Dražen Ladić
| Personal information | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Date of birth | 1 January 1963 | ||||||||
| Place of birth | Čakovec, SR Croatia, SFR Yugoslavia | ||||||||
| Height | 1.85 m (6 ft 1 in) | ||||||||
| Playing position | Goalkeeper | ||||||||
| Club information | |||||||||
|
Current team
|
Al-Ain (assistant manager) | ||||||||
| Youth career | |||||||||
| 1977–1983 | Varteks | ||||||||
| Senior career* | |||||||||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) | ||||||
| 1983–1984 | Varteks | 15 | (0) | ||||||
| 1984–1986 | Iskra Bugojno | 42 | (5) | ||||||
| 1986–2000 | Dinamo Zagreb | 363 | (1) | ||||||
| Total | 420 | (6) | |||||||
| National team | |||||||||
| 1991 | Yugoslavia | 2 | (0) | ||||||
| 1990–2000 | Croatia | 59 | (0) | ||||||
| Teams managed | |||||||||
| 2002–2004 | Croatia (goalkeeping coach) | ||||||||
| 2006–2011 | Croatia U21 | ||||||||
| 2013–2014 | Al-Hilal (youth) | ||||||||
| 2014– | Al-Ain (assistant) | ||||||||
|
Honours
|
|||||||||
| * Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only. |
|||||||||
Dražen Ladić (Croatian pronunciation: [drǎʒen lǎːdit͡ɕ]; born 1 January 1963) is a former Croatian football goalkeeper. Between 2006 and 2011 he was the head coach of the Croatian national under-21 team.
Ladić was born in Čakovec, but grew up in the nearby village of Gornji Hrašćan and started his career at NK Varteks in 1977, transferring to the club's senior squad in 1980. He left Varteks for Dinamo Zagreb in 1984, but the club decided to loan him to Iskra Bugojno for two seasons immediately after they signed him. He eventually made his debut for Dinamo in July 1986 and stayed at the club until the end of his playing career nearly 14 years later, collecting a record-holding total of 802 appearances in official matches.
During his time at the club, Ladić also played in several matches of both the UEFA Champions League and the UEFA Cup. In 1997, he notably saved a penalty kick in Dinamo Zagreb's home match against Partizan Belgrade in the first qualifying round for the UEFA Champions League, which they won 5-0. The Dinamo team continued to compete in the UEFA Cup after an unlucky 4-3 defeat on aggregate in the last minute of extra time against Newcastle United in the second qualifying round for the UEFA Champions League and got all the way to the third round, where they lost 2-1 on aggregate against Atlético Madrid.
...
Wikipedia