Birthday: 1968 September 1 1.

Nationality: Croatia

Career: hejduk, Karlsruhe, West Ham, Everton.

Teaching career: hejduk, Croatia U2 1 Team, Croatia Team.

Former Croatian national team defender slaven bilic repaid the full trust of the Croatian Football Association with his own achievements. In June 2006, at the age of 37, he was appointed as the head coach of the Croatian national team. Bilic is also confident that their achievements will not stop there. He said: "In the past five years, this is one of the best national teams I have ever seen."

Player career

France became famous in the World Cup.

1987, a defender named bilic made his debut from his hometown Split's hejduk team. Six seasons later, he moved to Karlsruhe in the Bundesliga and was introduced by West Ham 1996 with a club record of 2.3 million euros. Everton 1997 offered 6.6 million euros, but didn't leave until they helped West Ham avoid relegation.

With his outstanding performance in English, bilic got the opportunity to represent Croatian team in 1996 European Championship. That year Croatia 1/4 reached the final, but was eliminated by Germany.

Bilic made 44 appearances for his country, and his greatest achievement was 1998 French World Cup, which won the third place with Croatian team for the first time. In the semi-final with France, there was an episode. After bilic and Blank fought for each other, they fell to the ground dramatically, causing the latter to be sent off with a red card, which was also regarded as fame in World War I.. Later, bilic admitted that he was faking it.

Bilic made his debut as a defender in hejduk. After six seasons, he moved to the Bundesliga club Karlsruhe before the 1993-94 season. 1996 65438+ 10, West Ham United brought him in with a club record of 2.3 million euros. His outstanding performance in England won him the chance to be selected for Croatia's national team to participate in England's Euro 96, and he also successfully helped Croatia advance to the quarter-finals.

Everton offered him 6.6 million euros in March 1997, but Billy Wizards chose to leave until he helped West Ham avoid relegation in the Premier League. In his 44 appearances for the national team, his greatest achievement was to help Croatia win the third place in their first World Cup final in the 1998 FIFA World Cup. During the season of 1999-2000, he returned to his hometown to join hejduk. So in Split, fans can still see him release his passion in another way-he plays guitar in a heavy metal band called "Rawbau".

He has coached two national teams excellently.

At the end of his career, bilic returned to hejduk and became head coach in 2002, which quickly showed his ambition. In the summer of 2004, he was appointed as the coach of Croatia U2 1 team, and led the team to win the first place in the eighth group of European Youth Championship qualifiers in 2006.

In July 2006, the Croatian Football Association handed over the command of the adult national team to bilic, who was only 37 years old, and asked him to play in the European Championship qualifiers. The Croatian Football Association, which knows people well and is good at their duties, soon got its reward. Passionate Croatia played well, defeated popular England and qualified ahead of schedule as the first in the group.

Live performances can be worth the ticket price.

Bilic is good at mobilizing the atmosphere-players blow kisses after scoring goals, and teams beat their chests and feet when they are passive. The British media commented, "It is more interesting to watch bilic's performance on the sidelines than to watch Croatian goals, and it is worth buying tickets for this." .

In the battle with German yesterday, bilic staged an entertaining game on the sidelines and became the most exciting and active person at Lake Walter Stadium. He braved the almost nonstop rain, strolled through every inch of the technical area, and kept gesturing to the players, fascinated. Whenever an opponent gets a set-piece, he will yell theory at the referee. In contrast, German coach Loew is quite silent. The similarity between the two seems to be that they both play for Karlsruhe.

When Srna scored the first goal in the 23rd minute, bilic couldn't control himself and rushed to the stadium excitedly, but soon remembered his position, and then turned and threw himself into the arms of a teaching assistant. When Olic expanded the score in the 62nd minute, bilic controlled his emotions. When Podolski recovered a goal, bilic's nervousness returned to his face. Tiger Wins was very active after the game. He directed the double-team pig, which eventually made him lose his mind and was sent off for slapping Lecco. However, when the final whistle sounded, bilic's passion was finally released. He rushed into the stadium and hugged the players one by one to celebrate.

Guitarist of the heavy metal band

Bilic is so passionate that he can be called a "new human" in the coaching circle, which may be inseparable from his versatility-he is proficient in Italian, German and English, and his LLM certificate is locked in the drawer at home. There may be many coaches with great personalities, but how many coaches like bilic who play rock and wear diamond earrings to conduct on the sidelines?

Bilic plays the guitar in a heavy metal band called "Rawbau". Before going to the European Championship, the band wrote a song for the Croatian team called "Hot Madness". This song caused a sensation as soon as it was released, and even reached the top three in uk charts. After defeating the Austrian host in the first game, bilic played rock music in the dressing room. He did the same thing after defeating the Germans yesterday. However, bilic's goal is not music. He is absorbed in football. "This is the best national team I have seen in the past five years, and Croatia is absolutely capable of winning the European Championship." .

The most suitable candidate

Bilic, who holds a master's degree in law, started his coaching career in 2002-03. He coached HNK· hejduk Club, his first club as a player, located in his hometown of Split. At that time, he returned to the second largest city in Croatia after serving overseas for many years, and soon showed his ambition to the outside world. In the summer of 2004, he was appointed as the head coach of Croatia U2 1 national team, and led the team to win the first place in 8 groups in the European Youth Championship under Euro 2 1 in 2006, but was eliminated by Serbia and Montenegro U2 1 national team in the play-offs and missed the final round.

After the 2006 World Cup, he took the place of Chloe Chacha Sr as the coach. Many people are full of doubts about this coach who has a bad temper and a lot of dirty moves when defending. But it turns out that this generalist with high IQ (fluent in English, Italian and German), high education (law degree) and good at heavy metal rock music is really the most suitable candidate.