Dinamo Zagreb’s preparation for the second meeting with Tottenham Hotspur in the eighth final of the Europa League is going quite turbulent. Zoran Mamic submitted his resignation to the board of the Croatian superpower on Monday after it became known that the 49-year-old trainer had been convicted by the Supreme Court in Croatia for fraud. Mamic is jailed for four years and eight months for tax evasion and embezzlement.
“Although I don’t feel guilty, I will resign as previously announced if the verdict would take effect,” Mamic said in a response to Dinamo’s website. The penalty for the trainer is ultimately even lower, because the court initially focused on a prison sentence of four years and eleven months. Mamic’s brother, former Dinamo director Zdravko, also disappears behind bars. He was sentenced to six and a half years in prison in absentia. In addition, former tax official Milan Pernar and the former Dinamo director Damir Vrbanovic also have to serve a prison sentence.
The rather extensive fraud case involves more than sixteen million euros, so it sounds from Croatia. The Dinamo board has now appointed former player Damir Krznar as successor to the departed Mamic. The former midfielder will take care of the preparation for Tottenham’s visit next Thursday. Dinamo has to brush away the 2-0 defeat at home in North London. The first whistle sounds at 6.55 pm.
Mamic, who played for the opponent of Tottenham in a European context for years, had been working on his second period as head coach of Dinamo since mid-2020, as successor to the dismissed Igor Jovicevic. Mamic had already returned as technical director a year earlier. Before that, he had experienced adventures as a trainer with Al-Nassr and Al-Hilal, among others.
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