Mladen Petrić
Mladen Petric, 2009
Mladen Petric [ mladɛn pɛ tritɕ ː ] ( born January 1, 1981 in Brčko, Yugoslavia, now Bosnia and Herzegovina) is a Croatian football player who also has Swiss nationality.
Career
Association
Petric's career as a professional began at FC Baden, for which he had already played in youth. Previously, he had been training in Neuenhof, where he also grew up. For the 1999/2000 season he moved to Grasshopper Club Zurich, with the 2001 and 2003 he won the Swiss Championship. From the 2004/05 season played Petric FC Basel and was also here in 2005 champions. In May 2007, he brought with FC Basel in Bern also the Swiss Cup. Despite a lengthy ankle injury, the 2006/07 season is considered the best in his career: He was Swiss scorer with 19 goals, even though he could deny only 25 league games, and was voted the best player of the season. In addition, he held the UEFA Cup match against AS Nancy at the score of 2-2 in the second minute of stoppage time a penalty when he acted as a goalkeeper for the last few seconds of the match after a red card against goalkeeper Franco Costanzo.
For the season 2007/ 08 he moved to the German Bundesliga to Borussia Dortmund; on the transfer fee also participated in the Grasshopper Club Zurich, who had a share of the transfer fee for resale secured at Petrics change to Basel. The transfer fee was estimated to be approximately € 3.5 million. With the BVB he reached the DFB Cup final against Bayern Munich, in which he scored the meantime it 1-1 in stoppage time of the second half in his first season. The game lost Borussia Dortmund ultimately in the extension with 1:2.
Immediately at the start of the 2008 /09 changed Petric in the Bundesliga for Hamburger SV. In return, Mohamed Zidan joined the BVB; also ran an additional transfer fee in the amount of the estimated 4.5 million € to Dortmund. In Hamburg Petric regular players and performers. 2009 and 2010 he reached the semi-finals with the team of the UEFA Cup or UEFA Europa League. His first Bundesliga hat-trick scored Petric 6-2 victory against 1 FC Cologne.
The end of the season expiring contract with Petric was not renewed by the Hamburger SV. Petric had in his time " outstanding achievements brought " at HSV and " goal " shot, as sporting director Frank Arnesen. However, the club wanted to do in the future " emphasis on young players place " and the " streamline salary structures ". On 33 Round Petric was officially adopted after reaching the Class preservation after his last home game.
For the 2012/13 season, the English first division side FC Fulham Petric committed with a contract term of more than one year. He worked there with coach Martin Jol, who had trained him for a year in Hamburg. His debut in the Premier League was Petric on 18 August 2012 ( 1st Round ). With a brace he wore in the 5-0 home win against Norwich City. Petric extended his contract at his own request not because it its operating times were too low.
On September 10, 2013 he signed a contract until the end of the season at West Ham United. On December 30, 2013 the contract was re-dissolved, as Petric had only run three short assignments and so could not draw attention to themselves for a World Cup nomination.
On January 9, 2014 Petric undertook the Greek club Panathinaikos Athens, in which his former teammate Marcus Berg of Hamburg is under contract until 30 June 2015.
National
His first cap for the Croatian national team, he played in November 2001., But he belonged to the assumption of office of the current coach Slaven Bilic not shortlisted in the summer of 2006. With seven goals scored for his country, he was one of the best goal scorers during the qualifying round of the European Football Championship 2008. He shot among other things, the crucial 3-2 win over England, which the English team could not qualify for the finals.
He was also active for the Swiss and the Croatian U- 21 team and participated in the U-21 European Championship 2004 in Germany part.
Achievements
Title
- Swiss champion: 2001, 2003, 2005
- Swiss Cup winners: 2007
- Watches Cup winner: 2006
- DFB Cup finalists: 2008
Awards
- Swiss Axpo Super League top scorer: 2007
Social Commitment
Petric is committed to World Vision Germany, for example, as the inspiration for a child from Bolivia or by actions such as the auctioning of his shoes.
Family
Mladen Petric is married to a Greek woman and has a daughter.