Full name Mirko Grabovac Name Mirko Grabovac Years Team Role Football player | Height 1.83 m | |
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Date of birth (1971-09-19) 19 September 1971 (age 44) Place of birth Stobrec, SFR Yugoslavia | ||
Mirko grabovac visits jurong jcoe
Mirko Grabovac (born 19 September 1971 in Stobreč, SFR Yugoslavia) is a Croatian former professional football player and coach. He had changed his nationality to Singaporean in 2002 in order to play for the Singapore national football team before renouncing it in 2008.
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- Mirko grabovac visits jurong jcoe
- Football Warriors legend Mirko Grabovac to return to the club as head coach
- Football career
- Singapore Armed Forces
- Tampines Rovers
- Individual
- References
Football: Warriors legend Mirko Grabovac to return to the club as head coach
Football career
Grabovac was the top scorer in Singapore's S.League in 1999, 2000, 2001 and 2002 while playing for the Singapore Armed Forces FC (SAFFC), and again in 2005 playing for Tampines Rovers. He was named the S.League's Player of the Year in 2000.
With SAFFC, he scored a total of 150 S.League goals in five seasons along with seven goals in Asian competitions.
In 2007, he scored his 240th S.League goals in the Singapore Cup semi-final against Bangkok University to overtake Egmar Goncalves as the all-time S.League top goalscorer.
A year later, Grabovac was hired by Sengkang Punggol to play as a striker as well as double up as the assistant coach under head coach Saswadimata Dasuki. However, he was unable to pass the mandatory beep test twice, and served as caretaker coach for the Dolphins for a short period, starting with a 1–0 win over Gombak United which was Sengkang's second victory of the season.
Grabovac stepped down two months later as Fandi Ahmad was put in charge of the squad, and the Croatian decided to leave Singapore on 5 October 2008 to rejoin his family in his native Croatia renouncing his citizenship as well.