Before that, Šuker

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Before that, Šuker
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A portrait of Davor Šuker (2008)
Personnel
birthday 1st January 1968
place of birth Osijek ,  SFR Yugoslavia
size 183 cm
position striker
Juniors
Years station
1982-1984 NK Osijek
Men's
Years station Games (goals) 1
1984-1989 NK Osijek 91 (40)
1989-1991 Dinamo Zagreb 60 (34)
1991-1996 Sevilla FC 153 (76)
1996-1999 real Madrid 86 (38)
1999-2000 Arsenal FC 22 0(8)
2000-2001 West Ham United 11 0(2)
2001-2003 TSV 1860 Munich 25 0(5)
National team
Years selection Games (goals)
1987 Yugoslavia U-20 6 0(6)
1990 Yugoslavia 2 0(1)
1990-2002 Croatia 69 (45)
1 Only league games are given.

Davor Šuker [ ˈdaʋɔr ˈʃukɛr ] (born January 1, 1968 in Osijek , SFR Yugoslavia ) is a former Croatian football player . He is the President of the Croatian Football Association ( HNS ).

Career

In the homeland

At the age of 14 Davor Šuker joined his hometown club NK Osijek . In 1987, as a 19-year-old, he first came into the focus of the international football world. At the U-20 World Cup in Chile , he became world champion with Yugoslavia and won the silver shoe. After becoming top scorer at NK Osijek last season in 1989, he moved to Dinamo Zagreb . Šuker was nominated for the squad of the Yugoslav national team at the 1990 World Cup , but had no use during the finals. He was twice runner-up with Dinamo Zagreb and moved abroad in 1991. Since July 5, 2012 he has been President of the Croatian Football Association HNS .

In Spain

He went to Sevilla FC , but initially the climate and concern for his family had a negative impact on him. After a weak season, Šuker showed an increasing form in 1992/93. For a short time, Diego Maradona was his teammate.

In the 1993/94 season he scored 23 goals alongside Gabriel Moya, who had come to Sevilla FC from Atlético Madrid . A year later he was able to score 17 hits. At the European Championships in England in 1996 , Šuker played a prominent role. With strong performances, Croatia reached the quarter-finals, in which they were defeated by the later title holder Germany .

After the European Championship in 1996, many clubs wanted to sign the player. Real Madrid finally made the race for a transfer fee of DM 7 million. With the royal team , Šuker confirmed the hopes placed in him. In the first year the team became national champions. In 1998 he won the Champions League trophy with Real Madrid and was the top scorer with 24 goals; in the final against Juventus Turin , however, he was not in the starting lineup.

At the following World Cup he was the top scorer of the World Cup in France with six goals. In the quarter-finals, a 3-0 win against Germany was the revenge for the defeat at the European Football Championship two years earlier. Croatia took the lead against hosts France in the semi-finals through Šuker, but France managed to get into the final with two Thuram goals. In the end, Croatia finished third.

In England

Just one year after his triumph as World Cup top scorer, he had to leave Madrid for Arsenal in 1999 . There he could not prevail and was transferred to West Ham United after a year . There, too, it did not go as desired, whereupon he was without a club at the beginning of the 2001/02 season.

In Germany

In autumn 2001 he finally accepted an offer from the German club 1860 Munich . In Munich he first fought for a regular place, but was then pushed out of the starting line-up by the then young star Benjamin Lauth . In total, the Croatian striker was on the ball in 25 Bundesliga games .

With the Croatian national team, he took part in the 2002 World Cup in South Korea and Japan. A 1-0 defeat against Mexico at the tournament there was his last international match. The team was eliminated in the preliminary round. In 2003 he ended his football career.

successes

title

Awards

Others

  • Šuker owns the equipment company S9, which equips several Croatian football clubs and football professionals. He opened a football school in Zagreb in 2001 and is committed to charitable causes, especially in Croatia. He runs two other schools in Croatia and one in Cleveland , USA . He also advises foreign tourism companies in Croatia.
  • On July 5, 2012, Suker became the new President of the Croatian Football Association (HNS) .
  • Some family members are also active in football in Germany. His cousin Siniša Šuker is now the youth coach at Fortuna Düsseldorf and Siniša's cousin Damir Šuker played for example. B. for Rot-Weiss Frankfurt .

Controversy

  • In October 2011, the Munich district court sentenced Šuker to a fine of 8,000 euros for embezzlement , which corresponds to a daily rate of 80 euros. On a scheduled flight from Milan to London, Šuker found four ancient Greek gold coins worth 25,000 euros in a storage compartment. Instead of reporting the find, he kept the coins and gave them to a friend from Munich. When she wanted to have the value appraised by a gold dealer, she filed a complaint. The coin specialist had known that the previous owner of the coins was missing his property.
  • During his time at Real Madrid had Šuker 1996 before the grave of Ustasha -Leader Ante Pavelić posing, a popular pilgrimage site of Croatian fascists and then be photographed.

Career statistics

society league season league Nat. Cup European Cup Other total
Games Gates Games Gates Games Gates Games Gates Games Gates
NK Osijek Prva Liga 1985/86 10 3 - - - - - - 10 3
1986/87 26th 9 - - - - - - 26th 9
1987/88 29 10 - - - - - - 29 10
1988/89 26th 18th - - - - - - 26th 18th
total 91 40 - - - - - - 91 40
Dinamo Zagreb Prva Liga 1989/90 28 12 - - - - - - 28 12
1990/91 32 22nd - - - - - - 32 22nd
total 60 34 - - - - - - 60 34
Sevilla FC Primera División 1991/92 22nd 6th 4th 3 - - - - 26th 9
1992/93 33 13 2 0 - - - - 35 13
1993/94 34 24 7th 3 - - - - 41 27
1994/95 32 17th 2 3 - - - - 34 20th
1995/96 32 16 3 1 6th 4th - - 41 21st
total 153 76 18th 10 6th 4th - - 177 90
real Madrid Primera División 1996/97 38 24 5 5 - - - - 43 29
1997/98 29 10 1 1 7th 4th - - 37 15th
1998/99 19th 4th 2 0 5 1 - - 26th 5
total 86 38 8th 6th 12 5 - - 106 49
Arsenal FC Premier League 1999/00 22nd 8th 3 0 13 2 1 1 39 11
total 22nd 8th 3 0 13 2 1 1 39 11
West Ham United Premier League 2000/01 11 2 - - - - 2 1 13 3
total 11 2 - - - - 2 1 13 3
TSV 1860 Munich Bundesliga 2001/02 14th 4th 3 2 - - - - 17th 6th
2002/03 11 1 2 1 - - - - 13 2
total 25th 5 5 3 - - - - 30th 8th
Career total 448 203 34 19th 31 11 3 2 516 235

Web links

Commons : Davor Šuker  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ welt.de: Suker new President of the Croatian Association , July 5, 2012
  2. ↑ Matthias Arnhold: Davor Suker - Matches and Goals in Bundesliga . RSSSF.com . February 12, 2020. Accessed February 19, 2020.
  3. ↑ Roberto Mamrud: Davor Suker - Goals in International Matches . RSSSF.com . February 12, 2020. Accessed February 19, 2020.
  4. ↑ Suker new president of the Croatian Association welt.de,
  5. ↑ Fortuna's youth coach Sinisa Suker (cousin of ex-world star Davor Suker)
  6. ↑ Damir Suker - Eintracht Frankfurt
  7. ↑ fine for ex-soccer star Davor Suker , Sueddeutsche.de
  8. ↑ Osnabrücker Zeitung : Cheers from soccer player Simunic stirs up Croatia
personal data
SURNAME Šuker, before
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Yugoslav-Croatian football player
DATE OF BIRTH 1st January 1968
PLACE OF BIRTH Osijek , SFR Yugoslavia