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Amir Karić is a Bosnian

Bosnians

Bosnians are people who reside in, or come from, Bosnia and Herzegovina. By the modern state definition a Bosnian can be anyone who holds citizenship of the state. This includes, but is not limited to, members of the constituent ethnic groups of Bosnia and Herzegovina: Bosniaks, Bosnian Serbs and...

-Slovenian

Slovenia national football team

The Slovenia national football team is the national football team of Slovenia and is controlled by the Football Association of Slovenia. The team played their first match in 1992 after the split of Yugoslavia in 1991....

footballer

Football (soccer)

Association football, more commonly known as football or soccer, is a sport played between two teams of eleven players with a spherical ball...

Club career

After the Euro 2000 was brought to English football by Ipswich Town

Ipswich Town F.C.

Ipswich Town Football Club are an English professional football team based in Ipswich, Suffolk. As of 2011, they play in the Football League Championship, having last appeared in the Premier League in 2001–02....

in September 2000 for £700k.

His appearances were limited to three as a substitute before his contract was terminated. Karić then had a brief spell with Crystal Palace, where he only played 30 minutes of football, before being substituted. Widely regarded by Palace fans as the worst player ever seen at Selhurst Park

Selhurst Park

Selhurst Park is an English football stadium located in the London suburb of South Norwood in the Borough of Croydon. It is the current home ground of Crystal Palace Football Club. Its present capacity is 26,309.-History:...

, along with Israeli Itzik Zohar

Itzik Zohar

Itzik Zohar is a former Israeli international footballer and television sports personality. Born in Bat Yam, Israel to a family of North African extraction, he holds the distinction of scoring the first two goals for Israel in its first world cup qualifier in the UEFA confederation on October 28,...

.

After that, he played for FC Moscow.

In 2005-06 he played for the Cypriot

Cyprus

Cyprus , officially the Republic of Cyprus , is a Eurasian island country, member of the European Union, in the Eastern Mediterranean, east of Greece, south of Turkey, west of Syria and north of Egypt. It is the third largest island in the Mediterranean Sea.The earliest known human activity on the...

team Anorthosis Famagusta FC

Anorthosis Famagusta FC

Αnorthosis Famagusta FC is a Cypriot football and volleyball club which is originally based in Famagusta, but is now temporarily based in Larnaca, due to the Turkish invasion. Anorthosis is one of the most successful clubs in Cypriot football, having won 13 league titles, 10 Cypriot Cups and 6...

.

During his career he also played for Rudar Velenje

Rudar Velenje

Rudar Velenje is a Slovenian football club, which plays in the town of Velenje. At the end of the 2005-2006 season, they were relegated to the Second Division of Slovenian professional football after playing the season in the First Division...

, AEL Limassol

AEL Limassol

Athlitiki Enosi Lemesou , commonly known as AEL Limassol , is a Greek Cypriot multisport club based in the city of Limassol, the port of Cyprus....

, Gamba Osaka

Gamba Osaka

is a Japanese professional association football club, currently playing in the J. League Division 1. The team's name comes from the Italian word "gamba" meaning "leg" and the Japanese , meaning "to do your best" or "to stand firm". Located in Suita, Osaka, the team's home stadium is Osaka Expo '70...

and for FC Koper

FC Koper

FC Koper is a Slovenian football club, playing in the town of Koper. The club is one of only three football clubs in the country, the others being Maribor and former Olimpija, that won all three domestic competitions . The team plays its matches on Bonifika stadium that was built in 2010 and has a...

International career

He played for Slovenia in the Euro 2000 and 2002 World Cup.

Club career statistics

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|1992/93||Rudar Velenje||PrvaLiga||27||10||||||||||27||10
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|1993/94||rowspan="4"|Maribor Branik

NK Maribor

Nogometni Klub Maribor , commonly referred to as NK Maribor or simply Maribor, is a professional association football club based in the city of Maribor, Slovenia. Founded on 12 December, 1960, Maribor is one of only three football clubs in the country who have never been relegated from...

||rowspan="4"|PrvaLiga||20||0||||||||||20||0
|-
|1994/95||28||2||||||||||28||2
|-
|1995/96||21||4||||||||||21||4
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|1996/97||25||6||||||||||25||6

|-
|1997||rowspan="2"|Gamba Osaka

Gamba Osaka

||rowspan="2"|J. League 1||5||0||2||0||0||0||7||0
|-
|1998||7||0||0||0||3||1||10||1

|-
|1998/99||Maribor Teatanic

NK Maribor

||PrvaLiga||11||0||||||||||11||0
|-
|1999/00||rowspan="2"|Maribor Pivovarna Laško

NK Maribor

||rowspan="2"|PrvaLiga||12||0||||||||||12||0
|-
|2000/01||3||0||||||||||3||0

|-
|2000/01||Ipswich Town

Ipswich Town F.C.

||Premier League||0||0||||||||||0||0
|-
|2000/01||Crystal Palace

Crystal Palace F.C.

Crystal Palace Football Club are an English Football league club based in South Norwood, London. The team plays its home matches at Selhurst Park, where they have been based since 1924. The club currently competes in the second tier of English Football, The Championship.Crystal Palace was formed in...

||First Division

Football League Championship

The Football League Championship is the highest division of The Football League and second-highest division overall in the English football league system after the Premier League...

||3||0||||||||||3||0

|-
|2001/02||rowspan="3"|Maribor Pivovarna Laško

NK Maribor

||rowspan="3"|PrvaLiga||12||1||||||||||12||1
|-
|2002/03||15||4||||||||||15||4
|-
|2003/04||16||4||||||||||16||4

|-
|2004||Moscow||Premier League

Russian Premier League

The Russian Premier League , currently called SOGAZ Russian Football Championship due to sponsorship reasons, is the top division of Russian football. There are 16 teams in the competition...

||4||0||||||||||4||0

|-
|2004/05||Mura

ND Mura 05

Nogometno Društvo Mura 05, commonly referred to as ND Mura 05 or simply Mura is a Slovenian football team, playing in the town of Murska Sobota. Founded on 16 June, 2005, the team currently plays in the Slovenian first division, 1. SNL. The club's home ground is Fazanerija stadium with a capacity...

||PrvaLiga||9||3||||||||||9||3

|-
|2005/06||AEL Lemesos||First Division

Cypriot First Division

The Cypriot Championship First Division is the top tier football league competition in Cyprus. As of 2007 it is sponsored by Marfin Popular Bank and is hence officially known as Marfin Laiki League .-Format:...

||11||1||||||||||11||1

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|2005/06||Koper

FC Koper

||PrvaLiga||15||1||||||||||15||1

|-
|2006/07||Anorthosis Famagusta

Anorthosis Famagusta FC

||First Division

Cypriot First Division

||2||0||||||||||2||0

|-
|2006/07||Interblock Ljubljana||PrvaLiga||||||||||||||||
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|2007/08||rowspan="2"|Olimpija Ljubljana||Third League||||||||||||||||
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|2008/09||Second League

Slovenian Second League

Slovenian Second Football League is the second highest football league in Slovenia. The league was formed in 1991 with the dissolution of the Yugoslav Second League and it is operated by the Football Association of Slovenia.-Clubs participating 2011/12:...

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|2009/10||Koper

FC Koper

||PrvaLiga||||||||||||||||
214||35||||||||||214||35
12||0||2||0||3||1||17||1
3||0||||||||||3||0
4||0||||||||||4||0
13||1||||||||||13||1
246||36||2||0||3||1||251||37
|}

International career statistics

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|1996||3||1
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|1997||5||0
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|1998||3||0
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|1999||9||0
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|2000||11||0
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|2001||7||0
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|2002||11||0
|-
|2003||8||0
|-
|2004||7||0
|-
!Total||64||1
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National stats

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