Nenad Bjelica

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Nenad Bjelica
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Personal information
Date of birth (1971-08-20) 20 August 1971 (age 52)
Place of birth Osijek, SFR Yugoslavia
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Position(s) Midfielder
Youth career
Osijek
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
1991–1993 Osijek 28 (7)
1993–1996 Albacete Balompié 79 (19)
1996–1998 Real Betis 30 (2)
1998–1999 Las Palmas 24 (3)
1999–2001 Osijek 30 (16)
2001–2004 1. FC Kaiserslautern 65 (5)
2004–2006 Admira Wacker Mödling 52 (12)
2006–2008 FC Kärnten 58 (17)
Total 366 (81)
International career
1993 Croatia U21 1 (0)
2001 Croatia B 1 (0)
2001–2004 Croatia 9 (0)
Managerial career
2007–2009 FC Kärnten
2009–2010 Lustenau 07
2010–2013 WAC St. Andrä
2013–2014 FK Austria Wien
2014–2015 Spezia
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Nenad Bjelica (born 20 August 1971 in Osijek) is a former Croatian football player and currently coach who played as midfielder for Albacete Balompié, Real Betis and Kaiserslautern.

Playing career

Nenad Bjelica started playing for a small club Metalac Olt in the 1989–90 season. He quickly moved to NK Osijek and spent almost four seasons there, before moving abroad to Spain.

He played for Albacete Balompié for four years, during which time the team reached the Copa del Rey semi-final. In 1996, he moved to Real Betis and was in the team that was the runner-up in the Copa del Rey. The next season he spent at UD Las Palmas, but returned to Real Betis a year later. Due to injuries, he played very few games in this period, and would again spend a season at UD Las Palmas until the end of 1999.

Bjelica then returned home to NK Osijek for two seasons and recovered his form, playing with the team in three stages of the UEFA Cup. He then moved to 1. FC Kaiserslautern in 2000, where he spent four seasons until semi-retiring top-tier football in 2004. During the 2004–05 season he played for VfB Admira Wacker Mödling. After that he played for the Austrian club FC Kärnten in the Austrian Football First League (Austria's second division), before retiring on 31 June 2008.

International career

He played for Croatia from 2001 (nine matches, no goals) until 2004.[1] He took part in the UEFA Euro 2004 but retired from the team in that year, at the same time the manager Otto Barić was replaced.

Coaching career

He began his coaching career on 15 September 2007 at FC Kärnten,[2] as player-caretaker manager. On 1 July 2008, he signed a full managing contract, just a day after ending his playing career. Bjelica was head coach of Lustenau 07[3] and Wolfsberg[3] before moving to Austria Wien on 17 June 2013 as their new Head coach.[4] With the club, he qualified for the 2013–14 UEFA Champions League group stage, defeating the Croatian champions Dinamo Zagreb in the last round of qualification.[5] Bjelica was sacked on 16 February 2014.[6] As Austria Wien failed to qualify for the Europa League nonetheless at the end of the season, Bjelica's contract expired.

In June 2014 he was hired by Italian Serie B side Spezia.[7]

Career record

As of 27 October 2014
Team From To Record
G W D L Win %
Kärnten 15 September 2007[2] 29 January 2009[2] 49 17 12 20 34.69 [8]
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Lustenau 19 March 2009[10] 11 December 2009[10] 32 12 8 12 37.50 [11]
[12]
Wolfsberg 10 May 2010[13] 17 June 2013[4] 124 55 30 39 44.35 [14][15]
[16][17]
Austria Wien 17 June 2013[4] 16 February 2014[6] 35 12 10 13 34.29 [18]
Spezia 22 June 2014[7] Present 32 13 10 9 40.63
Total 272 109 70 93 40.07 —

References

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External links

  • Nenad Bjelica – FIFA competition record
  • Nenad Bjelica at National-Football-Teams.comLua error in Module:WikidataCheck at line 28: attempt to index field 'wikibase' (a nil value).
  • Nenad Bjelica national team appearances at the Croatian Football Federation official website
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