Vatroslav Mihačić is a retired Croatia

Croatia

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n football player. He played as goalkeper for 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...

, Neretva

NK Neretva

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 and NK Zagreb

NK Zagreb

NK Zagreb is a Croatian football club, from the Croatian capital of Zagreb.NK Zagreb's home is the Stadion Kranjčevićeva with capacity of 8,850. The club's fans are known as the White Angels...

 in Croatia, and had a four-year spell at Portuguese side Gil Vicente.

He played for Hajduk in the 1990–91 Yugoslav First League, the last season before Croatian clubs decided to leave the league to form 1. HNL, and in the 1991 Yugoslav Cup Final in which Hajduk beat the reigning champions of Europe Red Star Belgrade

Red Star Belgrade

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 1–0 to lift the trophy, alongside club stars such as Igor Štimac

Igor Štimac

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, Slaven Bilić

Slaven Bilic

Slaven Bilić is a former Croatian footballer and current head coach of the Croatia national team. His playing tenure predominantly comprised extended vocations in his hometown with Hajduk Split and a combination of foreign spells in Germany and England...

, Alen Bokšić

Alen Bokšic

Alen Bokšić is a former football attacker from Croatia. He was a renowned forward known for his technique.-Career:Bokšić was born in Makarska and started his career in the club Zmaj from Makarska. As a young player he moved to Hajduk Split and was introduced into the first team . With Hajduk, he...

 and Robert Jarni

Robert Jarni

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.

With Hajduk he went on to win two Croatian league titles (1992 and 1994) and the 1993 Croatian Cup. After spending the 1994–95 season at NK Neretva

NK Neretva

NK Neretva is a Croatian football club based in the town of Metković, in the region of Dalmatia.Club's first name was NK "Narona".Today's name club has since 1994...

 he moved to Gil Vicente in Portugal, with whom he won the Liga de Honra

Liga de Honra

The Liga de Honra , known for sponsorship reasons as the Liga Orangina, is the Portuguese second level football league. It was formerly called Segunda Divisão and Segunda Divisão de Honra . When the LPFP took control of the two nationwide levels, it was renamed Segunda Liga, before renaming it...

 in 1999. That same year he returned to Croatia and spent two seasons playing for NK Zagreb before retiring in 2001.

After retiring from football he worked as coaching assistant to Croatia national team managers Otto Barić

Otto Baric

Otto Barić is a Croatian-Austrian football manager.-1970s to 1980s:Barić started his coaching career in 1969 at West German club Germania Wiesbaden and moved after one season to Austrian club Wacker Innsbruck, where he spent next two seasons and won two consecutive league champions titles before...

 in 2004 and Zlatko Kranjčar

Zlatko Kranjcar

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 in 2006 and became director of the Croatian Football Federation

Croatian Football Federation

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 coaching academy.

Honours

• 1 × Yugoslav Cup
  Yugoslav Cup
  The Yugoslav Cup, officially the Marshal Tito Cup, was one of two major football competitions in the former Yugoslavia, the other one being the Yugoslav League Championship. The Yugoslav Cup took place after the league championships when every competitive league in Yugoslavia had finished, in order...
  
  : 1991
• 2 × Croatian First League: 1992, 1994
• 1 × Croatian Cup
  Croatian Cup
  The Croatian Cup is an annually held football tournament for Croatian football clubs and is the second most important competition in Croatian football after the Prva HNL league championship. It is governed by the Croatian Football Federation and usually runs from late August to May...
  
  : 1993
• 1 × Portuguese Second Division
  Liga de Honra
  The Liga de Honra , known for sponsorship reasons as the Liga Orangina, is the Portuguese second level football league. It was formerly called Segunda Divisão and Segunda Divisão de Honra . When the LPFP took control of the two nationwide levels, it was renamed Segunda Liga, before renaming it...
  
  : 1999

External links

• Vatroslav Mihačić Croatian league stats at HRRepka.com
• Vatroslav Mihačić profile at ZeroZero.pt