Robert Jarni

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Robert Jarni
Personal information
Date of birth (1968-10-26) 26 October 1968 (age 55)
Place of birth Čakovec, SR Croatia, Yugoslavia
Height 1.80 m (5 ft 11 in)
Position(s) Left wingback
Youth career
MTČ Čakovec
Hajduk Split
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
1986–1991 Hajduk Split 128 (17)
1991–1993
Bari
 52 (3)
1993–1994
Torino
 23 (0)
1994–1995 Juventus 15 (1)
1995–1998 Real Betis 98 (19)
1998 Coventry City 0 (0)
1998–1999
Real Madrid
 27 (1)
1999–2001 Las Palmas 43 (6)
2001–2002 Panathinaikos 5 (0)
Total 391 (47)
International career
1987 Yugoslavia U20 6 (0)
1990–1991 Yugoslavia 7 (1)
1990–2002 Croatia 81 (1)
2003 Croatia (futsal) 2 (2)
Managerial career
2007–2008 Hajduk Split
2010-2011 Istra 1961
2012–2013 Hajduk Split U19
2013–2014 Sarajevo
2014–2015 Pécs
2015–2016 Puskás Akadémia
2017–2019 Croatia U19
2019–2020 NorthEast United
2022–2024 Croatia U17
Medal record
Men's football
Representing  Yugoslavia
FIFA World Youth Championship
Winner 1987 Chile
UEFA European Under-21 Championship
Runner-up
1990
Representing  Croatia
FIFA World Cup
Third place 1998 France
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Robert Jarni (born 26 October 1968) is a Croatian former professional footballer who played as a left winger or wingback.

Jarni started his professional career with Hajduk Split in 1986, and went on to spend 10 years playing for various clubs in Italy and Spain before finishing his career as a player in Greece with Panathinaikos in 2002.

He was a regular in the Croatia national football team between 1990 and 2002, winning a total of 80 international caps for Croatia and being the national team's record cap holder until June 2006, when his record was beaten by Dario Šimić. Prior to Croatia's independence, he also won 7 international caps for the Yugoslavia.

Jarni participated in three FIFA World Cup finals, in 1990 with Yugoslavia and in 1998 and 2002 with Croatia, making a total of 11 appearances in the competition. The crowning moment of his career was the 1998 World Cup in France, where he appeared in all of Croatia's 7 matches at the tournament and helped them win the bronze medals in their first World Cup appearance. He also scored his only international goal for Croatia during the tournament, netting the opening goal in their 3–0 win over Germany in the quarter-finals. During the last qualifying match of Euro 2000 where Croatia played FR Yugoslavia, Jarni collided with defender Zoran Mirković and insulted Mirković after he went down, only for Mirković to grab and twist Jarni's testicles, in which the referee sent him off and banned him for three matches, which made him miss FR Yugoslavia's Euro 2000 campaign.

After his retirement from professional football as a player, he spent several seasons playing

managerial career with Hajduk Split
in 2007.

Club career

Born in

Bari
.

After spending two seasons with Bari, he moved to

Torino in 1993, and spent one season with the club before moving to local rivals Juventus in 1994. He also spent just one season with Juventus, and went on to move to Spanish side Real Betis in 1995. He had a fairly successful spell with the Seville club, appearing in 98 Primera División
matches for the club over the following three seasons, also scoring a total of 19 goals in the league.

In the summer of 1998, Jarni initially moved to English side

Real Madrid decided they wanted the player, they successfully bought him from Coventry for £3.4 million, with Jarni having made no appearances whatsoever. Some believe this was a joint Coventry City and Real Madrid tactic, as Betis refused to sell him to the Madrid club.[1]

At Real Madrid, Jarni struggled to get his place in the starting line-up and often found himself receiving little playing time as a substitute, although he did manage to finish the season with a total of 27 Primera División appearances on his tally. His only league goal for Real Madrid came in their 5–1 win at Extremadura on 31 October 1998, when he netted the opening goal of the match in the first minute. One of the highlights of his spell with Real Madrid came 10 days earlier in their third UEFA Champions League group match that season, when he netted a brace in their 6–1 win at home to Sturm Graz.

In the summer of 1999, Jarni left Real Madrid for Segunda División side Las Palmas, going on to help the club gain promotion to the Primera División for the 2000–01 season, which saw him making another 26 appearances in the Spanish top flight, scoring two goals. After losing his place as a regular at Las Palmas and making no appearances for the club in the first half of the 2001–02 season, Jarni went on to move to Greek side Panathinaikos on 30 January 2002, signing a short-term contract until the end of the season.[2]

Jarni only appeared in 5 matches for Panathinaikos in the Greek league, although he also made three appearances for the club in the UEFA Champions League in February and March 2002. Despite his remarkable performances, he was ruled out due to a serious head injury due to excessive zeal in a match against Porto. His contract was not renewed at the end of the season, and he subsequently retired from professional football as a player, aged 33.

International career

As a youngster, Jarni played for the Yugoslav national under-21 football team. He was part of the Yugoslav squad that won the 1987 FIFA World Youth Championship in Chile, alongside his future Croatia team-mates Davor Šuker, Zvonimir Boban, Robert Prosinečki and Igor Štimac.

In 1990, Jarni became a full international with Yugoslavia. He won seven international caps with the team in 1990 and 1991, scoring one goal. He was also part of the Yugoslav squad for the 1990 FIFA World Cup finals in Italy, where he made his World Cup debut as a half-time substitute for Srečko Katanec in the team's second group match, a 1–0 win against Colombia.

Jarni's international debut for Croatia came on 22 December 1990 in a friendly match against Romania. He quickly established himself as a regular with the team and was also part of the Croatian squad for the country's first appearance in the finals of a major tournament, at the UEFA Euro 1996 in England. He appeared in all of Croatia's four matches at the tournament before they were knocked out in the quarter-finals after losing 2–1 to Germany, who went on to win the tournament.

Two years later, Jarni was named in the Croatian squad for the country's first World Cup appearance, at the

crosses or passes into the box. One of those assists came later during 1998 World Cup, when he set up Robert Prosinečki's opening goal in Croatia's 2–1 win against the Netherlands
in the third-place match.

Jarni continued to play regularly for Croatia until 2002, when he retired from football as a player. His final international was a June 2002 World Cup finals match against Ecuador.[3] He also appeared in all of their three group matches at the 2002 FIFA World Cup finals in Japan, where Croatia were eliminated following the group stage. The three appearances made Jarni the only player to feature in all of Croatia's 10 matches in their first two World Cup appearances. Having been a Croatian international for 11+1⁄2 years, Jarni won a total of 81 international caps for the team and was their record cap holder before Dario Šimić beat his record on 18 June 2006 in Croatia's 0–0 draw against Japan during the 2006 FIFA World Cup finals.

Managerial career

Jarni started his managerial career in professional football as assistant manager to

Dinamo Zagreb. Jarni was eventually replaced by Goran Vučević
on 20 May 2008, 10 days after the club's final league game of the season.

On 4 August 2010, Jarni was appointed new manager at

Lokomotiva Zagreb
in the Croatian top flight. He resigned from the managerial post on 19 September 2010, after recording two draws and four defeats in six league matches in charge of the club.

In 2012, he took charge of Hajduk's U-19 team. In July 2013 his contract with Hajduk was mutually terminated.[6]

FK Sarajevo

FK Sarajevo on 1 December 2013 after suffering a total of 7 defeats in the league and getting knocked out of the UEFA Europa League 2nd qualification round sacked Husref Musemić and appointed Jarni as the head coach of FK Sarajevo.[7] where Jarni lost just 1 game after taking over as the head coach and reached the 4th position in the table but on 9 April, toward the end of the 2013–2014 season, he was asked to leave following internal tension of the club's inability to win the league.[8] FK Sarajevo finished 3rd in the league this season just trailing with 1 point behind Široki Brijeg and were also winners of the Bosnia Football Cup.

Pécs

On 24 November 2014, Jarni was announced as the new manager of Hungarian side Pécs.[9] When Jarni took over the club, it was in second last position in the league table, and he successfully finished the season in eleventh place. Despite finishing eleventh in the 2014–15 season, the club lost its professional licence due to financial difficulties and gained admittance to the fourth tier of the Hungarian league system in time for the start of the following season. The relegation saw owner Dezső Matyi leaving the club after eight years,[10] when he sold his share to the city of Pécs[11] and this forced Jarni also to quit the club, ending his stint with Pécs.

Puskás Akadémia

On 16 April 2016, on the 30th matchday and three matches before the end of

Pancho Arena, falling to last position and a relegation spot for the first time in the season. As a result, Jarni was dismissed as head coach.[12]

Croatia U19

From June 2017 to 2019, Jarni was the head coach of the Croatia U19 national football team.[13]

NorthEast United FC

From August 2019, Jarni was appointed as the head coach of Indian club

Igor Stimac is the head coach of India national football team
.

On 10 February 2020, he was dismissed as head coach, in what was called a mutual agreement, after a poor streak of eleven winless matches left the team ninth out of ten teams in the table.[15]

Futsal career

Following his retirement from professional football, Jarni went on to play

MNK Split
. He had his first spell with the club between 2002 and 2007, before leaving due to his managerial duties with Hajduk Split during the 2007–08 season. After being replaced as Hajduk's manager, he returned to MNK Split and continued his career as a futsal player in the summer of 2008.

He also won two international caps and scored two goals for the Croatia national futsal team in November 2003 during their qualifying campaign for the FIFA Futsal World Cup. As of 2016, he is the only Croatian footballer with international caps in both football and futsal.[16]

Other activities

In association with Astrea, a

Croatian First League
.

Jarni also made several appearances as a

RTL Televizija during their live broadcasts of various international football matches, mostly the away matches of the Croatia national team that were regularly broadcast by the station between 2004 and 2007. Since 2008, however, all of the national team's matches are again broadcast by Croatia's public broadcaster HRT
.

Career statistics

Source:[17]

Club

Season Club League Cup League Cup Continental Total
Division Apps Goals Apps Goals Apps Goals Apps Goals Apps Goals
Yugoslavia League Cup League Cup Continental Total
1986–87
Hajduk Split
 First League 21 0 5 0 - 5 0 31 0
1987–88 15 0 2 0 - 1 0 18 0
1988–89 31 6 0 0 - - 31 6
1989–90 31 2 7 0 - - 38 2
1990–91 29 8 8 4 - - 37 12
Croatia League Croatian Cup League Cup Europe Total
1992
Hajduk Split
Prva HNL
 - - - 2 0 2 10
Italy League Coppa Italia Supercoppa Italiana Europe Total
1991–92
S.S.C. Bari
 Serie A 24 0 1 0 - - 25 0
1992–93 28 3 5 1 - - 33 4
1993–94
Torino
 23 0 4 0 1 0 3 1 30 1
1994–95
Juventus
 15 1 6 0 - 9 0 30 1
Spain League Copa del Rey Intercontinental Cup Europe Total
1995–96 Real Betis La Liga 22 2 0 0 - 5 1 27 3
1996–97 36 5 1 0 - - 37 5
1997–98 28 6 1 0 - 6 0 35 9
1998–99
Real Madrid
 27 1 2 0 1 0 6 2 36 3
1999–00 Las Palmas Segunda División 17 4 - - - 17 4
2000–01 La Liga 21 1 1 0 - - 22 1
Greece League Greek Cup League Cup Europe Total
2001–02 Panathinaikos Alpha Ethniki 5 0 - - 3 0 8 0
Total Yugoslavia 128 17 22 4 0 0 6 0 156 21
Croatia 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 2 0
Italy 90 4 16 1 1 0 12 1 119 6
Spain 152 19 5 0 1 0 17 3 175 22
Greece 5 0 0 0 0 0 3 0 8 0
Career total 375 40 43 5 4 0 40 4 462 49

International

Sources:[18][19]
Team Year Apps Goals
Yugoslavia 1990 4 1
1991 3 0
Total 7 1
Croatia 1992 1 0
1993 1 0
1994 7 0
1995 6 0
1996 12 0
1997 6 0
1998 14 1
1999 9 0
2000 6 0
2001 11 0
2002 7 0
Total 80 1

Honours

Player

Hajduk Split[19]

Juventus[19]

Real Madrid[19]

Las Palmas[19]

Yugoslavia Youth[19]

Croatia[19]

Orders

References

  1. ^ Leach, Jimmy (23 September 2009). "The shortest careers in football". The Independent. London. Retrieved 11 March 2010.
  2. ^ "Jarni joins Panathinaikos". UEFA. 31 January 2002. Retrieved 11 March 2010.
  3. ^ "Player Database". EU-football. Retrieved 3 September 2022.
  4. ^ "Jarni potvrđen kao prvi trener Hajduka". Jutarnji list. 29 October 2007. Retrieved 20 January 2008.
  5. ^ "Istra voli bivše Hajdukovce". Sportnet.hr. 4 August 2010. Retrieved 4 August 2010.
  6. ^ "Jarni više nije trener Istre 1961". Sportnet.hr. 19 September 2010. Archived from the original on 5 October 2011. Retrieved 20 September 2010.
  7. ^ "Jarni potvrđen kao novi trener Sarajeva". 16 March 2014.
  8. ^ "Robert Jarni Sacked by FK Sarajevo". 9 April 2014.
  9. ^ "PMFC: a vb-bronzérmes Robert Jarni az új edző – hivatalos". Nemzeti Sport. 24 November 2014.
  10. ^ nemzetisport.hu (19 June 2015). "PMFC: Matyi Dezső távozik a klubtól – sajtóhír – NSO". nemzetisport.hu.
  11. ^ nemzetisport.hu (17 July 2015). "PMFC: 300 milliót és egy ingatlant ad a klubért Matyinak a város -". nemzetisport.hu.
  12. ^ "NB I: Jarnit azonnali hatállyal menesztették, Szíjjártó az utód". Nemzeti Sport. 16 April 2016. Retrieved 16 April 2016.
  13. ^ "Jarni takesover Croatia U19, Krpan assumes U17 role".
  14. ^ "Robert Jarni, as the new Head Coach of NEUFC".
  15. ^ "Robert Jarni's time as NorthEast head coach comes to an end". Indian Super League. Retrieved 11 February 2020.
  16. ^ "Prije 20 godina ispisali su povijest Hrvatske: Gdje su danas originalni Vatreni" (in Croatian). 4 April 2016. Retrieved 4 April 2016.
  17. ^ "Robert Jarni statistics". bdfutbol.com. Retrieved 10 March 2019.
  18. ^ "Robert Jarni international appearances and goals". hns-cff.hr (in Croatian). Croatian Football Federation. Retrieved 11 March 2019.
  19. ^ a b c d e f g "Robert Jarni national team". national-football-teams.com. Retrieved 11 March 2019.
  20. ^ "FIFA".
  21. ^ "FIFA". Archived from the original on 26 February 2015.
  22. ^ "ODLUKU KOJOM SE ODLIKUJU REDOM DANICE HRVATSKE S LIKOM FRANJE BUČARA" (in Croatian). hrvatska.poslovniforum.hr.
  23. ^ "PREDSJEDNIK TUDJMAN ODLIKOVAO HRVATSKU NOGOMETNU REPREZENTACIJU" (in Croatian). hrt.hr.

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