Fredi Bobic
Fredi Bobic ( Slovenian: Fredi Bobic ) ( born October 30, 1971 in Maribor, Yugoslavia ) is a former German football player. He is since 2010 director of sport VfB Stuttgart and since April 2013 as the Board Sports Board Member of the Association.
- 3.1 Manager Career
Childhood and youth
Fredi Bobic has a Slovenian father and a Croatian mother. With his parents he moved shortly after his birth from the Federal Republic of Germany, where he grew up in Stuttgart-Bad Cannstatt in Hallschlag district. In 1979 he started in the youth of the VfR Bad Cannstatt with the football matches, from where he moved to the youth of VfB Stuttgart 1980. After six years he left the VfB towards the competitors Stuttgarter Kickers, with the A- youth he was DFB Cup winners, what he referred to as his greatest success in the youth field. His footballing role models in childhood and adolescence were Hansi Müller and Marco van Basten. Bobic is a trained retail salesman; after his career as a professional footballer, he completed a training course in football management. Due to the origin of his parents Bobic learned Serbo-Croatian language. In addition, he is fluent in German, English and some French.
Career
Club football
Bobic began his career at the TSF Ditzingen. In the 1991/92 season he was top scorer with 19 goals the Oberliga Baden- Württemberg. Then he moved to the 2nd Bundesliga to the Stuttgarter Kickers (1992-1994 ) in 62 games for which he met 26 times.
He then transferred to the 1st Bundesliga for VfB Stuttgart, for whom he made his debut on the opening day of the 1994/95 season in the game against Hamburger SV. After coming off the bench in the 73rd minute Bobic scored in the last minute of the 2-1 victory for VfB. Thus began his professional career, which probably had its peak at the time of the " Magic Triangle " with Krassimir Balakov and Giovane Élber at VfB Stuttgart. This trio made the mid-90s quite a stir in the Bundesliga.
In 1999 he moved to Borussia Dortmund, where he scored 17 goals in his first two seasons in 53 games. In the first half of the season 2001 /02 Bobic came only three times for use as coach Matthias Sammer put it on instead of the striker Márcio Amoroso, Jan Koller and Ewerthon.
Bobic interrupted because of his Bundesliga career for a short spell in the English Premier League. He was loaned out for the second half of the Bolton Wanderers, for whom he scored four goals in 15 games.
A few hours before the end of the transfer period in the summer of 2002 changed Bobic from Borussia Dortmund to the Bundesliga newly promoted Hannover 96 with 14 goals this season he had called decisive role in the relegation of the club and was rewarded with his strong performances by coach Rudi Voeller after four years of absence, the national team again.
After the 2002/ 03 season Bobic moved to Hertha BSC, where, however, he was unable to repeat his performance from the previous season. After his involvement in Berlin, he spent several months vertragslos. As of 25 January 2006, he played for the Croatian club HNK Rijeka and finished in the summer after season end his active career. In the final first leg of the Croatian Football Cup 2005/ 06 Bobic scored against NK Varaždin the hit to make it 4-0 final score by the Rijeka despite the 1:5 - leg defeat on the away goals rule, the Hrvatski Nogometni kup won.
As a club player, he completed 62 games in the Bundesliga 2 (26 goals), 285 games in the Bundesliga 1 (108 goals), 15 games in the English Premier League ( 4 goals) and 8 games in the Prva HNL, the first Croatian League ( 2 goals).
National
For the national team, he completed between 1994 and 1998 as well as 2002 and 2004, 37 games in which he scored ten goals. His first international game, he completed on 12 October 1994 in Budapest against Hungary. He was nominated by national coach Berti Vogts for the European Football Championship in England in 1996, when he came against the Czech Republic and Italy, and in the quarter-final match against Croatia in the preliminaries used. Bobic played under Vogts 19 times wearing the national jersey and scored two goals before he played his last match for the time being against Saudi Arabia on February 22, 1998. His comeback he celebrated after good performances in the Bundesliga with Hannover 96 under coach Rudi Voeller in a friendly match against the Netherlands in late 2002, in which he also the only German goal was scored ( Score: 1:3). Then he was again an integral part of the national team and an important player in the European Championship qualifiers. In the 18 international matches under Rudi Völler Bobic scored eight goals. Bobic took with the national team at the 2004 European Championships in Portugal in part, in which he was used in the preliminary games against the Netherlands and against Latvia, but has seen no scoring. After the European Championship and the resignation Rudi Völler Bobic was not called to the national team, to want what the one hand, integrate the national team with the motivation of the new national coach Jürgen Klinsmann, young players, on the other hand, was related to poor performance at Hertha BSC. Thus its use against Latvia was on 19 June 2004, his last in the national jersey.
Achievements
Club teams
- DFB Cup winners ( 1): 1997 with VfB Stuttgart
- European Cup Winners' Cup finalists ( 1): 1998 with VfB Stuttgart
- DFL League Cup finalists (2): 1997, 1998 with VfB Stuttgart
- German master (1): 2001/ 02 * with Borussia Dortmund
- UEFA Cup finalists (1): 2001/ 02 * with Borussia Dortmund
- Croatian Cup Winner ( 1): 2006 with HNK Rijeka
National
- European champions ( 1): 1996
Awards
- Bundesliga top scorer ( 1): 1996
- Most efficient footballer (1): 2003
- Goal of the Month ( 1): May 1996
After the active career
On 11 June 2005 Fredi Bobic has been named in recognition of its commitment to the Foundation " Help for Helpers " by the President of the German Firefighters Association, Hans -Peter Kroeger, the " Ambassador of the fire departments ."
In 2006 he began an apprenticeship as a presenter at the DSF. In the 06/07 season he moved the pay-TV broadcaster Premiere on the expert team.
In 2007 he made an appearance in the music video from the same star of I I with the words "We are all made of stardust ." As early as 1997 he had the tragic triangle added to Gerhard Poschner and Marco Haber under the name of a CD single titled Stand. In addition, a music video was filmed.
In 2008 he played with in the series Torpiraten the television station Nickelodeon. There he was the head of the Committee of the Champions Cup.
In addition, Bobic was football expert for the Austrian private channel ATV on some Bundesliga matchdays.
Manager career
From the end of March 2009 to July 2010 Bobic was Managing Director of Sports and Marketing at the Bulgarian club Chernomorets Burgas. Originally his contract had been valid until the summer of 2014, together with coach Balakov he should lead the club into the national top.
On 27 July 2010, Bobic sports director of the VfB Stuttgart. He extended 20 January 2012 his contract until the end of June 2016. On April 10, 2013, he was appointed with immediate effect as " Sport Board " the board of the VfB Stuttgart.
Private
Bobic is married and has two daughters. In addition to football, he is also interested very interested in other sports such as basketball or American football. Bobic operates with his advisor Jürgen Schwab in winter creek in the Rems Valley (Baden- Württemberg) is a sports shop.