Biography
In honor of the victory of the Croatian team over the Argentina team in the 2018 World Cup Match The world's largest Dubai Skyscraper "Burj Khalifa" found a "coarse" color. This symbolic gift was addressed not so much to the Balkan footballers as their mentor - to the National Team of Croatia Zlatko Dulitte coached the teams of the clubs of Saudi Arabia and the Arab Emirates.
The popular sports fans in the Middle East and Asia, during the Mundial coach of the Croatian team appeared in front of the European sports community a dark horse. Those unexpected and brighter turned out to be the triumph of his wards.
Childhood and youth
The hometown of Zlatko Dalich is a little - a small town in the territory of Bosnia and Herzegovina. From him to Croatian Split, in which the idols of Childhood of Zlatko from the club "Haiduk" were trained, only 96 km. Despite the fact that Miran's elder brother was a fan of Zagreb "Dynamo", the younger presented himself in the team famous in those years "whites", and sometimes put himself in the place of the team coach.
He was born on October 26, 1966, and his growing coincided with the ascent of Hayduka to the tops of football glory. In 1971, after a long pause, the club won the Jugoslavia championship, and then repeated the achievement. The young fan of the triumph was calmly observed in the national championship, when he was 9, 10 and 13 years old, and even less imagined life without football.
Football Career
Start a career Zlatko succeeded in a favorite club. However, the performance of the team was already on the decline, and the novice midfielder, who played in defense, did not reconcile the situation. Up to 26 years old, Dulita managed to play for the Montenegrin "Budthnost", and for the Bosnian "Virgin", and for the Croatian "Dynamo Vinkovtsy". Speeches for these teams fall in the last years of the integrity of Yugoslavia. In 1991, Croatia received independence, and Dolich decided to obtain citizenship of this country.
The top of the player's player of the football player becomes a performance in "Varets". Then the team was called "Varazdin" - by the name of the city, in which the club was located. The midfielder spent 4 seasons here, going on the field in 108 games. The player managed to score 13 goals. And in 1996, shortly before the transition of Zlatko to another club, Vartex ranked third in the newly created Championship of Croatia and went out to the Final of the National Cup.
The next two seasons played in his first team, this time I scored one goal for Hayduk. But to achieve the same impressive success, which team players at the 1998 World Championships demonstrated, failed. Dolich returned to Vartex first on rental rights, and then finally. Here at the age of 33, he completed a player of a football player.
Career coaching
Soon the first page of his coaching biography was written. Zlatko got a job at the coaching headquarters became the native "Vartax". Four years later, a sensation occurred - Miroslav Blazhevich became a mentor, the very coach, who in 1998 brought the young national team in the Unifixed Mundial in France. Blazhevich worked with the "Wartack" season, and then moved to Hayduk. And the post of mentor "White" decided to entrust the assistant Blazhevich Zlatko Dolich.
Debut season as a coach he spent successfully. "Vartex" rose to the third line in the National Championship, and also reached the Croatian Cup final, giving way to the "Riek" a minor advantage. A year later, Dolich moved to this club. However, neither "Riekaya", nor with the Tian "Dynamo", nor "Slavven Bepulo" did not succeed from the coenuum. With each team, the novice coach spent one season.
In the summer of 2010, Dolich and family moves to the Middle East. Contract managers "Al-Fesilli" sign. Shortly before that, the club from Saudi Arabia, speaking in the second largest division of the country, was finally winning him and therefore was preparing for a worthy performance in the pro-League. The work of the invited mentor brought the team into 7th place, and Dulita was awarded the title "Coach of the Year".
In 2012, he began to train reservists of another Saudi club - Al-Hilal. After several months of work, he took the post of head coach, since the acting mentor - the Frenchman Antoine Kombuar - fired. In just six months, Delich managed to bring the wards to the vice-championship in the pro-League. In addition, Al-Hilal won the Cup of the Crown Prince Saudi Arabia.
Other Arab clubs became interested in the coach. In 2014, Zlatko moved to the Arab Emirates. The contract with Him concluded the Al-Ain club. And again success: the team comes to the semifinals of the Champions League of the Asian Football Confederation, and the year later becomes the champion of the country and wins the Super Cup. The skill of the coach and the effectiveness of his wards largely explains why during the 2018 World Championships the greatest support and in Twitter, and in "Instagram" Dulita showed fans of football from Arab countries.
The proposal to lead the Dolich national team unexpectedly. The Croatian Football Union got rid of Ante Chachiccha, having failed preparation of the team to the qualifying matches of the Mundial, on the eve of the decisive meeting. "Shashoe" was to meet with the Ukrainian team and win a fight if they intended to get into the final part of the tournament.
In an interview with the press service of FIFA, Dulita later said that there was no time to work on the physical condition of the players. He made adjustments to the starting lineup and the arrangement of football players, but the main goal set the establishment of contact with each of the wards. Fearing that he would not be seriously taken seriously, invited Ivitsa Olizh to the headquarters of the former Croatian football player, who helped create the right atmosphere in the team and motivate athletes.
Most often, Dolich positively responds about the captain of the team Luke Modric and midfielder Ivan Rakitich. In his opinion, at the Championship in Russia, their game reached the vertices of skill. Zlatko considers Modric to be the best player of Croatia, "the engine that his own example makes the rest go ahead."
Personal life
Mentor of the national team of Croatia is married. His wife's name is Dwarci, she, like Dolich, was born in the sieve. The couple signed marriage in 1992. Together with his wife Zlatko raised two sons. Their names of Bruno and Tony.
The athlete supports friendly relations with the President of Croatia Quidda Grabar-Kitarovich. In "Instagram" and "Twitter" of the sports figure posted joint photos not only with the matches of the national football team, but also from other events, for example, handball fights.
Since Dolich is engaged in a favorite thing, then the hobby is connected with football. Free time devotes views of the matches. So, being in the Emirates, he continued to monitor meetings within the framework of European Cups, so by the time of appointment in the national team was aware of the level of skill of leading players.
Zlatko Delich now
As soon as the "coarseble" broke into the final part of the world championship, the country's football union offered a regular contract to the new mentor of Croats. In their work, the coach considers the conquest of the confidence of the players, so much time pays to communicate with the wards.
However, openness does not mean softness: Already on Mundial, Dolich got rid of one of the players caused to the national team. In the first match, Forward Nikola Kalinich was opposed to the decision of the coach to withdraw him to replace. As a result, an athlete was excluded from the list of team members.
After the 2018 World Cup 2018, Dolich again distinguished itself a fairly sharp statement about the Government of Croatia. According to the coach, the success on the Mundial was conquered not due to the high budget, the development of football in the country, the construction of stadiums. Youth is massively leaving the country, without having the opportunity to get an education worthy of work. Children do not see the sea, part of the population still feel hunger. And the government on tradition hurried to assign merit to themselves, to which it has nothing to do.
"I appeal to politicians and all representatives of the authorities who brought people to suffering and despair, stay away from the Croatian national team. No one will invite you to the locker room, we do not want to be photographed or anyone else to interact with you. It was you who made Croatia one From the poorest countries of Europe, "said Dolich.Awards
As coach
- 2008 - Dynamo Tirana became the owner of the Albania Super Cup
- 2013 - Al-Hilal won the Cup of the Crown Prince Saudi Arabia
- 2018 - Silver medals World Cup in Russia