Safet Sušić, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

    

Safet Sušić

Bosnian footballer

Date of Birth: 13-Apr-1955

Place of Birth: Zavidovići, Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bosnia and Herzegovina

Profession: association football manager, association football player

Nationality: Bosnia and Herzegovina

Zodiac Sign: Aries


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About Safet Sušić

  • Safet "Pape" Sušic (Serbo-Croatian Cyrillic: ????? „????” ?????, pronounced [safet sû?it?]; born 13 April 1955) is a Bosnian football manager and former player, who most recently managed Turkish club Akhisarspor.
  • Sušic was a gifted midfielder known for his dribbling skills and technical ability, and is strongly reputed to have been one of the finest European players of his generation.
  • Sušic played for Yugoslavia in two FIFA World Cups, 1982 and 1990, and at UEFA Euro 1984.
  • As manager he took the Bosnia and Herzegovina national football team to the 2014 FIFA World Cup.
  • In 2017 Safet Sušic was inducted into the PSG Hall of Fame.Sušic played as an attacking midfielder, often in a role of trequartista or fantasista (i.e.
  • a creative playmaker), or rarely as secondary striker for FK Sarajevo, Paris Saint-Germain and Red Star Saint-Ouen and internationally for Yugoslavia and later, Bosnia and Herzegovina.
  • Even more later during his career, he was utilized more in a role of deep-lying playmaker, both for club and national team.
  • In 2010, France Football voted Sušic as Paris Saint-Germain's best player of all time and the best foreign player of Ligue 1 of all time, with his compatriot and friend who also had a spell with PSG, Vahid Halilhodžic, being voted 7th.
  • As part of the UEFA Jubilee Awards in 2004, the Bosnian football association chose Sušic as the nation's greatest ever player.Following his retirement from playing, Sušic started working as a manager.
  • He worked for a number of club sides: Cannes, Istanbulspor, Al-Hilal, Konyaspor, Ankaragücü, Çaykur Rizespor, Ankaraspor, Évian, Alanyaspor, Akhisarspor and the Bosnia and Herzegovina national football team.

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