Zvonimir Boban

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Zvonimir Boban
Zvonimir Boban.jpg
Zvonimir Boban (2008)
Personnel
birthday October 8, 1968
place of birth Imotski ,  SFR Yugoslavia
size 185 cm
position midfield player
Juniors
Years station
1981-1982 HNK Hajduk Split
1983-1985 Dinamo Zagreb
Men's
Years station Games (goals) 1
1985-1991 Dinamo Zagreb 109 (45)
1991-2002 AC Milan 251 (30)
1991-1992 →  AS Bari  (loan) 17 0(2)
2001-2002 →  Celta Vigo  (loan) 4 0(0)
National team
Years selection Games (goals)
1987 Yugoslavia U-20 6 0(3)
1988-1991 Yugoslavia 7 0(1)
1990-1999 Croatia 51 (12)
1 Only league games are given.

Zvonimir Boban [ ˈzʋɔnimir ˈbɔban ] (born October 8, 1968 in Imotski ) is a former Yugoslav and Croatian football player . From 2016 to 2019, Boban was Deputy Secretary General of FIFA . He was Chief Football Officer at AC Milan from 2019 until he was fired in March 2020.

Career

player

Boban began his career as a midfielder in 1985 with Dinamo Zagreb . He made his debut with two goals on December 12, 1985 against NK Radnik. At the age of 18 he became a captain appointed. In the period from 1985 to 1991 (with the exception of 1988/89, when he was drafted into the military ) he scored 109 goals in 227 games for Dinamo Zagreb. After moving to AC Milan , he was loaned to AS Bari in 1991 , for whom he scored two goals in 17 games. Back at AC Milan, he achieved great successes in over 200 games with the club between 1992 and 2001, including four national championships (1993, 1994, 1996, 1999), two Italian Supercup wins (1993, 1994) and the European one Supercup (1995) and winning the Champions League (1994).

For the Croatian national team , he completed 51 games and scored 12 goals there. He reached the quarter-finals with Croatia at the 1996 European Football Championship in England as captain and was third at the 1998 Football World Cup in France .

Boban had previously played seven full internationals for Yugoslavia . In 1987 he contributed three goals in six games of the Yugoslav team to the fact that in Chile held U-20 World Cup win. In the final, he converted the decisive penalty against Germany .

During the match between his club Dinamo Zagreb and FK Red Star Belgrade in Zagreb's Maksimir Stadium on May 13, 1990, there were riots between fans and the police in the stands and on the field. Boban got involved by kicking a police officer who had previously knocked down a Dinamo fan. This kick against the police officer earned him sympathy from many Croatian nationalists. He was not allowed to participate in the 1990 World Cup in Italy due to an eight-month ban imposed by the Yugoslav Football Association . In Croatia, the kick became a symbol of the uprising against the Belgrade regime and a visible sign of the later split in Yugoslavia. In the documentary The Last Yugoslavian Team , Boban comments on the events in the Zagreb stadium, his relationship with Yugoslavia and the founding of the state of Croatia.

Boban finished his career with Celta Vigo in Spain in October 2001 . On October 7, 2002, his farewell match took place in the Maksimir Stadium in Zagreb.

After the active career

After the end of his career, Boban earned the Dr. phil. in history at the University of Zagreb with his doctoral thesis Christianity in the Roman Empire . He also began a career in sports journalism as the chief editor-in-chief for the Croatian sports newspaper Sportske novosti and now works as a football commentator for RTL Televizija and the Italian pay TV channel Sky Italia and as a columnist for Gazzetta dello Sport .

In 2003 Boban was appointed UEFA ambassador. From 2016 to 2019 he was also Deputy Secretary General of FIFA .

As a result, the Croatian held the position of Chief Football Officer at AC Milan from June 2019 , from which he was dismissed before the end of his contract period at the beginning of March 2020.

successes

AC Milan

Web links

Commons : Zvonimir Boban  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Article on the farewell game 2002 ( Memento of the original from November 1, 2008 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.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.bhdani.com
  2. ↑ Michael Wegmann (text) and Toto Marti (photos): “At most I risked my career”: Croatian legend Boban made history by kicking police officers . ( blick.ch [accessed on September 20, 2017]).
  3. ↑ acmilan.com - ZVONIMIR BOBAN APPOINTED CHIEF FOOTBALL OFFICER OF AC MILAN
  4. ↑ Official statement: Zvonimir Boban , acmilan.com, accessed March 8, 2020
personal data
SURNAME Boban, Zvonimir
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Yugoslav soccer player
DATE OF BIRTH October 8, 1968
PLACE OF BIRTH Imotski , Croatia