Vedran Runje

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Vedran Runje (born 10 February 1976 in Sinj), is a Croatian football goalkeeper who currently plays for Beşiktaş J.K..

Vedran Runje began his career at Hajduk Split back in 1996. Between 1998 and 2001 he played for Standard de Liège before he went to Olympique de Marseille. In France, he had two great years, but during the third season he lost his place to Fabian Barthez and returned to Belgium to play for Standard de Liège, again.

Vedran Runje had won Belgian best professional goalkeeper award three times (in the 1998-1999, 2000-2001, and 2005-2006 seasons), before coming to Turkey to play for Beşiktas J.K in 2006.

Runje is praised for his wonderful reflexes, good charisma, being a penalty killer and having a perfect mentality.

On November 15th 2006, he made his debut for the Croatian national football team against Israel. Croatia won 4-3.

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Preceded by Ronny Gaspercic	Belgian Goalkeeper of the Year 1999	Succeeded by Filip De Wilde
Preceded by Filip De Wilde	Belgian Goalkeeper of the Year 2001	Succeeded by Franky Vandendriessche
Preceded by Silvio Proto	Belgian Goalkeeper of the Year 2006	Succeeded by Incumbent

[edit] External links

Profile on JadranSport.org (English)

Beşiktaş JK - Current Squad
1 Runje \| 2 Serdar \| 3 Mehmet \| 4 Mustafa \| 5 Gökhan Z. \| 7 Burak \| 8 Baki \| 9 Gökhan G. \| 10 Delgado \| 11 Nobre \| 13 Bobo \| 14 Can \| 15 Kléberson \| 17 Ricardinho \| 19 İbrahim \| 20 Aydın \| 22 Ali T. \| 29 Murat \| 30 Ali G. \| 41 Koray \| 53 Fahri \| 55 İbrahim A. \| 58 İbrahim T. \| 77 Emre \| 78 İbrahim K. \| 80 Kenan \| Manager: Tigana