Tomislav Marić

Tomislav Marić ( born January 28, 1973 in Heilbronn) is a Croatian football coach and former football player.

• 3.1 Bundesliga games

Playing career

Association

Maric was born in Heilbronn. He is the brother of the also successful football professionals Marijo Marić. He began as a child at TSV Talheim with the football game. About the ESV Heilbronn, Heilbronn and the VfR SpVgg 07 Ludwigsburg he came to Karlsruher SC, for whom he made ​​his debut in the Bundesliga in 1994. After stops in the second division for the SG Wattenscheid 09 and the Stuttgarter Kickers, where Marić with 21 goals was in the 1999/2000 season scorer in the second division, he moved in 2000 to the Bundesliga side VfL ​​Wolfsburg.

In the Bundesliga season 2001 /02 he set a record by Lothar Emmerich by each scored twice on four consecutive game days. With the exception of a loan to Borussia Mönchengladbach in the first half of 2004, he played in the Motor City. VfL the scoring came in the then known as an amateur team 2nd team used. In summer 2005, he joined the Japanese club Urawa Red Diamonds, played there but only until the end of the year and returned in January 2006 back to Germany. At the time he signed the third division TSG 1899 Hoffenheim a contract until 2009 and was a regular player of the team. In the 2007 /08 season Marić was only as a standby professional in the professional squad and received a follow-on contract in the coaching staff.

National

In the years 2002 and 2003 Marić played nine times for the Croatian national football team, scoring two goals. At that time he also came in five games of the European Championship qualifier used and scored a goal in the 4-0 home victory of the Croatian team against Belgium.

Coach and scout career

From the 2008/ 09 season to season 2009/10 he was employed as an assistant coach for solid coaching staff of TSG Hoffenheim. In the summer of 2011, he was Scout at VfB Stuttgart. On August 26, 2013, he was appointed alongside Alfons Higl the assistant coach of the new head coach Thomas Schneider. On March 9, 2014 he was exempted by a persistent negative series along with head coach Thomas Schneider and his co- trainer colleague Alfons Higl of his duties.

Statistics

Bundesliga games

• 85 for VfL Wolfsburg (31 goals)
• 07 for Borussia Mönchengladbach (1 goal )
• 04 for Karlsruher SC