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| Date of birth | (1972-08-07)7 August 1972 (age 53) | ||||||||||||||||
| Place of birth | Nova Gradiška,SFR Yugoslavia | ||||||||||||||||
| Height | 1.79 m (5 ft 10 in) | ||||||||||||||||
| Position | Striker | ||||||||||||||||
| Senior career* | |||||||||||||||||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) | ||||||||||||||
| 1990–1991 | Osijek | 24 | (11) | ||||||||||||||
| 1991–1994 | Croatia Zagreb | 80 | (59) | ||||||||||||||
| 1994–1996 | Padova | 50 | (18) | ||||||||||||||
| 1996–2000 | Valencia | 73 | (17) | ||||||||||||||
| 2000–2004 | Panathinaikos | 64 | (29) | ||||||||||||||
| Total | 291 | (134) | |||||||||||||||
| International career | |||||||||||||||||
| 1993 | Croatia U21 | 2 | (0) | ||||||||||||||
| 2001 | Croatia B | 1 | (1) | ||||||||||||||
| 1992–2002 | Croatia | 52 | (15) | ||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Goran Vlaović (born 7 August 1972) is a Croatian retiredfootballer who played as astriker.
Born inNova Gradiška, Vlaović started his professional career withOsijek in 1989 and moved toHAŠK Građanski in 1992, before going abroad to play forCalcio Padova in Italy,Valencia in Spain andPanathinaikos in Greece, where he retired in June 2004. His biggest personal success at club level came when he topped the goalscoring charts of the1993–94 Croatian First Football League, netting 29 goals for Dinamo Zagreb that season. The record remained unbroken for 13 years beforeEduardo da Silva scored 34 goals for the same club in 2006–07. He remains the youngest player to have scored the most goals in a single season in Croatia. He also won theCopa del Rey andSupercopa de España with Valencia in 1999, as well as a Greekdouble with Panathinaikos in 2004.
Vlaović was a member of theCroatia national team for over ten years, between July 1992 and August 2002. He won a total of 52 international caps and scored 15 goals for the team[1] (plus a single goal in his only appearance for Croatia B in a friendly against Romania in 2001).[2]
Vlaović made his international debut for Croatia on 5 July 1992 in their friendly match againstAustralia inMelbourne, during the team's three-match tour through Australia. After the tour, Vlaović only made four international appearances in just over three and a half years, and having undergone surgery to remove a blood clot from his brain in 1995,[3] he was only able to make one appearance in theUEFA Euro 1996 qualifying. However, he started to play regularly for Croatia in early 1996. On 13 March 1996, he scored his first goals for the team in a friendly match againstKorea Republic, netting a flawlesshat-trick in Croatia's 3–0 victory.
He was subsequently added to the Croatian squad for the UEFA Euro 1996 finals inEngland, appearing in all of the team's four matches before they were knocked out by eventual champions,Germany, in the quarter-finals. In Croatia's first match at the tournament, againstTurkey, he came off the bench to replaceAlen Bokšić in the final 20 minutes and scored the only goal of the match in the 86th minute, thus becoming the first goalscorer for Croatia in a major international tournament.
Two years later, Vlaović was a member of the Croatian squad that won the bronze medal at the1998 FIFA World Cup finals in France, their firstFIFA World Cup appearance. He appeared in all of Croatia's seven matches at the tournament, although only making one appearance over the entire 90 minutes in the semi-finals againstFrance. In the 80th minute of the quarter-finals against highly favoured Germany, he scored the second goal in Croatia's 3–0 victory, which all but secured the team's place in the semi-finals.
After a year and a half of absence from the national team, Vlaović made his international comeback in January 2001, making an appearance for Croatia B in a friendly match againstRomania, also scoring one goal in the match. He went on to make four appearances and score one goal in Croatia's qualifying campaign for the2002 FIFA World Cup. He was also added to Croatia's 23-man squad for the finals of that tournament, but was left an unused substitute in all three group matches as the team failed to qualify for the knock-out stages. He won his last international cap in a friendly match againstWales on 21 August 2002.[4]
| Club | Season | League | National cup | Continental | Other | Total | ||||||
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| Division | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | ||
| NK Osijek | 1989–90 | Yugoslav First League | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – | – | 1 | 0 | ||
| 1990–91 | 23 | 11 | 2 | 1 | – | – | 25 | 12 | ||||
| Total | 24 | 11 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 26 | 12 | ||
| HAŠK Građanski | 1992 | Prva HNL | 22 | 9 | 6 | 2 | – | – | 28 | 11 | ||
| Croatia Zagreb | 1992–93 | Prva HNL | 29 | 23 | 7 | 11 | – | 3[a] | 2 | 39 | 36 | |
| 1993–94 | 30 | 29 | 11 | 7 | 4 | 6 | – | 45 | 42 | |||
| 1994–95 | – | – | – | 2[a] | 0 | 2 | 0 | |||||
| Total | 59 | 52 | 18 | 18 | 4 | 6 | 5 | 2 | 86 | 78 | ||
| Padova | 1994–95 | Serie A | 27 | 5 | 0 | 0 | – | – | 27 | 5 | ||
| 1995–96 | 23 | 13 | 1 | 0 | – | – | 24 | 13 | ||||
| Total | 50 | 18 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 51 | 18 | ||
| Valencia | 1996–97 | La Liga | 24 | 8 | 0 | 0 | 7 | 2 | – | 31 | 10 | |
| 1997–98 | 26 | 7 | 1 | 0 | – | – | 27 | 7 | ||||
| 1998–99 | 20 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | – | 23 | 3 | |||
| 1999–00 | 4 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0[b] | 0 | 7 | 0 | ||
| Total | 74 | 17 | 6 | 1 | 8 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 88 | 20 | ||
| Panathinaikos | 2000–01 | Superleague Greece | 22 | 12 | – | 7 | 0 | – | 29 | 12 | ||
| 2001–02 | 21 | 13 | – | 13 | 2 | – | 34 | 15 | ||||
| 2002–03 | 13 | 2 | – | 3 | 0 | – | 16 | 2 | ||||
| 2003–04 | 13 | 2 | – | 4 | 0 | – | 17 | 2 | ||||
| Total | 69 | 29 | 0 | 0 | 27 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 96 | 31 | ||
| Career total | 298 | 136 | 33 | 22 | 39 | 10 | 5 | 2 | 375 | 170 | ||
| National team | Year | Apps | Goals |
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| Croatia | 1992 | 3 | 0 |
| 1993 | 0 | 0 | |
| 1994 | 1 | 0 | |
| 1995 | 1 | 0 | |
| 1996 | 12 | 8 | |
| 1997 | 8 | 2 | |
| 1998 | 10 | 2 | |
| 1999 | 6 | 1 | |
| 2000 | 0 | 0 | |
| 2001 | 8 | 2 | |
| 2002 | 3 | 0 | |
| Total | 52 | 15 | |
| No. | Date | Venue | Opponent | Score | Result | Competition |
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| 1 | 13 March 1996 | Kranjčevićeva,Zagreb, Croatia |  South Korea | 1–0 | 3–0 | Friendly |
| 2 | 2–0 | |||||
| 3 | 3–0 | |||||
| 4 | 26 March 1996 | Stadion Varteks,Varaždin, Croatia |  Israel | 2–0 | 2–0 | Friendly |
| 5 | 11 June 1996 | City Ground,Nottingham, England |  Turkey | 1–0 | 1–0 | UEFA Euro 1996 |
| 6 | 8 October 1996 | Renato Dall'Ara,Bologna, Italy |  Bosnia and Herzegovina | 2–1 | 4–1 | 1998 FIFA World Cup qualification |
| 7 | 11 December 1996 | Mohamed V,Casablanca, Morocco |  Morocco | 1–0 | 2–2 | 1996 King Hassan II Trophy |
| 8 | 2–0 | |||||
| 9 | 8 June 1997 | Olympic,Tokyo, Japan |  Japan | 3–4 | 3–4 | 1997 Kirin Cup |
| 10 | 29 October 1997 | Maksimir, Zagreb, Croatia |  Ukraine | 2–0 | 2–0 | 1998 FIFA World Cup qualification |
| 11 | 29 May 1998 | Aldo Drosina,Pula, Croatia |  Slovakia | 1–1 | 1–2 | Friendly |
| 12 | 4 July 1998 | Gerland,Lyon, France |  Germany | 2–0 | 3–0 | 1998 FIFA World Cup |
| 13 | 10 March 1999 | Spiridon Louis,Athens, Greence |  Greece | 1–2 | 2–3 | Friendly |
| 14 | 25 April 2001 | Stadion Varteks, Varaždin, Croatia | Greece | 1–2 | 2–2 | Friendly |
| 15 | 2 June 2001 | Stadion Varteks, Varaždin, Croatia |  San Marino | 1–0 | 4–0 | 2002 FIFA World Cup qualification |
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