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Zdravko Mamić
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Mamić in February 2021
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| Born | 16 July 1959 Bjelovar, PR Croatia, FPR Yugoslavia
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| Occupation | Football administrator, sports agent |
| Years active | 2003–present |
| Known for | Former executive director of GNK Dinamo Zagreb |
Zdravko Mamić (born 16 July 1959) is a Croatian-Bosnian former football administrator and sports agent. From 2003 to 2016, he was the executive director of Croatian football club GNK Dinamo Zagreb.
Mamić also worked as an advisor at NK Lokomotiva and later, between 2016 and 2021, at Dinamo Zagreb. In 2018, he was found guilty of tax fraud in Croatia at which point, in order to avoid going to prison, he fled to neighbouring Bosnia and Herzegovina where he's been living as a fugitive from justice ever since.
Early life
Mamić was born in Bjelovar, PR Croatia, FPR Yugoslavia on 16 July 1959 to Herzegovinian Croat parents Josip (1929-2003) and Lucija Mamić, originally from the Herzegovina villages of Zidine and Bukova Gora, respectively. They had moved to the PR Croatia federal unit within FPR Yugoslavia in 1956 in search of expanded employment opportunities. Mamić has two siblings, both of whom would go on to become professional footballers: older brother Stojko (born 1957) and younger brother Zoran (1971).
In the 1970s, with his two brothers (older Stojan and younger Zoran), teenage Zdravko moved from Bjelovar to the Zagreb suburb of Sesvete while their father was off working in West Germany as part of the gastarbeiter programme.
Football executive career
Mamić's first direct contact with GNK Dinamo Zagreb was through the Bad Blue Boys, Dinamo's ultras supporters group.
In the 1980s, Mamić befriended the then-manager of Dinamo, Miroslav Blažević, and made his way into Dinamo. In February 2016, he resigned as executive director, but returned as an advisor. On 16 March 2021, he resigned from all positions at the club.
Trial
In 2009, Mamić was sued by Eduardo da Silva for unfavorable contract according to which had to pay 50% of salary for the entirety of the career to Mamić's family. Silva won the case in 2014.
On 18 November 2015, Mamić along with five other people was arrested over transfer irregularities in Dinamo Zagreb. He was suspected of tax evasion and bribery.
On 6 June 2018, Mamić was sentenced on first instance to six and a half years prison for transfer fraud relating to Luka Modrić and Dejan Lovren's transfer to Tottenham Hotspur and Olympique Lyonnais respectively. Mamić, his brother Zoran, former Dinamo director Damir Vrbanović and tax official Milan Pernar, were all found guilty of siphoning over €15 million from Dinamo and defrauding the state budget over €1.2 million in unpaid taxes. Mamić, who had crossed the border into Bosnia and Herzegovina one day earlier, did not attend the sentencing and stated that he would not return to Croatia.
The Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina refused to extradite Mamić since he also holds Bosnian citizenship. The Supreme Court of Croatia confirmed Mamić's sentence on 15 March 2021.
Personal life
Assassination attempt
On 22 August 2017, Mamić sustained a leg wound in an assassination attempt via ambush by two masked perpetrators who opened fire while he was exiting his vehicle during his annual visit to the village of Zidine near Tomislavgrad in Bosnia and Herzegovina, on the anniversary of his father Josip's death.
