Robert Prosinecki
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Template:Titlelacksdiacritics Robert Prosinečki (born January 12, 1969 in Villingen-Schwenningen, West Germany) is a Croatian football midfielder.
Although Prosinečki was born in Germany, he moved to the then-Yugoslavia at an early age. He started his professional career at Dinamo Zagreb. He later played for Red Star Belgrade, Real Madrid, Real Oviedo, FC Barcelona, Sevilla FC, Hrvatski Dragovoljac, Standard Liège, Portsmouth F.C., Olimpija Ljubljana, and Zagreb.
Prosinečki has 49 caps for the Croatian national team and has scored 10 goals for it. He was also capped 15 times, scoring four goals, for Yugoslavia. In 1987, Prosinečki was named the tournament's best player as Yugoslavia won the World Youth Championship in Chile. He then played for Yugoslavia at the 1990 World Cup and for Croatia at Euro 96 and the 1998 and 2002 World Cups.