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Enver Marić

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Enver Marić
Marić as goalkeeping coach of Hertha BSC in 2009
Personal information
Date of birth (1948-04-16) 16 April 1948 (age 76)
Place of birth Mostar, FPR Yugoslavia
Height 1.82 m (6 ft 0 in)
Position(s) Goalkeeper
Youth career
0000–1967 Velež Mostar
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
1967–1976 Velež Mostar 213 (0)
1976–1978 Schalke 04 47 (0)
1978–1985 Velež Mostar 226 (1)
Total 486 (1)
International career
1972–1976 Yugoslavia 32 (0)
Managerial career
1990 Velež Mostar
1993–1998 Fortuna Düsseldorf (goalkeeping coach)
1998 Fortuna Düsseldorf (caretaker)
1998–2010 Hertha BSC (goalkeeping coach)
1999 Bosnia and Herzegovina (goalkeeping coach)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Enver Marić (born 16 April 1948) is a Bosnian former professional football goalkeeper and retired football manager. He is widely considered to be one of the greatest goalkeepers from the former Yugoslavia of all time.[1]

Club career

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Marić started his career playing for hometown club Velež Mostar from 1967 to 1976, for who he played a record 600 games in his nine-year stint. Marić then went on to play for German club Schalke 04 from 1976 to 1978.[2] He returned to Velež in 1978, ending his career at the club in 1985.

Marić is also remembered for being the part of the Velež three known as the "Mostar BMV" (Bajević, Marić and Vladić) during the 1960s, 1970s and 1980s.

International career

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Marić made his debut for the Yugoslavia national team in an April 1972 European Championship qualification match against the Soviet Union and has earned a total of 32 caps, scoring no goals.[3] His final international was a May 1976 European Championship qualification match away against Wales.[4] He appeared in the 1974 FIFA World Cup for Yugoslavia.

Managerial career

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Marić returned to football as a manager, briefly managing Velež in 1990, then working as a goalkeeping coach at Fortuna Düsseldorf from 1993 to 1998 and Hertha BSC from 1998 to 2010. For a short stint in 1998, Marić was the caretaker manager of Düsseldorf. During 1999, he worked as a goalkeeping coach in the Bosnia and Herzegovina national team.

Personal life

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On 7 October 2010, Marić suffered a stroke in his home in Berlin, Germany.[5]

Honours

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Player

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Velež Mostar

Individual

References

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  1. ^ "Legendarni Enver Marić: Moje zdravlje nije dobro, ali se borim" (in Bosnian). Dnevni avaz. April 8, 2018. Retrieved April 8, 2018.
  2. ^ "Enver Marić". fussballdaten.de (in German). Retrieved July 16, 2013.
  3. ^ Mamrud, Roberto (December 16, 2020). "Yugoslavia (Serbia (and Montenegro)) - Record International Players". RSSSF. Retrieved April 4, 2021.
  4. ^ "Player Database". eu-football.info. Retrieved April 4, 2021.
  5. ^ "Enver Marić doživio moždani udar" (in Bosnian). Klix.ba. October 7, 2010. Retrieved October 7, 2010.
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