Zlatko KranjÄar
Zlatko Kranjcar [ zlatkɔ kraɲtʃa ː r] ( * November 15, 1956 in Zagreb ) is a former Croatian footballer and current coach.
- 4.1 As a player
- 4.2 As a coach
Playing career
Association
Kranjcar played during his playing career for three different teams. His career began in 1973 at Dinamo Zagreb, where he previously played in the youth teams of the club. With Dinamo Kranjcar could win the 1980 and 1983 Yugoslavian Football Cup. In the first playoff victory in 1980 against FK Partizan Belgrade his team, three years later against FK Sarajevo. In addition, the attacker was the first success with five goals top scorer in the competition and was able to score a goal in the 1-0 first-leg victory. Also in the return game, which ended 1-1 Kranjcar was in the starting lineup of his team. 1982/83 reach the striker even eight goals in the national cup competition, where he scored in the final encounter with two Sarajevo. More important than these two achievements but was winning the first Yugoslav football league in 1982, when they prevailed against FK Red Star Belgrade and HNK Hajduk Split.
In the summer of 1983 Kranjcar moved abroad and signed with SK Rapid Wien. With the Austrian club the attacker was able to gain a lot of titles. 1987 and 1988 you won the national championship in 1984, 1985 and 1987 the trophy. After seven years in Vienna Kranjcar moved in 1990 to the VSE St. Pölten. That same year, the offensive player ended his active career.
National
Kranjcar completed for Yugoslavia in 1977-1983, eleven international matches and scored three goals. He also played in two matches for Croatia, scoring one goal. He was also the team captain in the first international match of Croatia against the United States on 17 October 1990 in Zagreb.
Coaching career
After his career as a player to Kranjcar dedicated to the business as a football coach. He was first in Austria responsible for the SV Wiener field before he soon SK Austria Klagenfurt trained. In Klagenfurt, he could not stop the free fall of the former Erstligamannschaft and a year later he left the club again. Kranjcar pulled it out to his home, where he took over the fate of the HNK Segesta Sisak Erstligaaufsteiger. Kranjcar led the team in 1992/93 to a safe tenth. The following year, the club improved to ninth place. Kranjcar good work remained his former club Dinamo Zagreb, now renamed Croatia Zagreb, does not go unnoticed and we undertook the ex- players as coaches for the 1994 / 95th With one point behind Hajduk Split was Kranjcar runner-up with his new club. For this, they made sure the national cup. In the final NK Varteks Varaždin was defeated 2-0 and 1-0. The following year, they defended this title and became champion. After double it moved Kranjcar back to Austria, where he was coach of FC Linz was briefly. Soon after, he returned to Croatia to train there teams like NK Slaven Koprivnica Belupo, HNK Segesta Sisak again and NK Samobor, without being able to made significant achievements. Only when he again moved to Zagreb Croatia in 1998, the football coach managed the second time after 1996, the Double. Nevertheless, the paths of the two quickly separated again.
1999 attracted the leaders of Al -Masry Club Kranjcar to Egypt. Already in 2000 he signed the Slovenian NK Mura. After a brief interlude, it pulled the trainer into the Croatian homeland where he only NK Marsonia Slavonski Brod trained and soon after the NK Zagreb. With this club he managed in 2002 the big surprise after they became the first team in addition to the dominant clubs NK Dinamo Zagreb and HNK Hajduk Split Croatian champion. With the later playing in Germany striker Ivica Olic, the team also made it the best scorers in the league. With 71 own goals and 24 goals against NK Zagreb was also in these two comparisons, the best team in the league. Despite this success, Kranjcar was responsible for HNK Rijeka league rivals in the 2002/03 season before he returned for a year to NK Zagreb 2003/ 04. However, he was unable to repeat the performance of 2002 with the team.
After disappointing for the Croatian national team running the 2004 European Kranjcar was the successor of Otto Barić. The coach made it with his team ahead of Sweden and Bulgaria to top the group and to participate in the 2006 World Cup in Germany related. Without victory in the first round, the team retired there from an early stage and the Croatian Association parted with his World Cup coach. Kranjcar has been replaced by Slaven Bilic it. From then oversaw the coach different teams in different countries for irregular periods. In February 2010, Kranjcar was then introduced as the new coach of the national team of Montenegro. He should lead the team to the first-time participation in a European Championships, the European Championships in 2012. Here Montenegro first participated in a European Championship qualifier. After three wins and two draws, including a 0-0 draw at Wembley against England Matchday to the group G broke up in September 2011, the Montenegrin Football Association Kranjcar after he had to take an unexpected defeat against Wales on matchday six. Immediately afterwards he was appointed in the fall of 2011 to the coach of Sepahan Isfahan in Iran and was able to celebrate winning the championship in his first season in the Iranian Pro League after a new points residue was caught up in the spring.
Trivia
Kranjcar Niko Kranjcar son is also a professional footballer and current Croatian national team. As coach of the Croatian team Kranjcar coached at times even his son.
Achievements
As a player
- Yugoslav Cup winner with Dinamo Zagreb: 1980, 1983
- Yugoslavian champion with Dinamo Zagreb: 1982
As a coach
- Croatian Cup with Croatia Zagreb: 1995, 1996, 1998
- Croatian champion with Croatia Zagreb: 1996, 1998
- Croatian champions NK Zagreb: 2002
- Iranian champions Sepahan Isfahan with: 2012