Srećko Bogdan

Srecko Bogdan ( born January 5, 1957 in Mursko Središće ) is a former Croatian football player and football coach.

Career

Bogdan began his career in his hometown with Rudar Mursko Središće and moved in 1973 to MTC Čakovec. In January 1975, he joined the Croatian giants Dinamo Zagreb and played there for the next ten years. For Dinamo Zagreb he played a total of 595 duty games, scoring 125 goals. He ranks third in the list of players with the most stakes in the club's history.

Bogdan changed in 1985 from Dinamo Zagreb for which the 28 -year-old already around 600 games had denied, for a transfer fee of 150,000 DM at that second division club Karlsruher SC. There he became a defensive organizer immediately to the regulars and completed all 38 games of the season 1985 / 86th In the following season, under coach Winfried Schaefer, from 1986 Trainer of the KSC, he went with the team to the Bundesliga and has been instrumental in the success of the KSC in subsequent seasons of the 6th place in the 1992/93 season and the associated initial qualification for the UEFA Cup found its climax involved. In last season's game on June 5, 1993 as compared Dortmund ( 3-0) came Bogdan, who had an injury sidelined long this season and only 10 games completed, last time used.

Bogdan graduated from 1985-1993 a total of 75 second-division and 170 top-flight appearances for the KSC, scoring 13 and 8 goals. He also played for the Yugoslav national football team between 1977 and 1983, even before his time in Karlsruhe, eleven internationals, the last against Germany.

The 1.83 m wide central defender was distinguished among other things by his heading ability, which he knew to use even with advances in the penalty box. Bogdan is, in the words of former KSC President Schmider, "an absolute model sporty, as well as human," Shepherd coach estimated Bogdan, who wore the captain's armband at the Badeners as a liaison between coach and team.

After his retirement Bogdan initially worked until 2000 as a coach and coordinator of KSC youth teams as well as co- trainer of Winfried Schaefer. He was in season 2005/ 06 coach of the Croatian club Inter Zaprešić, the descent in the 2006/07 season from the top Croatian league ( 1 HNL). From the beginning of 2007, he was coach of Segesta Sisak, with which he ascended to the second division at the end of the 2006/07 season, but was released in late 2008 by coaching job. In the 2009/10 season he coached the team NK Međimurje Čakovec in the second league.