World Cup finals – France-Croatia: "Aunt Iva", the indispensable team manager – 2018 World Cup – Football



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WORLD CUP – If they write the story, it will be for her too. She is Iva Olivari, the team manager affectionately nicknamed "Aunt Iva" or with more deference "the leader" by the players of the selection of Croatia, opposed to France Sunday in the final of the World Cup 2018.

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Behind all success, there are indispensable people. For Croatia, this person is Iva Olivari. The team manager of the national team makes the rain and the good weather in the latter with a formidable efficiency. First woman to lead Croatia's national team, Olivari is a pioneer.
      

While the road to the heights of world football has been long for the checkerboard since the 1998 semi-final, her career has been even more. And the advent of the new generation of "Vatreni" ("the Flamboyants") is for her also a great personal victory.
      

A former tennis player whose career was shattered by an injury, she joined the nascent Croatian Football Federation (HNS) in 1992. At the age of 49, she is now strictly in the business of tailoring her pride, her long blond hair flowing over her shoulders, on the bench of the Croatian selection with a staff in her tracksuit.
      

" I did not experience discrimination, but of course I heard things like 'she should not be here, it would be better if she were a man, she knows nothing about foot … '"she told AFP, assuring in a firm voice that these comments did not make her hot or cold.
      

What happens on the pitch is the responsibility of coach Zlatko Dalic. For the rest, see with Aunt Iva … or the chef! " The youngest, when they come in selection are quite frightened, they do not know where they come and call me 'Aunt Iva' ," she explains with a small smile. " Then, with time, it just becomes Iva ".
      

Because she is the boss. " As manager of the team, I am the queen of papers, I take care of all the administration, the communication with the adversaries, with the clubs, the trips … all that it takes to participate in a competition ", she explains.
      

It also means assisting the coach in the dialogue with FIFA. For example, the announcement of the changes during the game, which is also the Spanish Silvia Dorschnerova for Roja since the World Cup 2002. Dorschnerova and Olivari have also been the only women to sit on the bench during of the competition.
      

Olivari, she saw her first World Cup, a world of football that remains largely male (national staffs, organization, media, referee …) even if, according to the data of FIFA, in the majority South American countries women made up half of the audience of the 2014 World Cup in Brazil.
      

Victorious by Steffi Graf

" I would like to see many more women on and off the turf, not only by playing but being represented: we can work in administrations, the management of players, transfers … "says the mother of two who can be proud of having defeated the German tennis legend Steffi Graf in a youth tournament.
      

Iva Olivari became a centerpiece of the organization of the HNS led by the top scorer of the 1998 Davor Suker World Cup, Croatia striker who had won the 3rd place.
      

Named manager of the selection after the World Cup 2014, she made her first steps in competition at Euro 2016 in France. " It's very impressive, whether you're a man or a woman," she says. This first experience ended in sadness in the round of 16 with the goal of Ricardo Quaresma for the future Portugal champion of Europe.
      

But in Russia, it is the glory that came to win the Croatia led by Luka Modric. And the playmaker of Real Madrid did not fail to associate Aunt Iva. It was in his arms that he threw himself after the difficult qualification for the quarterfinals snatched from penalty kicks against Denmark.
      

" I think our time has come and we are going to do incredible things in this World ," she predicted. Sunday in the final against France, Aunt Iva will be on the edge of the field closer to his guys.
      

 Zlatko Dalic and Luka Modric

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