Ivo Alexie Basay Hatibović (born 13 April 1966) is a Chilean

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and former player who played as a striker. He is the current manager of Magallanes. Apart from being a regular choice for the

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in the late 1980s and early 1990s (24 caps, six goals), Basay played club football for Magallanes,

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, Everton,

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and

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. He is of

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descent. On 12 April 2012, amid club president Hernan Levy's departure and head coach Basay's dismissal,

looks to regain its confidence under interim head coach Luis Pérez.

International career

International goals

:''Scores and results list Chile's goal tally first.''

Managerial career

In June 2025, Basay was appointed as the manager of Magallanes.

Managerial statistics

Personal life

During a radio interview with a Buenos Aires sports show, Basay declared his admiration of Chile's former dictator Augusto Pinochet. At the end of the interview Basay was asked rapid-fire, one-phrase questions. He was asked by the host of the Radio Sports Show "De Caño vale doble" of AM 770 Radio in Buenos Aires, what was his impression of Pinochet. Basay answered that Pinochet was necessary at a time in Chilean history. Basay is of

descent. After managing

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in 2015, he decided to stop his activity in football to spend time with his grandson. In 2018, he returned to football after joining Canal del Fútbol (CDF) as a football commentator. In October of the same year, he left that work to manage

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Honours

Club

As player

;Necaxa * Primera División: 1994–95 *

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: 1994–95 *

CONCACAF Cup Winners Cup The CONCACAF Cup Winners Cup was an international association football competition organized by CONCACAF as its secondary continental tournament for clubs from North America, Central America and the Caribbean. It was held from 1991 to 1998, althou ...

1994 The year 1994 was designated as the " International Year of the Family" and the "International Year of Sport and the Olympic Ideal" by the United Nations. In the Line Islands and Phoenix Islands of Kiribati, 1994 had only 364 days, omitti ...

;Colo-Colo *

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1996 1996 was designated as: * International Year for the Eradication of Poverty Events January * January 8 – A Zairean cargo plane crashes into a crowded market in the center of the capital city of the Democratic Republic of the Congo ...

, 1997–C,

1998 1998 was designated as the ''International Year of the Ocean''. Events January * January 6 – The ''Lunar Prospector'' spacecraft is launched into orbit around the Moon, and later finds evidence for Lunar water, frozen water, in soil i ...

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;Individual *

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Golden Boot: 1992–93 *

Golden Ball: 1992–93

As manager

;Palestino *

: 2018

References

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* * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Basay, Ivo 1966 births Living people Footballers from Santiago, Chile Chilean men's footballers Chilean football managers Chilean expatriate men's footballers Chile men's international footballers Chilean people of Croatian descent Chilean people of Bosniak descent Men's association football forwards Curicó Unido footballers Deportes Magallanes footballers Everton de Viña del Mar footballers Stade de Reims players Club Necaxa footballers Boca Juniors footballers Colo-Colo footballers Primera B de Chile players Ligue 2 players Chilean Primera División players Liga MX players Argentine Primera División players Expatriate men's footballers in France Expatriate men's footballers in Mexico Expatriate men's footballers in Argentina Chilean expatriate sportspeople in France Chilean expatriate sportspeople in Mexico Chilean expatriate sportspeople in Argentina 1987 Copa América players 1991 Copa América players 1995 Copa América players Santiago Morning managers Chile national under-20 football team managers Unión San Felipe managers O'Higgins F.C. managers Colo-Colo managers Santiago Wanderers managers Ñublense managers Club Deportivo Palestino managers Deportes La Serena managers Deportes Copiapó managers Magallanes managers Primera B de Chile managers Chilean Primera División managers Chilean association football commentators Canal del Fútbol color commentators 20th-century Chilean sportsmen