Mladen Petrić

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Mladen Petrić
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Mladen Petrić, 2016
Personnel
birthday January 1, 1981
place of birth BrčkoSFR Yugoslavia
size 185 cm
position Storm
Juniors
Years station
1988-1996 FC Neuenhof
1996-1998 FC Baden
Men's
Years station Games (goals) 1
1998-1999 FC Baden 22 0(4)
1999-2004 Grasshopper Club Zurich 114 (30)
2004-2007 FC Basel 72 (39)
2007-2008 Borussia Dortmund 29 (13)
2008–2012 Hamburger SV 99 (38)
2012-2013 Fulham FC 23 0(5)
2013 West Ham United 3 0(0)
2014-2016 Panathinaikos Athens 58 (12)
National team
Years selection Games (goals)
1998 Switzerland U-17 1 0(0)
2001 Switzerland U-21 1 0(0)
2002-2004 Croatia U-21 7 0(1)
2001-2013 Croatia 45 (13)
1 Only league games are given.

Mladen Petrić [ ˈmladɛn ˈpɛːtritɕ ] (born January 1, 1981 in Brčko , SFR Yugoslavia ) is a former Croatian football player who also has Swiss nationality .

Career

society

Petrić's professional career began at FC Baden , for whom he had already played in his youth. He had previously trained in Neuenhof ( AG ), where he also grew up. For the 1999/2000 season he moved to Grasshopper Club Zurich , with whom he won the Swiss championship in 2001 and 2003 . From the 2004/05 season Petrić played at FC Basel and was champion here in 2005. In May 2007 he also won the Swiss Cup with FC Basel in Bern. Despite a protracted ankle injury, the 2006/07 season is considered the best of his career: He was the Swiss top scorer with 19 goals in 25 league games and was voted the best player of the season. He also saved a penalty in the second minute of stoppage time in the UEFA Cup match against AS Nancy with a 2-2 score when he acted as goalkeeper for the final seconds of the game after a red card against goalkeeper Franco Costanzo .

For the 2007/08 season he moved to the German Bundesliga for Borussia Dortmund ; The Grasshopper Club Zurich also participated in the transfer fee , which had secured a portion of the transfer fee for resale when Petrić moved to Basel. With BVB he reached the DFB Cup final against FC Bayern Munich in his first season , in which he scored the interim 1-1 equalizer in stoppage time in the second half of the game. Borussia Dortmund lost the game 1: 2 after extra time.

Immediately at the beginning of the 2008/09 season, Petrić moved within the Bundesliga to Hamburger SV . In return, Mohamed Zidan moved to BVB. In Hamburg Petrić became a regular player and service provider. In 2009 and 2010 he reached the semi-finals of the UEFA Cup and the UEFA Europa League with the team . In the 6-2 win against 1. FC Köln , he scored three goals for the first time in a Bundesliga game.

The contract with Petrić, which expired at the end of the season, was not extended by Hamburger SV. During his time at HSV, he “performed outstandingly” and scored “many goals”, said sports director Frank Arnesen . However, the club wants to "focus more on young players" and "slim down the salary structures" in the future. On the 33rd matchday he was adopted after his last home game and relegation.

Petrić at Fulham FC (2013)

For the 2012/13 season, the English first division club FC Fulham Petrić signed with a contract term of over one year. He worked there with trainer Martin Jol , who had previously trained him in Hamburg for a year. Petrić made his debut in the Premier League on August 18, 2012 (1st matchday). With two goals he contributed to the 5-0 home win against Norwich City . Petrić did not extend his expiring contract at his own request.

On September 10, 2013, he signed a contract with West Ham United until the end of the season. Since Petrić had only made three short appearances there and was unable to attract attention for a World Cup nomination , the contract was terminated on December 30, 2013.

On January 9, 2014, Petrić was signed by the Greek club Panathinaikos Athens , where his former Hamburg team-mate Marcus Berg was under contract at the time, until June 30, 2015. For Panathinaikos he scored the decisive goal in the game against Olympiacos Piraeus on February 22, 2015 , after which the national football association canceled the Greek league for an indefinite period due to the massive crowd riots. At the end of the 2015/16 season, he announced the end of his career.

National team

Petrić was active for the Swiss and Croatian U-21 selection and took part for Croatia in the U-21 European Championship 2004 in Germany.

Petrić played his first international match for the Croatian national team in November 2001. He was only shortlisted after Slaven Bilić became national coach in the summer of 2006. With seven goals, he was one of the top goalscorers during the qualifying round for the 2008 European Football Championship . Among other things, he scored the decisive goal to make it 3-2 against England, which meant that the English team did not qualify for the finals.

In March 2013 he was nominated for the last time for the squad of the Croatian national team.

titles and achievements

title

Awards

social commitment

Petrić is committed to World Vision Germany , for example as a sponsor for a child from Bolivia or through activities such as auctioning his football boots.

Others

Petrić is married to a Greek woman and has a daughter.

Since the 2019/20 season he has been a TV expert for the pay TV channel Sky . There he analyzes the Premier League games in alternation with Erik Meijer and René Adler .

Web links

Commons : Mladen Petrić  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. Swapping Petric for Zidan is perfect. FOCUS Online, August 17, 2008, accessed on November 14, 2008 .
  2. Hamburger Sport-Verein eV (ed.): The HSV shows reaction: 6-2 victory against Cologne. In: Hamburger SV / hsv.de. 2011, archived from the original on March 21, 2011 ; accessed in 2011 .
  3. Hamburger Sport-Verein eV (ed.): HSV and Mladen Petric go their separate ways at the end of the season. In: hsv.de. March 5, 2012, archived from the original on March 7, 2012 ; accessed in 2012 .
  4. ^ Hamburger Sport-Verein eV (ed.): Petric enchants - emotional farewell to a goal machine. In: hsv.de. April 29, 2012, archived from the original on August 4, 2012 ; accessed in 2012 .
  5. Petric Signs ( Memento from July 1, 2012 in the Internet Archive ), notification on the Fulham FC homepage from June 28, 2012 (accessed on June 28, 2012).
  6. double pack! Ex-HSV striker Petric conquers England , report on the homepage of the Hamburger Morgenpost from August 18, 2012 (accessed on August 18, 2012).
  7. Hammers net Petric ( Memento from September 12, 2013 in the Internet Archive ), report on the West Ham United homepage from September 10, 2013 (accessed on September 10, 2013).
  8. Ex-HSV star Mladen Petric flees the island , Hamburger Morgenpost, from December 29, 2013
  9. Announcement - Petric joins Panathinaikos , on the homepage of Panathinaikos Athens, from January 9, 2014 (English)
  10. Greek football: riots overshadow the derby in Athens , Spiegel -online from Feb. 22, 2015
  11. Greece: Football games in professional league suspended indefinitely , German Economic News from Feb. 25, 2015
  12. Sport1.de: Mladen Petric ends career at Panathinaikos Athens. In: Sport1.de. Retrieved May 29, 2016 .
  13. Mladen Petrić - Sometimes a picture says more than a ... | Facebook. In: www.facebook.com. Retrieved May 29, 2016 .
  14. Statistics of the U-21 international Turkey – Switzerland from November 15, 2000 ( Memento from December 28, 2009 in the Internet Archive ), on the homepage of the Swiss Football Association, accessed on September 28, 2010
  15. ↑ Star striker is committed to World Vision. Archived from the original on October 12, 2008 ; Retrieved July 9, 2010 .
  16. ^ Borussia Dortmund
  17. ^ Mladen Petrić: B: Bolivia .
  18. Three ex-Hamburgers become new Sky experts , Bild.de, accessed on August 8, 2019