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Croatia
Croatia (ⁱ/kroʊˈeɪʃə/ kroh-AY-shə; Croatian: Hrvatska pronounced [xř̩ʋaːtskaː]), officially the Republic of Croatia (Croatian: Republika Hrvatska listen (help·info)), is a unitary democratic parliamentary republic in Europe at the crossroads of Central Europe, the Balkans, and the Mediterranean. Its capital and largest city is Zagreb. The country is divided into 20 counties and the city of Zagreb. Croatia covers 56,594 square kilometres (21,851 square miles) and has diverse, mostly continental and Mediterranean climates. Croatia's Adriatic Sea coast contains more than a thousand islands. The country's population is 4.29 million, most of whom are Croats, with the most common religious denomination being Roman Catholicism.
In the early 7th century the Croats arrived in area of present-day Croatia. They organised the state into two dukedoms by the 9th century. Tomislav became the first king by 925 AD, elevating Croatia to the status of a kingdom. The Kingdom of Croatia retained its sovereignty for nearly two centuries, reaching its peak during the rule of Kings Peter Krešimir IV and Dmitar Zvonimir. Croatia entered a personal union with Hungary in 1102. In 1527, faced with Ottoman conquest the Croatian Parliament elected Ferdinand I of the House of Habsburg to the Croatian throne. In 1918, after World War I, Croatia was included in the short-lived State of Slovenes, Croats, and Serbs that declared independence from Austria–Hungary and co-founded the Kingdom of Yugoslavia. A Croatian state briefly existed during World War II as a fascist puppet state. After the war, Croatia became a founding member and a federal constituent of the Second Yugoslavia, a socialist state. In June 1991, Croatia declared independence, which came into effect on 8 October of the same year. The Croatian War of Independence was fought successfully during the four years following the declaration.

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France
France (English ⁱ/ˈfræns/ FRANSS or /ˈfrɑːns/ FRAHNSS; French: [fʁɑ̃s] ( listen)), officially the French Republic (French: République française [ʁepyblik fʁɑ̃sɛz]), is a unitary semi-presidential republic in Western Europe with several overseas territories and islands located on other continents and in the Indian, Pacific, and Atlantic oceans. Metropolitan France extends from the Mediterranean Sea to the English Channel and the North Sea, and from the Rhine to the Atlantic Ocean. It is often referred to as l’Hexagone ("The Hexagon") because of the geometric shape of its territory. It is the largest western European country and it possesses the second-largest exclusive economic zone in the world, covering 11,035,000 km² (4,260,000 sq mi), just behind that of the United States (11,351,000 km² / 4,383,000 sq mi).
Over the past 500 years, France has been a major power with strong cultural, economic, military and political influence in Europe and around the world. During the 17th and 18th centuries, France colonised great parts of North America and Southeast Asia; during the 19th and early 20th centuries, France built the second largest colonial empire of the time, including large portions of North, West and Central Africa, Southeast Asia, and many Caribbean and Pacific Islands.

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Ibrox Stadium
Ibrox Stadium is a football stadium located on the south side of the River Clyde, on Edmiston Drive in the Ibrox district of Glasgow. It is the home ground of Scottish Premier League club Rangers and has an all-seated capacity of 51,082. Ibrox is presently the third largest football stadium in Scotland and tenth largest stadium in the United Kingdom.
It was opened as Ibrox Park in 1899, but suffered a major disaster in 1902 when a wooden terrace collapsed. Vast earthen terraces were built in its place, while a main stand, which is now a listed building, was built in 1928. A British record crowd of 118,567 gathered in January 1939 for a league match with Celtic. After the second Ibrox disaster of 1971, Ibrox was largely rebuilt. The vast bowl-shaped terracing was removed and replaced by three rectangular, all-seated stands by 1981. After renovations were completed in 1997, the ground was renamed Ibrox Stadium.
Beside being the home of Rangers since 1899, Ibrox has also hosted the Scotland national football team, particularly when the national stadium Hampden Park was redeveloped in the 1990s. Ibrox also hosted three Scottish domestic cup finals in the same period. It has also been the venue for concerts by major performers, including Frank Sinatra.

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Leiria
Leiria (Portuguese pronunciation: [lɐjˈɾi.ɐ]) is a city in Leiria Municipality in the Centro Region of Portugal. It is the capital of Leiria District. The city proper has 50,200 inhabitants and the entire municipality has nearly 120,000. It is the seat of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Leiria-Fátima.
Leiria is located in the Centro Region and sub region of Pinhal Litoral, about halfway between Lisbon and Porto. The distance to Lisbon is 135 km, to Coimbra 72 km and to Porto 179 km. The historic city centre spreads between the castle hill and the river Lis.
Leiria is also included in the Urban Community of Leiria. As the main city in this community, the area of influence of Leiria spreads over the cities of Marinha Grande, Ourém, Alcobaça, Fátima, Pombal as well the municipalities/town seats of Batalha, Porto de Mós and Nazaré located nearby.
Leiria is close to the Atlantic Ocean. Spring and summer months are usually sunny and the temperatures very high during July and August, with highs usually above 30 °C (86 °F) and sometimes during July and August the temperature can reach 40 °C (104 °F). Autumn and winter are typically rainy and windy, yet sunny days are not rare either, the temperatures rarely fall below 5 °C (41 °F), usually staying at an average of 10 °C (50 °F). Leiria's climate is classified as Atlantic-Mediterranean.

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Ljubljana
Ljubljana (locally: [lʲubˈlʲana] ( listen); German: Laibach, Italian: Lubiana, Latin: Labacum or Aemona) is the capital of Slovenia and its only centre of international importance. It is located in the centre of the country in the Ljubljana Basin, and is the centre of the City Municipality of Ljubljana. With approximately 272,000 inhabitants, it classifies as the only Slovenian large town. Throughout its history, it has been influenced by its geographic position at the crossroads of the Slavic world with the Germanic and Latin cultures.
For centuries, Ljubljana was the capital of the historical region of Carniola. Now it is the cultural, educational, economic, political and administrative centre of Slovenia, independent since 1991. Its transport connections, concentration of industry, scientific and research institutions and cultural tradition are contributing factors to its leading position.

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Osijek
Osijek (Croatian: Osijek, Croatian pronunciation: [ɔ̂sijɛ̝ːk]) is the fourth largest city in Croatia with a population of 128,095 in 2011. It is the largest city and the economic and cultural centre of the eastern Croatian region of Slavonia, as well as the administrative centre of Osijek-Baranja county. Osijek is located on the right bank of the river Drava, 25 kilometres (16 mi) upstream of its confluence with the Danube, at an elevation of 94 metres (308 ft).
The name was given to the city due to its position on elevated ground which prevented the city being flooded by the local swamp waters. Its name Osijek comes from the Croatian word "oseka" which means "ebb tide".
Due to its past and its history within the Habsburg Monarchy and briefly in the Ottoman Empire and also due to the presence of German and Hungarian minorities throughout its history, Osijek also has (or had) its names in other languages, notably Hungarian: Eszék, German: Esseg or Essegg, Latin: Mursa, Turkish: Ösek. Also spelled Esgek. All those names were adjusted variations to the original Croatian given name. In Roman times Osijek was called Mursa Maior, but its official Roman name was Colonia Aelia Mursa, as it was established by emperor Hadrian.

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Pazin
Pazin (German: Mitterburg, Italian: Pisino) is the administrative seat of Istria County in Croatia. The town has a population of 4,986 (2001), the total Pazin municipality population is 9,227 (2001). In 1991 it was made the capital of the županija for its location in the geographical center of the Istria peninsula and in order to boost the development of its interior territories.
Pazin was first mentioned as Castrum Pisinium in a 983 deed regarding a donation by Emperor Otto II to the Diocese of Poreč. It then belonged to the Imperial March of Istria, which had originally had been under the suzerainty of the newly established Duchy of Carinthia in 976, but separated together with the March of Carniola in 1040.
In the 12th century Mitterburg Castle was in possession of the Lower Carniolan count Meinhard of Schwarzenburg, who held the office of a Vogt of the Poreč bishops (in Latin documents he is known as Cernogradus), and established the Pazin County (earldom). Upon his death, Pazin was inherited by his son-in-law Count Engelbert III of Gorizia (Görz) in 1186.

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Portugal
Portugal ⁱ/ˈpɔrtʃʉɡəl/ (Portuguese: Portugal, IPA: [puɾtuˈɣaɫ]), officially the Portuguese Republic (Portuguese: República Portuguesa) is a country situated in southwestern Europe on the Iberian Peninsula . Portugal is the westernmost country of mainland Europe, and is bordered by the Atlantic Ocean to the West and South and by Spain to the North and East. The Atlantic archipelagos of the Azores and Madeira are part of Portugal. The country is named after its second largest city, Porto, whose Latin name was Portus Cale.
The land within the borders of the current Portuguese Republic has been continuously settled since prehistoric times: occupied by Celts like the Gallaeci and the Lusitanians, integrated into the Roman Republic and later settled by Germanic peoples such as the Suebi, Swabians, Vandals and the Visigoths. In the 8th century most of the Iberian Peninsula was conquered by Moorish invaders professing Islam, which were later expelled by the Knights Templar under the Order of Christ. During the Christian Reconquista, Portugal established itself as an independent kingdom from León in 1139, claiming to be the oldest European nation state.

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Slovenia
Slovenia (ⁱ/sloʊˈviːniə/ sloh-VEE-nee-ə, Slovene: Slovenija), officially the Republic of Slovenia (Republika Slovenija, [reˈpublika sloˈveːnija]) is a Slavic nation state, situated in South-Central Europe, at the crossroad of main European cultural and trade routes. It borders Italy to the west, Austria to the north, Croatia to the south and southeast, and Hungary to the northeast. It covers 20,273 square kilometres (7,827 sq mi) and has a population of 2.05 million. It is a parliamentary republic, member of the European Union and NATO. Relative to its geography, history, economy, culture, and language, it is a very diverse country distinguished by a transitional character. It is characterised by a high economic and social level. Its capital and largest city is Ljubljana.
The territory of Slovenia is mainly hilly or mountainous and has an exceptionally high landscape and biological diversity and a mosaic structure, which are a result of natural attributes and the long-lasting presence of humans. Four major European geographic units interweave here: the Alps, the Dinaric Alps, the Mediterranean, with a small portion of coastline along the Adriatic Sea, and the Pannonian Plain. The climate is temperate and significantly influenced by the variety of territory, with a strong interaction of the continental climate, the sub-Mediterranean climate and Alpine climate across most of the country. The country is one of the water-richest in Europe, with a dense river network, a rich aquifer system, and significant karstic underground watercourses. Over half of the territory is covered by forest.

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Zadar
Zadar (see historical names) is a city in Croatia on the Adriatic Sea. It is the centre of Zadar county and the wider northern Dalmatian region. Zadar is a historical center of Dalmatia as well as the seat of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Zadar.
In antiquity, Iadera and Iader, the much older roots of the settlement's names were hidden, the names being most probably related to a hydrographical term. It was coined by an ancient Mediterranean people and their Pre-Indo-European language. They transmitted it to later settlers, the Liburnians. The name of the Liburnian settlement was first mentioned by a Greek inscription from Pharos (Stari grad) on the island of Hvar in 384 BC, where the citizens of Zadar were noted as Ίαδασινοί (Iadasinoi). According to the Greek source Periplus of Pseudo-Scylax the city was Ίδασσα (Idassa), probably a vulgar Greek form of the original Liburnian name.
During Antiquity the name was often recorded in sources in Latin in two forms: Iader in the inscriptions and in the writings of classic writers, Iadera predominantly among the late Antiquity writers, while usual ethnonyms were Iadestines and Iadertines. The accent was on the first syllable in both Iader and Iadera forms, which influenced the early-Medieval Dalmatian language forms Jadra, Jadera and Jadertina, where the accent kept its original place.

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Zagreb
Zagreb (Croatian pronunciation: [zǎːɡrɛb]) is the capital and the largest city of the Republic of Croatia. It is in the northwest of the country, along the Sava river, at the southern slopes of the Medvednica mountain. Zagreb lies at an elevation of approximately 122 m (400 ft) above sea level. In the last official census of 2011, the population of the settlement of Zagreb was 686,568, while the total population of its administrative area was 792,875. The wider Zagreb metropolitan area includes the City of Zagreb and the separate Zagreb County with a population of 317,642, bringing the total metropolitan area population up to 1,110,517. It is the only metropolitan area in Croatia with a population of over one million.
Its favourable geographic position in the southwestern part of the Pannonian Basin, which extends to the Alpine, Dinaric, Adriatic and Pannonic regions, provides an excellent connection for traffic between Central Europe and the Adriatic Sea. The transport connections, concentration of industry, scientific and research institutions and industrial tradition underlie its leading economic position in Croatia. Zagreb is the seat of the central government, administrative bodies and almost all government ministries.

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Alen Bokšić
Alen Bokšić (pronounced [alen bokʃitɕ]; born 21 January 1970) is a former football attacker from Croatia. He was a renowned forward known for his technique.
Bokšić was born in Makarska and started his career in the club Zmaj from Makarska. As a young player he moved to Hajduk Split and was introduced into the first team (1987–91). With Hajduk, he won the Yugoslav League Cup in 1987 and 1991. In 174 games for Hajduk, he scored 60 goals.
Bokšić scored in the 1991 Yugoslavian Cup final against Red Star Belgrade for what proved to be the winning goal. He moved to AS Cannes in France (1991–92), but was plagued by injuries and played only one game the entire season. In his only full season with Olympique Marseille (1992–93), he led the Ligue 1 goal scoring charts with 23, won the French league title and the European Champions League.
After joining Lazio in Italy in 1993, Bokšić was voted fourth for the 1993 European Footballer of the Year, behind winner Roberto Baggio, Dennis Bergkamp, and Eric Cantona. In Italy, he played for Lazio (1993–96 and 1997–2000) and Juventus (1996–97). In 1997, he won the Italian league title with Juventus. After his return to Lazio, he won the Italian cup in 1998, UEFA Cup Winners' Cup in 1999, and Italian league title and cup in 2000.

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Alex McLeish
Alexander "Alex" McLeish (born 21 January 1959), is a Scottish former professional football player and manager. Born in Glasgow, McLeish played as a central defender for Aberdeen during their 1980s glory years, making nearly 500 League appearances for the club, and won 77 caps for Scotland.
He started his managerial career with spells at Motherwell and Hibernian, before guiding Rangers to two championships and five cup wins in five years. McLeish spent ten months as manager of the Scotland national team which narrowly failed to qualify for the finals of the 2008 UEFA European championship. He then resigned this post in November 2007 to become manager of Birmingham City, who were in the Premier League at the time. Though Birmingham were relegated at the end of the season, McLeish guided them back to the Premier League in 2009. Birmingham then won the 2011 Football League Cup Final, but were relegated again from the Premier League at the end of the 2010–11 season.
Following this relegation he resigned his post at Birmingham to become manager at their city rivals, Aston Villa. This made him the first manager to move directly from Birmingham City to Aston Villa, and only the second manager after Ron Saunders to manage both clubs. Having only narrowly avoided relegation in the 2011–12 Premier League season, his contract was terminated by Villa at the end of his first season.

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Anthony Šerić
Anthony Šerić (Croatian pronunciation: [ˈʃɛːritɕ]; born 15 January 1979), is a Croatian Australian footballer who currently plays as a defender for Karabükspor. He has been a part of the Croatian national team at the 1998, 2002 and 2006 FIFA World Cups.
Šerić was born to a Croatian family in Sydney, Australia and received a football scholarship to the Australian Institute of Sport. He began his professional football career in Split, Croatia where he played for Hajduk Split.
He then moved to Italy to play in Serie A, initially with Parma. But due to 3+2 non-EU quota, he was loaned to Verona and Adaílton was also signed by Verona from Parma in co-ownership deal.
In 2000, his loan was extended. The quota abolished during the 2000-01 season but Šerić did not earned a return to Parma. In June 2001, team-mate Martin Laursen was bought back by Parma (Parma already bought half in 2000) and Šerić now co-owned by Verona and Parma. Later team-mate striker Alberto Gilardino also bought by Parma in co-ownership deal but loaned back to Verona.

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Barry Ferguson
Barry Ferguson MBE (born 2 February 1978) is a Scottish footballer who plays as a midfielder for Blackpool. He is also the club captain.
Ferguson has made 82 appearances in European competitions, all for Rangers, which makes him the record European appearance holder at the club. He was also inducted into the Rangers F.C. Hall of Fame. Ferguson overtook David Narey's record for the number of European appearances made whilst playing for a Scottish club, by starting in a UEFA Cup match against Werder Bremen. He broke Kenny Dalglish's record for the number of competitive European appearances by a Scottish footballer when he played in his 80th match in Europe, against Sporting CP.
Ferguson made 45 appearances for the Scotland national team. In 2009, following behavioral incidents while on Scotland duty, he was stripped of the captaincy of Rangers and told he would no longer be considered for international selection.
Ferguson was made a Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE) on 17 June 2006.

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Boris Živković
Boris Živković (Croatian pronunciation: [ˈbɔris ˈʒifkɔʋitɕ]; born 15 November 1975 in Živinice, Bosnia and Herzegovina) is a former Croatian football player. He played as a defender and through career he played all defending positions. He played as right and left full back and centre back. At one point of his career he even played as defensive midfielder.
Živković started his career at FK Sarajevo as a youth player, before being signed by NK Marsonia (from Slavonski Brod). He gained a good reputation at Marsonia, first appearing in the 1994/95 season, during which he made 13 appearances. The next season he played a further 31 games before transferring to NK Hrvatski Dragovoljac (from Siget, Zagreb). He only spent one season at his new club however, before impressive performances persuaded German club Bayer Leverkusen to sign him.
Živković went on to play 6 seasons for the German club, playing over 150 times, including the 2002 UEFA Champions League Final. Following his contract expiring in the summer of 2003, Živković stated his desire to play in the English FA Premier League, and was signed later that summer by Portsmouth F.C.

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Boško Balaban
Boško Balaban (born 15 October 1978 in Rijeka) is a Croatian footballer who currently plays for Selangor FA in the Malaysia Super League as a striker.
He is a former member of the Croatia national team.
Born in Rijeka, he started playing for local club HNK Rijeka and appeared in 97 matches between 1995 and 2000, scoring a total of 21 goals. During the 1999–2000 season, he was the top scorer of his team with 15 goals and attracted the attention of another Croatian club, Dinamo Zagreb. Playing for Dinamo, Balaban kept up his goalscoring form and once again became the league's top scorer with 14 goals in 25 games. Two games into the following season, he was signed by Aston Villa for a fee of £5.8 million, earning a £20,000-a-week contract.
Balaban failed to find any form for the English club, making just nine appearances, seven as a substitute, in two and a half years. On July 4, 2007, Times Newspapers ranked Balaban as one of their 50 worst footballers.
He was loaned back to Dinamo Zagreb for the 2002–03 season, scoring 15 times in 24 appearances.

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Dado Pršo
Miladin "Dado" Pršo (born on 5 November 1974 in Zadar) is a Croatian former professional footballer who played as a striker.
Pršo played for seven different teams and made over 300 league appearances as a professional. He was part of the Monaco team that reached the Uefa Champions League final in 2004, and part of the Rangers team that won the League and cup double in 2005.
Pršo received 32 caps for Croatia and was part of the squad at Euro 2004 and World Cup 2006. He retired in June 2009 from Prva HNL the after the Scottish Premier League club Rangers. To this day, he holds the joint-record of most goals scored (9) by a Croatian in the UEFA Champions League with Alen Bokšić.
Pršo started playing professionally in 1991 with the hometown squad NK Zadar. He was then briefly in Hajduk Split, and then in the second-league team NK Pazinka from Pazin, without making much impact in any of these clubs. In 1993 he moved to France to play for FC Rouen, and then moved to Saint Raphael in 1995, where he worked as a car mechanic while he continued playing football.

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Darijo Srna
Darijo Srna (pronounced [daːrio sr̩na]; born 1 May 1982) is a Croatian footballer who plays for Shakhtar Donetsk as a captain and is also the captain of the Croatian national team.
Srna was born in Metković.
Srna's talent was seen by many scouts in Croatia while he was young. He was later signed by Hajduk Split as his talent became desirable for the Croatian giants.
At Hajduk, Srna won the 1999–2000 Croatian Cup, 2002–03 Croatian Cup and the 2000–01 Prva HNL. They played in the first round of 1999–2000 UEFA Cup, 2001–02 UEFA Cup, 2002–03 UEFA Cup, as well as the second round of the 2000–01 UEFA Champions League and the third round of the 2001–02 UEFA Champions League.
In 2003, Srna was sold, along with Stipe Pletikosa to Shakhtar Donetsk. He is a common member and the captain in his club side, for whom he has made a large impact in the league.
After the 2006 World Cup, Benfica were reported to be after the player's signature but nothing materialized, with what many considered a fallen or rejected sale. Since then, he has been linked with a number of other clubs, including S.S. Lazio.

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Dario Šimić
Dario Šimić (Croatian pronunciation: [ˈdaːriɔ ˈʃiːmitɕ]; born 12 November 1975 in Zagreb) is a retired Croatian football player. Šimić was a versatile defender who played as full-back, sweeper or centre back. A product of Dinamo Zagreb Academy, he later played for Serie A sides Inter Milan and AC Milan and Ligue 1 side Monaco, before returning to Dinamo Zagreb in 2010, where he retired from the game during the same year.
Šimić also played for Croatia national football team and is the team's most capped player, having won a total of 100 international caps between 1996 and 2008. He was member of Croatia's squad in all six major tournaments they qualified for during the 1990s and 2000s, which includes three FIFA World Cups (11 appearances in 1998, 2002 and 2006) and three UEFA European Championships (5 appearances in 1996, 2004 and 2008).
Šimić joined Dinamo Zagreb in 1987 at the age of twelve and rose through the ranks of their youth academy before being promoted to the senior squad for the 1992–93 season. His debut for the Blues came under manager Miroslav Blažević in the first match of the season, a Prva HNL away game against Varteks on 23 August 1992, which made him the youngest ever player to debut for the club as Šimić was only three months shy from his 17th birthday. He continued to make five more appearances in his first top-flight season and although was widely regarded as a promising player, he struggled to make a bigger impact in his first season with the squad which eventually won the Croatian title that year.

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David Trezeguet
David Sergio Trezeguet (French pronunciation: [david sɛʀʒjo tʀezeˈɡɛ]) (born 15 October 1977) is a World Cup winning French-Argentinian international footballer who plays for hometown club River Plate.
He previously played for Juventus in the Italian Serie A for ten years and for the French national team. He is the highest scoring non-Italian ever to play for Juventus. He is perhaps most famous for scoring the golden goal in the Euro 2000 final against Italy, which gave France a 2–1 win in extra time.
Trezeguet was born in Rouen, Upper Normandy, France, and grew up in Buenos Aires, Argentina. He is the son of former French-Argentine footballer Jorge Trezeguet, who now works as his agent. David and his wife Béatrice have two children together: Aaron and Noraan. His wife is from Alicante, Spain.
At club level, Trezeguet played for Club Atlético Platense and Club Atlético River Plate in the Argentine Primera División, AS Monaco in Ligue 1, Juventus in Serie A and Hércules CF in La Liga.
In 1998, Trezeguet scored the fastest ever goal in terms of velocity in UEFA Champions League history in a quarter-final match against Manchester United. The shot that resulted in a goal was clocked at 97.6 mph (157.3 km/h).^{[citation needed]} With AS Monaco, he won Ligue 1 twice and was named Ligue 1 Young Player of the Year in 1998. He scored a total of 60 goals in 113 appearances for the French club and it was here that he made his name as a potent goalscoring poacher.

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Davor Šuker
Davor Šuker listen (help·info) IPA: [dâʋɔr ʃǔːkɛr], (born 1 January 1968 in Osijek) is a retired Croatian footballer. He played as a striker for a number of European clubs as well as the Croatian national team, where he is the all-time top goal scorer with 45 goals.
Šuker was born in Osijek. His parents came there from village of Lištani in Livno municipality. Šuker began his footballing career in his hometown, playing for the local first division team Osijek as a 16-year-old. During his final season there, he became the league's top goal scorer. He signed for a bigger club, Dinamo Zagreb in 1989. The war in Croatia halted a promising season for the 21-year-old, eventually resulting in Šuker's move to Sevilla in 1991.
In La Liga Šuker was highly regarded, showing consistent form with Seville and being amongst the top goal scorers for consecutive seasons. He signed with Real Madrid 5 years later, and was again amongst the league's top scorers, which helped Madrid claim the La Liga title, the Supercup trophy and win the Champions League during his tenure there.

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Eduardo da Silva
Eduardo Alves da Silva (born 25 February 1983), commonly known as Eduardo, sometimes nicknamed as Dudu, is a Brazilian-born Croatian footballer who plays for Ukrainian Premier League club Shakhtar Donetsk and the Croatia national team. With 22 goals, Eduardo is currently the second most prolific striker that has ever played for Croatia, currently only behind Davor Šuker on 45 goals.
Eduardo grew up in the Rio de Janeiro neighbourhood of Bangu and made his first steps in club football with CBF Nova Kennedy and Bangu Atlético Clube, although he did not play regularly in the youth categories. He was later noticed by Dinamo Zagreb's scouts and joined the club's youth squad in September 1999. Eduardo stayed at Dinamo on trial until December 1999 and returned to the club in February 2000, starting to play regularly for their under-17 squad. Eduardo found his way to the first team in the summer of 2001, despite suffering some injuries early in his career.
After making his first-team debut with Dinamo in the 2001–02 season, Eduardo was loaned for one season to Croatian second division side Inker Zaprešić (now Inter Zaprešić) in 2002–03 to see more first-team action, scoring 10 goals in 15 league appearances for the club.

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Igor Tudor
Igor Tudor (born 16 April 1978 in Split) is a Croatian former football defender. He was considered one of Croatia's best defenders in the period between the late 1990s and mid-2000s.
Tudor announced his retirement on 22 July 2008, at the mere age of 30, after the problems with his right ankle reappeared. He spent his last season playing for his youth club, Hajduk Split.
Tudor started his professional career at Hajduk Split in 1995 scoring 5 goals in 58 matches, being considered a revelation for his technique and ball control above the average of a defender.
After three seasons at Hajduk Split, he was acquired by Italian giants Juventus in 1998. During his time with Juventus, he won the Croatian Player of the Year award in 2002. During his 8-year spell with the club, Tudor was in excellent form, albeit injuries, and formed impressive defensive partnerships with the likes of Paolo Montero, Mark Iuliano, Gianluca Pessotto, Lilian Thuram, Alessandro Birindelli, Nicola Legrottaglie, Gianluca Zambrotta, Jonathan Zebina, Giorgio Chiellini, and Fabio Cannavaro. During this period Juventus had one of the strongest teams in the world and Tudor contributed well, with over 150 total appearances for the club, scoring nearly 20 goals, as a center back. However, after a major injury in 2004, Tudor was loaned out to AC Siena in January 2005, after 7 seasons with Juventus. Following Calciopoli and the expiration of his loan contract with Siena, Tudor returned to Juventus, but injuries kept him off the pitch all the season. His contract expired on 30 June 2007.

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Ivan Bošnjak
Ivan Bošnjak (Croatian pronunciation: [ˈiʋan ˈbɔʃɲak]; born 6 February 1979 in Vinkovci) is a Croatian football player, currently playing for Rijeka in the Prva HNL.
Bošnjak started his professional career at local club HNK Cibalia in the 1996–97 season. He went on to move to Hajduk Split in 2000 and left the club after two seasons for Al-Ittihad Tripoli from Libya, where he spent a season without getting a chance to make a single appearance in an official match. He came back to Croatia by signing with Dinamo Zagreb in 2004. At the club level, he had his biggest personal successes while being named the best player of the Croatian First League in 2000 and becoming the league's top goalscorer in 2006 with 22 goals scored. He transferred to China League One club Chongqing Lifan at season 2011. In March 2012, Bošnjak joined Rijeka.
Bošnjak played for the Croatian national team and collected a total of 14 international caps in which he managed to score one goal. He made his debut for the Croatian team in their friendly match against Slovakia on 16 August 2000 in Bratislava, but subsequently made only one more appearance for the team over a timespan of more than four years before eventually becoming their regular member in 2005 by making six appearances in the 2006 FIFA World Cup qualifying. He went on to score his first goal for Croatia in their friendly match against Hong Kong at the 2006 Carlsberg Cup in Hong Kong and was then also selected to be part of the Croatian squad at the 2006 World Cup finals in Germany, but played at the tournament for only four minutes of regular time in Croatia's second group match against Japan.

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Ivan Klasnić
Ivan Klasnić (Croatian pronunciation: [ˈiʋan ˈklasnitɕ]; born 29 January 1980 in Hamburg, West Germany) is a Croatian footballer who plays as a striker. He is currently a free agent having last played for Bolton Wanderers. He is also a player for the Croatian national football team. In 2007, Klasnić underwent a kidney transplant, and became the first player to participate in a major tournament (UEFA Euro 2008) after a transplant.
Klasnić started his professional career with local side St. Pauli, and impressed as a striker in the three and half seasons he played for the club in the Second Bundesliga since becoming a professional in January 1998. Prior to his spell at St. Pauli, he has played for less known amateur sides Union 03 Hamburg and TSV Stellingen.
After helping St. Pauli to gain promotion to the first division with 10 goals scored for the club in the second division during the 2000–01 season, he made the switch to Werder Bremen in the summer of 2001 and finally made his mark in the first team in 2003 with some powerful performances in the Bundesliga. His first two seasons at the club had been marked by erratic form (he scored only three goals in 36 Bundesliga appearances) and two serious knee injuries, but he laid old ghosts to rest as he emerged a key figure in Werder Bremen's march to the Bundesliga title in the 2003–04 season, when he also won the DFB-Pokal with the club. He scored 13 goals and made another 11 for his Brazilian strike partner Ailton. His expiring contract caused a scramble for his signature at the beginning of the year before he eventually decided to stay at Bremen.

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Ivan Leko
Ivan Leko (born 7 February 1978 in Split) is a Croatian football player who plays for Belgian Pro League outfit Sporting Lokeren.
Leko started his career with his hometown club Hajduk Split and played there for several seasons before moving to Spain to join Málaga CF.
In January 2005, Leko returned for a brief stint with Hadjuk; in the summer he joined Club Brugge. On 15 January 2009, he decided to sign a contract for K.F.C. Germinal Beerschot. After his spell at the Antwerp side, he went on with his career at K.S.C. Lokeren.
Leko made 13 appearances for the Croatia national football team, and was called up to the squad to participate in the 2006 World Cup, but played no part in the tournament, as Croatia exited in the group stage.

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Ivica Mornar

Ivica Mornar (born 12 January 1974) is a retired Croatian footballer. He was born in Split.
Mornar began his career with Hajduk Split before going on to play for Eintracht Frankfurt, Sevilla, CD Ourense, Standard Liège, Anderlecht and Portsmouth.
The striker was a regular member of the Croatian national team in Euro 2004.
Mornar had enjoyed UEFA Champions League football in the months prior to his move to Fratton Park, scoring in a 1-1 draw at home to Bayern Munich.
The player was offered a new two-year contract by Anderlecht, but opted to move across the English channel to Portsmouth. He moved to the Premiership at the end of January 2004 for £500,000, signing a two-and-half-year deal.
Mornar made his Pompey debut in a goalless draw at home to Wolves, and looked lively. He then bagged his first and only goal in the next game against Spurs. A performance that earned Mornar the 'Swan d'Or', a celebrated Croatian sporting award.
However, Mornar failed to recreate his previous form at Portsmouth. Seemingly out of the picture at Portsmouth, he was loaned to Stade Rennais FC for the 2004/05 season, with then Pompey manager Harry Redknapp saying he would allow Mornar to be sold upon his return. Although it appeared Mornar was in new boss Alain Perrin's plans for the 2005/06 campaign, he was thwarted by hamstring injuries throughout the season. Upon the return of Harry Redknapp as manager in December 2005 it looked as though Mornar's contract would be allowed to expire the next Summer. However, it transpired that there was a clause in his contract guaranteeing him a further year at the club should relegation be avoided and he remained a Portsmouth player, until September 2006 when his contract with the club was cancelled by mutual consent.

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Ivica Olić
Ivica Olić (Croatian pronunciation: [iʋitsa oːlitɕ]; born 14 September 1979) is a Croatian professional footballer who plays for Bayern Munich in Germany and internationally for the Croatian national team.
Olić has two sons named Luka and Antonio. Unlike many of his counterparts, he prefers to keep a low media profile and generally lives a quiet private life.
Olić was born and raised in the village of Davor near Nova Gradiška, Croatia. He started playing football for the local club NK Marsonia in 1996, and spent two good seasons there before he was acquired by Hertha BSC in 1998. He did not see much play there and returned to Marsonia the following year.
After another successful season at Marsonia — in the 2000–01 season, he scored 17 goals in 29 games — in 2001, he moved to NK Zagreb where he scored 21 goals in 28 appearances and helped his team win the league. The following season, he moved to Dinamo Zagreb, where he scored 16 goals in 27 games, and became the best striker of the Croatian First League.

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Jean Tigana
Jean Amadou Tigana (born 23 June 1955 in Bamako, Mali, previously named French Sudan) is a former French international footballer, having played in midfield and managed professional football extensively throughout France, including 52 appearances and 1 goal for the France national football team during the 1980s. He most recently coached Chinese Super League outfit Shanghai Shenhua.
Tigana started his professional career as a player at Toulon, having been spotted fairly late playing part-time while employed in a spaghetti factory and then as a postman. He moved to Lyon in 1978 and then to Bordeaux in a $4million transfer. He was part of the French national football team that won the European Championship in 1984, defeating Spain in the final. In Bordeaux's midfield for eight years, Tigana helped them to three league titles and three French cups, as well as taking them close to European glory on two occasions, losing in the semi-final of the European Cup and Cup Winners' Cup in 1985 and 1987 respectively.

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Jerko Leko
Jerko Leko (born 9 April 1980 in Zagreb) is a Croatian footballer who currently plays for Croatian club GNK Dinamo Zagreb. He is not related to Ivan Leko.
Leko's career began with GNK Dinamo Zagreb in 2000 in his native Croatia, although he was not an immediate success. After spending some time on loan at NK Croatia Sesvete, he became a regular starter in 2001/2002, helping Dinamo Zagreb win the Croatian Cup, scoring in the final against NK Varteks and being named Man of the Match. Leko eventually moved to Dynamo Kyiv in 2002 for €4m (a then club record). In his first season in Ukraine, Dynamo won the double, with Leko playing 18 times.
In February 2006, it was announced that Leko would be leaving Dynamo Kyiv, having turned down a new contract offer. He subsequently signed for AS Monaco on a free transfer on June 4, 2006.
In July 2009, The Times reported that he had turned down a move to English Premiership club Wolverhampton Wanderers as they would not meet his wage demands of 30,000 UK pounds per week (approx 49,000 US dollars) nett. On 18 June 2010 Bucaspor signed the Croatian midfielder on a two-year deal, he comes on a free transfer from AS Monaco. On May 25, its confrimed that Leko signed with GNK Dinamo Zagreb on a two-year deal.

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Joey Didulica
Joseph Anthony "Joey" Didulica (Croatian pronunciation: [ˈdidulitsa]; born 14 October 1977) is an Australian-born Croatian former footballer who played as a goalkeeper. On 11 October 2011 he announced to quit his career after ongoing neck and head complaints.
Didulica was born in Geelong, Victoria to a Croatian father, Luka, and a Croatian-Australian mother, Mary. His father emigrated to Australia from Poličnik, a village in northern Dalmatia, about 10 kilometres outside of Zadar.
He started to play football in the North Geelong Warriors. In 1996, he moved to the Melbourne Knights, a club whose team primarily consists of Australian Croats, and played for them until 1999. Then he transferred to Ajax Amsterdam, whence he was first loaned to Belgian side Germinal Beerschot for a couple of months in 2001 before eventually moving to Austria Vienna in 2003. After spending three seasons as a regular in goal for Austria Wien, Didulica returned to the Netherlands and was signed by AZ Alkmaar. He made seven Eredivisie appearances with the club before being forced to take a longer break following a brain concussion he sustained in a league match against PSV Eindhoven in October 2006 after being hit with the ball in his head from a shot by Eindhoven's Australian international Jason Čulina.

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Josip Šimunić
Josip Šimunić (Croatian pronunciation: [ˈjɔsip ˈʃimunitɕ]) (born 18 February 1978) is a Croatian footballer who plays as a defender for Dinamo Zagreb and the Croatian national team.
Šimunić was born in Canberra, Australia to Bosnian Croat immigrants from Kiseljak, Bosnia and Herzegovina, then Yugoslavia. He received early football training at the Australian Institute of Sport. The defender broke into the Melbourne Knights first team as a teenager in the 1995–96 season and ended it with a championship medal and 1996 NSL Youth Player of the Year award. Šimunić scored his first goals the following term, three in 14 outings, before moving to Europe to join Hamburger SV in 1998.
Šimunić moved to Hertha BSC in 2000 after having fallen out with Hamburg coach Frank Pagelsdorf and has since become an integral member of a team which has enjoyed occasional forays in the UEFA Cup. He expressed on The World Game on SBS television that he wishes to return to Australia to live after concluding his career in Europe. At the end of the 2008–09 season, Šimunić was named the best central defender in the Bundesliga by Kicker magazine. Hertha finished in fourth place that season, with a defence that conceded only 41 goals, tied for third in the league with VfL Wolfsburg.

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Jurica Vranješ
Jurica Vranješ (Croatian pronunciation: [ˈjuritsa ˈʋraɲɛʃ]; born 31 January 1980 in Osijek) is a Croatian footballer who is currently playing for Rijeka in Prva HNL as a midfielder. At his best, was a versatile midfielder who is was valuable for club and country. Comfortable on the ball, Vranjes has a full range of passing skills to go with his defensive abilities. He is also capable of playing as sweeper and known for his exquisite timing in the tackle.
Vranješ was born in Osijek, Croatia. He started playing in NK Osijek where he played between 1997 and 1999. He then moved to Bayer Leverkusen where he played three seasons until moving to VfB Stuttgart in 2003 and finally to Werder Bremen in 2005. His current club announced on 24 August 2009 that he can leave the club. On 29 January 2010, he left SV Werder Bremen and was loaned to Gençlerbirliği for the rest of the season. In September 2011, Vranješ joined Aris Thessaloniki F.C.. He made his debut in the yellow jersey against Olympiakos F.C.. His contract was terminated on 10 January 2012. In May 2012, he joined HNK Rijeka in Croatia.

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Lionel Messi
Lionel Andrés Messi (Spanish pronunciation: [ljoˈnel anˈdɾes ˈmesi], born 24 June 1987) is an Argentine footballer who plays in La Liga for FC Barcelona and is the captain of the Argentina national team, mainly as a forward.
By the age of 21, Messi had received Ballon d'Or and FIFA World Player of the Year nominations. The following year in 2009 he won both the Ballon d'Or and FIFA World Player of the Year, and won the inaugural FIFA Ballon d'Or in 2010 and 2011. He also won the 2010–11 UEFA Best Player in Europe Award. Messi is the fourth football player to win three Ballons d'Or, after Johan Cruyff, Michel Platini and Marco van Basten and the second player to win three consecutive Ballons d'Or, after Michel Platini. His playing style and small stature have drawn comparisons to Diego Maradona, who himself declared Messi as his "successor".
Messi has won five La Liga titles and three Champions League titles. In 2012, Messi made UEFA Champions League history by becoming the first player to score five goals in one match, in a 7–1 win against Bayer Leverkusen. With two goals in the next round against A.C. Milan, he matched José Altafini's record of 14 goals in a single UEFA Champions League/European Cup season. He also became the first player to top-score in four successive European Champion Clubs' Cup campaigns. He set the world record for most goals scored in a season during the 2011–12 season, with 73 goals.

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Luka Modrić
Luka Modrić (pronounced [ˈluːka ˈmɔːdritɕ], born 9 September 1985) is a Croatian footballer who plays for Tottenham Hotspur and for the Croatia national team.
Modrić's childhood coincided with the Croatian War of Independence. After showing promise in hometown club Zadar's youth team, he was signed by Dinamo Zagreb as a teenager in 2002. His professional career began with loan spells at Zrinjski Mostar and Inter Zaprešić. While he was playing for GNK Dinamo Zagreb, they won three consecutive league titles and several domestic cups, with Modrić named Prva HNL "Player of the Year" in 2007.
He moved to the Premier League in 2008 and has since achieved significant success with the Spurs, making himself a target of prospective transfers to Chelsea and other clubs. He was one of the leading forces of the Croatian national team at the Euro 2008.
During the Croatian War of Independence, Modrić and his family lived in the village of Modrići near Obrovac but they were forced to flee the area when he was 6 years old. His father, Stipe, was in the Croatian army, and he lost his grandfather in the fighting while his family were refugees, living in a hotel on the island of Iž near Zadar. It was in these difficult circumstances that Modrić began playing football. When his father returned from the army, he used the little money the family had to enroll his son in the local sporting academy. After displaying some talent, Luka signed with Dinamo Zagreb as a 17 year old in 2002.

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Marco van Basten
Marcel "Marco" van Basten (Dutch pronunciation: [ˈmɑr.koʊ̯ vɑm.ˈbɑs.tə(n)]; 31 October 1964) is a Dutch football manager and former football player, who played for Ajax and Milan, as well as the Dutch national team, in the 1980s and early 1990s. He is regarded as one of the greatest forwards of all time and has scored 277 goals in a high-profile career, which ended in 1995 as a result of an injury suffered two years earlier. He was later the head coach of Ajax and the Dutch national team.
Known for his strength on the ball, his tactical awareness and spectacular strikes and volleys, van Basten was named European Footballer of the Year three times (1988, '89 and '92) and FIFA World Player of the Year in 1992. Van Basten was voted eighth in a poll organised by the French weekly magazine France Football consulting their former Ballon d'Or winners to elect the Football Player of the Century. In 2004, a nationwide poll was held for the 100 greatest Dutch people (De Grootste Nederlander) and van Basten was number 25, the second highest for a football player^{[citation needed]}. In March 2007, Sky Sports ranked van Basten first on its list of great athletes who had their careers cut short.

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Mario Tokić
Mario Tokić (born 23 July 1975 in Derventa, Yugoslavia) is a former Croatian footballer who last played for NK Zagreb. He retired following the end of the 2010–11 season.
Mario Tokić started his professional career in NK Rijeka in 1992. After six years, in 1998 he moved to Dinamo Zagreb. In 2001 he was transferred to the Austrian side Grazer AK, where he played until 2005, while at Grazer AK he scored what was called his best goal against liverpool FC in a champions league qualifier, despite winning 1-0 Grazer AK still lost the tie 2-1.when he moved to Austria Wien. At the end of the 2006-07 season Tokić announced he would be joining Austria's arch rivals Rapid for the new season. In August 2009, after two seasons with Rapid, the club announced that the contract with Tokić was cancelled.
Tokić was part of the Croatian squad at Euro 2004 and the 2006 World Cup, but did not play any games at either tournament.

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Mato Neretljak
Mato Neretljak (born 3 June 1979 in Orašje) is a Croatian football player who plays as defender, currently with Rijeka in the Prva HNL.
He started his professional career in 2000 at NK Osijek for which he played until 2002. Then he transferred to HNK Hajduk Split and spent three seasons with the club before leaving it for South Korean club Suwon Samsung Bluewings in 2005. In 2009, he moved to Japanese club Omiya Ardija. 23.05.2012. he signed for HNK Rijeka on a two-year long contract deal.
Neretljak won 8 international caps for the Croatian national under-21 football team in 2000 and 2001. While still playing for the under-21 national team, he also made his full international debut for Croatia in a friendly match against Greece on 25 April 2001 in Varaždin, where he came on as a substitute for Boris Živković in the 88th minute.
His competitive international debut for Croatia came on 15 November 2003 in the UEFA Euro 2004 qualifying play-offs against Slovenia, where he played the entire 90 minutes in the first leg in Zagreb, which ended in a 1-1 draw. On 18 February 2004, he scored his only international goal for Croatia in their 2-1 defeat against Germany in Split. He was also part of the Croatian squad at the UEFA Euro 2004 finals in Portugal, but did not appear in any of the team's three group matches before they were knocked out of the tournament.

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Milan Rapaić
Milan "Miki" Rapaić (born 16 August 1973 in Nova Gradiška) was a Croatian football (soccer) midfielder who last played for HNK Trogir after his contract with Standard Liège ended in July 2007.
Previously, Rapaić played for Hajduk Split (1991–1996, 2002–2003), Perugia (1996–2000), Fenerbahçe (2000–2002), and Ancona (2003–2004).
A regular in the Croatia national football team, he had earned 45 caps and scored five goals as of the end of 2004. Rapaić played two games for his country at the 2002 FIFA World Cup. He will be most remembered for his spectacular if somewhat lucky winning goal scored against Italy. He also played three games for Croatia in Euro 2004 and scored one goal.
He has proved a fan favourite wherever he has played, and after impressive performances he once again earned a call up for the Croatian national side after missing the 2006 FIFA World Cup. Croatia went on to beat the world champions Italy (0-2, in August 2006) with Rapaić playing a large role. He is also known for his boisterous night life which is one of the reasons (together with his spontaneous and simple character) he is so popular among fans, and also one of the reasons his tremendous talent never fully grew.

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Nenad Bjelica
Nenad Bjelica (born 20 August 1971 in Osijek) is a former Croatian football player and currently coach who played for Albacete Balompié, Real Betis and Kaiserslautern. Bjelica played as midfielder.
Nenad Bjelica started playing for a small club Metalac Olt in the 1989–90 season. He quickly moved to NK Osijek and spent almost four seasons there, before moving abroad to Spain.
He played for Albacete Balompié for four years, during which time the team reached the Copa del Rey semi-final. In 1996, he moved to Real Betis and was in the team that was the runner-up in the Copa del Rey. The next season he spent at UD Las Palmas, but returned to Real Betis a year later. Due to injuries, he played very few games in this period, and would again spend a season at UD Las Palmas until the end of 1999.
Bjelica then returned home to NK Osijek for two seasons and recovered his form, playing with the team in three stages of the UEFA Cup. He then moved to 1. FC Kaiserslautern in 2000, where he spent four seasons until semi-retiring top-tier football in 2004. During the 2004–05 season he played for VfB Admira Wacker Mödling. After that he played for the Austrian club FC Kärnten in the Austrian Football First League (Austria's second division), before retiring on 31 June 2008.

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Niko Kovač
Niko Kovač (Croatian pronunciation: [niːko koʋaːtʃ]) (born 15 October 1971 in West Berlin) is a former Croatian footballer who last played as a midfielder for Red Bull Salzburg. He was the long-standing captain of Croatia before retiring from international football in January 2009. A defensive midfielder who is known for his excellent passing and tackling skills, Niko was, at the time of his retirement, the oldest player in the Croatian squad and had been an important motivation raiser for them, having captained them at UEFA Euro 2004, the 2006 FIFA World Cup and the UEFA Euro 2008. He has also enjoyed a high level of top club action, having spent most of his career in the Fußball-Bundesliga. He is the older brother of Robert Kovač.
Born in West Berlin to a family of Croatian gastarbeiters hailing from the Livno area in Bosnia and Herzegovina, Kovač started to play football at local club Hertha Zehlendorf and became a member of their first team in the summer of 1989 at the age of 17. He moved to Hertha BSC in the summer of 1991 and started his professional career with the club that competed in the Second Bundesliga at the time.

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Niko Kranjčar
Niko Kranjčar (pronounced [nǐːkɔ krâɲt͡ʃaːr]) (born 13 August 1984) is a Croatian footballer who plays as a midfielder for Tottenham Hotspur and the Croatia national team.
He represented two of the biggest clubs in his homeland, playing for Dinamo Zagreb before sparking controversy by making a move to their fierce rivals Hajduk Split in 2005. A transfer to England with Portsmouth soon followed in August 2006, and after several years of attempting to hold on to their key players, Portsmouth decided to sell him at the start of the 2009–10 season, opening the way for a move to Tottenham in September 2009, where he was reunited with his former manager at Portsmouth, Harry Redknapp.
Hailed as the next Robert Prosinečki, Kranjčar was given his international debut by his father Zlatko in August 2004. As of February 2011, Kranjčar has won 62 caps for the Croatia national team scoring 15 goals in the process.
Kranjčar spent his childhood years in Austria, when his father Zlatko played for Rapid Vienna, thus holding an Austrian passport, counting as a EU player.

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Otto Barić
Otto Barić (born 19 June 1933 in Eisenkappel, near Klagenfurt) is a Croatian-Austrian football manager.
Barić started his coaching career in 1969 at West German club Germania Wiesbaden and moved after one season to Austrian club Wacker Innsbruck, where he spent next two seasons and won two consecutive league champions titles before moving to LASK Linz in July 1972. After two seasons with Linz, he went on to coach Croatian club NK Zagreb and spent two seasons there before moving to Dinamo Zagreb in July 1976. In the late 1970s, he was also the head coach of the Yugoslav amateur national team, a team that consisted of players from the Yugoslav Second League, and won two regional and one continental title with the team between 1976 and 1978. At the same time, he spent almost four seasons at Dinamo Zagreb before returning to Austria in March 1980 to coach Sturm Graz. He spent one and a half season with Sturm and was then unemployed for a year before starting to coach Rapid Wien in July 1982. He led Rapid to three champions titles in the Austrian Bundesliga in 1982, 1983 and 1987 as well as to three Austrian Cup titles in 1983, 1984 and 1985. In 1985, he also led Rapid to the final match of the UEFA Cup Winners' Cup, but lost the title with a 3–1 defeat against Everton.

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Robert Kovač
Robert Kovač (Croatian pronunciation: [ˈrɔbɛrt ˈkɔʋaːtʃ]; born 6 April 1974 in Berlin, West Germany) is a retired Croatian football defender.
Kovač started his career in lower league clubs Rapide Wedding and Hertha Zehlendorf before making his Bundesliga debut with 1. FC Nuremberg in 1995. Regularly featuring in the first–eleven, Kovač attracted much attention to himself and was signed at the end of the season by Leverkusen.
He spent the next five seasons in Leverkusen without any significant success, as the club did not win any trophy during that period, although they were three times Fußball-Bundesliga runners–up.
After his contract expired he went to join reigning champions of 2000–01 season and UEFA Champions League title holders, Bayern Munich. In four seasons with Bayern he won two Budesliga titles, two German Cup titles and the 2001 Intercontinental Cup.
On 15 July 2005, he signed for Juventus. He was one of the few first–team players that decided to stay in Juve following its demotion to Serie B. He made a total of 35 appearances and scored one goal before he moved back to Germany, this time for Borussia Dortmund.

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Robert Prosinečki
Robert Prosinečki (pronounced [robert prosinetʃki], born 12 January 1969) is a Croatian football manager and former football midfielder. Prosinečki is regarded by many as the player with best technique that ever played in and for Croatia. Former national squad teammate Zvonimir Boban, humbly, also agreed with this. His dribbling is considered excellent, and his ability to keep possession of the ball is very highly regarded. He is one of the few footballers to have played for both the Spanish rival clubs Real Madrid and FC Barcelona.
After retiring from active football he worked as assistant manager of the Croatia national football team between 2006 and 2010, before being appointed manager of Red Star Belgrade in December 2010.
Prosinečki was born in Schwenningen, West Germany, into a family of Yugoslav gastarbeiters of mixed ethnicity. His father Đuro was Croatian, hailing from Gornji Čemehovec village near Kraljevec na Sutli, and his mother Emilija Đoković is Serbian, originally from Ježevica village near Čačak.

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Simone Inzaghi
Simone Inzaghi (born 5 April 1976) is an Italian former footballer who played as a striker and the current manager of Lazio Allievi.
During his professional career, he played for a host of clubs, including Lazio, where he remained for more than one decade, being used irregularly.
Born in Piacenza, Emilia-Romagna, Inzaghi started playing professional football in 1993, with hometown team Piacenza Calcio, although he did not get to play a first team game in that season. The next season he was loaned out to third division side Carpi F.C. 1909, where he played nine games. His first goal arrived in 1995–96, playing for Novara Calcio in the fourth level.
After two more loan stints, at lowly A.C. Lumezzane and U.S. Brescello, Inzaghi returned to Piacenza, and played his first game for the team (also his first top flight match) during 1998–99, finishing the campaign with 15 goals in 30 matches.
The next season, he was signed by S.S. Lazio, and had a productive first season with the Roman club, scoring seven in 22 league games, and nine in just 11 UEFA Champions League matches (including four in a single game against Olympique de Marseille, on 14 March 2000, with which he equaled the competition record held by Marco van Basten since 1992). Inzaghi also made his debut for the Italian national team, two weeks later, against Spain. Lazio went on to win both the Scudetto and the Italian Cup that season, with Inzaghi helping the side win the latter competition again in 2003–04. At the end of this season, he extended his link until June 2009.

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Stipe Pletikosa
Stipe Pletikosa (pronounced [stiːpe pletikosa]; born 8 January 1979) is a Croatian football goalkeeper who plays for the Russian Premier League club FC Rostov and the Croatian national team, for which he has made 90 appearances.
Pletikosa began his career at Croatian club Hajduk Split. He was selected as first team goalkeeper for the 1998/99 season by then manager Ivan Katalinić, replacing the ageing Tonči Gabrić. Pletikosa's excellent reflexes and coordination lead to Hadjuk fans nicknaming him 'octopus' (hobotnica). In 2002, he was named Večernji list Croatian player of the year; Zoran Simovic was the only goalkeeper to have won this award previously.
In 2003 Pletikosa alongside teammate Darijo Srna transferred to Shakhtar Donetsk for €2 million. Unlike Srna, Pletikosa did not succeed at the club, and was loaned out back to Hajduk Split in 2005. His second spell at Hajduk proved successful and earned him a starting place in Croatia's 2006 World Cup squad. Pletikosa returned to Shakhtar the following season, but found himself second choice to Jan Laštůvka, prompting the goalkeeper to seek a move. A bid of €3 million from Dinamo Zagreb was accepted, but Pletikosa rejected due to his loyalty to Hajduk, the club's biggest rivals. A loan move to Fulham also failed as he could not gain a work permit.

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Stjepan Tomas
Stjepan Tomas (born 6 March 1976) is a retired Croatian footballer. He last played for the Turkish side Bucaspor before being released in November 2010.
Tomas was part of the Croatia national team at the 2002 FIFA World Cup where he played in all three games in the group stage before they were eliminated. He was also on the national squad at the 2004 Euro but did not play any games in the tournament. He also played for the national team in their third and last game at the 2006 FIFA World Cup.
Tomas was born in Bugojno. His previous clubs include Dinamo Zagreb, Vicenza Calcio, Como, Fenerbahçe, Galatasaray and Rubin Kazan
In August 2007, he signed a 2-year contact with Russian team FC Rubin Kazan, for a fee of €4.8m.
On 31 January 2010, he signed a contract with Turkish team Gaziantepspor until end of the season. Then he moved to Bucaspor which is new promoted Turkcell Super Lig team.
Defensively speaking, at his prime was one of the better players in the Turkish league, but highly unpredictable. His teamwork is undeniably the best thing about him. His consistency is good and he rarely has a run of bad games. His ball distribution is not the greatest and his down field passes are better. His positioning is good, but in Galatasaray he was never considered better than Rigobert Song, with whom he enjoyed a solid partnership in the center of defense. He is right footed and isn't all that threatening from set pieces

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Tomislav Butina
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He started his professional career with Dinamo Zagreb, debuting for the first team on 23 May 1993, when the club was known as Croatia Zagreb. However, he struggled to make an impact at the club at the time when Dražen Ladić was the club's longtime first-choice goalkeeper. In the mid-1990s he had several loan spells with lower-tier Croatian sides Karlovac, Samobor and Slaven Belupo. In the late 1990s he became a regular member of the squad, and, following Ladić's retirement in 2000, took over as Dinamo's first choice goalkeeper in the 2000–01 season.
In July 2003 joined the Belgian First Division side Club Brugge, where he spent three seasons before moving on to the Greek powerhouse Olympiacos in 2006. Following an unsuccessful two-season spell with the club, he returned to Dinamo Zagreb for the 2008–09 season. He made 50 league appearances in his final spell with the club, before being released early in the 2010–11 season, on 18 August 2010.

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Tomo Šokota
Tomo Šokota (born 8 April 1977 in Zagreb) is a Croatian football striker.
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Vladimir Vasilj
Vladimir Vasilj (born in Hanover, Germany, 6 July 1975) is a former Croatian football goalkeeper.
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In the spring of 1998, he became the Croatian national team's third-choice goalkeeper and was also named to the final 22-man squad for the 1998 World Cup finals in France, but did not play any matches at the tournament where Croatia surprisingly finished third. Prior to the World Cup, he made his international debut by appearing as a substitute goalkeeper in the second half of Croatia's friendly match against Slovakia played on 29 May 1998 in Pula.
He left Hrvatski Dragovoljac for Dinamo Zagreb in the summer of 1998, but was merely the club's third-choice goalkeeper and managed to make only two domestic league appearances in the following two seasons. He became the club's second-choice goalkeeper after Dražen Ladić's retirement in May 2000 and made three domestic league appearances in the 2000-01 season before transferring to Dinamo's local rivals NK Zagreb for the 2001-02 season. He played for the club in the following two seasons and was their first-choice goalkeeper in both of them, also playing a significant role in the Zagreb team that surprisingly won the Croatian First League champions title in 2002.

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Zlatko Kranjčar
Zlatko "Cico" Kranjčar (pronounced [zlâtkɔ t͡sǐːt͡sɔ krâɲt͡ʃaːr]; born 15 November 1956) is a Croatian football manager and former striker. He is the head coach of Sepahan in Iran Pro League.
Kranjčar started to play for Dinamo Zagreb at the age of 10 in 1966 and stayed in the club until 1983. He appeared in a total of 556 matches for the club and scored 98 goals in the championship. Then he transferred to Austrian club Rapid Vienna for which he played until 1990. The last club in his playing career was VSE St. Pölten for which he played for two months in late 1990.
Between 1977 and 1983 he collected 11 caps and scored 3 goals for Yugoslavia. He also has two caps and scored one goal for the Croatian national team and is notable as the first team captain of the Croatian team in their first international match against the United States on 17 October 1990 in Zagreb.
Kranjčar started his coaching career in 1991 as an advisor at Austria Klagenfurt. From 1992 until 1994 he coached a Croatian club HNK Segesta and in 1994 he transferred to Croatia Zagreb, where he won the Croatian Championship and Cup in his first season. In 1996 he returned to Austria to coach FC Linz. A year later he was back in Croatia where he coached the clubs NK Slaven Belupo, HNK Segesta (again) and NK Samobor. In 1998 he came back to Croatia Zagreb and led the club to another win in both the Croatian Championship and Cup as well as to an appearance in the UEFA Champions League. In 1999 he started to coach an Egyptian club Al-Masry and in 2000 he went on to coach a Slovenian club NK Mura, where he also stayed for one season. In 2002 he became the Croatian championship winner with NK Zagreb.

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Zvonimir Boban
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Đovani Roso
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Roso was born in Split, Croatia, (then as SR Croatia, part of SFR Yugoslavia), in a family, whose grandfather was of Italian origins. He played for NK Zagreb between 1994 and 1996 before moving to Israel. Roso enjoyed great success in the decade he played for top teams in Israel, including a campaign in the UEFA Champions League with Maccabi Haifa. He's acknowledged as being among the very best foreign players ever to play in the Israeli Premier League, as well as for his lively personality and prominent sense of humour.
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Dado Pršo
Personal information
Full name	Miladin Pršo
Date of birth	(1974-11-05) 5 November 1974 (age 37)
Place of birth	Zadar, SFR Yugoslavia
Height	1.90 m (6 ft 3 in)
Playing position	Striker
Club information
Current club	Rangers
Youth career
1981–1983	Bagat
1983–1986	Zadar
Senior career*
Years	Team	Apps^†	(Gls)^†
1986–1992	Hajduk Split	47	(8)
1992–1993	Pazinka	25	(7)
1993–1995	Rouen	10	(1)
1995–1996	Fréjus	18	(7)
1996–2004	Monaco	101	(28)
1997–1999	→ Ajaccio (loan)	53	(21)
2004–2007	Rangers	108	(50)
Total		348	(103)
National team
2003–2006	Croatia	32	(9)
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only. † Appearances (Goals).

Miladin "Dado" Pršo (born on 5 November 1974 in Zadar) is a Croatian former professional footballer who played as a striker.

Pršo played for seven different teams and made over 300 league appearances as a professional. He was part of the Monaco team that reached the Uefa Champions League final in 2004, and part of the Rangers team that won the League and cup double in 2005.

Pršo received 32 caps for Croatia and was part of the squad at Euro 2004 and World Cup 2006. He retired in June 2009 from Prva HNL the after the Scottish Premier League club Rangers.^[1] To this day, he holds the joint-record of most goals scored (9) by a Croatian in the UEFA Champions League with Alen Bokšić.

1 Career
2 International career
- 2.1 Career statistics
- 2.2 International goals
3 References
4 External links

Career [link]

Early career [link]

Pršo started playing professionally in 1991 with the hometown squad NK Zadar. He was then briefly in Hajduk Split, and then in the second-league team NK Pazinka from Pazin, without making much impact in any of these clubs. In 1993 he moved to France to play for FC Rouen, and then moved to Saint Raphael in 1995, where he worked as a car mechanic while he continued playing football.^[2]

Monaco [link]

In 1996, then-AS Monaco manager Jean Tigana noticed Pršo and bought the striker, although he would spend that season in the reserve side (alongside David Trezeguet), he was sent on loan to AC Ajaccio. In 1999-2000, he helped AS Monaco win the national championship. Pršo also helped them to the UEFA Champions League final in 2004. He is perhaps best remembered for his four-goal performance in the 8-3 win over Deportivo La Coruña (a game which was played on his birthday), which was the highest scoring Champions League scoreline.^[3] That night, he also equaled the competition record, joining Marco van Basten (A.C. Milan 4 IFK Göteborg 0, 1992) and Simone Inzaghi (S.S. Lazio 5 Olympique de Marseille 1, 2000) as the competition's top scorer in a single match^[4]; this has since been surpassed by Lionel Messi (Barcelona 7 Bayer Leverkusen 1, 2012).

Rangers [link]

In May 2004, Pršo signed for Scottish side Rangers on a free transfer. In his first season at Rangers he played 34 league matches, scoring 18 league goals. In the process he helped the club win the League and League Cup. Departing Rangers manager Alex McLeish hailed Pršo as his "best Rangers signing,"^[5] at the end of the 2005-06 season.

Pršo remained a member of the 2006-07 Rangers team, despite announcing his retirement from international football. He suggested he would retire from club football on the expiration of his contract in 2007.^[6] Despite this, Pršo's agent stated early in 2007 that he would like to continue playing for Rangers if his fitness allowed it,^[7] only to announce in February 2007 that his retirement was potentially imminent. Shortly afterwards, it was confirmed that Pršo could play on for a minimum of one season.^[8] But this comment proved to be premature as Pršo announced he would part company with Rangers at the end of the 2007 season due to his recurring knee problems.^[9] Pršo's agent also stated that he would seek a transfer to a league where physical fitness was not as much of a requirement, rather than end his footballing career completely, and suggested North America and Asia as possible destinations.

At Pršo's last game at Ibrox Stadium, he walked out after the final whistle wearing a brace on his leg due to damage to his ankle. He waved at the 50,000 fans who waited, and was then given the "Guard of Honour" by his teammates, led by Barry Ferguson before going back up the tunnel with tears in his eyes.^[10]

It was announced on 8 June 2007 that Rangers would release a DVD featuring highlights of Pršo's three seasons at Ibrox, with a large amount of proceeds donated to the Rangers Charity Foundation.^[11]

International career [link]

Pršo received 32 international caps for Croatia, scoring nine times. Pršo was part of the Croatian team at UEFA Euro 2004 where he played in three games. Pršo is remembered in this tournament for the one goal he scored against France in Leiria on 17 June 2004. After scoring four goals during qualifying he was selected to represent his country at the 2006 FIFA World Cup. But he scored no goals during the tournament itself (where the team, as in 2004, was eliminated after the first round).

Career statistics [link]

^[12]

Club performance			League		Cup		League Cup		Continental		Total
Season	Club	League	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals
France			League		Coupe de France		Coupe de la Ligue		Europe		Total
1997/98	Ajaccio	Championnat National	23	8
1998/99	Ajaccio	Division 2	30	13
1999/00	AS Monaco	Division 1	20	2
2000/01			21	4
2001/02			11	2
2002/03		Ligue 1	20	12
2003/04		Ligue 1	29	8
Scotland			League		Scottish Cup		League Cup		Europe		Total
2004/05	Rangers	Premier League	34	18
2005/06			32	9
2006/07			28	4
Total	France		154	47
Total	Scotland		94	31
Career total			248	78

International goals [link]

#	Date	Venue	Opponent	Score	Result	Competition
01.	29 March 2003	Maksimir Stadium, Zagreb, Croatia	Belgium	2 – 0	4 – 0	UEFA Euro 2004 qualifying
02.	15 November 2003	Maksimir Stadium, Zagreb, Croatia	Slovenia	1 – 0	1 – 1	UEFA Euro 2004 qualifying
03.	19 November 2003	Stadion Bežigrad, Ljubljana, Slovenia	Slovenia	0 – 1	0 – 1	UEFA Euro 2004 qualifying
04.	17 June 2004	Magalhães Pessoa, Leiria, Portugal	France	2 – 1	2 – 2	UEFA Euro 2004
05.	4 September 2004	Maksimir Stadium, Zagreb, Croatia	Hungary	1 – 0	3 – 0	2006 FIFA World Cup qualifying
06.	26 March 2005	Maksimir Stadium, Zagreb, Croatia	Iceland	4 – 0	4 – 0	2006 FIFA World Cup qualifying
07.	30 March 2005	Maksimir Stadium, Zagreb, Croatia	Malta	1 – 0	3 – 0	2006 FIFA World Cup qualifying
08.	30 March 2005	Maksimir Stadium, Zagreb, Croatia	Malta	2 – 0	3 – 0	2006 FIFA World Cup qualifying
09.	28 May 2006	Gradski vrt, Osijek, Croatia	Iran	1 – 1	2 – 2	Friendly

References [link]

^ "Prso to part company with Rangers". BBC Sport website. 29 March 2007. http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/teams/r/rangers/6507141.stm.
^ Croatia's Prso - mechanic who turned into first-class attacker
^ Edgar, Bill (28 September 2004). "Game of the week: AS Monaco v Deportivo La Coruña". London: The Times. http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/sport/football/european_football/article487409.ece. Retrieved 2 September 2010.
^ World Cup Soccer. All the top world soccer news daily. News from international soccer. World Cup
^ "The Dado Of 'Em All". Sunday Mail. 7 May 2006. http://www.sundaymail.co.uk/sport/football/tm_objectid=17042158%26method=full%26siteid=64736%26headline=the%2ddado%2dof%2d%2dem%2dall-name_page.html.
^ "Prso fears he is in final season". BBC News. 24 May 2006. http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/teams/r/rangers/5210400.stm.
^ "Rangers striker shelves retirement plans". ESPN Soccernet. 18 January 2007. http://soccernet.espn.go.com/news/story?id=400459&cc=5739.
^ "Prso given all-clear to play on". BBC Sport website. 7 February 2007. http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/teams/r/rangers/6323373.stm.
^ "Prso to part company with Rangers". BBC News. 29 March 2007. http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/teams/r/rangers/6507141.stm.
^ "TEARIO DADO; Prso breaks down as Gers stars give him an emotional send-off.". The Daily Record. 14 May 2007. http://www.thefreelibrary.com/Football%3A+TEARIO+DADO%3B+Prso+breaks+down+as+Gers+stars+give+him+an...-a0163320881. Retrieved 2 September 2010.
^ "Dado Prso DVD". Rangers FC website. 8 June 2007. http://www.rangers.premiumtv.co.uk/page/Headlines/0,,5~1033937,00.html.
^ ダド・プルソ

External links [link]

v t e Croatia squad – UEFA Euro 2004

1 Vasilj 2 Tokić 3 Šimunić 4 Tomas 5 Tudor 6 Živković (c) 7 Rapaić 8 Srna 9 Pršo 10 N. Kovač 11 Šokota 12 Butina 13 Šimić 14 Neretljak 15 Leko 16 Babić 17 Klasnić 18 Olić 19 Mornar 20 Roso 21 R. Kovač 22 Bjelica 23 Didulica Coach: Barić

v t e Croatia squad – 2006 FIFA World Cup

1 Pletikosa 2 Srna 3 Šimunić 4 R. Kovač 5 Tudor 6 Vranješ 7 Šimić 8 Babić 9 Pršo 10 N. Kovač (c) 11 Tokić 12 Didulica 13 Tomas 14 Modrić 15 I. Leko 16 J. Leko 17 Klasnić 18 Olić 19 N. Kranjčar 20 Šerić 21 Balaban 22 Bošnjak 23 Butina Coach: Z. Kranjčar

v t e Croatian Footballer of the Year

1991: Boban 1992: Šuker 1993: Bokšić 1994: Šuker 1995: Šuker 1996: Šuker 1997: Prosinečki / Šuker 1998: Šuker 1999: Boban 2000: Bjelica 2001: Tudor 2002: Pletikosa 2003: Pršo 2004: Pršo 2005: Pršo 2006: Eduardo 2007: Modrić 2008: Modrić 2009: Olić 2010: Olić 2011: Modrić

Persondata
Name	Pršo, Dado
Alternative names
Short description	Footballer
Date of birth	5 November 1974
Place of birth	Zadar, Croatia
Date of death
Place of death

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