Robert Prosinečki

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Robert Prosinečki
Robert Prosinecki 2012-mc.rs.jpg
Prosinečki during a press conference in March 2012
Personnel
birthday January 12, 1969
place of birth Schwenningen ,  Germany
size 182 cm
position midfield
Juniors
Years station
1974-1980 Stuttgart Kickers
1980-1986 Dinamo Zagreb
Men's
Years station Games (goals) 1
1986-1987 Dinamo Zagreb 2 0(1)
1987-1991 FK Red Star Belgrade 117 (24)
1991-1994 real Madrid 55 (10)
1994-1995 Real Oviedo 30 0(5)
1995-1996 FC Barcelona 19 0(2)
1996-1997 Sevilla FC 20 0(4)
1997-2000 Croatia Zagreb 50 (14)
2000 NK Hrvatski dragovoljac 4 0(1)
2001 Standard Liege 20 0(4)
2001-2002 Portsmouth FC 33 0(9)
2002-2003 NK Olimpija Ljubljana 23 0(3)
2003-2004 NK Zagreb 26 0(5)
2006 NK Savski Marof
National team
Years selection Games (goals)
Yugoslavia U-20
Yugoslavia U-21
1989-1991 Yugoslavia 15 0(5)
1994-2002 Croatia 49 (10)
Stations as a trainer
Years station
2006-2010 Croatia (assistant coach)
2010–2012 FK Red Star Belgrade
2012-2013 Kayserispor
2014-2018 Azerbaijan
2018-2019 Bosnia Herzegovina
2019-2020 Kayserispor
2020– Denizlispor
1 Only league games are given.

Robert Prosinečki [ ˈrɔbɛrt ˈprɔsinɛtʃki ] (born January 12, 1969 in Schwenningen / Neckar , Germany ) is a former Yugoslav and Croatian soccer player , European Cup winner and current coach .

Player career

The son of a Croatian father and a Serbian mother was active as a teenager with the Stuttgarter Kickers , where he played together with later professional footballers such as Alois Schwartz , Senhib Gulfar and Christian Sendscheid . In those times he was labeled with the word "unfit". Due to the personal decision of his parents, he returned to Yugoslavia and from then on played for Dinamo Zagreb .

His father was one of the founders of the NK Marsonia Frickenhausen eV (near Nürtingen ), a football club in which almost only immigrants from what was then Yugoslavia (now almost only Croatians) and their sons were active and are still active today.

In 1987 he played at the Junior World Cup in Chile for the Yugoslav team , in which other later world stars were, for example Robert Jarni , Davor Šuker , Predrag Mijatović and Zvonimir Boban . They made use of their potential, defeated the DFB selection in the final on penalties and became Junior World Champions. Prosinečki was voted the best player of the tournament. “The Croatian's fatal passes made his team by far the most dangerous of the entire tournament,” he was praised on the FIFA website.

The following year he moved from Dinamo Zagreb to Red Star Belgrade . With a Red Star he was Yugoslav national champion in 1988 and 1990 and also cup winner in 1990. In 1991 they became champions again and won the European Champion Clubs' Cup .

At the 1990 World Cup in Italy , he played in a major tournament for the first time. But the break-up of Yugoslavia took away his chance to take part in the 1992 European Championship in Sweden and the 1994 World Cup in the USA.

After achieving numerous successes with Red Star, he moved to Real Madrid . He stayed there for three years and won the Spanish Cup. During this time he developed into one of the best midfielders in the world. Real Oviedo , FC Barcelona and FC Sevilla followed until 1997 .

In 1995, Žuti ("Yellow"), as he is known because of his blond hair, was the highest paid footballer in the world.

He won the Spanish Super Cup with Barça in 1996 , but was injured many times during that period, which prevented him from becoming an absolute superstar. Internationally, he played at the European Championships in 1996 and the 1998 World Cup with the Croatian team .

In 1997 he went back to Croatia Zagreb , as Dinamo Zagreb was called at the time. There he was Croatian champion three times in a row and once a cup winner. Then it went via Dragovoljac and Liège to the English second division club Portsmouth , where he signed a 2-year contract in 2001.

Coaching career

After his career, Prosinečki was the assistant coach of Slaven Bilić in the Croatian national team.

In December 2010 Prosinečki became the new coach of FK Red Star Belgrade . He looked after this club for about two seasons before resigning from his position as coach on August 20, 2012.

In October 2012 Prosinečki took over the Turkish first division club Kayserispor on the last non-relegation place and ended the season in fifth place in the table. So he repeated the best placement in the club's history. With this successful debut in Turkish football, he established himself as one of the most noticeable coaches of the past Süper Lig season. So the Istanbul club Beşiktaş, which was looking for a coach, tried to get Prosinečki. Since he still had a one-year contract with Kayserispor, this change did not materialize. Thereupon Prosinečki extended his contract with Kayserispor prematurely for another year.

With Kayserispor, Prosinečki got off to a bad start in the 2013/14 season and finished last in the table with his team after eleven match days. As a result, he resigned after the game against Beşiktaş Istanbul. After persuading the club's management, he let himself be changed and continued his work. On December 31, 2013 Prosinečki resigned as coach of Kayserispor for good.

Prosinečki started his third engagement as the main coach on December 3, 2014. In Baku he was introduced as the national coach of Azerbaijan and signed a three-year contract. He supervised the Azerbaijani national team in qualifying for the European Championship 2016 in France and in the preliminary round for the 2018 World Cup in Russia .

On January 4, 2018, Prosinečki was introduced as the new coach of the Bosnian-Herzegovinian national team. After a 2: 4 defeat against Armenia in qualifying for the European Championship 2021 on September 8, 2019, he resigned his position as team boss for the time being. At that time, Bosnia-Herzegovina was only fourth in its qualifying group, behind Armenia. A few days later, however, after a conversation with the association's leadership, he revised his decision. On November 27, 2019, his engagement as the main coach of the Bosnian-Herzegovinian national football team was finally over.

Trivia

  • His answer to a journalist's question in 2000 about how much he earned at Dragovoljac was legendary. Prosinečki: "I'm playing for a plate of beans here."
  • Robert Prosinečki is the only player in World Cup history to score goals for two teams: 1990 for Yugoslavia and 1998 for Croatia.
  • Prosinečki is also a very good futsal player . Since he is technically very knowledgeable, he is still considered a serious, extremely cunning player even in old age. He was one of the initiators of the futsal tournament Kutija Šibica (Matchbox), which is held annually in Zagreb . This tournament is becoming more and more popular, which the Croatian media have discovered for themselves and regularly broadcast matches live.

successes

  • Junior World Champion 1987, with Yugoslavia
  • World Cup participant 1990, with Yugoslavia, quarter-finals
  • Yugoslav champion in 1988, 1990 and 1991, with Red Star Belgrade
  • Yugoslav Cup winner 1990, with Red Star Belgrade
  • European champion cup in 1991, with Red Star Belgrade
  • Spanish cup winner 1993, with Real Madrid
  • Spanish Super Cup winner 1996 with FC Barcelona
  • World Cup third in 1998, with Croatia
  • Croatian champion 1998, 1999 and 2000 with Dinamo Zagreb (then Croatia Zagreb)
  • Croatian cup winner 1998 with Dinamo Zagreb (then Croatia Zagreb)

Web links

Commons : Robert Prosinečki  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Sid: Soccer Serbia: Red Star coach Prosinecki resigned. In: welt.de . August 20, 2012, accessed October 7, 2018 .
  2. ↑ ntvspor.net : Kayserispor'da Prosinecki dönemi
  3. ↑ milliyet.com.tr: Prosinecki, İstanbul'a gitmemeli (accessed June 20, 2013)
  4. ↑ hurriyet.com.tr: Prosinecki, Beşiktaş yolunda! (accessed on June 19, 2013)
  5. ↑ hurriyet.com.tr: Sarı kırmızılılar Prosineckiyle sözleşme yeniledi (accessed June 19, 2013)
  6. ↑ trtspor.com.tr: “Prosinecki istifa etti” (accessed on November 19, 2013)
  7. ↑ trtspor.com.tr: “Prosinecki kararından vazgeçti” (accessed on November 19, 2013)
  8. ↑ ntvspor.net: Prosinecki dönemi sona erdi (accessed on January 15, 2014)
  9. ^ Prosinečki inherits Vogts. In: fussball-em-total.de. FUSSBALL-EM-total, December 3, 2014, accessed on December 3, 2014 .
  10. ↑ Nogometni / Fudbalski savez BiH. (Ed.): Robert Prosinečki novi selektor reprezentacije BiH. In: Bosnian-Herzegovinian Football Association. January 4, 2018, Retrieved January 4, 2018 (unknown).
  11. ^ After Mkhitaryan double pack: Prosinecki resigns. In: Kicker sports magazine . September 8, 2019, accessed September 9, 2019 .
  12. ↑ Prosinecki remains the Bosnian team boss. In: sport.ORF.at. September 11, 2019, accessed September 11, 2019 .
  13. ↑ Robert Prosinečki više nije selector BiH. November 27, 2019, accessed March 19, 2020 (Bosnian).
predecessor Office successor
Enzo Scifo Best Young Player of the 1990 World Cup (subsequent internet vote)

 		Marc Overmars
personal data
SURNAME Prosinečki, Robert
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Croatian soccer player and coach
DATE OF BIRTH January 12, 1969
PLACE OF BIRTH Schwenningen