now the return.
That move cost him in public, so many insulted him on the street and made his life miserable in other ways. Ćiro then declared...
One of the most legendary things that Ćiro did happened before the 1998 World Cup when we competed for 3rd place against the Netherlands.
During the 1998 championship, Ćiro also had his own amulet that brought him good luck.
- Do you know that you are the best goalkeeper in the world? I'm watching you pick these balls like pears. –
Ćiro was always a person from the people, always a generous and kind man, never arrogant or corrupt
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