Thursday, June 2, 2011

Andrej Kramarić

Andrej Kramarić was born 19 June 1991. He is a Croatian professional footballer who currently plays for Prva HNL team Dinamo Zagreb. He is also a member of Croatia under-19 and under-21 national teams.

Kramarić joined Dinamo Zagreb when he was six, and has been playing for the Croatian club since then. He is the top youth goalscorer in the club's history. He made his first official appearance for Dinamo Zagreb on 24 May 2009. Since then he made a total of 37 appearances for the club and scored twelve goals.

He was capped 46 times at the youth level for the national team side, also scoring eighteen goals. Kramarić took part at the 2010 UEFA European Under-19 Football Championship where he made four appearances for Croatian side which reached the semi-finals.

Kramarić made his debut for Dinamo Zagreb senior squad on 24 May 2009, in a league match against NK Zagreb. He made an appearance as a 69th minute substitute for Josip Tadić. It was also his only match for Dinamo Zagreb first-team during the 2008–09 season.

He was promoted to the first-team squad the following season. He made his first appearance of the season and also debuted in the UEFA Champions League on 15 July in an away match against Pyunik which finished by a goalless draw. Overall, Kramarić made 24 league appearances for Dinamo Zagreb and scored 7 goals. He also made 5 appearances in the 2009–10 Croatian Cup and scored 4 goals, and made 5 appearances in UEFA competitions.

National team

 Kramarić was capped a total of 46 times for various Croatian youth teams and scored 18 goals in return. His first national team appearance came against Bavaria national team on 31 March 2005. He was then playing for the under-14 team and was capped a total of two times. Kramarić then started competing at the under-16 and under-17 levels. He made a total of 7 appearances in friendly matches for the under-16 team and scored 4 goals. For the under-17 team he was capped 12 times and scored 6 goals. He also participated in all of under–17 team's qualifiers for the 2008 European U–17 Championship. At the under-18 level, Kramarić was capped nine times and scored three goals.

In 2008 he started playing for the under-19 team with whom he reached he semi-finals of the 2010 UEFA European Under-19 Football Championship. He debuted and scored his first goal at under–21 level on 5 September 2009 in a European Championship qualifier against Norway, aged just 18 years and 81 days.

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