Dražen_Bolić
Dražen Bolić
Serbian footballer
Dražen Bolić (Serbian Cyrillic: Дражен Болић; born 12 September 1971) is a Serbian former footballer who played as a defender.
| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Full name | Dražen Bolić | ||
| Date of birth | (1971-09-12) 12 September 1971 (age 52) | ||
| Place of birth | Karlovac, SFR Yugoslavia | ||
| Height | 1.84 m (6 ft 0 in) | ||
| Position(s) | Defender | ||
| Youth career | |||
| Duga Resa | |||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| 1993–1994 | Obilić | ||
| 1994–1998 | Partizan | 90 | (19) |
| 1998–2001 | Salernitana | 85 | (3) |
| 2001–2004 | Ancona | 83 | (4) |
| 2004–2005 | Vicenza | 19 | (0) |
| 2005–2009 | Lanciano | 97 | (8) |
| Total | 374 | (34) | |
| International career | |||
| 1995–2000 | FR Yugoslavia | 7 | (0) |
| Managerial career | |||
| 2015–2016 | Partizan (assistant) | ||
| 2020–2021 | Metalac Gornji Milanovac (assistant) | ||
| *Club domestic league appearances and goals | |||
After playing for Obilić, Bolić was transferred to Partizan in 1994, spending the next four seasons with the Crno-beli.[1] He then went abroad to Italy and signed with Serie A club Salernitana in 1998. In his debut season, Bolić played regularly for the side, but the club failed to avoid relegation to Serie B. He spent the following 10 years in the country, also playing for Ancona, Vicenza, and Lanciano.[2]
At international level, Bolić was capped seven times for FR Yugoslavia between 1995 and 2000, making his debut in a 2–0 friendly loss to Greece.[3]
After hanging up his boots, Bolić served as assistant manager to Ivan Tomić at Partizan from 2015 to 2016.[4] He also worked as an assistant to Žarko Lazetić at Metalac Gornji Milanovac.[5]
| National team | Year | Apps | Goals |
|---|---|---|---|
| FR Yugoslavia | 1995 | 1 | 0 |
| 1996 | 1 | 0 | |
| 1997 | 2 | 0 | |
| 1998 | 0 | 0 | |
| 1999 | 2 | 0 | |
| 2000 | 1 | 0 | |
| Total | 7 | 0 | |
Partizan
- "Dražen Bolić" (in Serbian). partizanopedia.rs. Retrieved 20 August 2022.
- "BOLIC Drazen" (in Italian). calcio-seriea.net. Retrieved 20 August 2022.
- "Bolić Dražen" (in Serbian). reprezentacija.rs. Retrieved 20 August 2022.
- "Ivan Tomić: Da puna Humska grmi i raširi šalove" (in Serbian). mondo.rs. 31 December 2015. Retrieved 10 December 2016.
- "Leontijević, Lazetić i Bolić još dve godine u FK Metalac" (in Serbian). gminfo.rs. 17 May 2021. Retrieved 20 August 2022.
- "Dražen Bolić, international football player". eu-football.info. Retrieved 20 August 2022.
- Dražen Bolić at WorldFootball.net
- Dražen Bolić at FootballDatabase.eu
- Dražen Bolić at National-Football-Teams.com