Nenad Gračan
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Full name | Nenad Gračan | ||||||||||||||||
Date of birth | 23 January 1962 | ||||||||||||||||
Place of birth | Rijeka, SFR Yugoslavia | ||||||||||||||||
Height | 1.79 m (5 ft 10 in) | ||||||||||||||||
Position(s) | Midfielder | ||||||||||||||||
Team information | |||||||||||||||||
Current team | Croatia U21 (coach) | ||||||||||||||||
Youth career | |||||||||||||||||
Rijeka | |||||||||||||||||
Senior career* | |||||||||||||||||
Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) | ||||||||||||||
1979–1980 | Orijent | ||||||||||||||||
1980–1986 | Rijeka | 136 | (31) | ||||||||||||||
1986–1989 | Hajduk Split | 55 | (10) | ||||||||||||||
1989–1993 | Oviedo | 90 | (1) | ||||||||||||||
1995–1996 | Rijeka | 10 | (1) | ||||||||||||||
Total | 291 | (43) | |||||||||||||||
International career | |||||||||||||||||
1984–1986 | Yugoslavia | 10 | (2) | ||||||||||||||
Managerial career | |||||||||||||||||
1998–2000 | Rijeka | ||||||||||||||||
2001 | Hajduk Split | ||||||||||||||||
2001–2002 | FC Koper | ||||||||||||||||
2002–2003 | Osijek | ||||||||||||||||
2004 | Dinamo Zagreb | ||||||||||||||||
2007 | Istra 1961 | ||||||||||||||||
2008 | Nafta Lendava | ||||||||||||||||
2009 | Croatia Sesvete | ||||||||||||||||
2009–2010 | Rijeka | ||||||||||||||||
2013– | Croatia U21 | ||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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*Club domestic league appearances and goals |
Nenad Gračan (born 23 January 1962) is a retired Croatian footballer who played as a central midfielder, and a current coach.
Club career
Born in Rijeka, SFR Yugoslavia, Gračan started playing professionally for hometown's NK Orijent and, soon thereafter, HNK Rijeka, amassing nearly 150 official appearances. He then moved to another club in his native Croatia, HNK Hajduk Split, for which he appeared intermittently over the course of four full seasons.
Late into 1989, Gračan signed with La Liga club Real Oviedo. Joined by compatriots Janko Janković and Nikola Jerkan in his second season, he helped the Asturians finish sixth and qualify for the UEFA Cup by contributing with 26 matches, and eventually appeared in more than 100 games overall.
Aged almost 31, Gračan left Oviedo and returned to his country, now independent. After two years of inactivity he played a handful of games with first professional club Rijeka, but retired shortly after. In the following decade, he took up coaching, starting with his last team as a player, but he rarely settled.
International career
Gračan was capped ten times for Yugoslavia, but never attended any major international tournament.
In 1984, the 21-year-old helped the Olympic squad win the bronze medal in Los Angeles, featuring in all but one games and scoring in the quarterfinals against West Germany (5–2).[1]
References
- ^ Nenad Gračan – FIFA competition record (archived)
External links
- Nenad Gračan at BDFutbol
- National team data Template:Sr icon
- Nenad Gračan at National-Football-Teams.com
- Worldfootball profile
- Use dmy dates from July 2013
- 1962 births
- Living people
- Sportspeople from Rijeka
- Yugoslav footballers
- Croatian footballers
- Association football midfielders
- Yugoslav First League players
- Croatian First Football League players
- NK Orijent players
- HNK Rijeka players
- HNK Hajduk Split players
- La Liga players
- Real Oviedo players
- Yugoslavia international footballers
- Olympic footballers of Yugoslavia
- Footballers at the 1984 Summer Olympics
- Olympic bronze medalists for Yugoslavia
- Olympic medalists in football
- Croatian expatriate footballers
- Expatriate footballers in Spain
- Croatian expatriates in Spain
- Croatian football managers
- HNK Rijeka managers
- HNK Hajduk Split managers
- NK Osijek managers
- GNK Dinamo Zagreb managers