Tomislav Maric
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| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Full name | Tomislav Marić | ||
| Date of birth | 28 January 1973 | ||
| Place of birth | Heilbronn, West Germany | ||
| Height | 1.81 m (5 ft 11 1⁄2 in) | ||
| Playing position | Striker | ||
| Youth career | |||
| TSV Talheim | |||
| ESV Heilbronn | |||
| VfR Heilbronn | |||
| 1992–1994 | SpVgg 07 Ludwigsburg | ||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| 1994–1995 | Karlsruher SC | 4 | (0) |
| 1995–1996 | SG Wattenscheid 09 | 31 | (7) |
| 1996–2000 | Stuttgarter Kickers | 112 | (42) |
| 2000–2004 | VfL Wolfsburg | 74 | (30) |
| 2004 | Bor. Mönchengladbach | 7 | (1) |
| 2004 | VfL Wolfsburg II | 7 | (2) |
| 2005 | VfL Wolfsburg | 11 | (1) |
| 2005 | Urawa Reds | 13 | (8) |
| 2006–2007 | TSG 1899 Hoffenheim | 25 | (12) |
| National team | |||
| 2002–2003 | Croatia | 9 | (2) |
| Teams managed | |||
| 2015–2016 | Dunajská Streda | ||
| * Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only. |
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Tomislav Marić (born 28 January 1973) is a German-born Croatian former football striker.
He was born to Bosnian Croat parents in Heilbronn, Baden-Württemberg and started his first-team career in 1992 at amateur side SpVgg 07 Ludwigsburg from the nearby Ludwigsburg in then third-division Oberliga Baden-Württemberg. He spent two seasons with the third-division side, making 60 league appearances in which he scored 14 goals. In July 1994, he signed his first professional contract with then Bundesliga side Karlsruher SC, but never managed to become a regular at the club, making only four Bundesliga appearances as a second-half substitute throughout the 1994–95 season of the league. He made his Bundesliga debut on 7 October 1994 in KSC's 1–0 defeat away against Eintracht Frankfurt, playing as a substitute in the last five minutes of the match. After this unsuccessful season with KSC, he went on to move to then 2. Bundesliga side SG Wattenscheid 09 for the 1995–96 season. He made 31 appearances and scored seven goals for the club in the Second Bundesliga during the season after which he went on to move to another Second Bundesliga side at the time, Stuttgarter Kickers.
He subsequently spent four seasons with the Kickers team and was a regular from the beginning. In his final season with the club, in 1999–2000, he became the top goalscorer of the Second Bundesliga with 21 goals scored in 33 matches and practically saved the club from being relegated to the third division as his 21 goals were almost a half of all goals scored by the team in the Second Bundesliga that season in which they narrowly avoided relegation with a 15th-place finish. In the same season, he also helped the club to surprisingly reach the semifinals of the DFB-Pokal, where they lost 2–1 to Bundesliga side Werder Bremen in extra time. In four seasons with Stuttgarter Kickers, Marić made 112 Second Bundesliga appearances and scored 42 goals for the club in the league, a half of which was in his final season with the club.
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