Ivan Ergić
Ergić with Basel in 2007
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| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Full name | Ivan Ergić | ||
| Date of birth | 21 January 1981 | ||
| Place of birth | Šibenik, SFR Yugoslavia | ||
| Height | 1.85 m (6 ft 1 in) | ||
| Playing position | Midfielder | ||
| Youth career | |||
| 1997–1998 | AIS | ||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| 1999–2000 | Perth Glory | 23 | (10) |
| 2000 | Juventus | 0 | (0) |
| 2001–2009 | FC Basel | 202 | (31) |
| 2009–2011 | Bursaspor | 58 | (9) |
| Total | 283 | (50) | |
| National team‡ | |||
| 2006–2008 | Serbia | 11 | (0) |
| * Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and correct as of 11:19, 21 May 2011 (UTC). ‡ National team caps and goals correct as of 14 September 2008 |
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Ivan Ergić (Serbian Cyrillic: Иван Ергић) is a Serbianfootballer who plays as a midfielder.
Born in Croatia and raised in Australia, he began his career at Perth Glory and was briefly with Juventus before moving to Switzerland's FC Basel in 2001, where he played 202 league matches. He left in 2009 for Bursaspor, where he spent two seasons, winning the Turkish Süper Lig in the first.
Ergić was a member of Serbia & Montenegro's squad at the 2006 FIFA World Cup, and earned 11 international caps between 2006 and 2008.
Ergić was born in the Croatian coastal town of Šibenik, and lived in the village of Gaćelezi. However, he moved to Perth, Western Australia at an early age and trained at the Australian Institute of Sport on a government-funded football scholarship. He started his football career with Perth Glory in 1999 and helped the club finish runners-up during the 1999–2000 season.
In 2000, Ergić moved to Italian giants Juventus, but went on loan to FC Basel of Switzerland during the season. He later signed for FCB for CHF1.6 million. He was given the captaincy when Pascal Zuberbühler left in 2006, but in 2008 he resigned from being captain and handed it over to his teammate, Franco Costanzo. He played his 150th first-team game for Basel on 10 May 2008 against BSC Young Boys at St. Jakob-Park. Basel won the game 2–0, which resulted in them becoming Champions. On 16 June 2009, he was released by FC Basel after newly hired manager Thorsten Fink decided not to offer him a new contract. He spent nine years at the club and played over 200 matches.
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