Igor Pamić

Igor Pamić
Personal information
Date of birth (1969-11-19) 19 November 1969
Place of birth Žminj, SFR Yugoslavia
Height 1.91 m (6 ft 3 in)
Playing position Forward
Club information
Current team
 Koper (Head Coach)
Youth career
Pazinka
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
1991–1992 Koper 0 (2)
1992–1993 Istra Pula 34 (12)
1993–1994 Pazinka 23 (18)
1994–1995 Dinamo Zagreb 28 (10)
1995–1996 Osijek 25 (17)
1996–1997 Sochaux 29 (10)
1997–1998 Hansa Rostock 37 (13)
1999–2002 Grazer AK 66 (23)
Total 242 (103)
National team
1996–1998 Croatia 5 (1)
Teams managed
2002–2003 Žminj
2004–2005 Pula 1856
2006–2007 Žminj
2007–2011 Karlovac
2011–2015 Istra 1961
2016– Koper

* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only.


Igor Pamić (born 19 November 1969) is a Croatian former professional footballer and current coach of Slovenian club FC Koper.

He made five appearances for the Croatia national team during his playing career.

Playing career

He was born in the village of Žminj in Istria and started his professional career at the club Istra Pula in early 1992. He left the club after two seasons for Dinamo Zagreb, where he spent another two seasons before moving to Osijek in July 1995. After one season with Osijek, he moved abroad by signing with French club Sochaux in July 1996. He scored a total of 57 goals in five seasons of playing in the Croatian First League.[1]

He made his debut for the Croatian national team in a friendly match against Hungary on 10 April 1996 in Osijek and also managed to score his first and only international goal in this match. He was subsequently also part of the Croatian squad at the UEFA Euro 1996 finals in England, but made only one appearance at the tournament by playing the first half of the final group match against Portugal. He subsequently appeared in only two more matches for the Croatian national team, playing as a substitute in a 1996 friendly against Morocco as well as in the Croatian team's first UEFA Euro 2000 qualifier against the Republic of Ireland on 5 September 1998. In all, he won a total of five international caps and scored one goal for Croatia.[2]

At club level, he left Sochaux in June 1997 after one season of playing for the club and went on to sign with German Bundesliga side Hansa Rostock. In a season and half of playing for Hansa, Pamić appeared in a total of 37 Bundesliga matches and managed to score 13 goals for the club in the league. With the beginning of the year 1999, he transferred to Austrian Bundesliga side Grazer AK and continued to play for the club before he finished his career as a player in the autumn of 2001, playing his last league match on 21 October 2001 against Rapid Wien. In two half-seasons and two entire seasons of playing for GAK, he appeared in a total of 66 Bundesliga matches and scored 23 goals.

Managerial career

Shortly after retiring from football as a player, Pamić started his managerial career in the sport. He was the head coach of Croatian Third League side NK Žminj in 2002 and 2003, going on to move to Croatian Second League side NK Pula in early 2004, helping them to clinch promotion to the Croatian First League for the 2004–05 season.

Pamić left Pula in the winter break of the 2005-06 season and returned to Žminj in 2006, spending a season with the club. In 2007, he was appointed head coach at Karlovac, with whom he clinched promotion to the Croatian First League in 2009.

Personal

His sons Zvonko and Alen[3] are also a professional football players.

References

  1. ↑ "Igor Pamić" (in Croatian). hrnogomet.com. Retrieved 5 October 2016.
  2. ↑ Igor Pamić at the Croatian Football Federation website (Croatian)
  3. ↑ "Zvonko Pamic signs". Bayer 04 Leverkusen. 15 April 2010. Retrieved 26 October 2012.
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