Srećko Bogdan (born 5 January 1957) is a Croatian former professional

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er who played a defender. He is now a youth coach in

NK Inter Zaprešić Nogometni klub Inter Zaprešić was a Croatian professional football club based in Zaprešić, a town northwest of the capital Zagreb. The team are nicknamed ''Keramičari'' (The ceramics makers), because they were sponsored by a ceramics facto ...

Club career

Bogdan was born in

Mursko Središće Mursko Središće ( hu, Muraszerdahely, Kajkavian: ''Mursko Središče'') is the northernmost town in Croatia, located at ( alt. 175 m) and one of the oldest localities in Međimurje County. Mursko Središće has a total population of 6,307, and ...

, Croatia,

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. He started his career in his home town with NK Rudar Mursko Središće, where he spent three years before moving to MTČ Čakovec and starting his senior career in 1973. He spent one season and a half with Čakovec before transferring first to

Dinamo Zagreb Građanski nogometni klub Dinamo Zagreb ( en, Dinamo Zagreb Citizens' Football Club, link=yes, italics=yes), commonly referred to as GNK Dinamo Zagreb or simply Dinamo Zagreb (), is a Croatian professional football club based in Zagreb. Dinamo ...

and later to

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. He is currently in third place in Dinamo Zagreb's all-time list of appearances for the club, with a total of 595 appearances in which he scored 125 goals. He played for Dinamo Zagreb between January 1975 and June 1985, after which he moved to Karlsruhe in the German 2. Bundesliga. After two years at Karlsruhe, he managed promotion to the

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with the club and subsequently made 169 appearances for the club in the league over the following six seasons, scoring nine goals. He retired from playing in June 1993.

International career

In his international career, Bogdan played for both former

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and

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, and won 11 caps for Yugoslavia and two for Croatia, scoring one goal for the latter. He made his debut for Yugoslavia in a January 1977

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away against

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, coming on as a 30th-minute substitute for

Franjo Vladić Franjo Vladić (born 19 October 1950) is a Bosnian former international football player who played as a midfielder and a manager. Club career Vladić began his club career with the then-largest regional side in Herzegovina, Velež Mostar, wh ...

. The games for Croatia in 1990 and 1991 were unofficial, since the country was still officially part of Yugoslavia.

Managerial career

Bogdan worked as a coach at

's youth academy between 1993 and 1996, following his retirement as a player at the club. He went on to work as an assistant coach at the club's first team between 1996 and 2001. The first club where he was appointed head coach was Croatian side

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, where he was in charge in 2005 and 2006. He was then appointed head coach at

Segesta Sisak HNK Segesta is a Croatian football club located in the city of Sisak. It is named after the Illyrian settlement Segesta from which modern city of Sisak developed. Segesta is one of the oldest Croatian football clubs, although there are no writt ...

in January 2007, staying with the club until October 2008. In October 2009, he was appointed head coach at Međimurje, signing a contract until the end of the 2009–10 season. He was sacked on 2 April 2010, when the club found themselves on the brink of the relegation zone after a streak of five games without a win.

Other work

During the

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, Bogdan commented several of the tournament's matches as a co-commentator for the

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(HRT).

References

External links

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