Srećko Bogdan

Infobox Football biography
playername = Srećko Bogdan


fullname = Srećko Bogdan
dateofbirth = birth date and age|1957|1|5
cityofbirth = Mursko Središće
countryofbirth = FPR Yugoslavia
height = Height|m=1.83
nickname = Čeči
position =
currentclub =
youthyears = 1970-1973
youthclubs = Rudar Mursko Središće
years = 1973-1974
1975-1985 1985-1993
clubs = Čakovec
Dinamo Zagreb Karlsruhe
caps(goals) = ? (?)
262 (34)
242 (21)
nationalyears = 1977-1983 1990-1991
nationalteam = SFR Yugoslavia Croatia
nationalcaps(goals) = 11 (0) 2 (1)
manageryears = 2005-2006
2007-present
managerclubs = Inter Zaprešić
Segesta Sisak

Srećko Bogdan (born 5 January 1957 in Mursko Središće, Croatia, FPR Yugoslavia) is a retired Croatian footballer who played a defender.

He started his career in his home town with Rudar Mursko Središće, where he spent three years before moving to MTČ Čakovec and staring his senior career in 1973. He spent one season and a half with Čakovec before going on to continue his career as a professional for Dinamo Zagreb and later Karlsruhe. He is currently taking the third place in Dinamo Zagreb's all-time list of appearances for the club, with a total of 595 appearances in which he scored 125 goals. [ [http://www.nk-dinamo.hr/klub-nastupi/Default.aspx Dinamo Zagreb's top 10 of players with most appearances] ] He played for Dinamo Zagreb between January 1975 and June 1985, after which he moved to Karlsruhe in the German Second Bundesliga. After two years at Karlsruhe, he managed promotion to the First Bundesliga with the club and subsequently made 169 appearances for the club in the league over the following six seasons, scoring nine goals. [ [http://www.weltfussball.de/spieler_profil.php?id=7319&modus=2 Bundesliga stats by Weltfussball] ] He retired from playing in June 1993.

In his international career, he played for both former Yugoslavia and Croatia, and won 11 caps for Yugoslavia and two for Croatia, scoring one goal for the latter. [ [http://www.hns-cff.hr/?ln=hr&w=statistike&d=prisutnost&repka=A&id=113900 International appearances for Croatia] ]

After retiring from playing, he continued to work as a coach. Between 1993 and 1996, he was coach at Karlsruhe's youth academy and went on to work as assistant coach at the club's first team between 1996 and 2001. He later started his career as head coach in Croatia, being in charge of Inter Zaprešić between 2004 and 2006, before moving to Segesta Sisak in January 2007. He also worked as a co-commentator for the Croatian Radiotelevision during the 2006 FIFA World Cup.

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