Ivan Klasnić

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Ivan Klasnić
Player - Day of Legends 2016 06.jpg
Ivan Klasnić, 2016
Personnel
birthday January 29, 1980
place of birth Hamburg ,  Germany
size 186 cm
position striker
Juniors
Years station
Union 03 Altona
until 1992 TSV Stellingen 88
1992-1997 FC St. Pauli
Men's
Years station Games (goals) 1
1997-2001 FC St. Pauli 95 (26)
2001-2008 Werder Bremen 151 (49)
2007 Werder Bremen II 1 0(0)
2008-2009 FC Nantes 33 (10)
2009–2012 Bolton Wanderers 78 (20)
2012-2013 1. FSV Mainz 05 3 0(1)
National team
Years selection Games (goals)
1998-1999 Croatia U-19 5 0(1)
2001 Croatia U-21 3 0(1)
2004-2011 Croatia 41 (12)
1 Only league games are given.

Ivan Klasnić [ ˈiʋan ˈklasnitɕ ] (born January 29, 1980 in Hamburg ) is a former Croatian football player . In Germany he played for his youth club, FC St. Pauli from 1997 to 2001 and for Werder Bremen from 2001 to 2008 . He then spent a year in France with FC Nantes and three years in England with Bolton Wanderers before ending his career in 2013 with 1. FSV Mainz 05 .

He had his most successful time in Bremen and became German champion in 2004 and won the DFB Cup . From 2004 to 2011 he was active in the Croatian national team and took part with her in the 2004 and 2008 European Championships and the 2006 World Cup.

Career

society

Beginnings and change to FC St. Pauli

Klasnić started with the soccer game at the Altona district club SC Union 03 and went from there to TSV Stellingen 88 . In 1992 he moved to the youth department of FC St. Pauli , in whose professional squad he was accepted in 1997. In 1998 he also made his professional debut in the 2nd Bundesliga in the men's team . His greatest success with Hamburg was his promotion to the Bundesliga in the 2000/01 season.

Werder Bremen

Klasnić at a Champions League game with Werder Bremen (2006)

After the rise, Klasnić left St. Pauli and moved to Werder Bremen . His most successful season was the 2003/04 double season, in which Werder Bremen became German champions and cup winners . After Aílton , he was Bremen's most successful goalscorer this season. After Aílton's departure in 2004, he and Miroslav Klose formed what the media called “KuK-Sturm” (based on the “ Kuk Monarchy” Austria-Hungary ).

In January and March 2007 Klasnić underwent a kidney transplant (→ Other ), which put the continuation of his career in question. Nevertheless, on June 28, he extended his contract in Bremen for another year until 2008. More than ten months after his last competitive game, he played for Bremen again on October 30, 2007 (for the Bremen U-23 in the DFB Cup against his former FC St. Pauli club). With his involvement on November 24, 2007 in the Bremen professional team's game against Energie Cottbus , Klasnić became the first football player in the world to return to one of the top divisions in professional sport after a kidney transplant. In the last first half of the 2007/08 season against Bayer Leverkusen, he scored twice in a 5-2 win for his team and provided one assist.

In May 2008 Klasnić and Bremen could not agree on a contract extension. He gave the reason for the disturbed relationship of trust with the medical department of Werder and said: “A continuation of the cooperation would have presupposed that I would have to continue to be looked after at the games for Werder by the same club doctor against whom my lawyer was in liability litigation because of something I believe serious malpractice. "

FC Nantes

On July 11, 2008 Klasnić signed a four-year contract with the French first division promoted FC Nantes . After adjustment difficulties, he scored his first goals in Ligue 1 on the 17th match day; However, after his late substitution, he converted his team's deficit against league leaders Olympique Lyon into a 2-1 victory.

Bolton Wanderers

After FC Nantes was relegated again from Ligue 1 in the 2008/09 season , Klasnić moved to Bolton Wanderers on loan in August 2009 . His contract with FC Nantes, dated until the end of the 2011/12 season, was terminated in August 2010; he signed a contract until 2012 with the Bolton Wanderers.

1. FSV Mainz 05

After his contract with Bolton Wanderers expired, Klasnić moved to the German Bundesliga club 1. FSV Mainz 05 on a free transfer in September 2012 , where he signed a contract for the rest of the season. On March 3, 2013 (24th matchday) - his third league game for Mainz - he scored his first Bundesliga goal for Mainz in the away game against Fortuna Düsseldorf . After his contract expired, Klasnić ended his career.

National team

Ivan Klasnić played for the U-16, U-17, U-18, U-19 and U-21 of Croatia. After he had turned down invitations to play for the German national soccer team and the national team of Bosnia and Herzegovina , he made his debut with the Croatian national team against Germany in Split in February 2004 . He was part of the Croatian squad at the European Championships in Portugal and Austria / Switzerland in 2008 as well as at the World Championships in Germany .

Due to his illness he was temporarily unable to play in the national team. However, he was always in contact, so he was invited to a friendly game on March 26; in the 58th minute he was substituted on. This was his first appointment to the national team after his kidney transplant in 2007. Klasnić made history at the 2008 European Championships : he was the first player to have a kidney transplant at a European Championship and scored a goal in the game Poland - Croatia on June 16, 2008 ; he also met in the quarter-finals against Turkey to 1-0 in the 119th minute of the game.

Others

Klasnić had been married since December 2003, but his wife Patriciá filed for divorce in late 2011. They have a daughter (* 2006) together. As a married couple, they were committed to the “Löwenherz Foundation”, an institution for seriously ill and dying children in Syke near Bremen. The family apartment is located in Hamburg . Ivan Klasnić himself also has an apartment in Manchester . His second daughter was born in August 2019.

In November 2005, Klasnić underwent an appendix operation, which revealed poor kidney values. More than a year later, in January 2007, his lawyer announced at a press conference that the striker suffered from kidney failure and that a transplant could no longer be avoided. A first kidney donation by his mother in January 2007 failed because the organ was rejected. In the second attempt, a donor kidney was successfully transplanted by his father in March 2007 at the Hannover Medical School . Since September 2016 he has been on the waiting list for his third kidney transplant because his father's kidney can no longer adequately cleanse his blood. In 2018 he had his third kidney transplant in Croatia.

Since Klasnić is one of the few athletes who, despite having had a kidney transplant, continues to actively participate in their sport, the kicker awarded him the " Man of the Year " award in German football in 2007. In April 2008 Klasnić filed a lawsuit against Werder Bremen's club doctors at the Bremen Regional Court. Based on a medical report, he accused them of having recognized the incipient kidney disease as early as 2002 due to existing elevated kidney values. In March 2017, the Bremen Regional Court awarded him 100,000 euros in compensation. In addition, the doctors have to pay for a loss of earnings of around one million euros in 2007 as well as for all subsequent costs.

Investigations into allegations of the rape of a 17-year-old girl in Manchester led to the arrest of Klasnić in October 2010. After being released on bail and several interviews in which Klasnić always protested his innocence, the proceedings were discontinued in February 2011. The alleged victim admitted that she accused the player of rape because she felt rejected by Klasnić.

Klasnić has been involved in Show Racism the Red Card - Germany since 2013 .

titles and achievements

Web links

Commons : Ivan Klasnić  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ St. Paulis Klasnic: About Werder Bremen into the Croatian national team? , www.welt.de from July 25, 2000
  2. ↑ Klasnic leaves Werder Bremen in Der Spiegel on May 14, 2008
  3. ↑ France Football of December 9, 2008, pp. 8/9
  4. ↑ bolton sign ivan klasnic
  5. ^ Message on the FC Nantes homepage
  6. ↑ Klasnic stays with Bolton
  7. ↑ Ivan Klasnic becomes a zero five mainz05.de, accessed on September 4, 2012
  8. ↑ Werder legend Ivan Klasnic turns 40: "I feel good and want to be 100". In: deichstube.de. January 29, 2020, accessed August 13, 2020 .
  9. ↑ Yasemin Fusco: Ex-soccer professional about transplantation: "I cannot pretend that nothing happened" . In: The daily newspaper: taz . January 6, 2019, ISSN  0931-9085 ( taz.de [accessed March 20, 2019]).
  10. ↑ Success in court: compensation for pain and suffering for Klasnic . In: NDR.de , March 31, 2017, accessed on March 31, 2017.
  11. ↑ rape? Allegations against Klasnic . In: Welt Online , October 29, 2010, accessed March 19, 2011.
  12. ↑ “The Klasnic case” is dragging on . In: Zeit Online , November 2, 2010, accessed March 19, 2011.
  13. ↑ Rape allegation: investigation against Klasnic stopped . In: Rheinische Post , February 21, 2011, accessed on March 5, 2013.
  14. ↑ 11th Friends # 121, December 2011, 94
  15. ^ With "Show Racism the Red Card" workshops in the arena of Mainz 05. In: theredcard.de , February 1, 2013.
  16. ↑ www.kicker.de The kicker men of the year , as seen on December 7, 2008
personal data
SURNAME Klasnić, Ivan
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Klasnic, Ivan
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Croatian soccer player
DATE OF BIRTH January 29, 1980
PLACE OF BIRTH Hamburg , Germany