Dragan Žilić
| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Full name | Dragan Žilić | ||
| Date of birth | 14 December 1974 | ||
| Place of birth | Kikinda, SFR Yugoslavia | ||
| Height | 1.97 m (6 ft 5 1⁄2 in) | ||
| Playing position | Goalkeeper | ||
| Club information | |||
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Current team
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SpVgg Einöd-Ingweiler (player-manager) | ||
| Youth career | |||
| 1985–1992 | Kikinda | ||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| 1992–1996 | Kikinda | 70 | (0) |
| 1996–2000 | Vojvodina | 49 | (0) |
| 2000–2001 | CSKA Sofia | 1 | (0) |
| 2001–2005 | Sartid Smederevo | 112 | (0) |
| 2005–2008 | Rijeka | 79 | (0) |
| 2009–2010 | Gorica | 19 | (0) |
| 2012 | Kikinda | 0 | (0) |
| 2015 | Gençlerbirliği Homburg | 10 | (0) |
| 2015– | SpVgg Einöd-Ingweiler | 29 | (0) |
| National team | |||
| 1998–2003 | Serbia and Montenegro | 8 | (0) |
| Teams managed | |||
| 2015– | SpVgg Einöd-Ingweiler (player-manager) | ||
| * Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only. |
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Dragan Žilić (Serbian Cyrillic: Драган Жилић; born 14 December 1974) is a Serbian professional footballer who plays as a goalkeeper. He currently serves as player-manager at SpVgg Einöd-Ingweiler in Germany.
Žilić started out at OFK Kikinda, joining his hometown club as a trainee in 1985. He made his senior debut in the 1992–93 season, as the club suffered relegation from the top flight. After four seasons in the senior squad, Žilić was transferred to Vojvodina. He was a member of the team that reached the final of the 1998 UEFA Intertoto Cup, losing 1–2 on aggregate to Werder Bremen. In June 2000, Žilić moved abroad to Bulgaria and signed a three-year contract with CSKA Sofia. He left the club by mutual agreement in February 2001, recording only one league appearance for the side. In July 2001, Žilić returned to his homeland and joined ambitious Sartid Smederevo. He spent the following four seasons at the club, winning the Serbia and Montenegro Cup in 2003.
In July 2005, Žilić completed a controversial move to Croatian club Rijeka. The transfer caused a minor sensation in the region as it marked the first occasion that a player of Serb ethnicity joined a Croatian club after the Yugoslav Wars. Despite being exposed to severe verbal abuse by the nationalist supporters of Rijeka, Žilić immediately established himself as the first-choice goalkeeper and gradually earned the support of fans with his consistent performances. He eventually helped them win the 2005–06 Croatian Cup. On 29 November 2006, Žilić scored a 92nd-minute header against Konavljanin that got Rijeka into the 2006–07 Croatian Cup semi-finals.
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