Mario Bazina
Personal information | |||
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Date of birth | 8 September 1975 | ||
Place of birth | Široki Brijeg, SFR Yugoslavia | ||
Height | 1.77 m (5 ft 10 in) | ||
Position(s) | Midfielder | ||
Youth career | |||
1989 | Široki Brijeg | ||
1989–1992 | Velež Mostar | ||
1992–1995 | Hajduk Split | ||
Senior career* | |||
Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
1995–2000 | Hrvatski Dragovoljac | 89 | (25) |
2000–2001 | Dinamo Zagreb | 31 | (3) |
2001–2006 | Grazer AK | 150 | (42) |
2006–2008 | Rapid Wien | 72 | (18) |
2008–2009 | Austria Wien | 33 | (9) |
Total | 375 | (98) | |
National team | |||
1995 | Croatia U20 | 1 | (0) |
1997 | Croatia U21 | 6 | (1) |
2002 | Croatia | 1 | (0) |
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only |
Mario Bazina (born 8 September 1975) is a Croatian former professional footballer who played as a midfielder.
Club career[]
Bazina played for Austrian club, Grazer AK for five years and one year with Rapid Wien and for Croatian sides Hrvatski Dragovoljac and Dinamo Zagreb. He was the Croatian First League's player of the year for the 1998–99 season and the Austrian footballer of the year for 2005.[1] He last played as an attacking midfielder for Austria Wien in the Austrian Bundesliga having signed with the club until 2009.
International career[]
Bazina made his debut for the Croatia national team in an August 2002 friendly match against Wales, coming on as a second half substitute for Milan Rapaić. It remained his sole international appearance.[2]
Personal life[]
Bazina resides in Široki Brijeg, Bosnia-Herzegovina, with his wife Ana Bazina, and his two sons and Matej Bazina.
Honours[]
Dinamo Zagreb
Grazer AK
Rapid Wien
- Austrian Bundesliga: 2007–08
- UEFA Intertoto Cup: 2007
Austria Wien
- Austrian Cup: 2008–09
Individual
- SN Yellow Shirt: 1998
- Austrian Footballer of the Year: 2005
References[]
- ^ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 16 April 2008. Retrieved 17 April 2008.
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: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link) - ^ "Player Database". eu-football.info. Retrieved 30 January 2021.
External links[]
- Mario Bazina at National-Football-Teams.com
- Profile & Statistics at Guardian's Stats Centre at the Wayback Machine (archived 31 August 2012)
- Mario Bazina at Croatian Football Statistics (national team profile)
- 1975 births
- Living people
- People from Široki Brijeg
- Croats of Bosnia and Herzegovina
- Association football midfielders
- Croatian footballers
- Croatia youth international footballers
- Croatia under-21 international footballers
- Croatia international footballers
- NK Hrvatski Dragovoljac players
- GNK Dinamo Zagreb players
- Grazer AK players
- SK Rapid Wien players
- FK Austria Wien players
- Croatian First Football League players
- Austrian Football Bundesliga players
- Croatian expatriate footballers
- Expatriate footballers in Austria
- Croatian expatriate sportspeople in Austria