Nenad Bjelica
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| Personal information | |||
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| Date of birth | 20 August 1971 | ||
| Place of birth | Osijek, SFR Yugoslavia | ||
| Height | 1.81 m (5 ft 11 1⁄2 in) | ||
| Playing position | Midfielder | ||
| Club information | |||
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Current team
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Lech Poznań (manager) | ||
| Youth career | |||
| Osijek | |||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| 1991–1993 | Osijek | 28 | (7) |
| 1993–1996 | Albacete Balompié | 79 | (19) |
| 1996–1998 | Real Betis | 30 | (2) |
| 1998–1999 | Las Palmas | 24 | (3) |
| 1999–2001 | Osijek | 30 | (16) |
| 2001–2004 | 1. FC Kaiserslautern | 65 | (5) |
| 2004–2006 | Admira Wacker Mödling | 52 | (12) |
| 2006–2008 | FC Kärnten | 58 | (17) |
| Total | 366 | (81) | |
| National team | |||
| 1993 | Croatia U21 | 1 | (0) |
| 2001 | Croatia B | 1 | (0) |
| 2001–2004 | Croatia | 9 | (0) |
| Teams managed | |||
| 2007–2009 | FC Kärnten | ||
| 2009–2010 | Lustenau 07 | ||
| 2010–2013 | WAC St. Andrä | ||
| 2013–2014 | FK Austria Wien | ||
| 2014–2015 | Spezia | ||
| 2016– | Lech Poznań | ||
| * Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only. |
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Nenad Bjelica (born 20 August 1971 in Osijek) is a former Croatian football player and currently coach who played as midfielder for Albacete Balompié, Real Betis and Kaiserslautern.
Nenad Bjelica started playing for a small club Metalac Olt in the 1989–90 season. He quickly moved to NK Osijek and spent almost four seasons there, before moving abroad to Spain.
He played for Albacete Balompié for four years, during which time the team reached the Copa del Rey semi-final. In 1996, he moved to Real Betis and was in the team that was the runner-up in the Copa del Rey. The next season he spent at UD Las Palmas, but returned to Real Betis a year later. Due to injuries, he played very few games in this period, and would again spend a season at UD Las Palmas until the end of 1999.
Bjelica then returned home to NK Osijek for two seasons and recovered his form, playing with the team in three stages of the UEFA Cup. He then moved to 1. FC Kaiserslautern in 2000, where he spent four seasons until semi-retiring top-tier football in 2004. During the 2004–05 season he played for VfB Admira Wacker Mödling. After that he played for the Austrian club FC Kärnten in the Austrian Football First League (Austria's second division), before retiring on 31 June 2008.
He played for Croatia from 2001 (nine matches, no goals) until 2004. He took part in the UEFA Euro 2004 but retired from the team in that year, at the same time the manager Otto Barić was replaced.
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