Sergej Barbarez
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| Personal information | |||
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| Full name | Sergej Barbarez | ||
| Date of birth | 17 September 1971 | ||
| Place of birth | Mostar, SFR Yugoslavia | ||
| Height | 1.88 m (6 ft 2 in) | ||
| Playing position |
Second striker Attacking midfielder |
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| Youth career | |||
| 1984–1989 | FK Velež Mostar | ||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| 1989–1991 | FK Velež Mostar | ||
| 1992–1993 | Hannover 96 | 18 | (2) |
| 1993–1996 | 1. FC Union Berlin | 88 | (46) |
| 1996–1998 | 59 | (13) | |
| 1998–2000 | Borussia Dortmund | 36 | (6) |
| 2000–2006 | Hamburger SV | 174 | (65) |
| 2006–2008 | Bayer Leverkusen | 61 | (11) |
| Total | 436 | (143) | |
| National team | |||
| 1998–2006 | Bosnia and Herzegovina | 47 | (17) |
| * Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only. |
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Sergej Barbarez (born 17 September 1971) is a Bosnian former professional footballer who played for several clubs in the German Bundesliga and the Bosnia and Herzegovina national team. He is considered as one of the all-time great players of Hamburger SV where he scored 65 goals in 174 Bundesliga games. Mainly used as a second striker, he has also played as an attacking midfielder or left winger.
In the 2000–01 Bundesliga season while playing for Hamburger SV Barbarez was joint top scorer with 22 goals with Ebbe Sand of FC Schalke 04 at the end of the season.
Barbarez was born in Mostar, SFR Yugoslavia, present-day Bosnia and Herzegovina to a Bosnian Serb father and a half-Croat and half-Bosniak mother.
As a young child, Barbarez was actually not very interested in football but in basketball and athletics. However, at the age of eleven, Barbarez started playing football though mostly for fun with friends after school.
In 1984, Barbarez took a step further and started playing football for the youth team of FK Velež in his native city of Mostar.
Some six years later, Barbarez signed with the first team of FK Velež at the age of 19. However, briefly after, Barbarez served in the Yugoslav People's Army in Zagreb in 1991 before returning to Mostar to continue his career. In 1991, Sergej Barbarez returned to FK Velež and soon after everyone realized that Barbarez was a true talent.
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