Alen Bokšić

from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
This article or the following section is not adequately provided with supporting documents ( e.g. individual evidence ). Information without sufficient evidence could be removed soon. Please help Wikipedia by researching the information and including good evidence.
Alen Bokšić
Personnel
birthday January 21, 1970
place of birth Makarska ,  SFR Yugoslavia
size 187 cm
position striker
Juniors
Years station
NK Zmaj
Men's
Years station Games (goals) 1
1987-1991 Hajduk Split 95 (27)
1991-1992 AS Cannes 1 0(0)
1992-1993 Olympique Marseille 58 (33)
1993-1996 Lazio Rome 67 (17)
1996-1997 Juventus Turin 22 0(3)
1997-2000 Lazio Rome 48 (14)
2000-2003 Middlesbrough FC 48 (20)
National team
Years selection Games (goals)
1990 Yugoslavia 0 0(0)
1993-2002 Croatia 40 (10)
1 Only league games are given.

Alen Bokšić [ ˈalɛn ˈbɔkʃitɕ ] (born January 21, 1970 in Makarska , SFR Yugoslavia ) is a former Croatian football player .

Career

Alen Bokšić was a trained striker and began his career in 1987 with Hajduk Split . As early as 1990 he took part with the Yugoslav national team at the World Cup in Italy , but was not used. After winning the Yugoslav Cup in 1991, Bokšić moved to AS Cannes in France for one season . The following season he played at Olympique Marseille , where he was French champion and Champions League winner. With 23 goals, Bokšić was also the top scorer in the French league .

After these successes, Bokšić moved to Lazio Rome in Italy for the transfer fee of around DM 15 million . After the European Football Championship in 1996 , where he reached the quarter-finals with Croatia, he played for one season at Juventus Turin . At Juve he won the Italian championship under Marcello Lippi , but lost to Borussia Dortmund in the Champions League final .

For the 1997/98 season he moved back to Lazio . He won the 1998 cup with Lazio and was the last team ever to win the European Cup Winners' Cup and the European Supercup the following year . At the '98 World Cup , in which Croatia finished third, Bokšić was absent due to an injury. In 2000 he even won the championship and cup double with the Romans .

From Lazio in 2000 he moved to England to Middlesbrough FC , where he ended his career in early 2003.

For the Croatian national soccer team , Bokšić played 40 times and scored a total of ten goals.

successes

International

National

1revoked in the context of the OM-VA affair

Individually

Web links

personal data
SURNAME Bokšić, Alen
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Croatian soccer player
DATE OF BIRTH January 21, 1970
PLACE OF BIRTH Makarska