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Sammir
Personal information
Full name Jorge Sammir Cruz Campos
Date of birth (1987-04-23) 23 April 1987 (age 37)[1]
Place of birth Itabuna, Brazil
Height 1.78 m (5 ft 10 in)[1]
Position(s) Attacking Midfielder
Team information
Current team
Dinamo Zagreb
Number 10
Youth career
1998–2003 Atlético Mineiro[2]
2003–2005 Atlético Paranaense[4]
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
2005–2006 Atlético Paranaense 0 (0)
2005Ferroviária (loan)[5] ? (?)
2005–2006Paulista (loan)[6][7] ? (?)
2006 São Caetano[8] ? (?)
2006 Venda Nova FC 0 (0)
2007– Dinamo Zagreb 149 (43)
International career
2004 Brazil U-17[3]
2005 Brazil U-18[9]
2012- Croatia 1 (0)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 25 September 2012
‡ National team caps and goals, correct as of 12 October 2012

Jorge Sammir Cruz Campos (born 23 April 1987) commonly known simply as Sammir, is a Brazilian-born Croatian footballer who currently plays for Dinamo Zagreb, wearing the number 10 shirt. He previously played for Brazilian club Atlético Paranaense. He joined Dinamo Zagreb on 6 November 2006 and signed a contract on 7 January 2007. He has since then made 219 appearances for the club in all competitions, scoring 50 goals. Sammir also holds a Croatian passport[10] and has expressed his desire to play for the Croatia national football team.[11] On 27 September 2012 Croatia head coach Igor Štimac called up Sammir for World Cup qualifying games against Macedonia and Wales.[12]

Club career

Sammir started his senior football career at Brazilian team Atlético Paranaense. He failed to make any appearances for the Brazilian club and was loaned out to various other teams from around his native country before moving to Europe to join Croatian reigning champions Dinamo Zagreb. He moved to his new club on 6 November 2006[1] on a loan which would last until the end of the 2006–07 season.[13] Sammir made his first official appearance for Dinamo Zagreb on 17 March 2007 in a league match against Rijeka.[14][15] By the end of the season, Sammir had made eleven league appearances for the club and scored against Slaven Belupo.[15] He also made four appearances in the 2006–07 Croatian Cup.[16] In his first season with the club, Sammir had already won the league and cup title, which was the first of the clubs three consecutive doubles they won from 2007 to 2009.

In the 2007–08 season, Sammir made his European football debut, featuring in all of the club's UEFA Cup and Champions League matches. It was the club's second season that they had won both the domestic league and cup, Sammir participating in 24 league games, scoring four goals, and 4 cup matches. He made a total of 38 appearances for the club and scored five goals during the course of the season. The club repeated the success from the last two seasons, clinching the double again in the 2008–09 season. He missed only one league match of the 33 rounds played, scoring 8 goals in the process. He made eleven appearances in UEFA competitions and made five more in the Croatian Cup. Overall, it was his best season with Dinamo Zagreb, making a total of 44 appearances and scoring eleven goals.[15]

On 16 August, at the start of the 2009–10 season, Sammir scored his first hat–trick for Dinamo in a 5–0 home victory against NK Osijek, converting two penalties and a free kick.[17] The club failed to defend the cup title on that occasion, but won their fifth consecutive league title. Sammir helped with 26 league appearances and five goals. He made six appearances in the 2009–10 Croatian Cup, and featured in all of the club's European matches, playing in all four of the 2009–10 UEFA Champions League matches and in all eight 2009–10 UEFA Europa League matches. Overall, he made 46 appearances and scored six goals for the club.[15]

At the start of the 2010–11 season Sammir won his first Croatian Supercup with the club as they defeated Hajduk Split by a score 1–0, captain Igor Bišćan scoring the winning goal. Sammir has scored 17 goals in his 28 appearances†.[18]

Sammir has scored many important goals for Dinamo during the 2010-2011 season including goals against Hajduk Split, Villarreal C.F. and Club Brugge K.V.

The Brazilian started the 2011-2012 season on a high note, scoring against Cibalia Vinkovci in the Prva HNL, and also the winning goal in the first leg of the Champions League 3rd Qualifying Round tie in a 2-1 win against HJK Helsinki. He then played one of his best matches for Dinamo, scoring two goals and setting up another in a 4-1 win against Malmö FF in the first leg of the Champions League Play-off.[19]

He continued to appear regularly for the first team in the Prva HNL and the Champions League group stage, netting 8 goals in 32 appearances in all.

In season 2012/13 he scored 8 goals in 7 matches and 6 of them were from the penalty kick in Prva HNL. He appeared in every game of UEFA Champion's league qualify round but only did not appeared in guest game against NK Maribor he was thrown out of the team when he was found partying at clubs just few days before the game and that made GNK Dinamo Zagreb's coach Ante Čačić mad, throwing out him and Jerko Leko.

International career

On 27 September 2012, Sammir was called to play for Croatia, he was called for game against Wales and Macedonia. He made his debut on 12 October 2012, he entered in 65th minute in a match against Macedonia, which ended 1-2 for Croatia

Career statistics

As of 26 October 2012[15][20][21]
Club Season Prva HNL Cup Supercup Europe Total
Apps Goals Apps Goals Apps Goals Apps Goals Apps Goals
Croatia Dinamo Zagreb 2006–07 13 1 4 0 0 0 0 0 17 1
2007–08 24 4 4 0 0 0 10 1 38 5
2008–09 32 8 5 3 0 0 11 1 48 12
2009–10 26 5 6 1 0 0 12 1 44 7
2010–11 22 10 5 2 1 0 12 7 40 19
2011–12 21 5 5 0 0 0 12 3 38 8
2012–13 11 10 0 0 0 0 8 0 19 10
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Honours

Dinamo Zagreb

References

  1. ^ a b c "Sammir". Dinamo Zagreb. Retrieved 12 August 2010.
  2. ^ "Sammir se apresenta ao São Caetano". Furacao.com. Retrieved 11 September 2012.
  3. ^ "Sammir é convocado para a Seleção Sub-17". Furacao.com. Retrieved 11 September 2012.
  4. ^ "Contrato de Sammir se encerrou no último sábado". Furacao.com. Retrieved 11 September 2012.
  5. ^ "Edivaldo e Sammir estréiam bem na Ferrinha". Furacao.com. Retrieved 11 September 2012.
  6. ^ "Atleticanos se apresentaram ao Paulista". Furacao.com. Retrieved 11 September 2012.
  7. ^ "Sammir deixa o Paulista de Jundiaí". Furacao.com. Retrieved 11 September 2012.
  8. ^ "Sammir se apresenta ao São Caetano". Furacao.com. Retrieved 11 September 2012.
  9. ^ "Sammir é convocado para a Seleção Brasileira Sub-18". Furacao.com. Retrieved 11 September 2012.
  10. ^ "Sammir - Spielerprofil". Transfermarkt.de. Retrieved 12 August 2010.
  11. ^ "Anderson inspirirao Sammira: Želim igrati za Hrvatsku već protiv Ukrajine". Sportske novosti. 11 May 2009. Retrieved 12 August 2010.
  12. ^ "Brazilac konačno debitira za Vatrene: Štimac ispunio Mamićevu želju i pozvao Sammira!". Jutarnji list. 27 September 2012. Retrieved 27 September 2012.
  13. ^ "Sammir - Spielerwechsel, Spielertranfers". Transfermarkt.de. Retrieved 12 August 2010.
  14. ^ "NK Dinamo Zagreb - HNK Rijeka". Transfermarkt.de. Retrieved 12 August 2010.
  15. ^ a b c d e "Sammir - Leistungdaten" (in German). Transfermarkt.de. Retrieved 12 August 2010.
  16. ^ "Hrvatski kup 2006/07" (in Croatian). Dinamo Zagreb. Retrieved 12 August 2010.
  17. ^ "Dinamo se nastavio rugati sa domaćom "konkurencijom"" (in Croatian). Index.hr. 16 August 2009. Retrieved 17 August 2009.
  18. ^ "Bišćan presudio Hajduku" (in Croatian). Sportnet.hr. 17 July 2010. Retrieved 28 July 2010.
  19. ^ http://sportske.jutarnji.hr/sammir--bila-je-ovo-moja-najbolja-utakmica-u-karijeri--jeli-ovo-bio-oprostaj-od-dinama--ne--mislim-da-ne-/966754/
  20. ^ "Sammir". Nogometni magazin. Retrieved 12 August 2010.
  21. ^ "Hrvatski kup" (in Croatian). Dinamo Zagreb. Retrieved 17November 2010. {{cite web}}: Check date values in: |accessdate= (help)

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