Zlatko Kranjčar as Sepahan coach in 2013
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Personal information | |||
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Date of birth | 15 November 1956 | ||
Place of birth | Zagreb, FPR Yugoslavia | ||
Playing position | Striker | ||
Youth career | |||
1966–1973 | Dinamo Zagreb | ||
Senior career* | |||
Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
1973–1983 | Dinamo Zagreb | 261 | (98) |
1983–1990 | Rapid Vienna | 201 | (106) |
1990–1991 | VSE St. Pölten | 12 | (2) |
Total | 474 | (206) | |
National team | |||
1977–1983 | Yugoslavia | 11 | (3) |
1990 | Croatia | 2 | (1) |
Teams managed | |||
1991–1992 | Austria Klagenfurt | ||
1992–1994 | Segesta | ||
1994–1996 | Dinamo Zagreb | ||
1996 | FC Linz | ||
1997 | Slaven Belupo | ||
1997 | Segesta | ||
1997–1998 | NK Samobor | ||
1998 | Dinamo Zagreb | ||
1999–2000 | El-Masry | ||
2000 | Mura | ||
2000–2001 | Marsonia | ||
2001–2002 | NK Zagreb | ||
2002–2003 | NK Rijeka | ||
2003–2004 | NK Zagreb | ||
2004–2006 | Croatia | ||
2006–2007 | Croatia Sesvete | ||
2007 | Al-Shaab Sharjah | ||
2009 | DAC Dunajská Streda | ||
2009 | Persepolis | ||
2010–2011 | Montenegro | ||
2011–2014 | Sepahan | ||
2015–2016 | Al-Ahli | ||
2016 | Dinamo Zagreb | ||
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only. |
Zlatko "Cico" Kranjčar (pronounced [zlâtko t͡sǐːt͡so krâɲt͡ʃaːr]; born 15 November 1956) is a Croatian football manager and former striker.
Kranjčar started to play for Dinamo Zagreb at the age of 10 in 1966 and stayed in the club until 1983. He appeared in a total of 556 matches for the club and scored 98 goals in the championship. Then he transferred to Austrian club Rapid Vienna for which he played until 1990. The last club in his playing career was VSE St. Pölten for which he played for two months in late 1990.
Between 1977 and 1983 he collected 11 caps and scored 3 goals for Yugoslavia. He also has two caps and scored one goal for the Croatian national team and is notable as the first team captain of the Croatian team in their first international match against the United States on 17 October 1990 in Zagreb.
Kranjčar started his coaching career in 1991 as an advisor at Austria Klagenfurt. From 1992 until 1994 he coached a Croatian club HNK Segesta and in 1994 he transferred to Croatia Zagreb, where he won the Croatian Championship and Cup in his first season. In 1996 he returned to Austria to coach FC Linz. A year later he was back in Croatia where he coached the clubs NK Slaven Belupo, HNK Segesta (again) and NK Samobor. In 1998 he came back to Croatia Zagreb and led the club to another win in both the Croatian Championship and Cup as well as to an appearance in the UEFA Champions League. In 1999 he started to coach an Egyptian club Al-Masry and in 2000 he went on to coach a Slovenian club NK Mura, where he also stayed for one season. In 2002 he became the Croatian championship winner with NK Zagreb.