Ivan Rakitić
Ivan Rakitić [ iʋan rakititɕ ] ( born March 10, 1988 in Rheinfelden, Switzerland ) is a Croatian football player. Since 2011 he is at FC Sevilla under contract. He holds a Croatian and a Swiss passport.
Career
Clubs
Rakitić moved in 1995 from FC to FC Basel Möhlin - Riburg in the U -15 boys team. There he suffered a severe injury that he had to recuperate for seven months. Despite this setback, he continued his footballing career. A year later, when he had advanced in the U-16 FC Basel, he was appointed to the Swiss U-16 national team. When he then graduated from the U-17 Football Championship in Italy in May 2005 as Captain successful, he got after his return to Switzerland, a professional contract until July 2008.
Rakitić completed on 29 September 2005 its first competitive use with the first team in a UEFA Cup match against NK Široki Brijeg. His 29- minute debut in the Swiss Super League he gave on April 15, 2006 in the championship game against Neuchatel Xamax. On 22 October 2006 at the Championship game against FC St. Gallen, he scored his first goal for FC Basel. That goal was voted " Goal of the preliminary round ." For FC Basel he wore the jersey with the number 17
In the course of this season he was promoted to regular player, scoring alone in the nine games in March and April 2007, seven goals. As part of the tenth night of Swiss football on 29 May 2007 at the Kursaal Bern Rakitić was voted best newcomer of the season 2006/ 07. He also received the award for the goal of the year.
For the season 2007/ 08 Rakitić moved to FC Schalke 04 and signed there for four years. In his first Bundesliga game on 10 August 2007 against the previous year's champions VfB Stuttgart, he scored one goal. After the 16th matchday of the season Rakitić drew attention by an unauthorized visit to Disco. He was subsequently suspended League against Rosenborg Trondheim from the squad in the UEFA Champions on the day of the decisive on persistence in European competition game. In the Bundesliga, but he fought his way to a starting place and played in all 17 first round matches for the club.
In January 2011, the Sevilla FC Rakitić committed by 2015., Where he played in the second half in the Spanish Primera División until the fifth final day. Then the season was ended prematurely for him after a foot fracture in the match against UD Almeria.
National
Rakitić has the Croatian and Swiss nationality. He played on the U-16 to U- 21 in the Swiss national youth team; for the latter, he completed four matches and scored one goal.
In June 2007, Rakitić decided to play for the Croatian national football team, which brought him and his family insults and occasional death threats from Switzerland. In Croatia, it also provoked a media response. His debut finally gave in the European Championship qualifier against Estonia on September 8, 2007. Four days later, on 12 September 2007, he scored the 6-0 against Andorra his first international goal. In addition, he was also in the squad for Croatia's Euro 2008 in Austria and Switzerland and the Euro 2012 in Poland and Ukraine.
Achievements
- Swiss Champion: 2005
- Swiss Cup: 2007