Zlatko Kranjčar

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Zlatko Kranjčar
Златко Крањчар.jpg
Zlatko Kranjčar, 2012
Personnel
Surname Zlatko Kranjčar
birthday November 15, 1956
place of birth Zagreb , SR Croatia ,  SFR Yugoslavia
position Storm
Juniors
Years station
until 1973 Dinamo Zagreb
Men's
Years station Games (goals) 1
1973-1984 Dinamo Zagreb 261 0(98)
1984-1990 SK Rapid Vienna 201 (106)
1990 VSE St. Pölten 12 00(2)
National team
Years selection Games (goals)
1977-1983 Yugoslavia 11 00(3)
1990 Croatia 2 00(1)
Stations as a trainer
Years station
1991 SV Wienerfeld
SK Austria Klagenfurt
1992-1994 HNK Segesta Sisak
1994-1996 Croatia Zagreb
1996-1997 FC Linz
1997 NK Slaven Belupo Koprivnica
1997 HNK Segesta Sisak
1998 NK Samobor
1998-1999 Croatia Zagreb
1999 Al-Masry Club
2000 NK Mura
2000-2001 NK Marsonia Slavonski Brod
2001-2002 NK Zagreb
2002-2003 HNK Rijeka
2003-2004 NK Zagreb
2004-2006 Croatia
2007 NK Croatia Sesvete
2007 Al-Shaab
2009 NK Croatia Sesvete
2009 DAC Dunajská Streda
2009 Persepolis Tehran
2010-2011 Montenegro
2011-2014 Sepahan Isfahan
2015-2016 Al-Ahli SC (Qatar)
2016 GNK Dinamo Zagreb
1 Only league games are given.

Zlatko Kranjčar [ ˈzlatkɔ ˈkraɲtʃaːr ] (born November 15, 1956 in Zagreb , SR Croatia , SFR Yugoslavia ) is a former Yugoslav and Croatian football player and current coach .

Player career

society

Kranjčar played for three different clubs during his active career. His career began in 1973 with Dinamo Zagreb , where he had previously played in the club's youth teams. With Dinamo Kranjčar won the Yugoslav Football Cup in 1980 and 1983 . In the first final in 1980, his team won against FK Partizan Belgrade , three years later against FK Sarajevo . In addition, the attacker was the best striker in the competition with five hits on the first success and was also able to score a goal in the 1-0 first-leg win. Also in the back game, which ended 1-1, Kranjčar was in the starting line-up of his team. In 1982/83 the striker even scored eight goals in the national cup competition, with two in the final meeting with Sarajevo. More significant than these two successes, however, was winning the 1st Yugoslav Football League in 1982, when they prevailed against FK Red Star Belgrade and HNK Hajduk Split .

In the summer of 1983, Kranjčar moved abroad and signed with SK Rapid Vienna . The attacker was able to win many titles with the Austrian club. In 1987 and 1988 they won the national championship , in 1984, 1985 and 1987 the cup . After seven years in Vienna, Kranjčar moved to VSE St. Pölten in 1990 . In the same year, the offensive player ended his active career.

National team

Kranjčar completed eleven international matches for Yugoslavia in the years 1977-1983 and scored three goals. He also played in two international matches for Croatia , scoring one goal. He was also the team captain in Croatia's first international match against the USA on October 17, 1990 in Zagreb.

Coaching career

After his career as a player, Kranjčar devoted himself to the business as a football coach. He was first responsible for SV Wienerfeld in Austria, before soon afterwards he coached SK Austria Klagenfurt . In Klagenfurt he was unable to stop the former top division team's free fall and left the club a year later. Kranjčar then moved back to his homeland, where he took over the fortunes of first division promoted HNK Segesta Sisak . Kranjčar led the team to a secure tenth place in 1992/93 . The following year the club improved to ninth place. Kranjčar's good work did not go unnoticed by his former club Dinamo Zagreb , now renamed Croatia Zagreb, and the ex-player was signed as a coach for the 1994/95 season . One point behind Hajduk Split , Kranjčar was runner-up with his new club. For this they secured the national cup . In the final NK Varteks Varaždin was defeated 2-0 and 1-0. The following year they defended this title and became champions. After the double, Kranjčar returned to Austria, where he briefly coached FC Linz . Soon after, he returned to Croatia to coach teams like NK Slaven Belupo Koprivnica , HNK Segesta Sisak and NK Samobor again, but without being able to record significant successes. It was only when he moved back to Croatia Zagreb in 1998 that the football teacher made the double for the second time since 1996. Nevertheless, the two of them quickly parted ways.

In 1999, those responsible for the Al-Masry Club lured Kranjčar to Egypt. In 2000 he signed with the Slovenian club NK Mura . After a short interlude, the coach moved to his Croatian homeland, where he first coached NK Marsonia Slavonski Brod and soon afterwards NK Zagreb . With this club he managed to surprise the big one in 2002 after it became the first team to become Croatian champions alongside the dominant clubs NK Dinamo Zagreb and HNK Hajduk Split . With the striker Ivica Olić , who later played in Germany , the team also provided the top scorer in the league. With 71 own goals and 24 goals conceded, NK Zagreb was the best team in the league in these two comparisons. Despite this success, Kranjčar was responsible for league rivals HNK Rijeka in the 2002/03 season , before returning to NK Zagreb for a year in 2003/04 . However, he could not build on the performance of 2002 with the team.

After the European championship in 2004 , which was disappointing for the Croatian national team , Kranjčar succeeded Otto Barić . The coach and his team managed to be group winners ahead of Sweden and Bulgaria and the associated participation in the 2006 World Cup in Germany. Without a win in the preliminary round, the team was eliminated early and the Croatian association parted with its World Cup coach. Kranjčar was then replaced by Slaven Bilić . From then on, the coach looked after different teams in different countries for irregular periods of time. In February 2010, Kranjčar was introduced as the new coach of the Montenegro national team . He should lead the team to the first participation in a European championship , the EM 2012 . Montenegro took part in a European Championship qualification for the first time. After three wins and two draws, including a 0-0 win at Wembley against England , on the fifth day of Group G , the Montenegrin Football Association split from Kranjčar in September 2011 after they suffered an unexpected defeat against Wales on the sixth day . Immediately afterwards he was appointed coach of Sepahan Isfahan in Iran in autumn 2011 and was able to celebrate winning the championship in his first season in the Iranian Pro League after a nine-point deficit was made up in the spring.

In 2016 he became the coach of the Croatian club Dinamo Zagreb , with which he qualified for the Champions League. He resigned on September 17th.

Trivia

Kranjčar's son Niko Kranjčar was also a professional footballer and Croatian national player. As the coach of the Croatian national team , Kranjčar also coached his son at times.

successes

As a player

As a trainer

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Match statistics of the Yugoslav Football Cup 1979/80
  2. ↑ Match statistics of the Yugoslav Football Cup 1982/83
  3. ↑ Kranjcar must go to transfermarkt.de from July 15, 2006
  4. ↑ Croatian Zlatko Kranjcar new coach of Montenegro ( Memento from February 9, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) from February 6, 2010 on ftd.de
  5. ↑ Zlatko Kranjcar has had its day on September 8, 2011 on kicker.at
  6. ↑ Zlatko Kranjcar wins championship title in Iran from May 12, 2012 on sport.orf.at
  7. ↑ Perform Media Deutschland GmbH: Dinamo coach Zlatko Kranjcar resigns - Sport - Spox.com. September 18, 2016, accessed September 30, 2016 .
personal data
SURNAME Kranjčar, Zlatko
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Croatian soccer player and coach
DATE OF BIRTH November 15, 1956
PLACE OF BIRTH Zagreb , SR Croatia , SFR Yugoslavia