Igor Budan
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| Personal information | |||
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| Date of birth | 22 April 1980 | ||
| Place of birth | Rijeka, SFR Yugoslavia | ||
| Height | 1.85 m (6 ft 1 in) | ||
| Playing position | Centre forward | ||
| Club information | |||
| Current club | Palermo | ||
| Number | 19 | ||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps† | (Gls)† |
| 1997–1999 | Rijeka | 33 | (3) |
| 1999–2002 | Venezia | 17 | (2) |
| 2000 | → Empoli (loan) | 5 | (1) |
| 2001 | → Bellinzona (loan) | 1 | (0) |
| 2002–2005 | Palermo | 0 | (0) |
| 2002–2003 | → Venezia (loan) | 7 | (1) |
| 2003 | → Ancona (loan) | 15 | (4) |
| 2003–2005 | → Atalanta (loan) | 51 | (16) |
| 2005–2006 | Atalanta | 8 | (0) |
| 2006 | → Ascoli (loan) | 11 | (4) |
| 2006–2007 | Palermo | 0 | (0) |
| 2006–2007 | → Parma (loan) | 35 | (13) |
| 2007–2008 | Parma | 15 | (7) |
| 2008– | Palermo | 40 | (6) |
| 2010–2011 | → Cesena (loan) | 17 | (1) |
| National team‡ | |||
| 1998–1999 | Croatia U-19 | 8 | (0) |
| 1999 | Croatia U-21 | 3 | (0) |
| 2007–2008 | Croatia | 6 | (0) |
| * Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and correct as of 20:02, 31 August 2010 (UTC). † Appearances (Goals). |
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Igor Budan (born 22 April 1980) is a Croatian football striker currently playing with U.S. Città di Palermo in Italy.
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[edit] Career
[edit] Early career
Budan played for his native NK Rijeka for two seasons before moving to Italy in 1999. He was one of the players transferred to Palermo from Venezia in 2002 by Maurizio Zamparini.
[edit] Atalanta
He spent two very good seasons between 2003 and 2005 with Atalanta, where he was a regular. The club signed him in co-ownership deal in summer 2005 for €1 million.[1] Along with Adriano, they were part of the deal of Stephen Makinwa.
[edit] Parma
The co-ownership deal with Atalanta being terminated in June 2006 for €1million, he was then loaned to Parma F.C. with a co-ownership option (€1.25M),[2] That season Palermo signed Mark Bresciano and Fábio Simplício. Budan and Maurizio Ciaramitaro were the possible alternative compensation other than cash in the deals. Parma excised the option in June 2007 and bought Davide Matteini (50% for €0.9M) and Francesco Parravicini (€0.95M to Palermo and €0.95M to Fiorentina)[3] Budan scored a lesser goal in 2007–08 Serie A but with a better goal per game, Palermo bought back Budan for €4.5million from relegated Parma in June 2008.[4][5] Budan also signed a new 5-year contract.[4]
[edit] Return to Palermo
At Palermo, his opportunities to play were limited because of knee injuries and a surgery on his left knee.
However, he was confirmed to the Palermo squad for the 2009–10 season, and he started the new season by coming on as a substitute in the first two league games, against Napoli and Fiorentina. In the third game of the 2009–10 season, Budan scored his first goal for Palermo, a late injury-time equalizer in a 1–1 home tie against Bari. His new season with Palermo was then later stopped by another serious knee injury that kept him out of action for the remained of the tournament.
On 31 August 2010 he was loaned out to newly-promoted Serie A club Cesena until the end of the season.[6] He returned to Palermo by the end of the season and remained in Sicily due to the club failing to find a team for him. Initially kept off the first team squad, he was subsequently re-included due to a injury crisis and featured in a number of league games under head coach Devis Mangia, and then gaining a starting lineup spot under new boss Bortolo Mutti. He scored his first goal of the season on 22 January 2012, netting the 1–1 equalizer in a 5–3 home win against Genoa.
[edit] Internationals
Budan was capped for the Croatian U-18 team at the 1998 UEFA U-18 Championship (now U-19 event) and the 1999 FIFA World Youth Championship (now FIFA U-20 World Cup).
On 7 February 2007, Budan made his international debut for Croatia in a 2–1 friendly win against Norway, coming on as a 62nd-minute substitute for Boško Balaban.[7]
[edit] References
- ^ US Città di Palermo Report and Accounts on 30 June 2006 (Italian)
- ^ US Città di Palermo Report and Accounts on 30 June 2007 (Italian)
- ^ US Città di Palermo Report and Accounts on 30 June 2008 (Italian)
- ^ a b US Città di Palermo Report and Accounts on 30 June 2009 (Italian)
- ^ "DICHIARAZIONE DI ZAMPARINI" (in Italian). ilpalermocalcio.it. 2008-09-02. http://www.ilpalermocalcio.it/it/0809/news_scheda.jsp?id=9777. Retrieved 2010-03-14.
- ^ "MOVIMENTI IN USCITA DEL PALERMO" (in Italian). US Città di Palermo. 2010-08-31. http://www.ilpalermocalcio.it/it/0910/news_scheda.jsp?id=21438. Retrieved 2010-08-31.
- ^ Croatia beats Norway 2–1 in international friendly AP News, 7 February 2007
[edit] External links
- Igor Budan – FIFA competition record
- Igor Budan statistics and biography at FootballDatabase.com
- Igor Budan at National-Football-Teams.com
- Igor Budan at tuttocalciatori.net (Italian)
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- 1980 births
- Living people
- Croatian footballers
- Croatia international footballers
- HNK Rijeka players
- F.B.C. Unione Venezia players
- Empoli F.C. players
- A.C. Ancona players
- Atalanta B.C. players
- Ascoli Calcio 1898 players
- Parma F.C. players
- U.S. Città di Palermo players
- A.C. Cesena players
- Serie A footballers
- Serie B footballers
- Expatriate footballers in Italy
- Expatriate footballers in Switzerland
- Croatian expatriate footballers
- Association football forwards
- AC Bellinzona players
- People from Rijeka
- Prva HNL players
- UEFA Euro 2008 players
