Sergej Barbarez

Sergej Barbarez (Serbo-Croatian Cyrillic: Сергеј Барбарез; born 17 September 1971) is a Bosnian professional football manager and former player who is the manager of the Bosnia and Herzegovina national team.

Mainly used as a second striker during his playing career, Barbarez was also deployed as an attacking midfielder or left winger. He started his career at hometown club Velež Mostar, before going to Germany and joining Hannover 96 in 1992. He went to Union Berlin a year later, and then played in the Bundesliga for Hansa Rostock and Borussia Dortmund. Barbarez joined Hamburger SV in 2000, and has since been considered one of the all-time greatest players of the club where he scored 65 goals in 174 Bundesliga games. In the 2000–01 Bundesliga season, he was joint top scorer with 22 goals alongside Ebbe Sand of Schalke 04 at the end of the season. Barbarez left Hamburg in 2006, and signed with Bayer Leverkusen, where he retired from professional football in 2008.