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Ervin Boban (born 17 March 1965 in Split) is a former Croatian professional football player, who is currently a youth coach in Johor. Boban started his career in professional football and coaching in his home town club, RNKSplit. Ervin Boban is one of Malaysia's top foreign footballers from the late 80's and 90's. He is remembered as the living legend by the local football fans. Ervin Boban was first introduced to Malaysian football in 1989. At that time he represented Johor FA, which was one of the competitive teams in the semi-pro era. ==Playing career== Ervin Boban started his career in 1976, when he was selected for Split's youth team. After 8 years on the youth team, he was promoted to the senior team. Ervin Boban joined Johor FA in April 1989, after which the team decided to do a major overhaul of scale through great expense. Johor FA won the Cup championship, for the first time ever, in 1985 and were the runners-up in the Malaysia cup in 1986 (lost 1-6 to Selangor FA led by Supermokh), want to bring honor after only able to qualify for the quarterfinals of the Malaysia Cup 1987 and 1988.〔(【引用サイトリンク】 1986 MSL )〕 As such, the Johor Football Association did not hesitate to spend a total investment of RM1.6 million, a huge sum at the time, to get three players and one coach from Yugoslavia, namely Ervin Boban (attacker), Jeremez Jure (defense), Mate Boravac (midfielder) and Marin Kovacic (coach). This was the first time Johor FA acquired foreign players. Boban was feared for his speed and height, especially when playing on the Larkin Stadium, which became a sacred stadium for the Johor FA team one time. After poor performances by Jeremez and Boravac in the 1989 season, Johor FA decided to retain Boban and take two new striker who played for the Australian national team: Alistair Edwards and Abbas Saad. Alistair and Abbas were former youth team players Urukalo Australia which had been the assistant coach of the squad. The three star import is finally blooming in football history as the homeland of the most memorable trio import. Regarded as an awesome coupling, this trio combined to cause confusion for their opponents with regards to who should be controlled to prevent the attack made. In 1990, Boban rejected an offer from the Division Two Austrian club, Klangerfurt FC, because he wanted to focus on the Johor FA team and he was already compatible with the style of play in Liga Malaysia. In 1991, Boban helped Johor FA win the League Cup Division One and Malaysia Cup Final 1991 saw Johor FA beat Selangor FA, 3-1, three goals scored by Ervin Boban. The Johor manager at the time was Datuk Suleiman Mohammed Noor.〔(【引用サイトリンク】 1986 MSL )〕 However, in 1993, Abbas Saad and Alistair Edwards chose to play for the Singapore Division Two club. Alistair had previously played for Singapore in 1990. Tasnim Haron from Singapore, and Darren Stewart (Australia), replaced both Saad and Edwards. Together Johor FA, Boban also trained some other names than Kovacic namely Marco Bilic, Michael Urukalo and Wan Jamak Wan Hassan (then coach the national team). Among the players who have played with Boban on the squad Johor FA are Salehan Mohamed Som, Hassan Miskam, The Professor Nasir Yusof, Ramlan Rashid, Anuar Abu Bakar, Salim Sulaiman, Fadzli Ahmad, Nasir sazali, Sani Usman, Khalid Shahdan, Nazaruddin Atan, Aidel Mohamed Nor, and Nizaruddin Kadir. After seven seasons with the Johor FA - from 1989 to 1995 - Boban chose to join the Singapore Professional League (S-League), which was founded in 1996. He joined Woodlands Wellington FC (WWFC). WWFC was the only Premier League club is not absorbed into the Singapore S-League in 1996. In 1996, WWFC was sponsored by Bandai (Hong Kong) Company Limited, which was then known as a manufacturer of plastic toys (like Power Rangers) and video games (like Sega and Game Boy). Bandai provided lucrative sponsorships totaling $360,000 to WWFC. These funds were used by many Vengadasalam to get big names in the Malaysian League like Jan Janostak (Kedah FA), Joe Caleta (Perak FA) and Ervin Boban (Johor FA). WWFC 1996 also lined by the late Borhan Abu Samah, Tamil Marren, Zakaria Awang and goalkeeper Croatia, Sandro Radun. The presence of star players attracted tens of thousands of spectators during the early years of the establishment of the S-League. Between early action Boban with WWFC is against an old team ever, Johor FA. In April 1996, WWFC played against Tiong Bahru United FC, who considered resistance epic in Singapore and it was perceived that 22,000 people in the audience attended the match at the Stadium of Singapore that ended in a draw, 2-2. Meeting with Geylang United FC also see Ervin Boban scored the best goal of Champions-S, 1996, 28,000 spectators watched as busy. Boban victoriously killed viscous goal keeper, David Lee.〔(【引用サイトリンク】 Boban goal separates top pair in classic game )〕 Final Resistance Tiger Beer Series 1996 brings Geylang United FC and WWFC, where 30,000 people in the audience met at the Stadium of Singapore. In the Tiger Beer Championship Series in 1996, WWFC was the runner-up, behind Geylang United FC.〔(【引用サイトリンク】 Ervin Boban )〕 Boban retired from Professional Football in 2002, after a knee injury and did not proceed the operation his last Club, NK Poljičanin Srinjine.〔(【引用サイトリンク】 Exclusive Interview - Ervin Boban )〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Ervin Boban」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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