Davor Å uker
Davor Šuker in Portrait
Davor Šuker [ daʋɔr ʃukɛr ] ( born January 1, 1968 in Osijek, SFR Yugoslavia ) is a former Croatian football player and current president of the Croatian Football Federation is ( HNS).
Career
In the home
With 14 years of Croat Davor Šuker occurred at his home club NK Osijek. In 1987, he ran as a 19- year-old for the first time to the attention of the international football world. In the U -20 World Cup in Chile, he was with Yugoslavia World Champion and won the silver shoe. After last season top scorer in Osijek in 1989, he moved to Dinamo Zagreb. Šuker was nominated for the cadres of the Yugoslav national team at the 1990 FIFA World Cup, but had no use during the final round. He was with Zagreb twice runner-up in 1991 and moved abroad. As of July 5, 2012 he was elected president of the Croatian Football Federation HNS.
In Spain
He went to Sevilla, where he though initially influenced the climate and the care of his family negatively. After a weak season Šuker showed 1992/93 an ascending form. For a short time Diego Maradona was his teammate.
In the 1993/94 season he scored on the side of Gabriel Moya, who had come from Atletico Madrid for Sevilla FC, 23 goals. A year later he was able to achieve 17 results. At the European Championships in England in 1996 Šuker played a prominent role. With strong performances Croatia reached the quarterfinals, where they lost to the eventual champions Germany carrier.
After Euro 1996, many clubs wanted to commit the player. Real Madrid won the job for a fee of DM 7 million. The Royal Šuker confirmed the hopes placed in it. In the first year the team was national champion. In 1998, he won the Champions League trophy with Real Madrid and was top scorer with 24 goals; However, in the final against Juventus he was not in the starting line-up.
At the following World Cup, he was with six goals scorer in the World Cup in France. In the quarterfinals, was achieved with a 3-0 win over Germany revenge for the defeat in the Football Championship two years earlier. To hosts France in the semifinals Croatia went through Šuker lead, but France was achieved by two Thuram gates still the finals. At the end of Croatia was third.
In England
Only a year after his triumph as World Cup top scorer in 1999 he had to leave Madrid towards Arsenal. There, however, he could not sit down and was transferred after a year to West Ham United. There, too, things were not going as desired, and he was out of contract at the beginning of the 2001/02 season.
In Germany
In the fall of 2001, he finally accepted an offer of the German Association 1860 München. In Munich, he initially fought for a starting place, but was then ousted by the then rising star Benjamin Lauth from the starting XI.
With the Croatian national team, he still participated in the Football World Cup 2002 in South Korea and Japan; the team but different from in the preliminary round. In 2003 he ended his football career.
Achievements
Title
- Spanish Champion: 1997
- Champions League winner: 1998
- U- 20 World Cup: 1987
- World Cup winner: 1998
- World Cup bronze medalist: 1998
Awards
- Yugoslavian scorer: 1989
- Croatian Footballer of the Year: 1992, 1994, 1995, 1996, 1997, 1998
- World Cup top scorer: 1998
- Member of the FIFA 100
Others
- Šuker has the equipment company S9, which equips several Croatian football clubs and football professionals. It opened in 2001 and a football school in Zagreb and is - especially in Croatia - for charitable purposes a. He directs two more schools in Croatia and one in Cleveland, USA. He also advises foreign tourism companies in Croatia.
- On 5 July 2012, Suker new president of the Croatian Football Federation ( HNS).
- Some family members are active in Germany in football. His cousin Siniša Šuker is now a youth coach at Fortuna Dusseldorf and Sinišas son Damir Šuker actively plays for Rot-Weiss Frankfurt.
Controversial
- In October 2011 Šuker was condemned by the Munich district court to a fine of 8000 euros for embezzlement, which corresponds to a daily rate of 80 euros. Šuker had found on a scheduled flight from Milan to London four ancient Greek gold coins worth 25,000 euros in a storage compartment. Rather than report the discovery, he kept the coins and gave them to a friend in Munich. When they wanted to estimate the value at a gold dealer, also reported in this ad. The Münzfachmann had known that the previous owner of the coins missed his property.
- During his time at Real Madrid Šuker had in 1996 proudly in front of the grave of Ustasha füher Ante Pavelic, posing to be photographed a popular pilgrimage Croatian fascists, and join.