Andrej Panadić (born 9 March 1969) is a Croatian

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and a former defender. Besides Croatia, he has played in Germany, Austria, and Japan.

Playing career

Club

He played for

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 ...

(1988–1994),

Chemnitzer FC Chemnitzer Fußballclub e.V. is a German association football club based in Chemnitz, Saxony. The club competes in Regionalliga Nordost, the fourth tier of German football. The roots of the club go back to its establishment as Chemnitzer BC 19 ...

(1994–1996), KFC Uerdingen 05 (1996),

Hamburger SV Hamburger Sport-Verein e.V. (), commonly known as Hamburger SV () or Hamburg (), is a German sports club based in Hamburg, with its largest branch being its football section. Though the current HSV was founded in June 1919 from a merger of three ...

(1997–2002),

Sturm Graz Sportklub Sturm Graz is an Austrian association football club, based in Graz, Styria, playing in the Austrian Football Bundesliga. The club was founded in 1909. Its colours are black and white. In its history, Sturm Graz has won the Austrian f ...

(2001–2002), and Nagoya Grampus Eight (2002–2004). With Dinamo Zagreb he won a Croatian championship in 1993.

International

Panadić made his debut for

Yugoslavia Yugoslavia (; sh-Latn-Cyrl, separator=" / ", Jugoslavija, Југославија ; sl, Jugoslavija ; mk, Југославија ;; rup, Iugoslavia; hu, Jugoszlávia; rue, label=Pannonian Rusyn, Югославия, translit=Juhoslavija ...

in a September 1989

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against

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, coming on as a 62nd-minute substitute for Predrag Spasić and earned a total of 3 caps, scoring no goals. He was a non-playing squad member at the 1990 FIFA World Cup so his final international was a December 1989 friendly away against

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Managerial career

In January 2016, Panadić was named manager of Istra 1961, after managing Radnik Velika Gorica and Austrian side

LASK Linz Linzer Athletik-Sport-Klub, commonly known as Linzer ASK () or simply LASK, is an Austrian professional football club, from the Upper-Austrian state capital Linz. It is the oldest football club in that region, and plays in the Austrian Footbal ...

as well as acting as an assistant to

Branko Ivanković Branko Ivanković (; born 28 February 1954) is a Croatian former footballer who played as a midfielder, and the current manager of the Oman national team. After a 12-year playing career at Varteks, Ivanković started his coaching career at the ...

in Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates and Iran. He replaced Nikola Jaroš as manager of Rudar Velenje in October 2019 but was dismissed himself in April 2020. He took charge of Kosovan side

Ferizaj Ferizaj, . or Uroševac, . Also formerly known as Ferizovići ( tr, Firzovik). is the sixth largest city in Kosovo by population and seat of Ferizaj Municipality and Ferizaj District. Ferizaj has been populated since the prehistoric era by t ...

in October 2022, with the club bottom of the table.ODLAZI NA KOSOVO
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Career statistics

Club

International

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