it as his mistake that he has to deal with." Affaire VA-OM On 20 October 1995 at Geneva Airport, while waiting to board a flight to Brussels, Blažević was taken into custody by the French financial police on match-fixing and corruption accusations stemming from his time in Nantes. The arrest occurred as part of a wide-ranging football bribery scandal in France, known in the country as Affaire VA-OM, and was based on former Olympique Marseille director Jean-Pierre Bernès' July 1995 testimony, claiming that FC Nantes head coach Blažević took a ₣420,000 bribe to fix the Marseille vs. Nantes French Division 1 league match on 25 November 1989 that ended in a 0–0 draw. Blažević was released from Luynes Prison on 6 November 1995 on a ₣100,000 bail and was not called up again after giving his statement. Referee incident After his first match as manager of Osijek on 6 March 2002 Blažević lost to Dinamo Zagreb. After the match he was accused of verbal abuse and assaulting the referee Ivan Novak. Blažević was found guilty by disciplinary judge Krešimir Vlajčević and fined 6000kn and got a three-month suspension. Career statistics Incomplete Managerial statistics Club statistics *Dates of first and last games under Blažević; not dates of official appointments National teams statistics Filmography Film Television Music videos Source: Miroslav Blazevic IMDb Honours Player Lokomotiva Zagreb Yugoslav Second League: 1955–56 Sarajevo Yugoslav Second League: 1957–58 Sion Swiss Cup: 1965 Manager Vevey 1. Liga: 1969–70 Sion Swiss Cup: 1974 Dinamo Zagreb Yugoslav First League: 1981–82 Yugoslav Cup: 1982–83 Prva HNL: 1992–93, 2002–03 Croatian Cup: 1993–94 Croatian Super Cup: 2002 Grasshopper Swiss Super League: 1983–84 Hajduk Split Croatian Super Cup: 2005 Sloboda Tuzla First League of FBiH: 2013–14 Croatia FIFA World Cup third place: 1998 Individual Franjo Bučar State Award for Sport: 1998 (two awards), 2007 Bosnia and Herzegovina Manager of the Year: 2009 Orders Order of Danica Hrvatska with face of Franjo Bučar (1995) Order of Duke Branimir with Necklace (1998) References External links Miroslav Blažević at zagreb.hr 1935 births 2023 deaths People from Travnik Croats of Bosnia and Herzegovina Bosnia and Herzegovina emigrants to Croatia Association football midfielders Association football wingers Yugoslav footballers GNK Dinamo Zagreb players NK Lokomotiva Zagreb players FK Sarajevo players HNK Rijeka players FC Sion players Yugoslav expatriate footballers Expatriate footballers in Switzerland Yugoslav expatriate sportspeople in Switzerland Expatriate footballers in France Yugoslav expatriate sportspeople in France Yugoslav