RIP Otto Baric - formal albanian NT coach

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Albania’s ex-team boss Otto Baric died at the age of 87. As the Croatian Football Association announced on Sunday, the Croatian died in Zagreb.

According to media reports, Baric died as a result of a corona infection.

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Otto Baric coached the Austrian team from April 1999 to November 2001, and coached his home country from 2002 to 2004. In the Austrian league, he won seven championship titles with Wacker Innsbruck, SK Rapid and SV Salzburg.

With the Viennese and Salzburgers, “Otto Maximal” was twice in a European Cup final. In 1985 he lost with Rapid in the final of the Cup winners’ Cup, with Salzburg he lost in the 1994 UEFA Cup final. Baric’s last engagement as head coach was that as team principal of the Albanian national team, which ended in 2007.

“Maximum” was just good enough

Otto Baric shaped Austria’s football scene for around 30 years. With success, charisma and legendary sagas. “Otto Maximal”, named after his inflationary use of the superlative, was champion seven times with three different teams in the upper house and was twice in the finals of European Cup competitions with Rapid (1985) and Austria Salzburg (1994). The Croatian died on Saturday at the age of 87.

Baric shaped the Bundesliga

Baric, born as a guest worker child in the Carinthian Eisenkappel, but grew up in Zagreb, was denied major successes as an active person. As a coach, he should more than make up for that. The Croatian appeared in Austria for the first time in 1970 and soon became champion with Wacker Innsbruck. That was the start of a highly regarded career in the domestic Bundesliga, which was interrupted by guest appearances in Croatia, Germany and Turkey and the last highlights of which were the grandiose European Cup successes with Austria Salzburg.

Baric: Successful in the European Cup

The Salzburgers will not forget the advance into the 1994 UEFA Cup final against Inter Milan, which ended on the way there against Eintracht Frankfurt and Karlsruhe “black” European Cup series of Austrian clubs against DFB clubs (after 17 unsuccessful attempts) Champions League 1994/95, in which two draws were wrested from the later triumphant Ajax Amsterdam and in which AC Milan prevented them from reaching the quarter-finals until the last group game.

With Rapid Baric had already reached the European Cup final of the cup winners in Rotterdam against Everton (1: 3) in 1985. His success business card in Austria includes Wacker Innsbruck (1971, 1972), Rapid (1983, 1987, 1988) and Salzburg (1994, 1995) seven championship titles as well as two doubles and four cup wins (all with Rapid). At LASK, however, Baric had no luck. In 1974 President Rudolf Trauner dismissed him and in January 1999 he pulled the rip cord himself after the arrest of club boss Wolfgang Rieger.

In 1999 the ÖFB team also relied on the qualities of barics, but it was not successful. After 22 games and the missed World Cup qualification, he made way for Hans Krankl and took over – for the last time in Austria – again in the spring of 2002, Salzburg Austria. Things went better with his home country, which he led to the 2004 European Championship, but was eliminated in the group stage. Baric had his final coaching engagement in 2006 and 2007 with the Albanian national team.

He was Otto “maximal”

The Austrian fans will remember Baric not least because of his interviews. In addition to being a football expert, he was also a self-marketer. His almost lovingly cared for “maximum” (“I need maximally willing and maximally ambitious national players”) is slowly being forgotten, but became a household word among domestic fans in the 1980s and 1990s.

Even after retiring into private life, Baric remained strong in opinion and remained loyal to football as a welcome and heard guest in the Croatian and Austrian media. His pithy comments did not always hit the nerve of the time. The discriminatory comment in a Croatian magazine that he did not want homosexuals on his team earned him a 2007 fine.

Profile of soccer coach Otto Baric, who died on Sunday at the age of 87.

Born on June 19, 1933 in Eisenkappel
Family: married to Zdenka, 1 son (Otto Jr.)

Stations as a player:
1948-1954 Dinamo Zagreb
1954-1960 Lok Zagreb
1960 End of career due to jaundice

Positions as trainer:
* NK Lokomotiva Zagreb 1964 – 1967
* Opel Rüsselsheim 1967-1969
* Germania Wiesbaden 1969/70
* Wacker Innsbruck 1971
* LASK 1972 – 1974
* Dinamo Zagreb 1974 – 1976
* Sturm Graz 1980 – 1982
* Rapid 1982 – 1985
* VfB Stuttgart 1985/86
* Rapid 1986 – 1988
* Sturm Graz 1988 – 1989
* Forward Steyr 1990 – 1991
* Austria Salzburg 1991-1995
* Assistant coach of the national team Croatia 1995 – 1996
* Croatia Zagreb 1996/97
* Fenerbahce Istanbul 1997/98
* LASK 1998 – 1999
* National team Austria 1999 – 2001
* Austria Salzburg 2002
* National team Croatia 2002 – 2004
* National team Albania 2006 – 2007

Successes:
* 8 championship titles (3 x Rapid, 2 x Austria Salzburg, 2 x Wacker Innsbruck, 1 x Croatia Zagreb)
* 5 cupsiege (4 x Rapid, 1 x Croatia Zagreb)
* Participation in 2004 European Championship with Croatia
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RIP man... One of the best ones we had.
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Baric was instrumental in jumpstarting our project of qualifying for a major tournament. He will be missed.

May he rest in peace!
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