Mladen Petrić ( Croatian Mladen Petrić ; January 1, 1981, Dubrave village near Brcko , Bosnia and Herzegovina ) - Croatian footballer. He played for the Croatian team .
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| Weight | 81 kg | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Position | attack | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Biography
Early years
Born in the village of Dubrava, near Brcko , Bosnia and Herzegovina. Soon the Petrich family moved to the Croatian city of Vinkovci , and with the start of the war in Yugoslavia, she was forced to move to Switzerland, the city of Neuenhof .
Club career
Mladen Petrich started playing football at the local " Neuenhof ", and since 1996 at the club " Baden ", with which he signed his first professional contract in the summer of 1998. A year later, in the summer of 1999, Petrich went to the famous club “ Grasshopper ” from Zurich.
At the club level, Petrich spent five seasons for Grasshopper, after which in the summer of 2004 he moved to Basel . This transition provoked a wave of criticism among Basel fans, as shortly before, during the Grasshopper celebration of his champion title, Petrich publicly burned the Basel color scarf, a principal rival of the Zurich club. Nevertheless, the transfer for the sum of 3 million euros did take place, and Mladen Petrich signed a four-year contract with Basel.
In Basel, Petrich became one of the top scorers in the 2005/06 Swiss Championship with 15 goals in 31 matches. In the same season, he took part in all 12 matches played by Basel in the UEFA Cup , reaching the quarterfinal stage of the tournament. In the 2006/07 season, the footballer continued his successful performance for the club. In the 2006/07 UEFA Cup first round match, Petrich scored a goal against the Macedonian team “ Rabotnichki ” (6-2 in favor of Basel).
On November 23, 2006, at the very end of the final match in the group stage of the UEFA Cup against Nancy , Basel goalkeeper Franco Costanzo was dismissed for a foul of last resort and was awarded a penalty kick. The limit of substitutions for the Swiss was by that time exhausted, Mladen Petrich got up at the gate and managed to reflect a penalty, thereby bringing his club a draw - 2: 2 [2] .
In the 2006/07 season, Mladen Petrich became the top scorer in the Swiss Championship (19 goals). On June 11, 2007, he signed a contract with the German Bundesliga club “Borussia” Dortmund . As part of Borussia, Mladen spent one season in which he scored 13 goals in 29 matches.
On August 17, 2008, Mladen signed a four-year contract with another German club, Hamburg , and Borussia exchanged Petritsch for forward Hammer’s forward Mohamed Zidane for a Hamburg player.
In January 2014 he moved to the Greek club " Panathinaikos " [3]
Career in the national team
In 2001, the head coach of the Croatian national team Mirko Jozich invited Mladen Petritsch to the national team, in which he made his debut in November 2001 during a tour of South Korea, where the Croats played two friendly matches with the national team of this country , and Petrich went to both matches to replace. However, Petrich was not included in the application list of the Croatian national team for the 2002 World Cup . Petrich scored his first goal for the national team on August 21, 2002 against the gates of the Wales national team in a friendly match that was played in Varazdin and ended in a draw - 1: 1. Soon, the footballer played in his first official match for the national team, coming on as a substitute in the first match of the qualifying round of the 2004 European Championship , against the Estonian national team , but after this match Petrich was not called up to the national team for more than three years.
In 2006, Mladen Petrich returned to the Croatian national team, entering the field in friendly matches with South Korean and Argentine national teams. Petrich was not included in the final composition of the team that went to Germany for the 2006 World Cup , and remained among the candidates.
In August 2006, the new head coach of the Croatian national team, Slaven Bilic, invited Petritsch to his team for a friendly match with the Italian national team , in which the football player came off the bench in the second half. Later Petrich took part in 8 of 10 qualifying matches of the 2008 European Championship . In the match against the national team of Andorra (October 7, 2006), Petrich, having spent 60 minutes on the field, scored 4 goals against his opponent, thus becoming the first Croatian player to score 4 goals in one match. The game ended with a score of 7: 0, which was the largest national team victory in history.
On November 21, 2007, in the final match of the qualifying round of the 2008 European Championship, Mladen Petrich scored the third, decisive goal from the left foot of the England team against Wembley , bringing his team-winning victory with a score of 3: 2. This victory, the Croats led the Russian team in the number of participants in the European championship .
Euro 2012 missed due to injury.
Petrich played the last match for the national team on February 6, 2013 against the national team of South Korea , in which he scored with a goal scored.
Achievements
Team
Grasshopper
- Champion of Switzerland : 2001, 2003
Basel
- Swiss Champion : 2005
- Swiss Cup Winner: 2007
Panathinaikos
- Greek Cup Winner: 2014
Personal
- Top scorer of the championship of Switzerland: 2007 (19 goals)
Sources
- ↑ Transfermarkt.com - 2000.
- ↑ See the video.
- Παίκτης του Παναθηναϊκού ο Petric. (Greek) . pao.gr. The appeal date is January 9, 2014.
Links
- Mladen Petritsch official website (English)
- Profile on FootballDatabase.com (English)
- Profile on National Football Teams (English)
- Profile on the site Soccerway (eng.)