Croatia’s famed football coach Miroslav Blazevic, who led the country to a third place finish at the 1998 World Cup, died on Wednesday, the national football federation said. He was 87.

“The whole football family has lost ‘the coach of all coaches’ today,” the federation wrote on social media.

Blazevic died in the capital Zagreb after a long fight with cancer.

More details on SportsDesk. 

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