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Ivan Jurić

Ivan Jurić
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Personal information
Date of birth (1975-08-25) 25 August 1975 (age 41)
Place of birth Split, SFR Yugoslavia
Height 1.74 m (5 ft 8 12 in)
Playing position Midfielder
Club information
Current team
Genoa (manager)
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
1993–1997 Hajduk Split 53 (2)
1997–2001 Sevilla 64 (6)
2000 Albacete (loan) 17 (1)
2001 Šibenik 2 (0)
2001–2006 Crotone 148 (10)
2006–2010 Genoa 84 (1)
Total 368 (20)
National team
1993 Croatia U17 2 (0)
1993–1994 Croatia U18 2 (0)
1993–1994 Croatia U19 4 (0)
1995 Croatia U20 2 (0)
1995–1997 Croatia U21 16 (1)
2009 Croatia 5 (0)
Teams managed
2011 Internazionale (assistant)
2012 Palermo (assistant)
2014–2015 Mantova
2015–2016 Crotone
2016–2017 Genoa
2017– Genoa
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only.

Ivan Jurić (born 25 August 1975 in Split) is a Croatian former footballer who serves as manager of Genoa.

A versatile and technically skilled midfielder or winger, Jurić started his career with Hajduk Split, where he played from 1993 to 1997. He then moved to Spain to join Sevilla FC, where he played from 1997 to 2001, except for a short loan to Albacete in 2000. After a short time back in Croatia with Šibenik, he moved in Italy in 2001 to join Serie B outfit Crotone, and then moved to Genoa in 2006, following his mentor Gian Piero Gasperini, his former head coach at Crotone. Since then, he established himself as a fan favourite, being protagonist of the rossoblu's return to the Serie A, and then being appointed vice-captain for the team.

He announced his retirement on June 2010, at the age of 34, contemporaneously confirming his interest in becoming a football coach.

Jurić made his international debut for Croatia in a friendly match against Romania on 11 February 2009 and went on to play five times with his national team.

After retiring as a football, Jurić stayed at Genoa as youth team coach for the 2010–11 season. He passed the UEFA A coaching exam in June 2011.

On 5 July 2011, new Inter manager Gian Piero Gasperini unveiled Jurić as one of his first team coaches in the new club, but was removed from his post the following September together with Gasperini and his entire staff. He re-united with Gasperini in September 2012, as new assistant coach of his at Palermo.


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