Oliver Zelenika

Oliver Zelenika
Personnel
birthday	May 14, 1993
place of birth	Zagreb ,  Croatia
size	192 cm
position	goalkeeper
Juniors
Years	station
0000–2011	Dinamo Zagreb
Men's
Years	station	Games (goals) 1
2011-2016	Dinamo Zagreb	23 (0)
2012-2013	→  NK Rudeš  (loan)	29 (0)
2014-2016	→  NK Lokomotiva Zagreb  (loan)	67 (0)
2017-2018	Lechia Gdańsk	1 (0)
2018-2019	NEC Nijmegen	4 (0)
National team
Years	selection	Games (goals)
2007	Croatia U-14	2 (0)
2008	Croatia U-15	2 (0)
2009	Croatia U-16	6 (0)
2009	Croatia U-17	11 (0)
2011	Croatia U18	2 (0)
2011	Croatia U-19	6 (0)
2012	Croatia U-20	8 (0)
2013-2014	Croatia U-21	14 (0)
1 Only league games are given. As of October 28, 2019

Oliver Zelenika (born May 14, 1993 in Zagreb ) is a Croatian football player .

Career

society

Zelenika went through all of Dinamo Zagreb's youth teams before he received his first professional contract with this club for the 2011/12 season. In his first season as a professional, he did not play a single competitive game for the club. After he was not even considered for the bench at the beginning of the 2012/13 season, the club gave him on loan to the second division club NK Rudeš . There he was able to establish himself as a regular goalkeeper and played 29 games in which he remained clean twelve times. After his return to Dinamo Zagreb at the beginning of the 2013/14 season, he also made his first appearances there. On July 23, 2013 he made his European debut when he was used in the second qualifying round for the Champions League in the game against CS Fola Esch . After he had only sat on the bench on the first two match days of the 1st HNL , he celebrated his first division debut against HNK Rijeka on matchday three . In the course of the first half of the season Zelenika completed eleven more missions and remained a total of seven times without conceding a goal. After he had only sat on the bench on the last match day of the first half of the season, he was loaned out again for the rest of the season - this time to the first division club Lokomotiv Zagreb . Zelenika made 67 appearances at Lokomotiv, without conceding ten goals. After the loan expires, he will return to Dinamo Zagreb. Zelenika has been without a club since July 2019.

National team

After Zelenika had already run through several Croatian junior national teams, he came on October 19, 2011 for his first assignment in the Croatian U-19 national team and completed, among other things, three games in the qualification for the U-19 European Championship . He also took part in said European Championship, but was not used. With the U-20 national team , he took part in the 2013 World Cup, where he played three times. On August 13, 2013, he made his debut in the Croatian U-21 national team in the European Championship qualifier against Liechtenstein. On May 14, 2014 he was appointed to the squad for the 2014 World Cup by national coach Niko Kovač , without having previously played an international match .

Web links

• Oliver Zelenika in the database of weltfussball.de
• Oliver Zelenika in the database of transfermarkt.de

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Article on Spox.com of May 14, 2014 ; Retrieved June 19, 2014