Dino Drpić

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Dino Drpić
Drpić playing for Dinamo Zagreb in 2008
Personal information
Date of birth (1981-05-26) 26 May 1981 (age 42)
Place of birth Zagreb, SR Croatia, Yugoslavia[1]
Height 1.95 m (6 ft 5 in)
Position(s) Defender
Youth career
Chromos Zagreb
1997–2000 Dinamo Zagreb
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
2000–2009 Dinamo Zagreb 185 (11)
2009 → Karlsruher SC (loan) 16 (0)
2009–2010 Karlsruher SC 17 (0)
2011 AEK Athens 2 (0)
2011 Volyn Lutsk 3 (0)
2012 Rijeka 7 (0)
2013 DPMM 3 (0)
2017 Kustošija
2018–2020 Savski Marof
Total 233 (11)
International career
1999–2000 Croatia U18 19 (1)
2001 Croatia U20 1 (0)
2002–2004 Croatia U21 8 (1)
2007 Croatia 1 (0)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Dino Drpić (born 26 May 1981) is a Croatian professional footballer who last played for Savski Marof. A product of Dinamo Zagreb Academy, Drpić turned professional in 2000 and went on to spend nine years with the club.

Club career[edit]

Drpić rose through the youth ranks of Dinamo and became a consistent performer in the first squad. He debuted for the first team in a UEFA Champions League qualifiers return match at A.C. Milan on 9 August 2000,[2] and was one of the key figures in Dinamo's squad in the upcoming seasons. Dinamo loaned Dino to Karlsruher SC in 2008–09 winter transfer window following a scandal in which it was revealed that he and his Playboy model wife Nives Celzijus had sex on the grass at Dinamo's ground.[3] He was signed permanently during the season and was released on 22 April 2010.[4] After Karlsruhe, Drpić had brief spells with AEK Athens in Greece and Volyn Lutsk in Ukraine before returning to Croatia in March 2012, signing for HNK Rijeka.[5]

In January 2013, he signed with Brunei DPMM FC[6] as one of their foreign players for the 2013 S.League season.[7]

In April 2013, DPMM FC terminated Drpić's contract. He went back to Croatia in search of new club.

International career[edit]

After winning almost 30 caps as a Croatian youth international and having participated in the 2004 UEFA European Under-21 Football Championship, Drpić received his first call-up to represent the country as a full international in 2007. He made his debut for Croatia on 16 October 2007 in a friendly match against Slovakia, but did not feature in any of the team's qualifying matches for the UEFA Euro 2008. In the end, it remains his only full international appearance.[8]

Personal life[edit]

Drpić was married to Playboy model and singer Nives Celzijus, with whom he has children Taiša and Leone. They divorced in 2014.[9]

While on holiday in Krk in the summer of 2008, a British couple tried to kidnap their son Leone after mistaking him for Madeleine McCann.[10]

Career statistics[edit]

Season Club League Games Goal(s)
2000–01 Dinamo Zagreb Prva HNL 16 0
2001–02 Dinamo Zagreb Prva HNL 21 0
2002–03 Dinamo Zagreb Prva HNL 14 1
2003–04 Dinamo Zagreb Prva HNL 32 3
2004–05 Dinamo Zagreb Prva HNL 9 0
2005–06 Dinamo Zagreb Prva HNL 31 1
2006–07 Dinamo Zagreb Prva HNL 27 5
2007–08 Dinamo Zagreb Prva HNL 22 1
2008–09 Dinamo Zagreb Prva HNL 13 0
2008–09 Karlsruher SC Bundesliga 16 0
2009–10 Karlsruher SC 2. Bundesliga 17 0
2010–11 AEK Athens Greek Super League 2 0
2011–12 Volyn Lutsk Ukraine Premier League 3 0
2011–12 HNK Rijeka Prva HNL 7 0
2013 DPMM FC S.League 11 0

Honours[edit]

References[edit]

  1. ^ "Dino Drpić". worldfootball.net. Retrieved 16 February 2013.
  2. ^ "AC Milan - Dinamo Zagreb 3:1 (Champions League Qual. 2000/2001, 3. Runde)" (in German). weltfussball.de. Retrieved 7 November 2014.
  3. ^ "Dino Drpic, despedido por el amor de Nives" [Dino Drpic, thrown out because of his love for Nives] (in Spanish). Diario As. 27 January 2009. Retrieved 8 April 2011.
  4. ^ "KSC beendet Kapitel Drpic" (in German). kicker.de. 22 April 2010. Retrieved 8 April 2011.
  5. ^ "Dino Drpić potpisao za Rijeku" (in Croatian). novilist.hr. 27 March 2012. Retrieved 27 March 2012.
  6. ^ "Dino to power DPMM FC". bt.com.bn. 3 January 2013. Archived from the original on 19 February 2013. Retrieved 16 February 2013.
  7. ^ "Warmest Greeting from DPMM FC!!!". eteamz.com. Archived from the original on 21 November 2018. Retrieved 16 February 2013.
  8. ^ "Player Database". EU-football. Retrieved 10 July 2022.
  9. ^ "Nakon devet godina braka razvode se Nives Celzijus i Dino Drpić".
  10. ^ "Croatian footballer who had sex on pitch with glamour model wife transfer listed". The Daily Telegraph. 23 January 2009. Retrieved 8 April 2011.

External links[edit]

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