Josip Šimunić (soccer player)
| Josip Šimunić | ||
 Josip Šimunić in the jersey of
the Croatian national team |
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| Personnel | ||
|---|---|---|
| Surname | Josip Šimunić | |
| birthday | February 18, 1978 | |
| place of birth | Canberra , Australia | |
| size | 195 cm | |
| position | Defense | |
| Juniors | ||
| Years | station | |
| 1993-1995 | Australian Institute of Sport | |
| Men's | ||
| Years | station | Games (goals) 1 |
| 1995-1997 | Melbourne Knights | 30 (3) |
| 1997 | Carlton SC | |
| 1997-1999 | Hamburger SV | 8 (0) |
| 1998-1999 | Hamburger SV II | 6 (0) |
| 2000-2009 | Hertha BSC | 222 (3) |
| 2009-2011 | TSG 1899 Hoffenheim | 41 (1) |
| 2011-2014 | Dinamo Zagreb | 69 (3) |
| National team | ||
| Years | selection | Games (goals) |
| 2001-2013 | Croatia | 105 (3) |
| Stations as a trainer | ||
| Years | station | |
| 2015-2017 | Croatia (assistant coach) | |
| 2019– | Croatia U18 | |
| 2019– | Croatia U-19 | |
| 1 Only league games are given. | ||
Josip "Joe" Šimunić [ ˈjɔsip ˈʃimunitɕ ] (born February 18, 1978 in Canberra , Australia ) is a former Croatian football player and current coach.
background
Šimunić's parents are Bosnian Croats . Before he emigrated to Australia, his father worked for 16 months in the Federal Republic of Germany . In 1974 he emigrated from Europe with his wife and settled in Australia.
Player career
society
Šimunić completed the support program of the Australian Institute of Sport and then began his career with the Melbourne Knights . In 1996 he was named NSL Youth Player of the Year . After a three-month stint at the Melbourne club Carlton SC , he moved to Hamburger SV on November 1, 1997 . There he made his debut on May 2, 1998, when he came on in the 84th minute for Jacek Dembiński in the 1-0 away win against Borussia Dortmund . Šimunić stayed with HSV until January 2000, but only made eight Bundesliga appearances due to injury.
During the winter break of the 1999/2000 season he moved to Hertha BSC , where he wore his shirt number 14 for the first time. After a mixed first season, Šimunić worked out a regular place at the beginning of the 2001/02 season, which he maintained until the end of his engagement with Hertha, apart from injury-related breaks. Despite his headball strength, it took until December 2, 2006, until he scored his first Bundesliga goal in the away game against Werder Bremen . From the kicker he was certified “outstanding technique”, “impressive overview” and overall “international class” and he was named the best central defender in the Bundesliga in the 2004/05 and 2008/09 seasons. Šimunić completed a total of 222 Bundesliga games for the Berliners, with which he also reached the international competitions several times.
For the 2009/10 season he moved to TSG 1899 Hoffenheim for a transfer fee of 7 million euros . After being an undisputed regular player in his first season, he was only used irregularly in the 2010/11 season after an injury. After Šimunić had publicly considered a move and stated that he was dissatisfied with his situation at the club, the club suspended him from team training in March 2011 until the player showed himself to be purified a short time later.
On August 31, 2011, Šimunić moved to Croatia to Dinamo Zagreb , where he ended his career as an active footballer on December 14, 2014.
National team
Although Šimunić, whose parents emigrated from Kiseljak in Bosnia to Canberra in Australia, was born and raised in Australia, he decided to play for Croatia and made his debut on November 10, 2001 in a friendly against South Korea for the Croatian national team . After the injury-related failure of Igor Tudor , he was appointed to the Croatian squad for the 2002 World Cup in Japan and South Korea. Although he had not appeared in any qualifying game, he was on the field in all three Croatian games. As a result, he was also a member of the Croatian team at the 2004 , 2006 , 2008 and 2012 European Championships .
On February 6, 2013, he made his 100th international match with Stipe Pletikosa and Darijo Srna in a 4-0 win against South Korea .
Ustasha slogan scandal
After the successful qualification for the 2014 World Cup on November 19, 2013, Šimunić caused a scandal . The defender took after the 2: 0 victory in the return match in Zagreb against Iceland the stadium microphone and shouted toward the fans in antiphonal singing with the audience five times " Za Dom - Spremni! ", Which translated into German means" ready for home ", the greeting of the Croatian - fascist Ustasha movement. During the game, fans had already chanted slogans such as “Let's go, Ustaschas” from the stands.
The Croatian public was appalled by Šimunić's behavior, newspapers wrote of a “shame” and that Šimunić's behavior had destroyed the joy of reaching the finals in Brazil . Šimunić himself defended his behavior by stating that he had “done nothing wrong” and that he loved “his homeland”. Croatian media quoted him as saying “I've always wanted to do this. And I don't care if I can be punished for it. ”Two days later, the Croatian judiciary imposed the highest possible fine of 3270 euros for this offense at sporting competitions for inciting racist hatred against the 36-year-old professional. According to the grounds of the judgment, Šimunić was aware of the significance of his statements. Subsequently, the International Football Association led FIFA a disciplinary one against Šimunić.
On the following weekend several thousand supporters of Hajduk Split , Torcida Split , the Ustascha salute at the home game against NK Osijek in the Poljud Stadium , and "Let's go Ustaschas!" The singing greeting was dedicated to Šimunić. A Facebook page in support of the player had around 160,000 followers within the first few days.
On December 12, 2013, Šimunić was suspended by the FIFA Disciplinary Committee for ten official Croatian Football Association matches, and the verdict was communicated to the Croatian association and the player four days later. The ban only came into effect at the beginning of the World Cup finals, so that Šimunić was not eligible to play in this. Since the Croatian national team was eliminated after three games in the preliminary round of the World Cup, the remaining ban applied to the following official games of the association team. Due to his advanced age, this meant the end of his games in the national team. He was also fined 30,000 Swiss francs and banned from the stadium for the ten games he was banned from.
The FIFA Committee concluded that this act would undermine the dignity of persons and others. a. had been violated with regard to race, religion or origin and thus a clear violation of the disciplinary rules of FIFA. After Šimunić failed to appeal to the FIFA Appeal Committee, he filed a complaint with the International Court of Justice (CAS) in early April 2014 with the aim of still being able to take part in the World Cup. However, the CAS rejected the complaint and, in its judgment of May 12, 2014, ultimately confirmed the sanctions imposed by FIFA.
At the beginning of 2016, a documentary by the Croatian director Jakov Sedlar was released with the title Moja voljena Hrvatska (German: My beloved Croatia ), in which Šimunić presents his view of the things that led to his ban and in which he presents himself as a victim of internal and external enemies Croatia sees. He also announced that he would fight for his rehabilitation before the European Court of Human Rights .
Coaching career
From September 2015, Šimunić was assistant coach of the Croatian national team under head coach Ante Čačić until his dismissal in October 2017.
Since May 2019 he has been the coach of the Croatian U-18 and U-19 national teams.
additional
In the preliminary round game of the 2006 World Cup against Australia, he was shown three yellow cards in one game due to an error by referee Graham Poll . According to the rules, the referee should have sent Šimunić off the field with the second yellow card with a yellow-red card . Poll ended his international career after the tournament. In his autobiography, Poll explains the incident by mistakenly assigning Šimunić's second warning due to his Australian accent to the Australian player with the shirt number 3, Craig Moore .
On October 11, 2009 he was removed from the national team squad together with Ivica Križanac by the Croatian national coach Slaven Bilić , because he is said to have fought a physical dispute with his teammate Ivica Križanac. Šimunić denied the allegations and was back on November 14, 2009 in the starting eleven of Croatia in the international match against Luxembourg .
Josip Šimunić has a cousin of the same name who played as a handball player in the highest Austrian league and now earns his living as a professional poker player.
Josip Šimunić and his wife Christina had a daughter. She died on April 1, 2018 in a clinic for infectious diseases in Zagreb at the age of four of a brief, serious illness. She was buried in the capital's Mirogoj Cemetery on April 5 .
successes
- Croatian championship : 2012 , 2013
- Croatian Cup : 2012
- Australian champion : 1996
Awards
Web links
- Joe Šimunić in the database of weltfussball.de
- Joe Šimunić in the database of footballdata.de
- Overview of international matches on hns-cff.hr
- Josip Šimunić in the database of kicker.de
Individual evidence
- ↑ Zvanična FB stranica navijača Zrinjskog: Svi smo mi Joe Šimunić. December 17, 2013, accessed February 11, 2020 (Bosnian).
- ↑ “I ALWAYS SHOW WHERE I COME FROM AND WHO I AM.” In: TSG 1899 Hoffenheim . Gymnastics and Sports Association Hoffenheim 1899 e. V., October 7, 2009, accessed March 19, 2020 .
- ↑ Stefan Hermanns, Ingo Schmidt-Tychosen: "The Australians are very angry with me" . In: Der Tagesspiegel . Publishing house Der Tagesspiegel GmbH. May 9, 2006. Retrieved February 11, 2020.
- ↑ Joe Simunic: In a class of its own . kicker-online: June 8, 2009
- ^ Aussie Joe Simunic Signs for Hoffenheim , accessed February 22, 2011
- ↑ Simunic no longer in team training on kicker.de, accessed on March 4, 2011
- ↑ Simunic gets a new chance at kicker.de, accessed on March 15, 2011
- ^ Josip Šimunić potpisao za Dinamo! ( Memento of November 20, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) on gnkdinamo.hr, accessed on August 31, 2011
- ↑ Dinamo se oprostio od kapetana: “Svi smo mi Joe”. On: index.hr, December 14, 2014
- ^ Roberto Mamrud: Josip Simunic - Century of International Appearances . Rec.Sport.Soccer Statistics Foundation. January 30, 2014. Accessed March 28, 2015.
- ↑ Simunic cheers with the fascist Ustaša slogan on Spiegel online, accessed on November 20, 2013
- ↑ Josip Šimunić causes outrage
- ↑ Simunic makes verbal dropouts at Kicker.de
- ↑ Osnabrücker Zeitung : Cheers from soccer player Simunic stirs up Croatia , noz.de.
- ↑ Longest ban issued by the world association at NZZ.ch
- ↑ fifa.com: "Croatian player punished for discriminatory behavior"
- ↑ Šimunić moves to the international sports court
- ↑ CAS supports FIFA sanctions for discrimination in the Šimunić case
- ↑ Dario Brentin: Simunic ideological offensive. On: fr-online.de, February 15, 2016.
- ↑ Simunic new assistant coach in Croatia. On: rp-online.de, September 21, 2015.
- ↑ Coach overview on the website of the Croatian Football Association, accessed on February 18, 2020
- ^ "Josip Šimunić took over as the head coach of the U-18 and U-19 national teams in May 2019." on the website of the Croatian Football Association, accessed on February 18, 2020
- ↑ Simunic is thrown out of Croatia's squad ( memento from October 14, 2009 in the Internet Archive ). newsticker.sueddeutsche.de, accessed on October 11, 2009
- ↑ focus.de: Ex-Bundesliga professional Simunic mourns four-year-old daughter Article dated April 6, 2018
- ↑ hns-cff.hr: Official statement of the Croatian Football Association, article from April 5, 2018 (Croatian)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Šimunić, Josip |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Šimunić, Joe (nickname); Simunic, Joe (name in Australia) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Australian-Croatian soccer player |
| DATE OF BIRTH | February 18, 1978 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Canberra , Australia |