Milan Badelj

Milan Badelj
Milan Badelj (2015)
Personnel
birthday	February 25, 1989
place of birth	Zagreb ,  SFR Yugoslavia
size	186 cm
position	midfield
Juniors
Years	station
1994-2002	NK Ponikve
2002-2005	NK Zagreb
2005-2007	Dinamo Zagreb
Men's
Years	station	Games (goals) 1
2007–2012	Dinamo Zagreb	113 (25)
2007-2008	→  NK Lokomotiva Zagreb  (loan)	28 0(7)
2012-2014	Hamburger SV	62 0(2)
2014-2018	AC Florence	108 0(6)
2018–	Lazio Rome	23 0(1)
2019–	→ Fiorentina (loan)	19 0(1)
National team
Years	selection	Games (goals) 2
2004	Croatia U16	1 0(0)
2004-2005	Croatia U17	28 0(2)
2005-2006	Croatia U18	5 0(0)
2006-2008	Croatia U19	14 0(0)
2009	Croatia U20	2 0(0)
2008-2010	Croatia U21	14 0(0)
2010–	Croatia	50 0(2)
1 Only league games are given. As of March 8, 2020 2 As of November 19, 2019

Milan Badelj (born February 25, 1989 in Zagreb , SFR Yugoslavia ) is a Croatian football player .

Career

society

Milan Badelj grew up in Gajnice, a residential area in western Zagreb. He was playing soccer with friends on a concrete pitch near his parents' home. At five he joined NK Ponikve, at 13 he went to NK Zagreb and three years later to Dinamo Zagreb . He made his debut on July 27, 2008 in the highest Croatian league, the 1st HNL . In the summer of 2007 it was awarded to NK Lokomotiva Zagreb . He returned a year later and became a regular player. In 2009 Badelj was honored with the Hope of the Year award as the best young player in the Croatian league . He won four championships and two cup titles with Dinamo Zagreb.

In the summer of 2012, Hamburger SV Badelj signed. He signed a three-year contract until June 30, 2015 including an option for an additional year. On August 28, Badelj made his last game for Zagreb in the second leg of the Champions League qualification against NK Maribor . He made his Bundesliga debut on September 1, 2012 (2nd match day) in the 2-0 defeat in the away game against Werder Bremen . On November 27, 2012 (14th matchday) he scored his first Bundesliga goal in a 3-1 win at home against FC Schalke 04 with the goal of the final score from a foul penalty in the 90th minute.

After the start of the 2014/15 season , Badelj moved to Fiorentina . After 108 games, he left the club after the 2017/18 season .

Badelj has been active for Lazio since the 2018/19 season . After a season in Rome, Badelj was loaned back to Florence.

National team

Badelj has been a regular part of Croatia's junior squad since 2004. In total, he played 50 games in the ages U16 to U20, but he did not take part in a European Championship or World Championship final. He was featured 14 times for the Croatian U21 team. Among other things, he took part in the qualification for the U-21 European Football Championship in 2011 , where the relegation to Spain failed.

On May 23, 2010 he made his debut for the Croatian senior team against the selection of Wales .

Badelj moved up to the squad for the 2014 World Cup due to an injury to Ivan Močinić .

At the European Football Championship in France in 2016 , he was included in the Croatian squad and was in the starting eleven in all games. He was one of the players who played all the matches up to the elimination in the round of 16 after extra time over the full playing time.

successes

National team

• Vice World Champion : 2018

Dinamo Zagreb

• Croatian championship : 2009 , 2009/10 , 2010/11 , 2011/12
• Croatian Cup : 2008/09 , 2010/11 , 2011/12
• Croatian Supercup : 2010

Personal awards

• Croatia's Young Player of the Year : 2009

Web links

Commons : Milan Badelj  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Milan Badelj in the database of weltfussball.de
• Milan Badelj in the database of fussballdaten.de
• Use statistics at hnl-statistika.com
• Overview of international matches on hns-cff.hr
• Player profile at transfermarkt.de

Individual evidence

1. ↑ HSV strategist Milan Badelj is the diamond from Zagreb , www.abendblatt.de from October 19, 2012
2. ↑ Milan Badelj: With CL tailwind to HSV ( Memento of the original from August 16, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , hsv.de of August 13, 2012. 
3. ↑ RAGGIUNTO L'ACCORDO CON L'AMBURGO PER BADELJ (Italian) Retrieved August 31, 2014
4. ↑ ViolaChannel - MILAN BADELJ SALUTA FIRENZE E LA FIORENTINA. Retrieved July 20, 2018 (Italian). 
5. ↑ Goal.com: Serie A: Lazio bring Milan Badelj and Joaquin Correa , accessed on October 19, 2018
6. ↑ - ( Memento of the original from July 17, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.