Mario Mandžukić

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Mario Mandžukić
Mario Mandžukić 2018.jpg
in the jersey of the national team (2018)
Personnel
birthday May 21, 1986
place of birth Slavonski Brod ,  SFR Yugoslavia
size 190 cm
position Storm
Juniors
Years station
1992-1996 TSF Ditzingen
1996-2004 NK Marsonia
2003-2004 → NK Željezničar Slavonski Brod (loan)
Men's
Years station Games (goals) 1
2004-2005 NK Marsonia 23 (14)
2005-2007 NK Zagreb 51 (14)
2007-2010 Dinamo Zagreb 81 (42)
2010–2012 VfL Wolfsburg 56 (20)
2012-2014 FC Bayern Munich 54 (33)
2014-2015 Atlético Madrid 28 (12)
2015-2019 Juventus Turin 118 (31)
2020 al-Duhail SC 5 0(0)
National team
Years selection Games (goals)
2004-2005 Croatia U19 10 0(3)
2007 Croatia U20 1 0(1)
2006-2008 Croatia U21 9 0(1)
2007-2018 Croatia 89 (33)
1 Only league games are given.
As of March 7, 2020

Mario Mandžukić [ ˈmandʒukitɕ ] (born May 21, 1986 in Slavonski Brod , SR Croatia , SFR Yugoslavia ) is a Croatian football player who was last under contract in Qatar at al-Duhail SC . From 2007 to 2018 he played for the Croatian national team , with which he was runner- up at the 2018 World Cup.

Career

societies

Youth and advancement to a professional in Croatia

Mario Mandžukić in the shirt of Dinamo Zagreb (2008)
Mario Mandžukić in the jersey of Juventus Turin (2017)

Mandžukić came to Ditzingen near Stuttgart in 1992 as a refugee child from Slavonski Brod in Croatia . There he developed his football skills at TSF Ditzingen . In 1996 he and his parents had to leave Germany and return to Croatia. There Mandžukić played in Slavonski Brod for the NK Marsonia Slavonski Brod until he was loaned to the NK Željezničar Slavonski Brod for the 2003/04 season. He then played another year for Marsonia and then moved to NK Zagreb , from where he moved to Dinamo Zagreb after two years . With Dinamo he became Croatian champion and cup winner in 2008. In the 2007/08 and 2008/09 seasons he played with Dinamo in the UEFA Cup . He scored two goals in extra time in the away game against Ajax Amsterdam on October 4, 2007, securing his club's entry into the group stage.

VfL Wolfsburg

In July 2010, Mandžukić moved to the German Bundesliga club VfL Wolfsburg for a transfer fee of seven million euros . In the first half of the 2010/11 season he was a regular substitute. That did not change after the departure of the most successful striker Edin Džeko and a change of coach, but only with his first Bundesliga goal on matchday 26 against 1. FC Nürnberg and the second change of coach to Felix Magath . In his last seven appearances of the season, he scored eight goals. With his two most important goals, he turned the game against TSG 1899 Hoffenheim on the last day of the match . Wolfsburg won and thus secured the league's whereabouts.

FC Bayern Munich

In June 2012, Mandžukić moved to Bayern Munich , where he signed a contract that ran until June 30, 2016. In his first competitive game, the DFL Supercup against Borussia Dortmund , he also scored his first goal. In the first round of the DFB Cup against SSV Jahn Regensburg , he contributed two goals in the 4-0 win. He scored his first Bundesliga goal for Bayern on August 25, 2012 (1st matchday) in a 3-0 win in the away game against SpVgg Greuther Fürth with the goal to make it 2-0. In December 2012, Mandžukić was voted Croatia's Footballer of the Year .

On the 28th matchday he won his first German championship . It was the earliest in Bundesliga history. On May 25, 2013, he won the Champions League . In the final, he scored a 1-0 lead for FC Bayern Munich in the 60th minute in a 2-1 win against Borussia Dortmund. On June 1, 2013, he and the team also won the DFB Cup final in Berlin 3-2 against VfB Stuttgart . Thus, Mandžukić won the triple in his first year with FC Bayern Munich . On August 30, 2013, he also won the UEFA Super Cup and the 2013 FIFA Club World Cup in Morocco, for which the club had qualified as the winner of the Champions League.

On March 25, 2014 (27th matchday), Mandžukić was arithmetically certain as German champions as early as no other team before. On May 17, 2014, he won the double with the DFB Cup in the final against Borussia Dortmund , but was not in the squad.

Atlético Madrid

For the 2014/15 season , Mandžukić moved to Atlético Madrid , where he received a four-year contract. On August 22, 2014, he won the Spanish Supercup with Atlético with a 1-0 win in the second leg (first leg 1: 1) against city rivals Real Madrid , scoring the winning goal in the 2nd minute. He made his league debut on August 25, 2014 (1st matchday) in a goalless draw in the city ​​derby at Rayo Vallecano . He scored his first league goal on August 30, 2014 (2nd matchday) in a 2-1 win in the home game against SD Eibar with the goal to make it 2-0 in the 25th minute.

Juventus Turin

For the 2015/16 season , Mandžukić moved to the Italian first division club Juventus Turin , where he received a contract valid until June 30, 2019. He crowned his competitive debut on August 8, 2015 with a 1-0 lead in the final of the Italian Supercup , which was won 2-0 against Lazio Rome .

On May 25, 2017, Mandžukić's contract term in Turin was prematurely extended by a further year.

The Croat made 162 competitive appearances for Juve, in which he contributed 44 goals and 18 assists. In addition, he was Italian national champion four times in a row with the club and won the national Supercup twice . In the 2019/20 season , it was not taken into account once , despite a working paper that was still valid until June 2021.

Al-Duhail SC

With effect from January 1, 2020, Mandžukić moved to the Qatari first division club al-Duhail SC .

On July 5, 2020, the association announced the amicable termination of the contract that originally ran until summer 2021.

National team

Mario Mandžukić after scoring a goal in the 2018 World Cup final in Russia

Mandžukić completed nine games for the U-21 national team , but could not qualify with her for the 2009 European Championship .

On November 17, 2007, he played his first international match for the senior national team , which lost 2-0 to Macedonia in Skopje . On September 10, 2008, he scored his first international goal in the game against England . In the qualifying round for the European Championship 2012 , he scored two goals for Croatia. In 2012 he took part with the Croatian team at the European Championships in Poland and the Ukraine and, along with Mario Gómez and Alan Dzagojew (Russia), was one of the top scorers in the preliminary round with three goals.

At the 2014 World Cup in Brazil, Mandžukić was part of the Croatian national team. On June 18, 2014 he scored two goals in the second group game against the selection of Cameroon and was elected Man of the Match ; Croatia was eliminated from the tournament after the group stage.

He was included in the Croatian squad at the 2016 European Championships in France . In the first two games against Turkey and the Czech Republic, he was part of the team. Like four other regular players, he was not used in the last group game against Spain. He was substituted for Portugal in the round of 16 shortly before the end of regular time. The team then lost the game in extra time and was eliminated.

At the 2018 World Cup in Russia , he was part of the Croatian squad . In the round of 16 against Denmark he scored the equalizer in the 4th minute of the game; After a 1-1 draw after extra time , Croatia prevailed 3-2 in the subsequent penalty shoot-out . In the semi-final against England on July 11, 2018, which ended 1-1 after regular time, Mandžukić scored the winning goal to 2-1 and thus shot the Croatians into a World Cup final for the first time. In the final against France , he became the first player to ever score an own goal in a World Cup final when he headed Antoine Griezmann's free kick into his own net and led France 1-0. He later scored the second goal for Croatia, taking advantage of a mistake by French goalkeeper Hugo Lloris when the game ended in a 2-4 defeat . With this goal, Mandžukić became the second player in World Cup history to score for both teams in a single game (after Ernie Brandts ) and the first player in a final.

On August 14, 2018, Mandžukić resigned from the national team with an open letter.

successes

National team

Juventus Turin

Atlético Madrid

FC Bayern Munich

Dinamo Zagreb

Awards

Web links

Commons : Mario Mandžukić  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Wolves get Mario Mandzukic . In: kicker.de
  2. ↑ ndr.de: Wolfsburg's Mandzukic puts on his lederhosen ( Memento from June 29, 2012 in the Internet Archive )
  3. ↑ Sebastian Winter: Bayern victory in the cup. New meets well. Spiegel Online , August 21, 2012, accessed August 21, 2012 .
  4. ↑ http://www.croatiantimes.com/news/Sports/2012-12-7/31401/Mandzukic_and_Radosevic_awarded_by_Croatian_national_football_team_fans ( Memento from December 14, 2014 in the web archive archive.today )
  5. ↑ Cup final in Berlin: Bavaria is hot for the next 'big title' . In: fcbayern.com , May 16, 2014. Retrieved June 12, 2017.
  6. ↑ Mandzukic ya es rojiblanco . In: clubatleticodemadrid.com , accessed March 30, 2015 (Spanish)
  7. ↑ Mandzukic transfer to Atletico Madrid perfect . In: fcbayern.de , accessed on March 30, 2015.
  8. ↑ Mandzukic joins Juventus , Juventus Turin, June 22, 2015, accessed on June 22, 2015.
  9. ↑ Champions League finalist Juventus Turin extended with Mandžukić , transfermarkt.de , May 25, 2017, accessed on May 25, 2017.
  10. ↑ The Croatian Mandzukic professional in al-Duhail ranks , duhailsc.com, accessed December 25, 2019 (Arabic)
  11. ↑ Mario Mandzukic leaves Juventus Turin , tagesspiegel.de, accessed on December 25, 2019
  12. ↑ Short guest appearance: Mandzukic terminates contract in Qatar on weltfussball.de
  13. ↑ FIFA.com , accessed June 30, 2014
  14. ↑ Mandzukic becomes first player in 40 years to score for both teams at a World Cup. Retrieved August 15, 2018 .
  15. ↑ "No turning back": Mandzukic resigns from the national team. In: kicker. Retrieved August 14, 2018 .
  16. ↑ Mandzukic wins athlete election . ( Memento from December 26, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) In: sport1.de , accessed on June 19, 2014.
personal data
SURNAME Mandžukić, Mario
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Croatian soccer player
DATE OF BIRTH May 21, 1986
PLACE OF BIRTH Slavonski Brod , SR Croatia , SFR Yugoslavia