Ivica Olić

Ivica Olić is the kind of footballer I instinctively root for. He was never the flashiest name, but he earned his place at Hamburg, Wolfsburg and Bayern Munich, lifted the UEFA Cup with CSKA Moscow, and pulled on the Croatia shirt over a hundred times. Longevity like that is not luck, it is the reward of relentless, selfless work. At 182 cm he threw himself into every front-line battle, the sort of grafter who quietly holds a team together. Seeing him now pass that hunger to a younger generation as a coach only deepens my appreciation for him.

Name (English)

Ivica Olić

Name (Japanese)

イヴィツァ・オリッチ

Reading

いゔぃつぁ・おりっち

Born

September 14, 1979 (age 46)

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Virgo / Goat

Origin

Davor, Croatia

Height

182 cm

Occupation

association football player / association football coach

Awards & achievements

• Croatian Footballer of the Year
• Footballer of the month
• Goal of the Month

• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ivica%20Oli%C4%87
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%A4%E3%83%B4%E3%82%A3%E3%83%84%E3%82%A1%E3%83%BB%E3%82%AA%E3%83%AA%E3%83%83%E3%83%81
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q150484

Tags

• association football player
• association football coach

Last updated

2026-06-21

Facts are limited to publicly available information up to 2024; non-public or unconfirmed items are omitted. English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.