Nenad Bjelica

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Nenad Bjelica (born August 20, 1971 in Osijek) is a Croatian Serb football player who played for Albacete Balompié, Real Betis and Kaiserslautern. Bjelica is a midfielder and is 1.81 meters tall.

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. He is currently playing for Austrian club FC Kärnten in Red Zac 1st League.

He played for Croatia from 2001 (9 matches/0 goals) and played at the 2004 European Football Championship, but retired from the team in 2004, at the same time the manager Otto Barić was replaced.