Ivan Ergić

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Personal information
Ivan Ergić
Full name	Ivan Ergić
Date of birth	21 January 1981
Place of birth	Šibenik, Yugoslavia (now Croatia)
Height	185cm
Position	midfielder
Club information
Current club	FC Basel
Professional clubs*
Years	Club	Apps (goals)
1999-00 2000 2000-	Perth Glory Juventus FC Basel	23 (10) 0 (0) 124 (20)
National team**
2006-	Serbia	8 (0)
* Professional club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and correct as of 20 November 2006. ** National team caps and goals correct as of 16 November 2006.

Ivan Ergić (Serbian Cyrillic: Иван Ергић; born January 21, 1981) is a Serbian football midfielder currently playing for FC Basel.

Ergić was born in Šibenik, a coastal town in Yugoslavia (now Croatia) but started his football career in Australia with Perth Glory. He has dual Australian-Serbian citizenship and trained at the Australian Institute of Sport on a government-funded football scholarship.

In 2000 Ergić moved to Juventus, but went on loan to FC Basel during the season, which later signed him for 1.6 million CHF. In June 2004 Ergić was treated for depression in the psychiatric university clinic in Basel, and his further career as a football player was in question at the time. Nevertheless, FC Basel kept him as a player and since 2005 he was on the pitch again.

He did not choose to play international football for Australia, and instead chose Serbia. On May 15, 2006 Ergić was named as a member of the national team for the 2006 FIFA World Cup.

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Profile on JadranSport.org (English)

	Serbia and Montenegro squad - 2006 FIFA World Cup
1 Jevrić \| 2 Ergić \| 3 Dragutinović \| 4 Duljaj \| 5 Vidić \| 6 Gavrančić \| 7 Koroman \| 8 Kežman \| 9 Milošević \| 10 Stanković \| 11 P. Đorđević \| 12 Kovačević \| 13 Basta \| 14 N. Đorđević \| 15 Dudić \| 16 ~~D. Petković~~ \| 17 Nađ \| 18 Vukić \| 19 Žigić \| 20 Krstajić \| 21 Ljuboja \| 22 Ilić \| 23 Stojković \| Coach: I. Petković

FC Basel - Current Squad
1 Costanzo \| 3 Džombić \| 5 Majstorovic \| 6 Nakata \| 7 Rodrigues \| 8 Sterjovski \| 9 Carignano \| 10 Petrić \| 11 Chipperfield \| 12 Ba \| 15 Burgmeier \| 17 Rakitić \| 18 Crayton \| 19 Buckley \| 20 Caicedo \| 21 Pedro \| 22 Ergić \| 23 Eduardo \| 24 Berner \| 25 Sommer \| 26 Kavelashvili \| 27 Kuzmanović \| 28 Baumann \| 29 Grippo \| 30 Smiljanic \| 32 Zanni \| Coach: Gross