Josip Kuže
 Kuže at a news conference in 2010 | |||
| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Date of birth | 13 November 1952 | ||
| Place of birth | Vranje, PR Serbia, FPR Yugoslavia | ||
| Date of death | 16 June 2013 (aged 60) | ||
| Place of death | Zagreb, Croatia | ||
| Position(s) |
Defender | ||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| 1971–1981 | Dinamo Zagreb | 151 | (5) |
| Managerial career | |||
| 1982–1984 |
Sydney Croatia | ||
| 1985–1986 | BSK Slavonski Brod | ||
| 1986–1988 | Dinamo Zagreb (youth) | ||
| 1988–1989 | Borac Banja Luka | ||
| 1989–1990 | Dinamo Zagreb | ||
| 1990 | Budućnost Titograd | ||
| 1991–1992 | Rot-Weiß Erfurt | ||
| 1992–1994 | Mainz 05 | ||
| 1996–1997 | Gamba Osaka | ||
| 1998–1999 | NK Zagreb | ||
| 2000 | Chemnitz | ||
| 2003–2004 | Inter Zaprešić | ||
| 2005–2006 | Dinamo Zagreb | ||
| 2007 | Rijeka | ||
| 2007 | Varteks | ||
| 2007–2008 | Rwanda | ||
| 2008 | JEF United Chiba | ||
| 2009–2011 | Albania | ||
| 2012 |
Tianjin Teda | ||
| *Club domestic league appearances and goals | |||
Josip Kuže (13 November 1952 – 16 June 2013) was a Croatian football manager and footballer. He was a player and later a manager of Dinamo Zagreb where he played for 10 years, making a total of 384 appearances and scoring 14 goals.
Playing career
He was a professional football player with
Managerial career
After his playing career finished he started as coach of
Dinamo Zagreb coach
He took over the team after they suffered a poor year, finishing down in seventh place. With some new players, he enjoyed early success in the next championship (2005/2006) with 18-2-2 61:11 record in first part of the league, and the final record, after playoffs, was 24-4-4 78:21. After the first ten games, Dinamo's goal-difference was 32:3, which gave them the highest goal-difference for any professional club in Europe. During this time Dinamo were accredited with playing attractive football.
In the new season, 2006–07, some high-class players arrived, and Dinamo, beat French side Auxerre 2–1 during a pre-season friendly. Gameplay went worse in the new season, for the key defense midfielders could not give their best due to injuries, but still tremendous effort was made in second leg of Champions league qualifying round against Arsenal in London despite being 3-0 down from the first leg in Zagreb. Playing with a 5-3-2 formation, a much improved Dinamo side from the first leg, held a 1–0 lead until late into the game before Arsenal managed to turn it around with ten minutes remaining and eventually came away with a 2–1 victory. Despite the defeat Dinamo were praised, along with Kuze, for an impressive performance despite some injury concerns, Mathias Chago, Davor Vugrinec and Jens Nowotny all missed the match due to injury.
Despite his success in getting Dinamo in a position to challenge for the Croatian league after several below-par years, his team's performance against Arsenal was deemed not good enough and he left the club in November 2006 with both Kuze and the club stating the agreement was made with mutual consent.[1]
Rwanda national team
In November 2007 Kuze was appointed manager of the
JEF United Chiba
In January 2008, Japan's J1 League side JEF United Chiba announced that they appointed Kuze as their head coach.[3] However, this reign lasted just four months.,[4] and he was replaced by Alex Miller.
Albania national team coach
Kuže entered in the history of Albania as the coach with the largest victory against Cyprus in 2009, 6–1 in a friendly. As of 27 March 2011 and after 18 months at the job, he has had four victories (including friendlies, with Cyprus and Northern Ireland), three losses, and five draws (of which an important one against Denmark in the 2010 World Cup qualifiers). He is still warmly remembered by the Red and Black Fans organization for deeply affiliating with the Albania national team.[5]
Tianjin Teda
Kuže was appointed as the new manager of
Managerial statistics
| Team | From | To | Record | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| G | W | D | L | Win % | |||
| Gamba Osaka | 1996 | 1997 | 62 | 31 | 0 | 31 | 50.00 |
| JEF United Chiba | 1 February 2008 | 7 May 2008 | 11 | 0 | 2 | 9 | 0.00 |
| Albania | 6 June 2009 | 15 November 2011 | 27 | 9 | 8 | 10 | 33.33 |
| Total | 100 | 40 | 10 | 50 | 40.00 | ||
Death
On 16 June 2013, Kuže died of leukemia in Zagreb, aged 60, after a several months' battle with the disease.[11][12]
References
- ^ "How much of a gamble is Kuze?" Allafrica.com Retrieved on 4 November 2007
- ^ "Kuze appointed Rwanda coach" BBC Sport Retrieved on 4 November 2007
- ^ "Kuze accepts Chiba job" Archived 16 January 2008 at the Wayback Machine The Japan Times Retrieved on 14 January 2008
- ^ "Kuze sacked after just four months at helm of JEF United" The Japan Times Retrieved on 27 September 2010
- ^ Rest in Peace Josip Kuže (in Albanian) Archived 5 November 2013 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ 约西普-库泽正式担任泰达俱乐部球队主帅(in Chinese)
- ^ 泰达库帅挥钞票讽裁判 Archived 4 March 2016 at the Wayback Machine(in Chinese)
- ^ 足协重罚库泽中超停赛七场 大连江苏赛区遭警告(in Chinese)
- ^ 泰达正式宣布库泽下课 称其恶劣影响俱乐部声誉(in Chinese)
- ^ J.League Data Site(in Japanese)
- ^ Tuga u modrome klubu: Napustio nas je Josip Kuže Archived 16 December 2013 at the Wayback Machine(in Croatian)
- ^ Ex-Dinamo Zagreb coach Josip Kuze dies, aged 60
External links
- Josip Kuže manager profile at J.League (archive) (in Japanese)
