Nenad Gračan

Nenad Gračan

Personal information
Full name	Nenad Gračan
Date of birth	23 October 1962 (1962-10-23) (age 49)
Place of birth	Rijeka, SFR Yugoslavia
Height	1.79 m (5 ft 10 in)
Playing position	Midfielder
Youth career
	Rijeka
Senior career*
Years	Team	Apps†	(Gls)†
1980–1985	Rijeka	106	(24)
1985–1989	Hajduk Split	55	(10)
1989–1993	Oviedo	90	(1)
1995–1996	Rijeka	10	(1)
National team
1984–1986	Yugoslavia	10	(2)
Teams managed
?–?	Rijeka
2001	Hajduk Split
2001–2002	FC Koper
2002–2003	Osijek
2004	Dinamo Zagreb
2007	Istra 1961
2008	Nafta Lendava
2009	Croatia Sesvete
2009–2010	Rijeka
Honours Men's Football Competitor for  Yugoslavia Olympic Games Bronze 1984 Los Angeles Team
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only. † Appearances (Goals).

Nenad Gračan (born 23 October 1962 in Rijeka, Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia) is a retired Croatian footballer who played as a central midfielder, and a current coach.

Contents 1 Club career 2 International career 3 References 4 External links

Club career

Gračan started playing professionally for hometown side NK Rijeka, amassing nearly 150 official appearances. He then moved to another club in Croatia, HNK Hajduk Split, for which he appeared intermittently over the course of four full seasons.

Late into 1989, Gračan signed with La Liga club Real Oviedo. Joined by compatriots Janko Janković and Nikola Jerkan in his second season, he helped the Asturias team finish sixth and qualify for the UEFA Cup, contributing with 26 matches, and eventually appearing in more than 100 games overall.

Aged almost 31, Gračan left Oviedo and returned to his country, now independent. After two years of inactivity, he played a handful of games with first professional club Rijeka, but retired shortly after. In the following decade, he took up coaching, starting with his last team as a player, but he rarely settled.

International career

Gračan was capped 10 times for Yugoslavia, but never attended any major international tournament.

In 1984, the 21-year old helped the Olympic squad win the bronze medal in Los Angeles, appearing in all but one games and scoring in the quarterfinals against West Germany (5–2).^[1]

References

External links

• BDFutbol profile
• National team data (Serbian)
• Nenad Gračan at National-Football-Teams.com
• Weltfussball profile (German)

Yugoslavia squad – 1984 Summer Olympics Bronze Medalists 1 Pudar 2 Čapljić 3 Baljić 4 Katanec 5 Elsner 6 Radanović 7 Smajić 8 Gračan 9 Đurovski 10 Baždarević 11 Cvetković 12 Ivković 13 Nikolić 14 Deverić 15 Miljuš 16 Stojković 17 Mrkela Coach: Toplak

HNK Hajduk Split – managers Just (1911) Šwagrovský (1912) Bohata (1913) Zajíček (1914) Jahn (1915–18) Šťastný (1919) Štapl (1920) Zoubek (1920) Mantler (1921) Šoltis (1922) Pinc (1922) Bohata (1923) Kaliterna (1923–30) Puschner (1930) Kaliterna (1930–36) Blažević (1936) Senecký (1937) Kaliterna (1937) Spitz (1938–39) Benčić (1939–40) Sobotka (1940) Benčić (1940) Sobotka (1941) Benčić (1941–48) Kaliterna (1948–51) Bakotić (1951) Matošić (1952–54) Tomašević (1954–55) Benčić (1955–56) Matošić (1956–58) Radovniković (1958–59) Ćirić (1959–61) Lemešić (1961–62) Matekalo (1962) Grčić (1963) Ćirić (1963) Matošić & Nedoklan (1964–65) Nenković (1965–69) Luštica (1969–71) Ivić (1972) Zebec (1972–73) Ivić (1973–76) Duvančić (1976–77) Marković (1977–78) Ivić (1978–80) Mladinić (1980–82) Nadoveza (1982–84) Poklepović (1984–86) Krešić (1986) Skoblar (1986–87) Kovačić (1987) Ivić (1987) Vutsov (1987) Nadoveza (1988–89) Peruzović (1989–90) Skoblar (1990–91) Poklepović (1991–93) Katalinić (1993–95) Buljan (1995) Jozić (1995–96) Buljan (1996–97) Bonačić (1997) Ivić (1997) Bonačić (1997–98) Vulić (1998) Katalinić (1998–99) Matković (1999–2000) Nadoveza (2000) Vulić (2000–01) Gračan (2001) Bilić (2001–02) Vulić (2002–04) Nadoveza (2004) Katalinić (2004) Slišković (2004–05) Štimac (2005) Blažević (2005) Gudelj (2005–06) Bonačić (2006) Vulić (2006–07) Pudar (2007) Krešić (2007) Jarni (2007–08) Vučević (2008) Miše (2008–09) Kalinić (2009) Reja (2009–10) Poklepović (2010) Vučević (2010–11) Miše (2011) Balakov (2011–)

GNK Dinamo Zagreb – managers Bukovi (1945–1947) Kokotović (1947) Jazbinšek (1948) Mütsch (1948) Knežević (1948–49) Hügl (1950–52) Antolković (1952–53) Jazbinšek (1953–55) Cuvaj (1956) Antolković (1957) Lechner (1957–58) Antolković (1959–60) Bukovi (1960–61) Antolković (1961–64) Konjevod (1964–65) Zebec (1965–67) Horvat (1967–70) Čajkovski (1970–71) Jerković (1971–72) Bobek (1972) Kapetanović (1973) I. Marković (1973–74) Bazić (1974–77) Belin (1977–78) V. Marković (1978–80) I. Marković (1980) Blažević (1980–83) Belin (1983) V. Marković (1983) Zebec (1984) Ivić (1984–85) Kobeščak (1985) Blažević (1986–88) Skoblar (1988–89) Belin (1989) Kuže (1989–90) V. Marković (1990–91) Kobeščak (1991–92) V. Marković (1992) Blažević (1992–94) Bedi (1994) Kranjčar (1994–96) Barić (1996–97) Vlak (1997–98) Kranjčar (1998) Bedi & Braović (1998) Zajec (1998–99) Lončarević (1999) Ardiles (1999) Vlak (1999–00) Braović (2000–01) Lončarević (2001–02) Vlak (2002) Blažević (2002–03) Jurčević (2003–04) Bago (2004) Gračan (2004) Lončarević (2005) Cvetković (2005) Kuže (2005–2006) Ivanković (2006–08) Soldo (2008) Ivanković (2008) Vlak (2008–09) Jurčić (2009–10) Zajec (2010) Halilhodžić (2010–11) Jurčić (2011) Čačić (2011–)

Persondata
Name	Gracan, Nenad
Alternative names
Short description	Croatian football player/manager
Date of birth	23 October 1962
Place of birth	Rijeka, Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia)
Date of death
Place of death