Born during World War II in Sarajevo, precisely one month after the Nazi German invasion of Yugoslavia, to Slovene-German father Mihail "Puba" Osim[REF] who worked as machinist at the railways and Polish-Czech mother Karolina.
Ivica Osim is married to Asima and they have three children, two sons, Selmir and Amar, and daughter Irma [REF].