Tomislav Piplica [SEP] date of birth
Tomislav Piplica
Tomislav Piplica (born 5 April 1969) is a Bosnian-Herzegovinian football manager who formerly played as goalkeeper. His nickname is "Pipi" and he is considered to be a "cult-goalkeeper", in Germany as well as in Bosnia and Herzegovina.
Club career.
Piplica has played in his career for NK Iskra Bugojno, NK Zagreb, NK Istra 1961, HNK Segesta, NK Samobor and FC Energie Cottbus.
He is famous not only as a cult-goalkeeper. but also
first Bundesliga club to field a side made up of 11 foreign players. Energie often fielded nine or ten foreigners that season: German players appeared a total of just 83 times, with striker Sebastian Helbig as the leader with 28.
The players were Tomislav Piplica, Faruk Hujdurović, Bruno Akrapović (Bosnia and Herzegovina), János Mátyus, Vasile Miriuță (Hungary), Rudi Vata (Albania), Moussa Latoundji (Benin), Andrzej Kobylański (Poland), Antun Labak (Croatia), Laurențiu Reghecampf (Romania)