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Ivica Banović (born 2 August 1980) is a Croatian former professional
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who played as a
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. An
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youth product, he spent most of his career in Germany. At international level, he earned two caps with the Croatia national team.


Club career


NK Zagreb

Born in
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, Banović began to play football at
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when he was 6 years old and subsequently spent his entire youth career with the club, eventually being added to their first team in the summer of 1997. He went on to play in the Croatian First League with the club during the following three seasons. After making 11 domestic league appearances in his first season as a professional, he went on to find his place as a regular with NK Zagreb. During the following two seasons, he made a total of 52 domestic league appearances and scored a total of nine domestic league goals for the club, eight of which came during the 1999–2000 season.


Werder Bremen

In the summer of 2000, Banović left NK Zagreb for a record outgoing transfer fee of DM 3.7 million (about €1.9 million) for German
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side
Werder Bremen Sportverein Werder Bremen von 1899 e. V. (), commonly known as Werder Bremen, Werder or simply Bremen, is a German professional sports club based in Bremen. Founded on 4 February 1899, Werder are best known for their professional association foo ...
. Banović made his Bundesliga debut in Werder Bremen's 3–3 draw at home to
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on 14 October 2000, coming on as a substitute for Dieter Eilts in the 58th minute. He went on to make a total of 17 Bundesliga appearances in his first season with Bremen, without scoring any goals. He eventually scored his first Bundesliga goal in his third league appearance of the 2001–02 season, netting the opening goal in Bremen's 2–1 defeat at
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on 9 September 2001. It was his only goal of the season, which he once again finished with a total of 17 Bundesliga appearances on his tally. He went on to make another 15 Bundesliga appearances during the following season in 2002–03, scoring his second Bundesliga goal for Bremen in their 2–0 win at home to
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on 8 March 2003. However, he lost his place in the first team during the 2003–04 season, only appearing in three Bundesliga matches that season. He did, however, score one more goal for the club's first team, netting their seventh goal in a 9–1 win at
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in the first round of the
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. Although the club won the league that season, his contribution to the achievement was minimal, as all of his three Bundesliga appearances of the season came in the first five matches. His final appearance for Bremen's first team came in the German Cup in December 2003. Eventually finding himself relegated to the club's reserve squad, Banović appeared in five
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matches during the spring of 2004. He scored five goals during his five appearances for the reserves, a hat-trick in a 3–3 draw against
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and a brace in a 4–2 win against
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.


1. FC Nürnberg

In the summer of 2004, Banović left Bremen for Bundesliga rivals 1. FC Nürnberg. He scored two goals in his first two Bundesliga matches for Nuremberg, converting a
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to score the opening goal in their 3–1 win at 1. FC Kaiserslautern and netting the equaliser in a 1–1 draw at home to
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. He scored another goal in Nürnberg's 2–2 draw at home to
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in December 2004, converting a penalty to set the final score. He made a total of 22 Bundesliga appearances for Nürnberg in his first season with the club. He went on to make another 23 league appearances during the following season in 2005–2006, scoring two more goals. His first goal of the season came in a 3–2 defeat at home to
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in October 2005 and his second from a long-range
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in a 3–1 win at Kaiserslautern the following month. During the same season, he also scored two goals in the first two of the club's three matches in the German Cup, before they were knocked out in the round of 16. He made a good start to the 2006–07 Bundesliga season with Nürnberg, assisting in all three goals for a 3–0 win at VfB Stuttgart in the club's opening match of the season. He started all of the club's opening three matches of the Bundesliga season, but later lost his place in the starting line-up. He did, however, continue to play regularly as a substitute until the end of the season. His final season with Nürnberg was statistically nevertheless his most successful in the Bundesliga, with a tally of five goals in 25 appearances. He also helped Nürnberg win the 2006–07 German Cup, making four appearances and scoring the only goal of their away match at
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in the first round. His final appearance for Nürnberg came on 26 May 2007 in the German Cup final against VfB Stuttgart, in which he came off the bench for the final six minutes of
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.


SC Freiburg

The day after the end of the 2006–07 Bundesliga season, it was confirmed that Banović will move to 2. Bundesliga side
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on a free transfer following the expiration of his contract with Nuremberg at the end of June 2007. He signed a two-year contract with the club. Banović quickly established himself as a regular at Freiburg, making his competitive debut against FC Villingen in the first round of the German Cup. He made his league debut against
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in the club's first league match of the season and subsequently only missed one league match during the entire season due to a yellow-card suspension. In only his second appearance in the 2. Bundesliga, he scored his first and only league goal of the season in Freiburg's 1–0 win over SC Paderborn 07. The following season in 2008–09, he made a total of 22 appearances in the 2nd Bundesliga and helped the club finish top of the league, securing promotion to the Bundesliga after four years of playing in the second division. He also scored two league goals for the club during the season, both in April 2009. The first of the two goals came in Freiburg's 2–1 win at
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on 13 April 2009 and the second in their 3–2 win at home to
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a week later. At the end of the season, he extended his contract with Freiburg for another year. Banović started the 2009–10 Bundesliga season as a regular with Freiburg and scored his first goals of the season on 20 September 2009, netting a brace in Freiburg's 4–0 win at
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. Two weeks later, he also scored one goal in Freiburg's 5–2 defeat at
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.


MSV Duisburg

By January 2011, Banović had lost his place in Freiburg's starting formation and was loaned to
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for the rest of the 2010–11 season. He appeared in all but one of the club's matches and scored once. At the end of the season, he returned to Freiburg.


Energie Cottbus

After preparing for the 2011–12 season with
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, but before the season began he transferred back to the 2nd division, joining
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.


Hallescher FC

Banović left Cottbus at the end of the 2013–14 after the club were relegated from the 2. Bundesliga. He signed for
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International career

Between 1996 and 2001, Banović won a total of 25 international caps for the Croatian national under-17, under-19 and under-21 teams, scoring a total of three international goals. His first appearance in the finals of an international youth tournament came at the 1998 European Under-18 Championship in Cyprus, where the team reached the third place after beating
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in
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. In the spring of 1999, Banović was part of the Croatian squad at the
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in Nigeria, where he appeared as a second-half substitute in all of the team's four matches before they were eliminated by
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in the round of 16, also scoring one goal in Croatia's 5–1 victory over
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in their second group match. He also played for the Croatian national under-21 team at the final tournament of the
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in Slovakia. Banović won his first senior international cap for
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as a substitute in their friendly match against
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on 18 August 2004 in
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, which they won 1–0. In October of the same year, he made his only appearance in the
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qualifying, playing as a substitute in the final 14 minutes of Croatia's third qualifying match, in which they were held to a 2–2 draw by
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in
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. After that, he was no longer part of the national team.


Honours

1. FC Nürnberg *
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: 2006–07


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* * * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Banovic, Ivica 1980 births Living people Footballers from Zagreb Croatian men's footballers 21st-century Croatian sportsmen Men's association football midfielders Croatia men's youth international footballers Croatia men's under-21 international footballers Croatia men's international footballers NK Zagreb players SV Werder Bremen players SV Werder Bremen II players 1. FC Nürnberg players SC Freiburg players MSV Duisburg players FC Energie Cottbus players Hallescher FC players SC Freiburg II players Croatian Football League players Bundesliga players 2. Bundesliga players 3. Liga players Croatian expatriate men's footballers Croatian expatriate sportspeople in Germany Expatriate men's footballers in Germany