Igor Pamić

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Igor Pamić
Personal information
Date of birth (1969-11-19) 19 November 1969
Place of birthŽminj, SFR Yugoslavia
Height1.91 m (6 ft 3 in)
Playing positionForward
Youth career
Pazinka
Senior career*
YearsTeamApps(Gls)
1992–1993Istra Pula34(12)
1993–1994Pazinka23(18)
1994–1995Dinamo Zagreb28(10)
1995–1996Osijek25(17)
1996–1997Sochaux29(10)
1997–1998Hansa Rostock37(13)
1999–2002Grazer AK66(23)
Total219(85)
National team
1996–1998Croatia6(1)
Teams managed
2002–2003Žminj
2004–2005Pula 1856
2006–2007Žminj
2007–2011Karlovac
2011–Istra 1961
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only.
† Appearances (Goals).

Igor Pamić (born 19 November 1969) is a former Croatian football striker who is now a coach.[1] He played international football for Croatia.

Playing career

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 10 April 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 UEFA 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 UEFA Euro 2000 qualifier against the Republic of Ireland on 5 September 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 21 October 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.

Managerial career

Shortly after retiring from football as a player, Pamić started his managerial career in the sport. He was the head coach of Croatian Third League side NK Žminj in 2002 and 2003, going on to move to Croatian Second League side NK Pula in early 2004, helping them to clinch promotion to the Croatian First League for the 2004–05 season.

Pamić left Pula in the winter break of the 2005-06 season and returned to Žminj in 2006, spending a season with the club. In 2007, he was appointed head coach at Karlovac, with whom he clinched promotion to the Croatian First League in 2009.

Personal

His son Zvonko[2] is a professional football player, too. His other son, Alen, was one, too.

References

  1. "Igor Pamic (NK Karlovac)". Transfermarkt.de. Retrieved 25 January 2010. 
  2. "Zvonko Pamic signs". Bayer 04 Leverkusen. 15 April 2010. Retrieved 26 October 2012. 

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