Ivica OliÄ‡

Ivica Olic, 2010

Ivica Olic [ iʋitsa ɔ ː litɕ ] ( born September 14, 1979 in Prior, SFR Yugoslavia) is a Croatian football player who is under contract with VfL Wolfsburg since 2012.

Career

Clubs

Ivica Olic began his career as a 17 -year-old at NK Marsonia Slavonski Brod. In 1998 he signed with Inter Milan, but was not allowed to be used, the then 18 -year-old in official matches. Inter high compensation to the Croatian Football Association or to Olićs home club would have to pay. It was not until January 1, 1999, he would have gotten a free player eligibility. Because Inter did not pay and Olic did not want to wait, he accepted an offer from the Bundesliga club Hertha BSC. The Berlin transferred DM 600,000 to Croatia. So he moved to Germany in October 1998. There he came only two appearances in the Bundesliga and therefore returned in 2000 returned to his former club. After two seasons, he subsequently moved to NK Zagreb, later to Dinamo Zagreb, with whom he won three titles and ascended to the national team.

In 2003 he moved to Russia for the first division club CSKA Moscow, in which he experienced his hitherto successful time in four years. With CSKA he won the 2005 UEFA Cup; in the final he was in the 67th minute Milos Krasic replaced.

Olic has been committed for a transfer fee of around two million euros from Hamburger SV and was eligible to play for the second half of the season 2006/ 07. In 15 games, he scored five goals and contributed to the fact that the HSV after initial danger of relegation still finished in seventh place in the table. After he had met in the first nine games of the season 2007/ 08 only once, him on 20 October 2007 (10th Round ) succeeded against the champions VfB Stuttgart HSV as the first player in the Bundesliga hat-trick. The shoes with which he managed the hat-trick, he donated later to the HSV- Museum. At the end of the season he was the top scorer with 14 goals of HSV.

For the 2009/10 season Olic joined free transfer to Bayern Munich. He played his first game for Bayern Munich on 8 August 2009 (1st Round ) over TSG 1899 Hoffenheim; in the 1-1 draw, he scored the opening goal. Olic reached after only a short time in the starting lineup of Bavaria. On 27 April 2010 he scored in the 3-0 win his side all three goals in the semi-final match of the Champions League season 2009/10 against Olympique Lyon. Already in the quarter-finals against Manchester United he had met twice and thus share in reaching the final, which was lost 0-2 against Inter Milan. With a total of seven goals he finally was on second place in the CL- scorer behind Lionel Messi. Also in the Bundesliga and the DFB - Pokal, he met and won at the end of the season with his team, the Double.

Bad luck Olic in the season 2010/11. After he had been at the beginning of the season several times with knee problems and a broken nose, which he had suffered on 9 October 2010 in the match against the choice of Israel, failed, he was operated on the knee in November due to severe lateral meniscal injury and cartilage damage. Thus he fell out of a total of eight months, and so until season's end. He came into this season to only six Bundesliga appearances.

For the 2012/13 season changed Olic for VfL Wolfsburg. He signed a valid contract until 30 June 2014.

National

On 13 February 2002 Olic debuted in the senior team, which achieved a goalless draw in the Test match against the selection of Bulgaria in Rijeka. He participated in the 2002 World Cup in Japan and South Korea in part, was used twice, scored a goal and was eliminated with the team however after the first round of the tournament. He then participated in the 2004 European Championships in Portugal, the 2006 World Cup in Germany and the 2008 European Championship in Austria and Switzerland. With the 3-2 victory in the final qualifier on 21 November 2007 against England and to the Olić the deficit to 2-0 between temporal helped the national team reached the part in the 2008 European Championships.

His goal for interim 2-0 2-1 victory in the match against the selection of Germany on 12 June 2008 meant the group victory in the European Championship 2008. For the European Championship 2012, he was nominated again, but said a few days before the start of the tournament due to from a thigh injury.

Achievements

Clubs

Croatian Cup: 2002, 2003
Croatian Supercup: 2002
Russian Cup: 2003, 2005, 2006
Russian Super Cup: 2004, 2006
UEFA Cup: 2005
German Cup: 2010
DFB Cup: 2010
Champions League Runners-up: 2010, 2012
DFL - Supercup: 2010

National

Quarter-finalists of the 2008 European

Awards

Croatia's Young Player of the Year: 2001
Best player of the Croatian League: 2002, 2003
Bundesliga Player of the Month: October 2007
Goal of the Month: November 2008, March 2013
Croatian Footballer of the Year: 2009, 2010
HNL- scorer: 2002, 2003

Others

Ivica Olic is married. His wife, a native of Berlin, he learned during his time know at Hertha BSC. In 2009 he lived in Hohenbrunn near Munich. Together the couple has two sons and a daughter.

His grandfather worked as guest workers in Germany.

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