Andrej Kramarić ( croatian pronunciation : [ ǎndrej krǎmaritɕ ] ; [ 2 ] [ 3 ] born 19 June 1991 ) is a croatian professional football player who plays as a advancing or attacking midfielder for Bundesliga club 1899 Hoffenheim and the Croatia national team. Kramarić started his football career in his hometown club Dinamo Zagreb and holds the record as the top young goalscorer in the baseball club ‘s history. [ 4 ] Hailed as one of the golf club ‘s biggest talents, he made his first official appearance for Dinamo at the senesce of 17. In 2013, after he had a dispute with the Dinamo board of directors, [ 5 ] Kramarić was transferred to HNK Rijeka, where he scored 37 times in 42 league games prior to his move to Leicester City for a read £9 million. [ 6 ] He played a year-and-a-half there, spending prison term on lend at 1899 Hoffenheim before moving there permanently. On 29 March 2019, he became the cabaret ‘s all-time top goalscorer. [ 7 ] On 24 January 2021, he became Bundesliga all-time top croatian goalscorer. [ 8 ]
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Kramarić was capped 53 times at assorted young person levels for Croatia, scoring 22 goals in full. He took function at the 2010 UEFA european Under-19 Football Championship, making four appearances for a croatian team that reached the tournament semi-finals. He made his debut for the elder team in 2014, and subsequently took partially at UEFA Euro 2016, the 2018 FIFA World Cup and UEFA Euro 2020, helping Croatia to reach the final of the 2018 tournament .
Club career [edit ]
Dinamo Zagreb [edit ]
Kramarić joined Dinamo Zagreb when he was just six years old. [ 9 ] During his youth career, he scored over 450 goals for Dinamo youth teams, making him the top young person scorer in club history. [ 10 ] Kramarić made his debut for the Dinamo senior police squad on 24 May 2009 in a league match against Zagreb. He made an appearance as a 69th-minute stand-in for Josip Tadić. [ 11 ] It was besides his only equal for the Dinamo first-team during the 2008–09 season. Kramarić was promoted to the first-team team the keep up season. He made his inaugural appearance of the season and besides debuted in the UEFA Champions League on 15 July in an away peer against Pyunik, which finished in a scoreless hook. [ 12 ] Later that year, Kramarić won his beginning league entitle with Dinamo, scoring seven goals in 24 appearances en road. [ 13 ] He besides made five appearances in the 2009–10 croatian Cup and scored four goals, and made five appearances in UEFA competitions. The following season turned out to be disappointing for Kramarić, however. With the arrival of modern bus Vahid Halilhodžić, Kramarić was by and large used as a late ersatz, rarely being used as a match starter. He managed to collect less than 600 minutes of playing time in 17 appearances he made throughout the 2010–11 season, scoring five goals in serve. Despite the personal contend, he won the league and cup double with his team. [ 14 ] In the first half of the 2011–12 season, Kramarić ‘s condition in the club did not change, as he collected lone three appearances before the winter rupture, and the speculations about him leaving the club started to rise. [ 15 ] In February 2012, it was announced that Kramarić would be loaned to Prva HNL team Lokomotiva. [ 16 ]
Lokomotiva Zagreb [edit ]
In February 2012, Kramarić was loaned to Lokomotiva until the goal of the season. [ 17 ] At Lokomotiva, he became one of the most adept strikers in Southeast Europe, scoring 20 goals in 44 league appearances in the season-and-a-half he spent with the Lokosi. In his first full temper with Lokomotiva, he finished runner-up to Leon Benko in the Prva HNL top goalscorer race with 15 goals. He besides helped his team reach the croatian Cup final in where they were defeated by Hajduk Split. [ 18 ]
return key to Dinamo Zagreb [edit ]
There was great exhilaration when Kramarić returned to Dinamo Zagreb at the begin of the 2013–14 season, with many pundits predicting that he would become the pitiless hitter Dinamo had been lacking in late years. He started his returning temper coming on as a late stand-in in a croatian Supercup match where Dinamo secured their first trophy of the season by defeating Hajduk Split on penalties. [ 19 ] But things for Kramarić did not go very well, as he found himself once again on the judiciary. He quickly became discourage and complained to the wardrobe about his lack of play meter. [ 20 ] This did not bode well with club conductor Zoran Mamić, who decided to put the youthful star on the transfer list. [ 21 ]
Rijeka [edit ]
Rijeka were the quickest to react to the falling out between Kramarić and Dinamo, securing his services on 31 August 2013. Kramarić debuted for the team on 15 September, playing in the starting line-up in a Prva HNL league equal against Slaven Belupo, in which he besides scored his first goal for the team in the 15th minute, the match ‘s only goal. During a croatian Cup match, Kramarić scored eight goals against BŠK Zmaj. In November 2013, he scored an astonishing finish against Lyon in the Europa League group stage. [ 22 ] He scored his first gear hat-trick of the season against Istra 1961 in a match that ended 3–3, with Kramarić besides missing a penalty. [ 23 ] He then netted another finish against Rijeka ‘s arch rivals Hajduk Split at the Stadion Poljud. Kramarić finished his first season with Rijeka by winning the croatian Cup, [ 24 ] and scoring 27 goals in all competitions. In July 2014, just before the start of the newfangled season, Kramarić won the croatian Supercup when Rijeka defeated his former cabaret and reigning champions Dinamo Zagreb. [ 25 ] Kramarić opened the modern season of the Prva HNL by scoring five goals in the hatchway two matches, including a hat-trick against Hajduk Split. [ 26 ] By the goal of October 2014, he had already scored more than 20 goals in all competitions, [ 27 ] including a hat-trick in a Europa League pit against Feyenoord. [ 28 ] On 9 November, Kramarić scored five goals against Lokomotiva in a home match that ended 6–0, a feat that was entered into league annals—for 14 years, no musician had scored more than four goals in one match, and in history alone two other players have managed to score that number. [ 29 ] [ 30 ]
Leicester City [edit ]
On 8 January 2015, Premier League club Leicester City announced that they had agreed a deal to sign Kramarić on a three-and-a-half-year abridge, [ 31 ] confirming an earlier announcement by Rijeka. [ 32 ] The transfer, however, was dependent on Kramarić being awarded a work license on solicitation, as he did not meet the requirements for one to be automatically granted. [ 33 ] Four days after Leicester ‘s announcement, an FA Panel recommended the approval of work allow, clearing the way for Leicester to apply to the UK Border Agency. [ 34 ] [ 35 ] On 16 January, Leicester announced Kramarić had officially joined the club after being granted a UK employment allow and that he would wear the number 40. [ 36 ] His transfer tip was £9 million, a golf club record for Leicester. [ 37 ] He made his debut the day after signing, replacing striker Jamie Vardy for the last 25 minutes of a 0–1 home kill against Stoke City. [ 38 ] On 10 February, Kramarić scored his first goal for the club in 2–1 away get the better of against Arsenal. [ 39 ] Kramarić failed to establish a blot in the start eleven for the early stages of the 2015–16 temper. He played only two league games when Leicester became Premier League champions, making him ineligible for a winner ‘s decoration ( minimum five league games required ). [ 40 ]
1899 Hoffenheim [edit ]
On 20 January 2016, Kramarić was loaned to Bundesliga club 1899 Hoffenheim. [ 41 ] He made his debut against Bayern Munich on 31 January, then scored his first goal in a draw with Werder Bremen, where he besides was sent off in the 77th minute for accumulating two yellow cards. On 30 April he missed a penalty against Ingolstadt 04, however Hoffenheim won 2–1. [ 42 ] On 25 May 2016, Kramarić signed for 1899 Hoffenheim on a four-year distribute for an undisclosed fee. [ 43 ] In his debut season, he was Hoffenheim ‘s 2016–17 season top-scorer with 18 goals ( 15 league goals ). On 4 April, Kramarić scored a 21st-minute goal to give Hoffenheim the leave against german champions Bayern Munich, a game which Hoffenheim won 1–0. Kramarić was considered one of Hoffenheim ‘s samara players in their 2016–17 campaign in which they finished fourthly, aboard Niklas Süle, Sandro Wagner, Ádám Szalai, and Sebastian Rudy. On 23 October 2018, Kramarić scored a brace in a 3–3 describe against Lyon in the 2018–19 UEFA Champions League, [ 44 ] then he managed to score a finish in each pit of the return legs, against Lyon, Shakhtar Donetsk and Manchester City.
On 29 March 2019, after scoring his forty-seventh goal for Hoffenheim in a 4–1 league victory over Bayer Leverkusen, Kramarić became the golf club ‘s all-time Bundesliga top goalscorer, surpassing Sejad Salihović who scored 46. [ 7 ] On 28 April, he missed a penalty against VfL Wolfsburg at result 1–0 for Hoffenheim and Wolfsburg turned the match over into a 4–1 victory, which left Hoffenheim four points behind fourth position, the last one which gives a prospect to compete in the Champions League. It was his moment league penalty miss for Hoffenheim, and third in full. On 20 June 2020, Kramarić scored in a 4–0 victory over Union Berlin. [ 45 ] On the survive matchday, 27 June, he scored all four goals in a 4–0 away gain against second-placed Borussia Dortmund, becoming the first Hoffenheim player to do indeed in a Bundesliga pit. [ 46 ] He besides became the beginning player to score four against Dortmund away in a single game, surpassing Fritz Walter, Erhard Hofeditz and Gerd Müller who had managed to score three. [ 47 ] The victory besides secured Hoffenheim ‘s sixth place league finish up and reservation for the Europa League group stagecoach. [ 46 ] On 13 September, Kramarić scored both goals in a DFB-Pokal 2–2 draw with Chemnitzer FC, and successfully converted a punishment in a gunfight as Hoffenheim won 3–2. [ 48 ] On 19 September, in Hoffenheim ‘s beginning league game of the season, Kramarić scored a hat-trick in the 3–2 victory over Köln. That meant he scored nine goals in three consecutive games for the club, being the club ‘s lone goalscorer in all three of them. [ 49 ] [ 50 ] At the same meter, he broke Mario Gómez ‘s criminal record of goals scored in consecutive 1. Bundesliga and 2. Bundesliga matches ( 7 ), scoring eight in four straight league games. [ 47 ] On 27 September, he scored a couple in a 4–1 victory over german and european champions Bayern Munich, ending their 32-game unbeaten streak and 23-game win streak in all competitions and inflicting the first gear defeat of the calendar year on them. [ 51 ] [ 52 ] On 16 October, he was named the Bundesliga Player of the Month. The same day, it was announced that he tested convinced for COVID-19. [ 53 ] On 24 January 2021, he surpassed Ivica Olić and became Bundesliga all-time top Croatian goalscorer after scoring a brace in a 3–0 victory over Köln and reaching the count of 74 goals. [ 8 ] On 15 May, in a 1–1 pull with Arminia Bielefeld, he scored his 19th goal of the season, a record for a Hoffenheim musician, surpassing Vedad Ibišević who scored 18 in the 2008–09 temper. [ 54 ]
International career [edit ]
youth [edit ]
Kramarić was capped a total of 53 times for diverse croatian young teams and scored 22 goals in return. His first home team appearance came against Bavaria national team on 31 March 2005. He was then playing for the under-14 team and was capped a total of two times. Kramarić then started competing at the under-16 and under-17 levels. He made a total of seven appearances in friendly matches for the under-16 team and scored four goals. For the under-17 team, he was capped 12 times and scored six goals. He besides participated in all of under–17 team ‘s qualifiers for the 2008 european U–17 Championship. At the under-18 horizontal surface, Kramarić was capped nine times and scored three goals. [ 55 ] In 2008, he started playing for the under-19 team, with whom he reached he semi-finals of the 2010 UEFA european Under-19 Football Championship. He debuted and scored his first finish at under-21 level on 5 September 2009 in a european Championship modifier against Norway, aged merely 18 years and 81 days. [ 55 ] [ 56 ]
aged [edit ]
On 20 August 2014, Kramarić received his first call-up for the aged team under coach Niko Kovač for the friendly match against Cyprus and UEFA Euro 2016 qualifying couple against Malta. He made his debut for Croatia on 4 September 2014 in a friendly match against Cyprus and provided an serve for Mario Mandžukić in 18th minute, [ 57 ] receiving positive reviews from both critics and national team passenger car for his debut operation. [ 58 ] [ 59 ] Kramarić scored his foremost goal for Croatia in his competitive debut in the qualifying couple against Malta. [ 60 ] His second finish was scored against Azerbaijan. [ 61 ] On 9 October 2017, he scored two goals in a all-important 2018 FIFA World Cup qualifier against Ukraine, securing Croatia ‘s qualification to playoffs. [ 62 ] On 4 June 2018, Kramarić was included in Croatia ‘s final World Cup squad. [ 63 ] On 7 July, in the 2018 FIFA World Cup quarter-final couple against hosts Russia, he scored Croatia ‘s equalizer in the first half of regulation time. A 1–1 pull back after 90 minutes saw the meet go into extra-time, and following a 2–2 guide after 120 minutes of play, Croatia once again progressed to the next round in the ensuing shoot-out, winning 4–3 on penalties. [ 64 ]
style of play [edit ]
Kramarić has been described as versatile hitter who is mobile adequate to run behind defences and quite than waiting for crosses or testis to come to him, tends to run towards the musket ball, engulfing his enemy with an atmosphere of volatility about his play. Although naturally a lone striker, his versatility makes him able to play well as a winger or second striker. [ 65 ] His former national team coach Niko Kovač compared him with fabled croatian striker Davor Šuker. [ 66 ] In May 2021, his erstwhile Hoffenheim bus Julian Nagelsmann named him the best player he had ever worked with. [ 67 ]
personal life sentence [edit ]
On 31 March 2021, Kramarić married Mia Ćurković in a private ceremony at the Old City Hall in Zagreb Upper Town. [ 68 ]
career statistics [edit ]
baseball club [edit ]
- As of match played 11 December 2021[69][70]
International [edit ]
- As of match played on 14 November 2021[55]
National team
Year
Apps
Goals
Croatia
2014
4
2
2015
5
1
2016
10
2
2017
8
3
2018
15
4
2019
4
1
2020
4
1
2021
15
2
Total
65
16
- Croatia’s score is listed first, and the score column indicates the score after each Kramarić goal.[55]
Honours [edit ]
Dinamo Zagreb [ 71 ]
Rijeka [ 71 ]
- Croatian Cup: 2013–14
- Croatian Super Cup: 2014
Croatia
Individual
Orders
References [edit ]
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