Safet Sušić „Pape”

He began his career at Krivaja from Zavidovići, where he started playing in the first team at the age of 16. The 1972/73 season saw him start as a player for FK Sarajevo, first as a junior, making his debut in the senior team on August 3, 1973. Over the next decade and more than 200 matches played for the team from Koševo, he scored 86 goals.

He made his debut for the Yugoslav national team on October 5, 1977, in Budapest against Hungary, scoring 2 goals. In the next match, against Romania in Bucharest, he scored his first hat-trick, i.e., 3 goals in a match. This was followed by another against Italy in Zagreb in June 1978, and another against the then-world champions, Argentina, two months later in Belgrade. In 1979, he was selected as the best athlete of Bosnia and Herzegovina and the best footballer of Yugoslavia. In 1981, he received the April 6th Award from the city of Sarajevo.

In the early eighties, 1982, Safet moved to Paris Saint-Germain, where he stayed for 9 years. In the French championship, he played 287 matches for PSG and scored 67 goals. He ended his football career in 1992 at the age of 37, playing for the French Red Star.

After his playing career, he started working as a coach. He coached the French clubs Cannes and Évian, Turkish Istanbulspor, and clubs in Saudi Arabia before taking over the Bosnia and Herzegovina national team in 2009.