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Ivica Horvat

1926 - 2012

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Ivan "Ivica" Horvat (16 July 1926 – 27 August 2012) was a Croatian and Yugoslav professional football player and manager. He spent most of his playing career in the 1940s and 1950s with Dinamo Zagreb, with whom he won two Federal League championships of Yugoslavia and one Marshal Tito Cup. Regarded as one of the best defenders in the country at the time, Horvat also earned 60 international caps for Yugoslavia, and was part of the national squad at the 1950 and 1954 World Cups, as well as the 1952 Olympics in Helsinki, where they were silver medalists. In 1957 he went abroad to join Eintracht Frankfurt, helping them win their first and only West German championship in 1959 before retiring from active football. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Ivica Horvat is the 1,224th most popular soccer player (down from 1,174th in 2019), the 161st most popular biography from Croatia (up from 171st in 2019) and the 22nd most popular Croatian Soccer Player.

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Among SOCCER PLAYERS

Among soccer players, Ivica Horvat ranks 1,224 out of 21,273. Before him are Glen Johnson, Álvaro Arbeloa, Angelo Sormani, Aleksandar Tirnanić, Géza Toldi, and Sjaak Swart. After him are Sven Andersson, Daniel Van Buyten, Tite, Julinho, Danilo Popivoda, and Alen Bokšić.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1926, Ivica Horvat ranks 191. Before him are André Delvaux, Konstantin Feoktistov, Mieczysław Rakowski, Alfred Körner, Sonja Ziemann, and Judith Malina. After him are Ingrid Haebler, George Rhoden, Wolfgang Iser, Michael Bond, Georges Lautner, and Klaus Tennstedt. Among people deceased in 2012, Ivica Horvat ranks 163. Before him are Prince Tomohito of Mikasa, Ferdinand Alexander Porsche, Bob Anderson, Maxim of Bulgaria, George McGovern, and Pavel Grachev. After him are Adrienne Rich, George Knobel, Josef Škvorecký, Friedrich Hirzebruch, Manuel Fraga, and Shulamith Firestone.

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In Croatia

Among people born in Croatia, Ivica Horvat ranks 161 out of 700. Before him are Vice Vukov (1936), Branko Radičević (1824), Mile Mrkšić (1947), Josip Manolić (1920), Jure Francetić (1912), and Svetozar Pribićević (1875). After him are Alen Bokšić (1970), Stjepan Sarkotić (1858), Maximilian Njegovan (1858), Matteo Bartoli (1873), John Vitéz (1408), and Leo Sternbach (1908).

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Among SOCCER PLAYERS In Croatia

Among soccer players born in Croatia, Ivica Horvat ranks 22. Before him are Mirko Jozić (1940), Petar Nadoveza (1942), Željko Čajkovski (1925), Ante Žanetić (1936), Robert Jarni (1968), and Petar Radaković (1937). After him are Alen Bokšić (1970), Ivica Vastić (1969), Ivica Olić (1979), Darijo Srna (1982), Ivica Šurjak (1953), and Aljoša Asanović (1965).

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