Ivan "Ivica" Senzen (born 4 May 1951 in Sisak) is a Croatian retired footballer.

Playing career

After beginning his career at his hometown club

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, Senzen was picked up by

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in 1970. Senzen spent the next nine years playing for the club, and had appeared in a total of 447 matches and scored 103 goals for the club (206 appearances and 29 goals in the

Yugoslav First League The Yugoslav First Federal Football League ( Serbian: Прва савезна лига у фудбалу / ''Prva savezna liga u fudbalu'', hr, Prva savezna liga u nogometu, sl, Prva zvezna nogometna liga, mk, Прва сојузна лига, ...

), in a generation that featured other notable players such as

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, and

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. In 1979, he moved to Germany where he spent three seasons playing for

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, and scored 8 goals in 82 appearances for the German side. He then moved on to

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, where he played between 1982 and 1986, before returning to Croatia and spending two years with Jugokeramika (later known as Inter Zaprešić) and then two years with Radnik Velika Gorica, before retiring in 1990.

Managerial career

After retiring from active football, Senzen turned to managing and coaching. He first worked at Radnik's youth academy for a year, before taking over as club's manager and winning promotion to Prva HNL in 1991. Between 1991 and 1999 he managed several Croatian clubs, before coming to Dinamo Zagreb in 1999 as assistant manager to

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. Dinamo won the championship title that season, and Senzen stayed at the club working at Dinamo's academy. He currently works as a coach of the youngest age group at the Dinamo academy, the ''Zagići II'' (under-8 team) and occasionally does scouting for the club, bringing in youth players to Dinamo.

References

External links

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Ivica Senzen 1860 Munchen stats
at Fussballdaten.de
Ivica Senzen profile
at DinamoInAustralia.com {{DEFAULTSORT:Senzen, Ivica 1951 births Living people People from Sisak Association football forwards Yugoslav footballers GNK Dinamo Zagreb players TSV 1860 Munich players FC Kärnten players NK Inter Zaprešić players Yugoslav First League players Bundesliga players Yugoslav expatriate footballers Expatriate footballers in West Germany Yugoslav expatriate sportspeople in West Germany Expatriate footballers in Austria Yugoslav expatriate sportspeople in Austria Croatian football managers GNK Dinamo Zagreb non-playing staff