#4 Fredi Bobic
Fredi Bobic is of Croatian-Slovene descent born in Maribor, former Yugoslavia in 1971, to a Slovene father and a Croatian mother. His parents moved to Germany just a few months after his birth and settled down in Stuttgart.
He started his career with VfR Bad Cannstatt but soon made a move to the youth team of the biggest club in his city, VFB Stuttgart Bobic made a name for himself at VFB Stuttgart, helping them win the DFB-Pokal in 1997. He formed the famous attacking magic triangle at Stuttgart along with Giovane Elber and Krasimir Balakov .
In the 1995-96 Bundesliga season, he finished as top scorer of the league with 17 goals, enough to convince Berti Vogts the then German coach to take him to the 1996 Euro in England.
Bobic played alongside Stefan Kuntz up front in Germany’s first match against the Czech Republic. Later, Klinsmann and Bobic were Vogts’ preferred choice. In the final against the Czech Republic, Bobic, however, was an unused substitute.
He started a couple of games, but couldn’t register a goal for himself in the tournament.
Fredi Bobic scored an impressive 108 goals in 285 Bundesliga appearances . The 44-year-old won 37 caps for his adopted country, scoring 10 goals in the process.
