Teddy Lučić
| Teddy Lučić | ||
 Teddy Lučić in the summer of 2006
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| Personnel | ||
|---|---|---|
| Surname | Teddy Mark Sime Lučić | |
| birthday | April 15, 1973 | |
| place of birth | Gothenburg , Sweden | |
| position | defender | |
| Juniors | ||
| Years | station | |
| -1979 | Västra Frölunda IF | |
| 1979-1990 | Lundby IF | |
| Men's | ||
| Years | station | Games (goals) 1 |
| 1991-1992 | Lundby IF | 44 (10) |
| 1993-1995 | Västra Frölunda IF | 68 (0) |
| 1996-1998 | IFK Gothenburg | 58 (2) |
| 1999-2000 | Bologna FC | 9 (0) |
| 2000-2002 | AIK | 58 (4) |
| 2002-2003 | → Leeds United (loan) | 17 (1) |
| 2003-2004 | Bayer 04 Leverkusen | 11 (0) |
| 2004 | Bayer 04 Leverkusen Amat. | 6 (0) |
| 2005-2007 | BK hooks | 70 (8) |
| 2008-2010 | IF Elfsborg | 66 (3) |
| National team | ||
| Years | selection | Games (goals) |
| Sweden U-21 | 18 (1) | |
| 1995-2006 | Sweden | 86 (0) |
| Stations as a trainer | ||
| Years | station | |
| 2018 | BK Häcken U19 (assistant coach) | |
| 1 Only league games are given. | ||
Teddy Mark Sime Lučić (born April 15, 1973 in Biskopsgården , Gothenburg ) is a former Swedish football player of Croatian - Finnish descent. The defender , who once won the Swedish championship with IFK Göteborg , took part in three world championship and two European championship finals with the Swedish national team.
Career
Career start in Sweden
Lučić started playing football at Lundby IF . After going through the various youth teams of the club, he made his debut in 1991 for the then fourth-rate club in the men's team. In Division 3 Mellersta Götaland he distinguished himself as a strong attacking inside and outside defender and scored ten goals in his two years for the Gothenburg club. So he made higher class attention and left after the end of the 1992 season, in which he had just missed promotion to the third division with the team as second in the table, the club in the direction of Allsvenskan .
Lučić stayed in his hometown of Gothenburg and signed a contract with Västra Frölunda IF . At the side of Hans Blomqvist , Niklas Skoog and Milan Kuzeljevic , he ran for the club from the southwest of the city in the first division. After the team achieved the best result in the club's history with seventh place in the table in the 1993 season , they found themselves in the relegation battle in the following years.
Due to his good performance Lučić had secured a regular place in the Swedish U-21 team . When the regular Jan Eriksson had to leave due to a knee injury shortly before the opening game of the Swedish senior team at the 1994 World Cup , national coach Tommy Svensson nominated him as a substitute despite lacking senior international experience. In the course of the tournament he did not play a minute and thus contributed to reaching the semi-finals against eventual world champions Brazil and winning the game for third place through a 4-0 victory for the Bulgarian national team at best morally. Nevertheless, he was one of those who were awarded the Svenska-Dagbladet gold medal after the final round .
Before making his international debut, Lučić had to wait until the following summer. On June 4, 1995 Svensson put him in the 0-1 defeat by a goal by Edmundo in the defense chain next to Pontus Kåmark , Joachim Björklund and the German legionnaire Roger Ljung . As a result, he established himself as a regular in the defense line of the Swedish national selection. The year was not very successful on a club basis. If the Västra Frölunda IF team had secured relegation in the relegation games against Umeå FC last year , they rose at the end of the 1995 season as bottom of the table behind fellow relegated Hammarby IF in the second division.
Lučić then left the club and moved within Gothenburg to first division rivals IFK Gothenburg . At the side of players like Niclas Alexandersson , Magnus Erlingmark , Mats Lilienberg and Martin Ulander , he won the Von Rosens Cup for the Swedish championship title with the team in the 1996 season with ten points ahead of runner-up Malmö FF . The club took part in qualifying for the 1997/98 UEFA Champions League in which, after a 3-0 home win and a 1-1 draw against Glasgow Rangers, they reached the group stage. There the team failed as the bottom behind Bayern Munich , Beşiktaş JK and Paris Saint-Germain , with Lučić scoring the consolation goal for his club in the 3-1 home defeat against the German representative . After he had missed the title defense in the league with the team as runner-up behind Halmstads BK , he joined her in qualifying for the 1998/99 UEFA Cup . Although the Gothenburg club failed there due to the away goals rule at Fenerbahçe SK , he had attracted international attention through his appearances in the European Cup and not least as a selection player for the Swedish national team and moved to Italy.
Years abroad
New employer Lučićs was in January 1999 in the Serie A An incoming FC Bologna where with Kennet Andersson and Klas Ingesson already two countrymen were under contract. In the defensive row around Giovanni Bia , Massimo Tarantino and Pierre Womé , however, he hardly came to the train and played eight league games by the end of the 1998/99 season . After he was only used in the 4-0 away defeat at AC Milan in the first half of the following season , he returned to Sweden in January 2000.
Lučić signed on to the traditional club AIK , where he was the most expensive new signing with a transfer fee of 7 million Swedish crowns before the three other newcomers Andreas Alm , Sharbel Touma and Mattias Thylander . He immediately established himself in the regular formation of the club from Solna and contributed in the 2000 season with three goals in 22 games to reach the UI Cup as third in the table of the Allsvenskan. In the summer he reached the final of the Svenska Cup with the team , which were lost to Örgryte IS . He also took part in the 2000 European Championship in Belgium and the Netherlands with the national team, which had qualified for a major tournament for the first time since 1994 . In the selection supervised by the coaching duo Tommy Söderberg and Lars Lagerbäck , he made two appearances in the course of the tournament, but was eliminated with the team as bottom group in the preliminary round.
In the summer of 2001 Lučić moved into the cup final again with AIK, this time the team lost to IF Elfsborg on penalties . After another third place in the Allsvenskan, foreign clubs again reported interest in signing the defender. In an international match as part of qualifying for the 2002 World Cup against the English national team , he fell on Terry Venables , the coach of Leeds United . After he played in 16 games for AIK in the Allsvenskan in the 2002 season , he moved to the Premier League on loan at the end of August after the World Cup tournament in Asia, in which he played all four final rounds .
In England Lucic played for to date triple champion alongside Dominic Matteo , Ian Harte , Gary Kelly and during the winter break from Real Madrid committed Raul Bravo in the defensive line. At the beginning of the season, Lučić was largely part of the regular formation. However, the season of the club, which had recently entered the Champions League, was disappointing, so that Venables was replaced by Peter Reid in March . Under his leadership Lučić could not prevail and moved into the second tier. By the end of March he had completed 17 top division appearances for the club and scored his only goal on the island in the 3-2 defeat against Chelsea on January 28, 2003.
At the end of the season, Lučić left the table fifteenth after the loan period expired. He then moved to Bayer 04 Leverkusen in the German Bundesliga , where he signed a two-year contract. In the 1988 UEFA Cup winners he was unable to establish himself in the regular line-up and was mainly a substitute behind the defensive line-up around Diego Placente , Juan , Hanno Balitsch and Lúcio . After eleven Bundesliga games, in which he started four times, he was still the only Bundesliga legionnaire in the Swedish squad for the national team for the 2004 European Championship . There, in contrast to the club, he was set as a regular player, but came only to one use after a rib injury in the opening game against Bulgaria. After the tournament, his substitute role at Bayer manifested itself, so that he was out of action until the winter break and was temporarily no longer part of the squad on match days. Therefore, in December 2004, Lučić and Bayer 04 Leverkusen parted ways.
Return to Sweden
Lučić returned to Sweden for the 2005 Allsvenskan season . In his hometown of Gothenburg he signed a contract with first division promoted BK Häcken . At the side of the newly signed Danish midfielder Stig Tøfting , he should help the club in the fight to stay relegated. This succeeded in the first year with an eighth place, in the following season he got with the club in acute danger of relegation.
Nevertheless, Lučić was a member of the national team at the 2006 World Cup in Germany as well as in the previous finals. Together with Olof Mellberg he formed the central defense of the national team, which only conceded goals in the 2-2 draw against England in the group stage. As runners-up in the group, the national team met Germany in the round of 16 and after a 2-0 defeat, in which Lučić was sent off after a yellow-red card in the first half of the game, Lukas Podolski scored twice from the tournament. After serving his suspension in the following competitive match as part of the qualification for the European Championship in 2008 in a 1-0 away win against the Latvian national team , he played his 86th international match in a 3-1 win over the Liechtenstein national team with goals from two-time goalscorer Marcus Allbäck and Markus Rosenberg when Mario Frick conceded . This was also his last appearance in the national jersey.
At the end of the season Lučić occupied despite six scored goals this season with the team only the relegation place in front of Östers IF and local rivals Örgryte IS. There the club failed to IF Brommapojkarna from Stockholm and had to relegate to the Superettan . Nevertheless, he decided in February 2007 to extend his contract with the relegated team. In the subsequent second division season in 2007 he was still one of the regulars of the Gothenburg club and played in 24 of the 30 games of the season. After he had missed direct recovery with the club as fourth behind IFK Norrköping , Ljungskile SK and GIF Sundsvall , he decided to change clubs.
At a press conference in early January, IF Elfsborg announced the commitment of Lučić, who signed a two-year contract with the Borås club plus an option for a one-year extension. At his new club he was given the number "15". In the team around players like Stefan Ishizaki , Daniel Mobaeck and Anders Svensson , he immediately established himself as a regular. After he had contributed to the runner-up in 29 of the 30 first division games in the first year, he ran in 25 league games in the 2009 season . In the following season he was increasingly slowed down by injuries, in the end there were eleven missions. Shortly before the end of the season, he announced his retirement from active football at the end of the season in October 2010.
Web links
- Teddy Lučić ( memento of August 12, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) on the IF Elfsborg website
- Teddy Lučić in the database of svenskfotboll.se
- Teddy Lučić in the database of weltfussball.de
Individual evidence
- ↑ aik.se: "Bokslutskommuniké 1 januari - 31 December 1999" ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (accessed on August 4, 2009)
- ↑ news.bbc.co.uk: "Leeds land Lucic" (accessed on August 4, 2009)
- ↑ netzeitung.de: "Leverkusen obliges Teddy Lucic" ( Memento from September 4, 2012 in the web archive archive.today ) (accessed on August 4, 2009)
- ↑ rp-online.de: "Swedes must plan without Michael Svensson" ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (accessed on August 4, 2009)
- ↑ kicker.de: "Lucic in die Heimat" (accessed on August 4, 2009)
- ↑ fotbolldirekt.com: "Teddy Lucic förlänger med Häcken" ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (accessed on August 4, 2009)
- ↑ sr.se: "Fotboll: Teddy Lucic clear for Elfsborg" ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (accessed on August 4, 2009)
- ↑ bt.se: "Färdigspelat för Lucic" (accessed on November 12, 2010)
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Lučić, Teddy |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Lučić, Teddy Mark Sime (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Swedish soccer player |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 15, 1973 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Biskopsgården , Gothenburg |