Nenad Bjelica

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Nenad Bjelica
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Nenad Bjelica as coach of Wolfsberger AC (April 2012)
Personnel
birthday 20th August 1971
place of birth Osijek ,  SFR Yugoslavia
size 181 cm
position midfield
Men's
Years station Games (goals) 1
1990-1992 NK Osijek 28 0(7)
1993-1996 Albacete Balompié 79 (19)
1996-1997 Betis Seville 30 0(2)
1998-1999 UD Las Palmas 24 0(3)
1999-2000 NK Osijek 30 (15)
2001-2004 1. FC Kaiserslautern 65 0(5)
2002-2003 1. FC Kaiserslautern II 6 0(0)
2004-2006 VfB Admira Wacker Mödling 52 (12)
2006-2008 FC Carinthia 58 (17)
National team
Years selection Games (goals)
1993 Croatia U-21 1 0(0)
2001 Croatia B 1 0(0)
2001-2004 Croatia 9 0(0)
Stations as a trainer
Years station
2007-2009 FC Carinthia
2009 FC Lustenau 07
2010-2013 Wolfsberger AC
2013-2014 FK Austria Vienna
2014-2015 Specia Calcio
2016-2018 Lech poses
2018-2020 Dinamo Zagreb
1 Only league games are given.

Nenad Bjelica (born August 20, 1971 in Osijek ) is a Croatian football coach and former player on the position of midfielder .

Career

Player career

He started his career at his hometown club NK Osijek . From 1990 to 1992 he played in the Osijek professional team. His first way abroad went to Spain , where he played with Albacete Balompié from 1993 to 1996 and with Betis Sevilla from 1996 to 1997 . After the seasons on the Iberian Peninsula, at the turn of the year 1997/98 he went to the Canary Islands to UD Las Palmas , where he stayed until summer 1999. In the 1999/2000 season he played again for NK Osijek in his Croatian homeland. There he was voted Croatia's Footballer of the Year 2000. Just one year later he moved to Germany for 1. FC Kaiserslautern , with whom he made the 2001 UEFA Cup semi-finals. The two-footed midfielder moved in 2004 to VfB Admira Wacker Mödling , where at the end of the 2005/06 season, however, only a disappointing last place in the table was reached and Mödling had to go to the second division. Bjelica therefore moved to Klagenfurt for FC Kärnten in the summer of 2006 , where he scored three goals in his first home game. On September 15, 2007, the team captain of the Carinthians replaced his previous coach Richard Huber and was the club's player- coach until the end of the 2007/08 season .

Coaching career

Bjelica began his coaching career as a player-coach in the 2007/08 season at FC Kärnten . When he was relegated to the third- tier regional league , he resigned as a player and was only a coach until the financially troubled club stopped playing in the spring of 2009. Bjelica then trained the team from FC Lustenau .

In the summer of 2010 Bjelica moved back to Carinthia and took over Wolfsberger AC in the Regionalliga Mitte. With the Carinthians he made it through to the Austrian Bundesliga . In the 2012/13 season he and his team just barely missed qualifying for the Europa League .

On June 17, 2013 Bjelica was presented as the new coach of Wiener Austria . On the basis of an oral agreement with President Dietmar Riegler from Wolfsberger AC, he was able to switch to Favoriten for a transfer fee of 350,000 euros. Bjelica led Austria into the Champions League for the first time in club history in autumn 2013 . In the championship, however, the reigning champion disappointed and was only fifth after 23 laps. After a home draw against SC Wiener Neustadt , he was given leave of absence as head coach of Austria on February 16, 2014.

In June 2014 Bjelica new coach at was Spezia Calcio in the Italian Serie B . After a successful first season with fifth place in the championship, which was followed by a narrow elimination in the first round of the playoff to Serie A , Bjelica was relieved of his duties in November 2015 after seven games without a win and falling to 15th place in the table.

In August 2016 Bjelica became the coach of the Polish first division club Lech Posen . He took over the team after a failed start to the season, in which they could achieve two wins in only seven games.

National team

Bjelica played nine times for the Croatian national team . The midfielder was at the 2004 European Championship in Portugal in the squad of the Croatian people and came to two operations. The two-footed player was repeatedly called up by the Croatian ex-team boss Zlatko Kranjčar to join the extended team.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ "Nenad Bjelica presented as the new Austria coach". krone.at, June 17, 2013, accessed on June 18, 2013 .
  2. ↑ To save what can be saved , accessed on February 16, 2014 at orf.at
  3. ↑ Bjelica new trainer from Spezia Calcio , accessed on July 7, 2014
  4. ↑ Spezia: Di Carlo replaces Bjelica , accessed on November 24, 2015
  5. ↑ Nenad Bjelica becomes a trainer at Lech Posen
personal data
SURNAME Bjelica, Nenad
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Croatian soccer player and coach
DATE OF BIRTH 20th August 1971
PLACE OF BIRTH Osijek , SFR Yugoslavia