Mirko Hrgovic
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Mirko Hrgović is a Croatia
-born Bosnian football
player who most current playes for Croatia
n club RNK Split
.
, decided to play for Bosnia and Herzegovina after his games went unnoticed in Croatia. Hrgović decided to take Bosnia and Herzegovina nationality while playing for the Herzegovinian club NK Široki Brijeg
and take up the call by Blaž Slišković
.
Hrgović has played for NK Posušje
and NK Široki Brijeg
in the Premier League of Bosnia and Herzegovina
, Gamba Osaka
and JEF United
in J-League, VfL Wolfsburg
in German Bundesliga
, Hajduk Split, Dinamo Zagreb
in 1.HNL and NK Solin-one of the best Croatian second division clubs, there he played on beginning of his senior career.
and was released on 25 November 2009.
, signed in March 2010 an contract with his former club NK Široki Brijeg
.
|1999/00||rowspan="2"|Hajduk Split
||rowspan="2"|Prva HNL||0||0
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|2000/01||2||0
|-
|2001||Gamba Osaka
||J. League 1||4||0
|-
|2001/02||rowspan="2"|Široki Brijeg
||rowspan="2"|Premier League
||0||0
|-
|2002/03||35||15
|-
|2003/04||rowspan="2"|Wolfsburg
||rowspan="2"|Bundesliga||16||0
|-
|2004/05||7||0
|-
|2005/06||rowspan="3"|Hajduk Split
||rowspan="3"|Prva HNL||13||4
|-
|2006/07||30||0
|-
|2007/08||19||2
|-
|2008||JEF United Ichihara Chiba
||J. League 1||7||0
|-
|2008/09||Dinamo Zagreb||Prva HNL||25||2
|-
|2009/10||Greuther Fürth
||2. Bundesliga
||7||0
|-
|2009/10||Široki Brijeg
||Premier League
||12||0
89||8
11||0
47||15
30||0
177||23
|}
|2003||7||0
|-
|2004||4||0
|-
|2005||2||0
|-
|2006||8||2
|-
|2007||6||1
|-
|2008||1||0
|-
|2009||1||0
|-
!Total||29||3
|}
Croatia
Croatia , officially the Republic of Croatia , is a unitary democratic parliamentary republic in Europe at the crossroads of the Mitteleuropa, the Balkans, and the Mediterranean. Its capital and largest city is Zagreb. The country is divided into 20 counties and the city of Zagreb. Croatia covers ...
-born Bosnian football
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...
player who most current playes for Croatia
Croatia
Croatia , officially the Republic of Croatia , is a unitary democratic parliamentary republic in Europe at the crossroads of the Mitteleuropa, the Balkans, and the Mediterranean. Its capital and largest city is Zagreb. The country is divided into 20 counties and the city of Zagreb. Croatia covers ...
n club RNK Split
RNK Split
RNK Split is a Croatian football club based in the city of Split.-History:Radnički nogometni klub means "Workers' football club".The club was known as workers' club. The club had a strong fanbase in the Split's shipyard...
.
NK Široki Brijeg
Hrgović, who is an ethnic CroatianCroats
Croats are a South Slavic ethnic group mostly living in Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina and nearby countries. There are around 4 million Croats living inside Croatia and up to 4.5 million throughout the rest of the world. Responding to political, social and economic pressure, many Croats have...
, decided to play for Bosnia and Herzegovina after his games went unnoticed in Croatia. Hrgović decided to take Bosnia and Herzegovina nationality while playing for the Herzegovinian club NK Široki Brijeg
NK Široki Brijeg
NK Široki Brijeg is a Bosnian-Herzegovinian team from the town of Široki Brijeg that currently plays in the Premier League of Bosnia and Herzegovina....
and take up the call by Blaž Slišković
Blaž Sliškovic
Blaž "Baka" Slišković is a former Bosnian Croat football player and currently the manager of Al-Ansar....
.
Hrgović has played for NK Posušje
NK Posušje
HŠK Posušje is a defunct football club based in Posušje, Bosnia and Herzegovina. The club is in the First League of the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina. It was founded in 1950. The club plays at the Mokri Dolac Stadium which has a capacity of 8,000...
and NK Široki Brijeg
NK Široki Brijeg
NK Široki Brijeg is a Bosnian-Herzegovinian team from the town of Široki Brijeg that currently plays in the Premier League of Bosnia and Herzegovina....
in the Premier League of Bosnia and Herzegovina
Premier League of Bosnia and Herzegovina
The Premier League of Bosnia and Herzegovina is the top football league in Bosnia and Herzegovina. It is the country's most prestigious level of football competition currently contested by 16 clubs with last two teams relegated at the end of every season....
, 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 JEF United
JEF United Ichihara Chiba
is a Japanese professional football club that plays in J. League Division 2. On February 1, 2005, the club changed its name from JEF United Ichihara to the current name after Chiba city had joined Ichihara, Chiba as its hometown in 2003. The club name, JEF -taken from JR East and Furukawa Electric-...
in J-League, VfL Wolfsburg
VfL Wolfsburg
VfL Wolfsburg is a professional German association football club based in Wolfsburg, Lower Saxony, who play in the Bundesliga football competition. Wolfsburg have won the Bundesliga once in their history, in the 2008–09 season, and were DFB-Pokal runners-up in 1995. The current head coach is Felix...
in German Bundesliga
Fußball-Bundesliga
The Fußball-Bundesliga is a professional association football league in Germany. At the top of Germany's football league system, it is the country's primary football competition. It is contested by 18 teams and operates on a system of promotion and relegation with the 2. Bundesliga...
, Hajduk Split, Dinamo Zagreb
Dinamo Zagreb
GNK Dinamo Zagreb, commonly referred to as Dinamo Zagreb , or by their nickname Modri are a Croatian football club based in Zagreb. They play their home matches at Stadion Maksimir. They are the most successful club in Croatian football, having won thirteen Croatian championship titles, ten...
in 1.HNL and NK Solin-one of the best Croatian second division clubs, there he played on beginning of his senior career.
NK Dinamo Zagreb
On 18 July 2008, Hrgović signed a 3-year contract. His move, albeit not directly from Hajduk to Dinamo, has stirred quite a controversy among both Hajduk and Dinamo fans. While Hajduk fans tend to see the move as a treason to their beloved club, Dinamo fans cannot forgive the physical altercation between Hrgovic and a couple of them that occurred seven months earlier during the national futsal competition. Graffiti against Hrgović and death threats (including a puppet of him being hanged by the Dinamo stadium fence) have been registered.Greuther Fürth
On July 17, 2009, he signed a two year contract with SpVgg Greuther FürthSpVgg Greuther Fürth
SpVgg Greuther Fürth is a German association football club based in Fürth, Bavaria. The club was formed when the senior football side of newcomer Turn- und Sportverein Vestenbergsgreuth joined traditional club Spielvereinigung Fürth on 1 July 1996...
and was released on 25 November 2009.
NK Široki Brijeg
After his releasing in November 2009 by SpVgg Greuther FürthSpVgg Greuther Fürth
SpVgg Greuther Fürth is a German association football club based in Fürth, Bavaria. The club was formed when the senior football side of newcomer Turn- und Sportverein Vestenbergsgreuth joined traditional club Spielvereinigung Fürth on 1 July 1996...
, signed in March 2010 an contract with his former club NK Široki Brijeg
NK Široki Brijeg
NK Široki Brijeg is a Bosnian-Herzegovinian team from the town of Široki Brijeg that currently plays in the Premier League of Bosnia and Herzegovina....
.
International career
He started his career with the Bosnian national team in 2003. He played as a standard player during Blaz Sliskovic's reign as national coach. After Sliskovic's resignation in 2006, he played under new coach Fuad Muzurovic and later on for Meho Kodro. When Miroslav Blazevic became coach, he was dropped for several games because he was not playing well for his club. His move to Greuther Furth proved to be a good move as he was called back to represent Bosnia in the last World Cup 2010 qualifiers against Estonia and Spain.Club career statistics
|-|1999/00||rowspan="2"|Hajduk Split
HNK Hajduk Split
HNK Hajduk Split, commonly referred to as Hajduk Split or simply Hajduk, is a Croatian football club founded in 1911 and based in the city of Split. The club's home ground since 1979 is the 35,000-seater Poljud Stadium and the team's traditional home colours are white shirts with blue shorts and...
||rowspan="2"|Prva HNL||0||0
|-
|2000/01||2||0
|-
|2001||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...
||J. League 1||4||0
|-
|2001/02||rowspan="2"|Široki Brijeg
NK Široki Brijeg
NK Široki Brijeg is a Bosnian-Herzegovinian team from the town of Široki Brijeg that currently plays in the Premier League of Bosnia and Herzegovina....
||rowspan="2"|Premier League
Premier League of Bosnia and Herzegovina
The Premier League of Bosnia and Herzegovina is the top football league in Bosnia and Herzegovina. It is the country's most prestigious level of football competition currently contested by 16 clubs with last two teams relegated at the end of every season....
||0||0
|-
|2002/03||35||15
|-
|2003/04||rowspan="2"|Wolfsburg
VfL Wolfsburg
VfL Wolfsburg is a professional German association football club based in Wolfsburg, Lower Saxony, who play in the Bundesliga football competition. Wolfsburg have won the Bundesliga once in their history, in the 2008–09 season, and were DFB-Pokal runners-up in 1995. The current head coach is Felix...
||rowspan="2"|Bundesliga||16||0
|-
|2004/05||7||0
|-
|2005/06||rowspan="3"|Hajduk Split
HNK Hajduk Split
HNK Hajduk Split, commonly referred to as Hajduk Split or simply Hajduk, is a Croatian football club founded in 1911 and based in the city of Split. The club's home ground since 1979 is the 35,000-seater Poljud Stadium and the team's traditional home colours are white shirts with blue shorts and...
||rowspan="3"|Prva HNL||13||4
|-
|2006/07||30||0
|-
|2007/08||19||2
|-
|2008||JEF United Ichihara Chiba
JEF United Ichihara Chiba
is a Japanese professional football club that plays in J. League Division 2. On February 1, 2005, the club changed its name from JEF United Ichihara to the current name after Chiba city had joined Ichihara, Chiba as its hometown in 2003. The club name, JEF -taken from JR East and Furukawa Electric-...
||J. League 1||7||0
|-
|2008/09||Dinamo Zagreb||Prva HNL||25||2
|-
|2009/10||Greuther Fürth
SpVgg Greuther Fürth
SpVgg Greuther Fürth is a German association football club based in Fürth, Bavaria. The club was formed when the senior football side of newcomer Turn- und Sportverein Vestenbergsgreuth joined traditional club Spielvereinigung Fürth on 1 July 1996...
||2. Bundesliga
2. Fußball-Bundesliga
- Changes in division set-up :* Number of clubs: currently 18. From 1974 to 1981 there were two conferences, each of 20 teams. In 1981–91 it had 20...
||7||0
|-
|2009/10||Široki Brijeg
NK Široki Brijeg
NK Široki Brijeg is a Bosnian-Herzegovinian team from the town of Široki Brijeg that currently plays in the Premier League of Bosnia and Herzegovina....
||Premier League
Premier League of Bosnia and Herzegovina
The Premier League of Bosnia and Herzegovina is the top football league in Bosnia and Herzegovina. It is the country's most prestigious level of football competition currently contested by 16 clubs with last two teams relegated at the end of every season....
||12||0
89||8
11||0
47||15
30||0
177||23
|}
International career statistics
|-|2003||7||0
|-
|2004||4||0
|-
|2005||2||0
|-
|2006||8||2
|-
|2007||6||1
|-
|2008||1||0
|-
|2009||1||0
|-
!Total||29||3
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