TOKYO: Former Japan coach Ivica Osim is back watching football albeit on television some 40 days after a serious stroke which cost him his job and nearly his life, Japanese football's chief said on Thursday.
The 66-year-old Bosnian watched a Real Madrid-Barcelona match on video after moving out of a hospital intensive care unit to a centre for rehabilitation on Monday, according to Japan Football Association president Saburo Kawabuchi.
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