Ivica Grlić

Ivica Grlić (2013 )

Ivica Grlić [ iʋitsa gr̩litɕ ] ( born August 6 1975 in Munich ) is a former Bosnian Herzegovinian footballer and current football official.

Career

He played in his youth at Bayern Munich and TSV 1860 Munich. His professional career began in 1997 at Grlić SC Fortuna Köln, then moved in 2000 to local rivals 1.FC Cologne to go only a year later for Alemannia Aachen. With Aachen, he was in 2004 in the DFB Cup final against Werder Bremen.

Since 2004, the midfielder played for MSV Duisburg. Since the beginning of the season 2007/2008 he was captain of MSV Duisburg, but was replaced at the beginning of the season 2009/2010 by Björn silts and was under coach Peter Neururer no more regulars. In October 2011 he had to end his career due to a knee injury.

On 3 September 2007 Grlić resigned from the national team of Bosnia and Herzegovina, for which he had played 16 games to date. In qualifying for the 2008 European Championships Grlić had only two missions recorded (both in October 2006 at the draw in Moldova and in the home defeat against Greece).

Because of its great popularity at the Duisburg audience, it is the stated desire of the association to involve Grlić even after his active career in the association's work. He has worked both as a player and as team manager of MSV Duisburg as early as the 2010/2011 season. His contract was extended until 2013. During the season 2011/2012 Grlic announced that he must end his career due to persistent problems with his knee. He will continue to work as a team manager for the club.

The most popular player of the MSV Duisburg were chosen of all time on the website of MSV in the season 2010/2011 a total of 50,000 fans. Ivica Grlić occupied while the 4th place and thus is behind MSV legends Bernard Dietz ( 1st place), Bachirou Salou ( 2nd place ) and Michael Tönnies (3rd place).

After a leave of absence from coach Milan Šašić 28 October 2011 Grlić was appointed as the new sporting director.

On August 25, 2012, he took over after the dismissal of head coach Oliver Reck interim whose term of office. Then he asked Kosta Runjaic as the new head coach of the " zebras " ultimately led from the relegation zone to 11th place.

After the second division season 2012/13 MSV Duisburg got no license for the coming season. With few exceptions, all the players left, and Runjaic, the forced relegation. Grlic hesitated a long time because his contract was only for the 2nd Bundesliga. Previously, however, than any other employee who remained after the relegation of MSV to Grlic decided on a new contract until the end of the 2015 season / 16th In an open letter to the fans on the homepage of the association he founded his reply with the words: " In my last game I was with, Ivo, you're adopted a Duisburger' chants - today I want to prove that these were not empty words. "

Achievements

• DFB Cup finalists: 2004, 2011