Mladen Romić

Mladen Romić
Personal information
Full name Mladen Romić
Date of birth (1962-05-23)23 May 1962
Place of birth Livno, FPR Yugoslavia
Date of death 19 January 2006(2006-01-19) (aged 43)
Place of death Rijeka, Croatia
Position(s) Defender
Youth career
Troglav Livno
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
1979 Troglav Livno
1979–1981 Dubrava
1981–1985 NK Zagreb
1985–1988 Mladost Petrinja
1988–1994 Rijeka 122 (3)
1994–1995 FC Bremerhaven 25 (0)
1995–1996 Zadar 12 (0)
1996–1998 Rijeka 57 (0)
1998–2002 Pomorac Kostrena
International career
1992 Croatia 3 (0)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Mladen Romić (23 May 1962 – 19 January 2006) was a Croatian football player.

Club career

As a player, he spent much of his career, nine seasons in total, with HNK Rijeka. While playing for NK Pomorac in 2002, at the age of 39, he became the oldest player to have played in Prva HNL. Since then, he has been overtaken by Davor Vugrinec and Jakov Surać.[1]

International career

He made his debut for Croatia in a July 1992 friendly match away against Australia and earned a total of 3 caps, scoring no goals, all during the tour of Australia. His final international was a week later against the same opposition.[2]

Post-playing career

Between 2003 and his premature death due to illness in 2006,[3] he was sporting director of HNK Rijeka. Rijeka's fans, Armada Rijeka, created a mural near Stadion Kantrida in his honour to commemorate his contribution to the club.[4]

Honours

Bremerhaven
NK Zadar
NK Pomorac
Individual

Statistics

Player

[5] [6]

Club performance League Cup Total
Season Club League Apps Goals Apps Goals Apps Goals
Yugoslavia League Yugoslav Cup Total
1988–89 NK Rijeka Yugoslav First League 30 0 1 0 31 0
1989–90 26 1 3 0 29 1
1990–91 12 0 4 1 16 1
Croatia League Croatian Cup Total
1992 NK Rijeka Prva HNL 14 1 3 0 17 1
1992–93 28 0 4 0 32 0
1993–94 13 0 1 0 14 0
Germany League DFB-Pokal Total
1993–94 FC Bremerhaven Verbandsliga Bremen – – 0 0
1994–95 Regionalliga Nord 25 0 0 0 25 0
Croatia League Croatian Cup Total
1995–96 NK Zadar Prva B HNL 12 0 4 0 16 0
HNK Rijeka Prva HNL 10 0 0 0 10 0
1996–97 26 0 2 0 28 0
1997–98 21 0 1 0 22 0
1998–99 Pomorac Kostena Treća HNL - West – – 0 0
1999–00 Druga HNL – – 0 0
2000–01 – – 0 0
2001–02 Prva HNL 18 0 2 0 20 0
Rijeka 180 2 19 1 199 3
Total 235 2 25 1 260 3

References

  1. ^ Croatian Football Statistics
  2. ^ "Player Database". EU-football. Retrieved 10 December 2022.
  3. ^ Umro Mladen Romić - Jutarnji (in Croatian)
  4. ^ Lazzarich, Marinko (2008) (in Croatian). Kantrida bijelih snova. Rijeka: Adamić. ISBN 978-953-219-393-0, pp. 370-1.
  5. ^ "Mladen Romić statistics". hrnogomet.com. Retrieved 29 October 2018.
  6. ^ "HNK Rijeka". nk-rijeka.hr. Retrieved 29 October 2018.


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