Nikola Jerkan

Nikola Jerkan
Personal information
Date of birth	8 December 1964 (age 59)
Place of birth	Split, SFR Yugoslavia
Height	1.88 m (6 ft 2 in)
Position(s)	Defender
Senior career*
Years	Team
1981–1983	NK Zagreb
1983–1986	Dinamo Vinkovci
1986–1990	Hajduk Split
1990–1996	Real Oviedo
1996–1999	Nottingham Forest
1997–1998	→ Rapid Wien (loan)
1999–2000	Charleroi
Total
International career
1992–1997	Croatia
	*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Nikola Jerkan (born 8 December 1964) is a former football defender from Croatia.

Jerkan was born in Split and started playing football professionally for NK Zagreb.

Career

In 1983 he moved to Dinamo Vinkovci where he would spend three years before moving to Hajduk Split in 1986. In 1988 he started playing for the first team and played two seasons before he moved to Real Oviedo in Spain in 1990. In 1991, in his second season there, he was selected for the best defender of La Liga.

He played for the Croatian national football team between 1992 and 1997, attaining 31 caps and scoring one goal^[1] (against Lithuania in Zagreb during the qualifications for Euro 96). He played three games at the Euro 96 and was at that point established in the centre of the Croatian defence.

Jerkan joined Nottingham Forest in the summer of 1996 for a fee of £1million. Jerkan's time at Nottingham Forest was traumatic. He struggled to hold down a first-team place and after the departure of Frank Clark never hit it off with new manager Dave Bassett.

He went on a year-long loan to Rapid Vienna of Austria at the start of the 1997-98 season and was never seen in the English game again. He spent the 1998/99 season at the City Ground but played no games.

In 1999 he moved Charleroi where he played during the next two seasons, and then retired. He then moved to live in Oviedo.

Honours

Hajduk Split

Yugoslav Cup: 1987

Orders

Order of Danica Hrvatska with face of Franjo Bučar - 1995^[2]

References

^ Mamrud, Roberto (16 July 2009). "Croatia - Record International Players". RSSSF. Retrieved 15 October 2009.
^ "ODLUKU KOJOM SE ODLIKUJU REDOM DANICE HRVATSKE S LIKOM FRANJE BUČARA" (in Croatian). hrvatska.poslovniforum.hr.

External links

Nikola Jerkan – FIFA competition record (archived)
Nikola Jerkan at National-Football-Teams.com
Nikola Jerkan international stats at the Croatian Football Federation website
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[1] Mamrud, Roberto (16 July 2009). "Croatia - Record International Players". RSSSF. Retrieved 15 October 2009.

[2] "ODLUKU KOJOM SE ODLIKUJU REDOM DANICE HRVATSKE S LIKOM FRANJE BUČARA" (in Croatian). hrvatska.poslovniforum.hr.

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