Mario Cvitanović (pronounced [tsʋitǎːnoʋitɕ, - tsʋǐta-]; born 6 May 1975) is a Croatian professional football manager and former player who played as a defender.
[1] He then spent four seasons in the Italian league, playing for Hellas Verona, Venezia, Genoa and Napoli before moving to Belgian side Germinal Beerschot.
[4] He made his debut for Croatia in an October 1998 European Championship qualification match away against Malta, coming on as a 88th-minute substitute for Robert Jarni, and earned a total of 9 caps, scoring no goals.
[6] On 13 July 2017 he signed one-year contract as a head coach of Dinamo Zagreb, the first team.
On 21 September 2017, Cvitanović was severely beaten by two masked assailants in front of his apartment in Zagreb, Croatia,[7][8] while on 10 March 2018 he finished his contract with Dinamo Zagreb following two successive defeats from fierce rivals HNK Rijeka and feeder-club NK Lokomotiva, both of which were by a score of 4–1.