Mladen Bartolović is a Bosnian

Bosnians

Bosnians are people who reside in, or come from, Bosnia and Herzegovina. By the modern state definition a Bosnian can be anyone who holds citizenship of the state. This includes, but is not limited to, members of the constituent ethnic groups of Bosnia and Herzegovina: Bosniaks, Bosnian Serbs and...

 football

Football (soccer)

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 player

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. Although he spent almost his entire career in Croatia, he is part of the Bosnia and Herzegovina national football team

Bosnia and Herzegovina national football team

The Bosnia and Herzegovina national football team is the national football team of Bosnia and Herzegovina, governed by the Football Association of Bosnia and Herzegovina...

. Not to be confused with Croatian player Mladen Bartulović

Mladen Bartulovic

Mladen Bartulović is a Bosnian-born Croatian football player.Bartulović currently plays for FC Kryvbas Kryvyi Rih, loaned from FC Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk.-External links:*...

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He formerly played for HNK Čapljina

HNK Capljina

HNK Čapljina is a football club from Čapljina, Bosnia and Herzegovina club is currently playing in the Prva Liga Federacije Bosne i Hercegovine...

, HNK Cibalia

HNK Cibalia

HNK Cibalia, or just Cibalia, is a Croatian football club from the town of Vinkovci in eastern Croatia. Cibalia currently play in the Prva HNL, Croatia's top flight. Their stadium is located in the south part of their home town and can hold 12,000 spectators...

, Dinamo Zagreb

Dinamo Zagreb

GNK Dinamo Zagreb, commonly referred to as Dinamo Zagreb , or by their nickname Modri are a Croatian football club based in Zagreb. They play their home matches at Stadion Maksimir. They are the most successful club in Croatian football, having won thirteen Croatian championship titles, ten...

, 1. FC Saarbrücken

1. FC Saarbrücken

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, HNK Segesta, NK Zagreb

NK Zagreb

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 and spent three seasons with HNK Hajduk Split

HNK Hajduk Split

HNK Hajduk Split, commonly referred to as Hajduk Split or simply Hajduk, is a Croatian football club founded in 1911 and based in the city of Split. The club's home ground since 1979 is the 35,000-seater Poljud Stadium and the team's traditional home colours are white shirts with blue shorts and...

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He moved to Foolad in summer 2009, becoming a player in the starting lineup for the team in his first season in the Iran Pro League.

Mladen never played football before he was 16. He loved basketball

Basketball

Basketball is a team sport in which two teams of five players try to score points by throwing or "shooting" a ball through the top of a basketball hoop while following a set of rules...

, but during the Bosnia war, there were no basketball club active, so he decided to try himself as a football player.

Club career

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• Assist Goals

  Season	Team	Assists
  09/10	Foolad	5

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