| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Date of birth | 15 November 1956 | ||
| Place of birth | Zagreb, FPR Yugoslavia | ||
| Playing position | Forward | ||
| Club information | |||
| Current club | Sepahan (head coach) | ||
| Youth career | |||
| 1966–1973 | Dinamo Zagreb | ||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps† | (Gls)† |
| 1973–1983 | Dinamo Zagreb | 261 | (98) |
| 1983–1990 | Rapid Vienna | 201 | (106) |
| 1990-1991 | VSE St. Pölten | 12 | (2) |
| Total | 474 | (206) | |
| National team | |||
| 1977–1983 | Yugoslavia | 11 | (3) |
| 1990 | Croatia | 2 | (1) |
| Teams managed | |||
| 1991–1992 | Austria Klagenfurt | ||
| 1992–1994 | Segesta | ||
| 1994–1996 | Dinamo Zagreb | ||
| 1996 | FC Linz | ||
| 1997 | Slaven Belupo | ||
| 1997 | Segesta | ||
| 1997–1998 | NK Samobor | ||
| 1998 | Dinamo Zagreb | ||
| 1999–2000 | El-Masry | ||
| 2000 | Mura | ||
| 2000–2001 | Marsonia | ||
| 2001–2002 | NK Zagreb | ||
| 2002–2003 | NK Rijeka | ||
| 2003–2004 | NK Zagreb | ||
| 2004–2006 | Croatia | ||
| 2006-2007 | Croatia Sesvete | ||
| 2007 | Al-Shaab Sharjah | ||
| 2009 | DAC Dunajská Streda | ||
| 2009 | Persepolis | ||
| 2010–2011 | Montenegro | ||
| 2011– | Sepahan | ||
| * Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only. † Appearances (Goals). |
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Zlatko "Cico" Kranjčar (pronounced [zlâtkɔ t͡sǐːt͡sɔ krâɲt͡ʃaːr]; born 15 November 1956) is a Croatian football manager and former striker. He is the head coach of Sepahan in Iran Pro League.
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Kranjčar started to play for Dinamo Zagreb at the age of 10 in 1966 and stayed in the club until 1983. He appeared in a total of 556 matches for the club and scored 98 goals in the championship. Then he transferred to Austrian club Rapid Vienna for which he played until 1990. The last club in his playing career was VSE St. Pölten for which he played for two months in late 1990.
Between 1977 and 1983 he collected 11 caps and scored 3 goals for Yugoslavia. He also has two caps and scored one goal for the Croatian national team and is notable as the first team captain of the Croatian team in their first international match against the United States on 17 October 1990 in Zagreb.
Kranjčar started his coaching career in 1991 as an advisor at Austria Klagenfurt. From 1992 until 1994 he coached a Croatian club HNK Segesta and in 1994 he transferred to Croatia Zagreb, where he won the Croatian Championship and Cup in his first season. In 1996 he returned to Austria to coach FC Linz. A year later he was back in Croatia where he coached the clubs NK Slaven Belupo, HNK Segesta (again) and NK Samobor. In 1998 he came back to Croatia Zagreb and led the club to another win in both the Croatian Championship and Cup as well as to an appearance in the UEFA Champions League. In 1999 he started to coach an Egyptian club Al-Masry and in 2000 he went on to coach a Slovenian club NK Mura, where he also stayed for one season. In 2002 he became the Croatian championship winner with NK Zagreb.
After Croatia's unsuccessful appearance at Euro 2004, Kranjčar was named the new coach of the country's national squad and he led the team in 18 international matches. They played fifteen matches in the World Cup 2006 qualifying rounds and won the group, but performed relatively badly in their three 2006 World Cup finals matches and were eliminated in the group stages. Due to this, the Croatian Football Federation decided not to renew his contract on 14 July 2006. In June 2007, he took over coaching position in United Arab Emirates team Al-Shaab but was sacked in December after a dispute with the board about player selection. On 22 April 2009, he was named as the new head coach of DAC 1904 Dunajská Streda.
On 1 July 2009, he was appointed as head coach of Iran Pro League side Persepolis after signed a two years contract.[1] Despite having good players such as Karim Bagheri, Misagh Memarzadeh, Sepehr Heidari, Shpejtim Arifi and Sheys Rezaei, Persepolis was unsuccessful in the first weeks of the season. He was sacked by the club on 25 September 2009 but he was returned to the club after the support of the technical committee five days later.[2]
His contract was renovated until the end of half season. He was replaced by Ali Daei on 28 December 2009 after his contract was expired.
In February 2010 he took over the Montenegro national team from Zoran Filipovic having a very poor start with two defeats in two friendly matches against Macedonia (away) and Albania (home) and a third defeat with Norway against which Zoran Filipovic had a stunning 3–1 home victory. He was dismissed on 8 September 2011, following Montenegro's defeat to Wales in a UEFA Euro 2012 qualifier six days earlier.[3]
He was signed a two years contract with Iran Pro League three time champion, Sepahan on 28 October 2011 replaces his compatriot Luka Bonacic.[4] In his first match as Sepahan head coach, Sepahan made a 0-0 draw with Persepolis which Kranjčar was it's head coach in 2009.
| Nat | Team | From | To | Record | |||||||
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| G | W | D | L | Win % | GF | GA | +/- | ||||
| Segesta | July 1992 | May 1994 | 64 | 22 | 15 | 27 | 34.38 | 79 | 88 | –9 | |
| Dinamo Zagreb | July 1994 | July 1996 | 52 | 33 | 12 | 7 | 63.46 | 99 | 39 | +60 | |
| Samobor | May 1997 | January 1998 | 10 | 9 | 1 | 0 | 90.00 | 26 | 8 | +19 | |
| El-Masry | February 1999 | August 2000 | 30 | 20 | 5 | 5 | 66.67 | 44 | 10 | +34 | |
| Rokela | June 2002 | June 2003 | 22 | 5 | 3 | 14 | 22.73 | 23 | 33 | –10 | |
| Croatia | July 2004 | August 2006 | 25 | 11 | 8 | 6 | 44.00 | 29 | 15 | +14 | |
| Persepolis | July 2009 | December 2009 | 21 | 8 | 9 | 4 | 38.10 | 31 | 24 | +7 | |
| Montenegro | February 2010 | September 2011 | 12 | 6 | 2 | 4 | 50.00 | 14 | 11 | +3 | |
| Sepahan | November 2011 | Present | 5 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 40.00 | 6 | 2 | +4 | |
He was married in 1983 and has a son, Niko is also a professional footballer who is currently playing for Tottenham Hotspur in the Premier League, and the Croatian national team. His son and his daughter in law. Simona has a baby girl by the name of Loree who was born on 7 March 2011.
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