Ivan Bošnjak

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Ivan Bošnjak
Personal information
Full name Ivan Bošnjak
Date of birth 6 February 1979
Place of birth Vinkovci, Croatia
Height 178cm
Position forward
Club information
Current club K.R.C. Genk
Professional clubs*
Years Club Apps (goals)
1996-00
2000-02
2002-03
2003
2003-06
2006-		 HNK Cibalia
Hajduk Split
Al-Ittihad
Spartak Moscow
Dinamo Zagreb
KRC Genk		 62 (21)
53 (10)
0 (0)
0 (0)
61 (32)
National team**
2000- Croatia 14 (1)

* Professional club appearances and goals
counted for the domestic league only and
correct as of 22 June 2006.
** National team caps and goals correct
as of 22 June 2006.

Ivan Bošnjak [ˈiʋan ˈbɔʃɲak] (born February 6, 1979) is a Croatian football player who can play as both attacking midfielder and striker. His current club is K.R.C. Genk from Belgium for which he signed in June 2006.

Born in Vinkovci, Bošnjak started his professional career at local club HNK Cibalia in the 1996-97 season. He went on to move to Hajduk Split in 2000 and left the club after two seasons for Al-Ittihad Tripoli from Libya, where he spent a season without getting a chance to make a single appearance in an official match. He came back to Croatia by signing with Dinamo Zagreb in 2004. At the club level, he had his biggest personal successes while being named the best player of the Croatian First League in 2000 and becoming the league's top goalscorer in 2006 with 22 goals scored.

Bošnjak is currently also a regular member of the Croatian national team and collected up to this time a total of 14 international caps in which he managed to score one goal. He made his debut for the Croatian team in their friendly match against Slovakia on August 16, 2000 in Bratislava, but subsequently made only one more appearance for the team over a timespan of more than four years before eventually becoming their regular member in 2005 by making six appearances in the 2006 FIFA World Cup qualifying. He went on to score his first goal for Croatia in their friendly match against Hong Kong at the 2006 Carlsberg Cup in Hong Kong and was then also selected to be part of the Croatian squad at the 2006 World Cup finals in Germany, but played at the tournament for only four minutes of regular time in Croatia's second group match against Japan.

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Croatia Croatia squad - 2006 FIFA World Cup Croatia

1 Pletikosa | 2 Srna | 3 Šimunić | 4 R. Kovač | 5 Tudor | 6 Vranješ | 7 Šimić | 8 Babić | 9 Pršo | 10 N. Kovač | 11 Tokić | 12 Didulica | 13 Tomas | 14 Modrić | 15 I. Leko | 16 J. Leko | 17 Klasnić | 18 Olić | 19 N. Kranjčar | 20 Šerić | 21 Balaban | 22 Bošnjak | 23 Butina | Coach: Z. Kranjčar
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