Goran Vlaović
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| Date of birth | 7 August 1972 | ||||||||
| Place of birth |
Nova Gradiška, SR Croatia, SFR Yugoslavia |
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| Height | 1.79 m (5 ft 10 1⁄2 in) | ||||||||
| Playing position | Striker | ||||||||
| Senior career* | |||||||||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) | ||||||
| 1990–1991 | Osijek | 24 | (11) | ||||||
| 1991–1994 | Dinamo Zagreb | 80 | (59) | ||||||
| 1994–1996 | Padova | 50 | (18) | ||||||
| 1996–2000 | Valencia | 73 | (17) | ||||||
| 2000–2004 | Panathinaikos | 64 | (29) | ||||||
| Total | 291 | (134) | |||||||
| National team | |||||||||
| 1993 | Croatia U21 | 2 | (0) | ||||||
| 2001 | Croatia B | 1 | (1) | ||||||
| 1992–2002 | Croatia | 52 | (15) | ||||||
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| * Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only. |
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Goran Vlaović (born 7 August 1972 in Nova Gradiška) is a former Croatian football striker.
Vlaović started his professional career with Osijek in 1989 and moved to Dinamo Zagreb in 1992, before going abroad to play for Calcio Padova in Italy, Valencia in Spain and Panathinaikos in Greece, where he retired in June 2004. His biggest personal success at club level came when he topped the goalscoring charts of the 1993-94 Croatian First League, netting 29 goals for Dinamo Zagreb that season. The record remained unbroken for 13 years before Eduardo da Silva scored 34 goals for the same club in 2006-07. He remains the youngest player to have scored the most goals in a single season in Croatia. He also won the Copa del Rey and Supercopa de España with Valencia in 1999, as well as a Greek double with Panathinaikos in 2004.
Vlaović was a member of the Croatian national football team for over ten years, between July 1992 and August 2002. He won a total of 52 international caps and scored 15 goals for the team (plus a single goal in his only appearance for Croatia B in a friendly against Romania in 2001). As of November 2010, he is tied for the Croatian national team's fourth-best goalscorer of all time, behind Davor Šuker (45), Darijo Srna (19) and Eduardo da Silva (18).
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