Goran Vučević

Goran Vučević

Personal information
Date of birth	(1971-05-18) 18 May 1971
Place of birth	Split, SFR Yugoslavia
Height
Position(s)	Midfielder
Senior career*
Years	Team	Apps	(Gls)
1988–1992	Hajduk Split	68	(16)
1992–1997	Barcelona B	63	(10)
1992–1997	Barcelona	2	(0)
1994–1995	→ Hajduk Split (loan)	16	(3)
1995–1996	→ Mérida (loan)	11	(0)
1997–1999	FC Köln	16	(1)
1999–2001	Hajduk Split	12	(0)
Total		190	(30)
International career
1992–1993	Croatia	4	(0)
Managerial career
2005–2008	Hajduk Split (assistant)
2008	Hajduk Split
2010	Hajduk Split (interim)
2010–2011	Hajduk Split
2013–	Hajduk Split (sporting director)
2015	Hajduk Split (interim)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Goran Vučević (born 18 May 1971) is a Croatian retired footballer who played as a central midfielder.

Football career

Born in Split, Croatia, Vučević started his career at local HNK Hajduk, where he became a key player at only 18, eventually winning the 1992 Sportske novosti Yellow Shirt award, issued to the best footballer playing in the Croatian League at the end of every season.

Afterwards, Vučević was bought by Johan Cruyff's FC Barcelona but, during his five-year stay, he could never break into the first team, which also featured – as the clubs in Spain were not allowed to field more than three foreign players at the same time – Ronald Koeman, Michael Laudrup, Hristo Stoichkov, Romário, Gheorghe Hagi or Luís Figo.

After two loans, first loaned to his former club then CP Mérida, the latter also in La Liga, Vučević was finally sold in the 1997 summer, to 1. FC Köln. He also struggled immensely in Germany, playing very rarely, including when the club was in the second division. In 1999, he returned for a third spell with Hajduk, retiring after two unassuming years.

During one year, starting in 1992, Vučević played four times for the Croatian national team, scoring no goals. From 2005–08, he accumulated the tasks of assistant with the main squad and youth coach, taking the first-team's reins in May 2008, but resigning in October, after which he returned to the youth system.

External links

• Stats at Liga de Fútbol Profesional (Spanish)
• BDFutbol profile
• Stats at Fussballdaten (German)
• Goran Vučević at National-Football-Teams.com