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Safet Sušić, born on April 13, 1955, in Zavidovići, is a male association football player and coach. He holds citizenship in Bosnia and Herzegovina and France. Sušić played as a midfielder for clubs including F.K. Sarajevo, Red Star F.C., and Paris Saint-Germain FC. He also represented the Yugoslavia men's national football team.
During his career, Sušić participated in the 1982 FIFA World Cup, UEFA Euro 1984, and the 1990 FIFA World Cup. He is known by the pseudonym "Pape" and speaks Bosnian. His work location was Yugoslavia, and he represented that country in sport. After his playing days, he served as a coach for AS Cannes. His sibling is Sead Sušić.
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Key facts
- 2001
- Al Hilal
- 2008
- Ankaraspor
- 2017
- Alanyaspor
- 2018
- Akhisarspor
- Date of birth
- ( 1955-04-13 ) 13 April 1955 (age 71)
- Place of birth
- Zavidovići , PR Bosnia and Herzegovina , FPR Yugoslavia
- Height
- 1.74 m (5 ft 9 in)
- Positions
- Attacking midfielder second striker
- 1971 1972
- Krivaja
- 1972 1973
- Sarajevo
- Years
- Team
- 1973 1982
- Sarajevo
- 1982 1991
- Paris Saint-Germain
- 1991 1992
- Red Star
- 1977 1990
- Yugoslavia
- 1994 1995
- Cannes
- 1996 1999
- İstanbulspor
- 2004 2005
- Konyaspor
via Wikipedia infobox
Sports profile
- Sport
- Soccer
- Position
- Attacking Midfield
- Nationality
- Bosnia and Herzegovina
via TheSportsDB
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Safet
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- France
- Place of birth
- Zavidovići
- Sibling
- Sead Sušić
- Occupation
- association football coach
- Languages spoken
- Bosnian
- Participant in
- UEFA Euro 1984
- Field of work
- association football
- Sport
- association football
- Member of team
- Bosnia and Herzegovina men's national football team
- Position played
- midfielder
- Country for sport
- Yugoslavia
- Image
- SusicPSG (cropped).jpg
- Height
- 174
- Work location
- Yugoslavia
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- date of birth
- 1955-04-13
- Commons category
- Safet Sušić
- pseudonym
- Pape
- coach of sports team
- AS Cannes
- name in native language
- Safet Sušić
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Encyclopedic overview
Safet "Pape" Sušić ( pronounced [sǎfet sûʃitɕ]; born 13 April 1955) is a Bosnian former professional football manager and player. A gifted midfielder known for his dribbling skills and technical ability, he is strongly reputed to have been one of the finest European players of his generation. Sušić played for Yugoslavia in two FIFA World Cups, 1982 and 1990, and at UEFA Euro 1984. As a manager, he notably qualified the Bosnia and Herzegovina national team to the 2014 FIFA World Cup.
Sušić played as an attacking midfielder, often in a role of trequartista or fantasista (i.e. a creative playmaker) and rarely as a second striker for Sarajevo, Paris Saint-Germain and Red Star, and internationally for Yugoslavia. Later during his career, he was utilized more in a role of a deep-lying playmaker, both for club and national team. In 2010, France Football voted Sušić 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 Halilhodžić, being voted seventh. As part of the UEFA Jubilee Awards in 2004, the Football Association of Bosnia and Herzegovina chose Sušić as the nation's greatest ever player.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Safet Sušić” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.