Sergei Barbarez

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Sergei Barbarez
10th Day of Legends 2014 08.jpg
Barbarez in 2014
Personnel
birthday 17th September 1971
place of birth Mostar ,  SFR Yugoslavia
size 188 cm
position Midfield , storm
Juniors
Years station
1984-1989 FK Velež Mostar
Men's
Years station Games (goals) 1
1989-1991 FK Velež Mostar
1992-1993 Hannover 96 18 0(2)
1993-1996 1. FC Union Berlin 88 (46)
1996-1998 Hansa Rostock 59 (13)
1998-2000 Borussia Dortmund 36 0(6)
2000-2006 Hamburger SV 174 (65)
2006-2008 Bayer 04 Leverkusen 61 (11)
National team
Years selection Games (goals)
1998-2006 Bosnia Herzegovina 47 (17)
1 Only league games are given.

Sergej Barbarez (born September 17, 1971 in Mostar , SFR Yugoslavia , nickname Barba ) is a former Bosnian-Herzegovinian football player .

Player career

Sergej Barbarez, who has ancestors in all three ethnic groups of Bosnia-Herzegovina - Bosniaks, Serbs and Croats - played from the age of 19 until 1991 in the professional squad of the Bosnian-Herzegovinian club Velež Mostar and also as a basketball player in the top division of his country.

Starts in the 2nd and 3rd league (Hannover 96 and Union Berlin)

His football career in Germany began rather by chance in 1992 with the second division Hannover 96 . When Barbarez stayed with his uncle in Hanover for a two-week vacation, the Yugoslav wars began . His father forbade him to return to Bosnia, and for this reason his uncle did not allow him to return home.

In January 1992 his uncle organized a trial training session with the amateurs of Hannover 96, who played in the 4th league and were trained by Frank Pagelsdorf . Barbarez convinced there and initially received a contract for the amateur team, and from the summer a one-year contract for the professional team that played in the 2nd Bundesliga. He played his first game under coach Eberhard Vogel on July 12, 1992 against the Stuttgarter Kickers . His contract ended in the summer of 1993. In total, he played 18 games in the 2nd Bundesliga for Hanover and scored two goals.

He then signed with 1. FC Union Berlin , which played in the amateur Oberliga Nordost Mitte (then 3rd division) and was trained by Frank Pagelsdorf . Union Berlin had actually already qualified for the 2nd Bundesliga in terms of sport (through relegation games), but the club was refused the license for the 2nd league by the DFB shortly before the start of the season due to forged bank guarantees. Barbarez stayed with Union Berlin for three seasons, scoring 46 goals in 88 games. Frank Engel was his coach in the 1994/95 season .

1st National League

In the summer of 1996 Barbarez moved to the 1st Bundesliga for Hansa Rostock . Again Frank Pagelsdorf was his trainer. After initial difficulties, he made his sporting breakthrough there. In his first season he scored two goals in 27 games, in the following season in 32 games 11 goals. Through these achievements, many Bundesliga clubs have now become aware of him. For the 1998/99 season he moved to Borussia Dortmund .

Under coach Michael Skibbe , Barbarez found less and less consideration in the period that followed, after he played 22 games for BVB in his first Bundesliga season. After he was trained by Bernd Krauss and Udo Lattek from February 2000 until the end of the season at the end of June 2000 , Barbarez decided to change clubs in the summer of 2000 and signed with Hamburger SV . Here he met the coach Frank Pagelsdorf for the fourth time in his career.

The offensive player continued to develop in Hamburg and was successful with his team right at the beginning of the season. After 10 matchdays he had scored 9 goals, in total he scored 22 goals in his first season with Hamburg. This made him - together with Ebbe Sand  - top scorer in 2001 .

In the 2005/06 season Barbarez, who was now trained by Thomas Doll after Kurt Jara and Klaus Toppmöller , finished third with his team at the end of the season. He had earned 10 goals and 13 assists.

After Barbarez 'contract expired at the end of the 2005/06 season, lengthy negotiations with President Hoffmann and Manager Beiersdorfer were held before the end of the season to clarify the conditions for Barbarez to stay with HSV in the following season. He was offered a highly performance-related contract with a salary cut from 2.4 to 1.6 million euros. These savings should help finance the 2.4 million euro salary of the newly signed Dutch Nigel de Jong . Ultimately, you could not agree on a new contract. Barbarez later said in an interview: “From the start, it was just a sham negotiation, a spectacle for the public. HSV never seriously intended to keep me. "

Barbarez then moved to Bayer 04 Leverkusen , where he met coach Skibbe again. After a total of two years in Leverkusen, in which he played 61 games, scored eleven goals and gave twelve assists, he left the Bundesliga club after the 2007/08 season . After a short search for a new club, he withdrew from active football.

Play style

The offensive all-rounder was successfully used as a playmaker both as a striker and behind the tips . Under Klaus Toppmöller as well as in the national team , Barbarez acted more defensively in defense and as a libero . During his time at HSV, Barbarez was one of the most important players because of his constructive style of play, which prepared many goals, but also because of his role as a leader and role model. Critics accused him of having been able to affect an entire team's morale because of his moodiness. Barbarez also often played rude and with excessive, unfair commitment. He received a total of 7 red and 87 yellow cards in the Bundesliga.

statistics

Barbarez (top row, third from left) in the jersey of the national team (2002)

As captain of the Bosnian-Herzegovinian national team, Barbarez completed 49 games. In 2006 he announced his resignation from the national team due to scandals surrounding the Bosnian Federation.

In his home country he received the following awards - also thanks to his social commitment:

  • 2001 Footballer of the Year in Bosnia and Herzegovina
  • 2003 Footballer of the Year in Bosnia and Herzegovina
  • Man of the year 2005 in Bosnia and Herzegovina
  • Sportsman of the year 2005 in Bosnia and Herzegovina

In addition, a street was named after him in 2005 in his native Mostar.

The attacking midfielder and striker scored 95 goals, received 85 yellow cards, 3 yellow-red cards and 4 red cards in 330 Bundesliga games . In the 2000/01 season he was together with the Dane Ebbe Sand top scorer in the 1st Bundesliga.

With his 324th Bundesliga game on April 13, 2008, he surpassed the record set by Ole Bjørnmose , who had previously played most games as a foreigner in the Bundesliga. On March 19, 2011, this record was broken by the Brazilian Zé Roberto in the game between Hamburger SV and 1. FC Köln .

After retirement

After finishing his active career, Barbarez announced in August 2008 that he would do the B-trainer license in an academy in Bosnia. Previously, he had turned down the offer to work as coach of the national team of Bosnia-Herzegovina; he justified this with his rejection of the association management.

On January 25, 2009, he was elected to the HSV Supervisory Board, which he left again in May 2010.

Since 2009 Barbarez has occasionally taken part in prestigious live poker tournaments and has cashed five times at the World Series of Poker in Las Vegas and once at the World Series of Poker Europe in Rozvadov . Overall, his prize money are from official live poker tournaments in more than 200,000  US dollars .

Personal

Barbarez is the father of two children. He is committed to children without parents through his Centar Foundation . Since 2009 he has been regularly participating in the charity game Kicken mit Herz in the Hamburg Allstars team.

The Hamburg singer Lotto King Karl dedicated the song Zvijezda Bosne (Star of Bosnia) to him .

Web links

Commons : Sergej Barbarez  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Peter Glauche: Impulsive emotional person. In: welt.de . September 20, 2001, Retrieved October 7, 2018 .
  2. ↑ Note in: "Hamburg is its pearl", in Borussia - The Members' Magazine, Issue 80 of October 4, 2014, p. 25.
  3. ↑ © 2016 Berliner Zeitung of November 23, 2000
  4. ↑ www.1weiter.net ( Memento from May 24, 2016 in the Internet Archive )
  5. ↑ Statistics
  6. ↑ Performance data on www.transfermarkt.de
  7. ↑ Performance data on www.transfermarkt.de
  8. ↑ Statistics on www.transfermarkt.de
  9. ↑ kicker interview from May 18, 2006.
  10. ↑ Bayer star ends his career
  11. ↑ Barbarez resigns from the HSV supervisory board. In: t-online.de. May 28, 2010, accessed October 2, 2016 .
  12. ↑ Sergej Barbarez in the World Series of Poker database, accessed on November 3, 2019.
  13. ↑ Sergej Barbarez ( Memento from August 30, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) in the Hendon Mob Poker Database, accessed on July 5, 2020 (English).
  14. ↑ kickenmitherz.de
personal data
SURNAME Barbarez, Sergei
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Bosnian-Herzegovinian soccer player
DATE OF BIRTH 17th September 1971
PLACE OF BIRTH Mostar , Yugoslavia