Nikola Kalinić

This article deals with the Croatian soccer player Nikola Kalinić (* 1988) and not the Serbian basketball player Nikola Kalinić (* 1991).

Nikola Kalinić
Nikola Kalinić (2013)
Personnel
birthday	5th January 1988
place of birth	Solin ,  SFR Yugoslavia
size	187 cm
position	Storm
Juniors
Years	station
1998-2005	HNK Hajduk Split
Men's
Years	station	Games (goals) 1
2005-2006	NK Istra 1961	2 0(0)
2006	HNK Šibenik	7 0(4)
2007	HNK Hajduk Split	53 (32)
2009-2011	Blackburn Rovers	44 0(7)
2011-2015	Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk	86 (37)
2015-2017	AC Florence	69 (27)
2017-2018	AC Milan	31 0(6)
2018-2019	Atlético Madrid	17 0(2)
2019-2020	→  AS Roma  (loan)	15 0(5)
National team
Years	selection	Games (goals) 2
2003	Croatia U16	2 0(1)
2004-2005	Croatia U17	20 (16)
2005-2007	Croatia U19	12 (11)
2006	Croatia U20	1 0(0)
2007-2010	Croatia U21	6 0(4)
2008–	Croatia	40 (15)
1 Only league games are given. As of August 25, 2020 2 As of November 12, 2017

Nikola Kalinić (born January 5, 1988 in Solin ) is a Croatian football player who has been under contract with AS Roma as a loan player from Atlético Madrid since the beginning of September 2019 .

Career

society

Kalinić started his career at Hajduk Split . For the 2005/06 season he moved to NK Istra on loan in 1961 . After half a year there it was awarded to the HNK Šibenik . In the 2007/08 season he played again for Hajduk Split. In the summer of 2009 Kalinić moved to the English first division club Blackburn Rovers . After two years he went to the Ukrainian club Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk . In the 2014/15 season he reached the final of the UEFA Europa League against defending champions Sevilla FC with Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk . In this Kalinić scored the 1-0 in the 7th minute, but Dnipro lost the game 2: 3.

In August 2015 Kalinić moved to the Italian Serie A at Fiorentina .

In August 2017, Kalinić moved to AC Milan on loan with a subsequent purchase obligation . He received a contract until June 30, 2021.

In August 2018, Kalinić moved to Atlético Madrid . However, he could not prevail in the center of the storm against Diego Costa , Antoine Griezmann and Álvaro Morata , who was signed in January 2019 . Kalinić came in the league on 17 appearances (7 times from the start), in which he scored 2 goals.

At the beginning of September 2019, Kalinić moved on loan to AS Roma for 2 million euros until the end of the 2019/20 season , which will then have the option to purchase his transfer rights for 9 million euros.

National team

Kalinić completed three games for the Croatian U-21 national team, but could not qualify with his team for the 2009 U-21 European Football Championship . On May 24, 2008, he played his first game for the Croatian national soccer team when he was substituted on for the game against Moldova. He took part in the European Football Championship in 2008 and came there to a job when he was substituted for the game against Poland. Kalinić was initially not nominated for the European Football Championship 2012 . However, he benefited from Ivica Olić's injury-related cancellation and was nominated.

At the European Football Championship in France in 2016 , he was included in the Croatian squad . In the third game of the preliminary round, in the 2-1 win against Spain , he was used for the first time and achieved the interim equalization to 1: 1. He reached the round of 16 with Croatia as group winners and played there again as a substitute in extra time against Portugal. The game was lost 0-1 and the team was eliminated.

In 2018 Kalinić was part of the squad for the World Cup in Russia. In the closing stages of the first group game, he was supposed to be substituted on, but declined with reference to back pain. Since the same thing happened in the friendly against Brazil, the coach sent him home.

Awards

• Croatia's Young Player of the Year : 2007

Web links

Commons : Nikola Kalinić  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Nikola Kalinić in the database of weltfussball.de
• Overview of international matches on hns-cff.hr

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Nikola Kalinić in the ULEB - EuroLeague database
2. ↑ See the official confirmation from AC Milan dated August 22, 2017, accessed on August 22, 2017.
3. ↑ Roma complete loan signing of Kalinic , asroma, September 2, 2019, accessed October 7, 2019.
4. ↑ This Croat is the biggest loser in the World Cup