Igor Pamić

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Igor Pamić
Personal information
Full name	Igor Pamić
Date of birth	19 November 1969
Place of birth	Žminj, Croatia
Height	191 cm
Position	Striker
Professional clubs*
Years	Club	Apps (goals)
1992-1993 1993-1995 1995-1996 1996-1997 1997-1998 1999-2001	Istra Pula Dinamo Zagreb Osijek Sochaux Hansa Rostock Grazer AK	34 (12) -- (28) 25 (17) 29 (10) 37 (13) 66 (23)
National team
1996-1998	Croatia	5 (1)
Teams managed
2002-2003 2004-2005 2006-present	Žminj Pula Žminj
* Professional club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only.

Igor Pamić (born November 19, 1969) is a former Croatian football striker who is now a coach.

He was born in the village of Žminj in Istria and started his professional career at the club Istra Pula in early 1992. He left the club after two seasons for Dinamo Zagreb, where he spent another two seasons before moving to Osijek in July 1995. After one season with Osijek, he moved abroad by signing with French club Sochaux in July 1996. He scored a total of 57 goals in five seasons of playing in the Croatian First League.

He made his debut for the Croatian national team in a friendly match against Hungary on April 10, 1996 in Osijek and also managed to score his first and only international goal in this match. He was subsequently also part of the Croatian squad at the Euro 1996 finals in England, but made only one appearance at the tournament by playing the first half of the final group match against Portugal. He subsequently appeared in only two more matches for the Croatian national team, playing as a substitute in a 1996 friendly against Morocco as well as in the Croatian team's first Euro 2000 qualifier against the Republic of Ireland on September 5, 1998. In all, he won a total of five international caps and scored one goal for Croatia.

At club level, he left Sochaux in June 1997 after one season of playing for the club and went on to sign with German Bundesliga side Hansa Rostock. In a season and half of playing for Hansa, Pamić appeared in a total of 37 Bundesliga matches and managed to score 13 goals for the club in the league. With the beginning of the year 1999, he transferred to Austrian Bundesliga side Grazer AK and continued to play for the club before he finished his career as a player in the autumn of 2001, playing his last league match on October 21, 2001 against Rapid Wien. In two half-seasons and two entire seasons of playing for GAK, he appeared in a total of 66 Bundesliga matches and scored 23 goals.

Shortly after finishing his career as a player, Pamić started his coaching career with Croatian Third League side NK Žminj, where he worked as a coach in 2002 and 2003 before moving to then Second League side NK Pula with the beginning of the year 2004. Under his leadership, Pula got promoted to the Croatian First League for the 2004-05 season. He also continued to lead Pula through the first part of the 2005-06 season of the First League before eventually returning to Žminj in 2006.

	Croatia squad - 1996 European Championship
1 Ladić | 2 Jurčević | 3 Jarni | 4 Štimac | 5 Jerkan | 6 Bilić | 7 Asanović | 8 Prosinečki | 9 Šuker | 10 Boban | 11 Bokšić | 12 Mrmić | 13 Stanić | 14 Soldo | 15 Pavličić | 16 Mladenović | 17 Pamić | 18 Brajković | 19 Vlaović | 20 Šimić | 21 Cvitanović | 22 Gabrić | Coach: Blažević