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Drago Gabrić
Drago Gabrić (born 27 September 1986) is a Croatian professional footballer who plays as a midfielder for Croatian side Zagora Unešić. He also plays futsal. He is a versatile player, able to play on both sides of the field. His father, Tonči, was a former Hajduk Split and Rijeka player, and a Croatian international goalkeeper. Club career Hajduk Split Gabrić made his 1. HNL debut on 16 September 2006 in a home match against Varteks, replacing double goalscorer Josip Balatinac in the 80th minute. Varteks again proved to be a favoured opponent for Gabrić, with his first Hajduk goal coming against the same side on 17 March 2007. He scored two further goals by the end of that season, one against Međimurje and the other against Zagreb. When Robert Jarni was appointed as head manager of Hajduk, Gabrić became a more prominent member of the first team, managing 23 appearances in the 2007–08 season. His side struggled, though, as they finished in fifth place in the leag ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Trabzonspor
Trabzonspor Kulübü is a Turkish professional sports club located in the city of Trabzon, located in Black Sea region, northeastern Turkey. Established in 1967 through the merger of several local clubs, Trabzonspor is one of the most prominent Association football, football clubs in Football in Turkey, Turkish history. The men’s football team has won seven Süper Lig championships, making Trabzonspor the first non-Istanbul-based club to achieve this feat in the Turkish football league system, Turkish league system. In addition to their football achievements, Trabzonspor also operates a Trabzonspor (women's football), women’s football team, a Trabzonspor B.K., men’s basketball team, and several other sports branches, reinforcing its status as a multi-sport club. Trabzonspor rose to prominence in the 1970s and 1980s, dominating Football in Turkey, Turkish football with six league titles between the 1975–76 1.Lig, 1975–76 and 1983–84 1.Lig, 1983–84 seasons. This golden ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
NK Junak Sinj
Nogometni Klub Junak Sinj (''Football Club Junak Sinj''), commonly referred to as Junak Sinj or just Junak, is a professional Croatian football club based in the town of Sinj, in the southern Croatian region of Dalmatia. They currently compete in the Croatian Third Football League. Junak play their home matches at the 3,096-seated Gradski stadion Sinj (). History NK Junak Sinj was founded on 18 July 1916. For a brief period between 1922 and 1924 the club was called ''Velebit''. The club was established by university students from Sinj who had been introduced to football in cities such as Split and Zagreb and who decided to form a club in their hometown. The name ''Junak'' () was chosen as a reply to ''Hajduk'' (), as in Hajduk Split Hrvatski Nogometni klub Hajduk Split, commonly referred to as Hajduk Split (), is a Croatian professional football club based in Split, that competes in the Croatian First League, the top tier in Croatian football. Since 1979, the club's home ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robert Jarni
Robert Jarni (born 26 October 1968) is a Croatian former professional footballer who played as a left winger or wingback. Jarni started his professional career with Hajduk Split in 1986, and went on to spend 10 years playing for various clubs in Italy and Spain before finishing his career as a player in Greece with Panathinaikos in 2002. He was a regular in the Croatia national football team between 1990 and 2002, winning a total of 80 international caps for Croatia and being the national team's record cap holder until June 2006, when his record was beaten by Dario Šimić. Prior to Croatia's independence, he also won seven international caps for the Yugoslavia. Jarni participated in three FIFA World Cups, in 1990 with Yugoslavia and in 1998 and 2002 with Croatia, making a total of eleven appearances in the competition. The crowning moment of his career was the 1998 World Cup in France, where he appeared in all of Croatia's seven matches at the tournament and helped them win ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
NK Zagreb
Nogometni klub Zagreb (''Zagreb Football Club''), commonly known as NK Zagreb or simply Zagreb (), is a Croatian football club based in the capital city of Zagreb. It currently competes in the fifth tier league competition of Croatian football league system, ''Četvrta nogometna liga Središte Zagreb podskupina A'' in Croatian (''Fourth football league Region Zagreb division A'') since the 2021–22 season and the revision of league in preparation for structure reorganization in a men's league system of Croatian football league system starting from 2022–23 which also led to labeling changes for the league levels. The club was founded in 1908 as HŠK Zagreb, meaning Hrvatski športski klub Zagreb (''Croatian Athletic Club Zagreb''). After World War II NK Zagreb had a considerable success in former Yugoslavia being enlisted as a notable club (at least 10 top-flight seasons or at least one title) in the Yugoslav First League. Zagreb played a total of 18 seasons in the top fl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
NK Međimurje
NK Međimurje is a Croatian football club based in Čakovec. The club is named after Međimurje, the region in northern Croatia where the city of Čakovec is located. The club plays their home games at the Stadion SRC Mladost, Čakovec, which has a total capacity of approximately 6,000. The club's supporters' group is known as the Angels. History The club was founded in June 2003 and started to compete in the Croatian Second League, where they replaced NK Omladinac, a club based in the Čakovec suburb of Novo Selo Rok. They finished top of the league at the end of the 2003–04 season, clinching promotion to the Croatian First League. They started their first season in the top flight with three defeats in their opening three matches, before beating Zagreb 1–0 on the road on Day 4 to clinch their first win of the season. However, they continued to experience very little success after that, only grabbing two further wins in the following 18 matches and being bottom of the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Josip Balatinac
Josip Balatinac (born 7 March 1979) is a Croatian retired football midfielder. Club career In 1997 Balatinac joined NK Osijek coming through youth ranks of famous Osijek youth football academy. He spent nine seasons with NK Osijek where he gradually became one of the best players, earning a national team cap. In the summer of 2006 Balatinac was supposed to join SV Pasching. It's still unclear if Balatinac signed the contract and then went AWOL or if he never even signed for Austrian team. However, Balatinac came back from Austria after few days claiming he's homesick and continue to prepare for new season with NK Osijek. Few weeks afterwards he signed with Hajduk Split. The club's financial problems lead to the club owing Balatinac several wages, and he filed for termination of his contract in early 2007, which was approved in the November of that year. He signed with the Druga HNL side NK Hrvatski Dragovoljac where he spent the rest of the 2007/08 season. Subsequently he all bu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
NK Varaždin (1931–2015)
Varaždinski športski nogometni klub Varaždin (), commonly referred to as VŠNK Varaždin or simply Varaždin, was a Croatian football club based in the city of Varaždin in the north of the country. For the majority of its existence between 1958 and 2010, the club was known as NK Varteks, honouring the name of its principal sponsor, a local textile factory. The club spent its entire history in the Yugoslav era in lower-tier divisions. However, after Croatia's independence in 1991 and the formation of the Croatian First Football League Varteks established themselves as one of the stronger sides in the new national top level. Varteks spent the next 21 seasons in Croatia's top league, finishing third three times, and reaching the national cup final on six occasions. During this period, the club also regularly played European football, with their biggest successes in the 1998–99 season, when they reached the quarter-final of the UEFA Cup Winners' Cup, and in the 2001–02 seaso ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tonči Gabrić
Tonči Gabrić (11 November 1961 – 28 October 2024) was a Croatian professional footballer who played as a goalkeeper. Club career Gabrić started his career in RNK Split. He played for Čelik Zenica before moving to HNK Rijeka where he was the team captain. After the dissolution of Yugoslavia, he played in Greece with PAOK, before returning to Croatia where he played for Pazinka for a season, before ending his career at Hajduk Split. International career Gabrić made his debut for Croatia in an October 1990 friendly match against the United States, coming on as a 70th-minute substitute for Dražen Ladić. As Croatia was still part of Yugoslavia at the time, the game is deemed unofficial. He earned a total of nine caps (two of them unofficial). He was the regular reserve goalkeeper of the national team between 1990 and 1997 and was part of the Euro 1996 squad. His final international was the September 1997 World Cup qualification match away against Denmark. Personal l ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Futsal
Futsal is a variant of association football played between two teams of five players each on a court smaller than a football pitch. Its rules are based on the Laws of the Game (association football), Laws of the Game of association football, and it also shares similarities with five-a-side football and indoor soccer. Futsal is played between two teams of five players each, one of whom is the goalkeeper. The players mainly use their feet to propel a ball around the court with the objective of Scoring in association football, scoring goals against the opposing team by moving the ball beyond the goal line into the opposing team's Goal (sports), goal. A futsal match consists of two periods of 20 minutes, and the team that scores more goals wins; an equal number of goals scored results in a Tie (draw)#Association football, draw. Futsal is played with a smaller and heavier ball than association football, and usually indoors on a hardcourt surface marked by lines. The playing surface, ba ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Midfielder
In the sport of association football, a midfielder takes an Glossary of association football terms#O, outfield position primarily in the middle of the pitch. Midfielders may play an exclusively defensive role, breaking up attacks, and are in that case known as defensive midfielders. As #Central midfielder, central midfielders often go across boundaries, with mobility and passing ability, they are often referred to as deep-lying midfielders, play-makers, box-to-box midfielders, or holding midfielders. There are also attacking midfielders with limited defensive assignments. The size of midfield units on a team and their assigned roles depend on which Formation (association football), formation is used; the unit of these players on the pitch is commonly referred to as the midfield. Its name derives from the fact that midfield units typically make up the in-between units to the Defender (association football), defensive units and Forward (association football), forward units of a F ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Association Football
Association football, more commonly known as football or soccer, is a team sport played between two teams of 11 Football player, players who almost exclusively use their feet to propel a Ball (association football), ball around a rectangular field called a Football pitch, pitch. The objective of the game is to Scoring in association football, score more goals than the opposing team by moving the ball beyond the goal line into a rectangular-framed Goal (sport), goal defended by the opposing team. Traditionally, the game has been played over two 45-minute halves, for a total match time of 90 minutes. With an estimated 250 million players active in over 200 countries and territories, it is the world's most popular sport. Association football is played in accordance with the Laws of the Game (association football), Laws of the Game, a set of rules that has been in effect since 1863 and maintained by the International Football Association Board, IFAB since 1886. The game is pla ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Croatia National Football Team
The Croatia national football team () represents Croatia in men's international Association football, football matches. It is governed by the Croatian Football Federation (HNS), the governing body for football in Croatia. It is a member of UEFA in Europe and FIFA in global competitions. The team's colours reference two national symbols: the Croatian checkerboard and the Flag of Croatia, country's tricolour. They are colloquially known as the (Blazers) and (Checkered Ones). Since 2000, the have qualified for every major tournament except UEFA Euro 2000 and the 2010 FIFA World Cup. At the FIFA World Cup, World Cup, Croatia has finished second once (2018 FIFA World Cup, 2018) and third on two occasions (1998 FIFA World Cup, 1998, 2022 FIFA World Cup, 2022), securing three World Cup medals. Davor Šuker won the FIFA World Cup awards, Golden Shoe and the FIFA World Cup awards, Silver Ball in 1998, while Luka Modrić won the FIFA World Cup awards, Golden Ball in 2018 and the FIFA ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
