| Personal information | |||||||||||
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| Date of birth | (1972-04-10)10 April 1972 (age 53) | ||||||||||
| Place of birth | Sarajevo,SFR Yugoslavia | ||||||||||
| Height | 1.87 m (6 ft 2 in) | ||||||||||
| Position(s) | Winger Forward | ||||||||||
| Team information | |||||||||||
Current team | Shakhtar Donetsk (assistant) | ||||||||||
| Youth career | |||||||||||
| –1988 | Željezničar | ||||||||||
| Senior career* | |||||||||||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) | ||||||||
| 1988–1992 | Željezničar | 63 | (17) | ||||||||
| 1992–1993 | Croatia Zagreb | 26 | (11) | ||||||||
| 1993–1994 | Sporting Gijón | 34 | (7) | ||||||||
| 1994–1995 | Benfica | 14 | (5) | ||||||||
| 1995–1996 | Club Brugge | 37 | (27) | ||||||||
| 1996–2000 | Parma | 77 | (19) | ||||||||
| 2000–2004 | Chelsea | 59 | (7) | ||||||||
| Total | 310 | (93) | |||||||||
| International career | |||||||||||
| 1991 | Yugoslavia | 2 | (0) | ||||||||
| 1993 | Croatia U21 | 2 | (1) | ||||||||
| 1995–2003 | Croatia | 49 | (7) | ||||||||
| Managerial career | |||||||||||
| 2023– | Shakhtar Donetsk (assistant) | ||||||||||
Medal record
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| * Club domestic league appearances and goals | |||||||||||
Mario Stanić (born 10 April 1972) is a Croatian former professionalfootballer. A versatile offensive player, he played inforward orattacking midfield positions, and was also deployed as awing-back in theCroatia national team. He is currently assistant manager atShakhtar Donetsk.
Born inSarajevo, Stanić started his career with hometown clubŽeljezničar. He was considered to be one of the most talented young players in former Yugoslavia. In 1992,war in Bosnia and Herzegovina began and Stanić escaped toSlavonski Brod wading theSava and moved to Croatia, where he played forCroatia Zagreb. After only one season, he moved to SpanishSporting de Gijón, and year later toS.L. Benfica in Portugal. In 1995, he arrived atClub Brugge and wastop scorer of theBelgian First Division that year with 20 goals. ThenParma bought him in late 1996 and he played four seasons with that side.
Stanić joinedChelsea on a £5.6 million transfer in June 2000. He became Vialli's third signing, afterJimmy Floyd Hasselbaink andEiður Guðjohnsen.[1] Stanić made his league debut in a 4–2 home win againstWest Ham United in August 2000, where he scored a brace, one of them a strike from 35 yards.[2] The goal was later nominated for theGoal of the Season on BBC'sMatch of the Day programme.[3]
After playing twice forYugoslavia in 1991, Stanić won 49 internationalcaps and scored seven goals for theCroatia national team between 1995 and 2003,[4] making his international debut in aUEFA Euro 1996 qualifying againstEstonia in September 1995. He made three appearances for Croatia at the Euro 1996 finals in England and went on to appear in all of the team's seven matches at the1998 FIFA World Cup finals in France, where they won the bronze medal. At the latter tournament, he scored Croatia's first-ever World Cup goal in their opening 3–1 victory overJamaica and assisted inRobert Jarni's opening goal in their 3–0 victory overGermany in the quarterfinals. Stanić also made two appearances for Croatia at the2002 FIFA World Cup finals as a second-half substitute, only to see Croatia fall short of qualifying for the second round of the tournament. His last international appearance came in April 2003 as a half-time substitute in a friendly match againstSweden.[5]
He was forced to retire at the age of 32 after developing a serious knee injury during the2003–04 league season.
| Club | Season | League | National Cup | League Cup | Continental | Total | ||||||
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| Division | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | ||
| Željezničar | 1988–89 | Yugoslav First League | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – | – | 0 | 0 | ||
| 1989–90 | 14 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – | – | 14 | 0 | ||||
| 1990–91 | 28 | 1 | 1 | 0 | – | – | 29 | 1 | ||||
| 1991–92 | 21 | 11 | 5 | 1 | – | – | 26 | 12 | ||||
| Total | 63 | 12 | 6 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 69 | 13 | ||
| Croatia Zagreb | 1992–93 | Prva HNL | 26 | 11 | 9 | 8 | – | – | 35 | 19 | ||
| Sporting Gijón | 1993–94 | La Liga | 34 | 7 | 4 | 3 | – | – | 38 | 10 | ||
| Benfica | 1994–95 | Primeira Divisão | 13 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | – | 15 | 5 | |
| Brugge | 1995–96 | Belgian First Division | 30 | 20 | 5 | 4 | 1[a] | 0 | 4 | 1 | 40 | 25 |
| 1996–97 | 7 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 1 | 13 | 8 | ||
| Total | 37 | 27 | 5 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 10 | 2 | 53 | 33 | ||
| Parma | 1996–97 | Serie A | 13 | 3 | – | – | – | 13 | 3 | |||
| 1997–98 | 23 | 4 | 5 | 1 | – | 4 | 0 | 32 | 5 | |||
| 1998–99 | 18 | 7 | 7 | 0 | – | 6 | 0 | 31 | 7 | |||
| 1999–2000 | 24 | 6 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 9 | 4 | 34 | 10 | ||
| Total | 78 | 20 | 13 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 19 | 4 | 110 | 25 | ||
| Chelsea | 2000–01 | Premier League | 12 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 15 | 2 |
| 2001–02 | 27 | 1 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 35 | 2 | ||
| 2002–03 | 18 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 25 | 6 | ||
| 2003–04 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 5 | 0 | ||
| Total | 59 | 7 | 9 | 2 | 6 | 1 | 5 | 0 | 80 | 10 | ||
| Career total | 310 | 88 | 42 | 17 | 3 | 0 | 34 | 6 | 400 | 114 | ||
| Goal | Date | Venue | Opponent | Score | Result | Competition |
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| 1 | 10 April 1996 | Gradski vrt,Osijek |  Hungary | 4 – 1 | 4 – 1 | Friendly |
| 2–3 | 22 April 1998 | Gradski vrt,Osijek |  Poland | 2 – 0 | 4 – 1 | Friendly |
| 3 – 0 | ||||||
| 4 | 14 June 1998 | Félix-Bollaert,Lens |  Jamaica | 1 – 0 | 3 – 1 | World Cup 1998 |
| 5 | 21 August 1999 | Maksimir,Zagreb |  Malta | 1 – 0 | 2 – 1 | Euro 2000 Qualifying |
| 6 | 9 October 1999 | Maksimir,Zagreb |  FR Yugoslavia | 2 – 2 | 2 – 2 | Euro 2000 Qualifying |
| 7 | 26 April 2000 | Ernst Happel,Vienna |  Austria | 2 – 1 | 2 – 1 | Friendly |
Croatia Zagreb
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