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Nicolás Peric

Nicolás Perić
Nicolás Peric.jpg
Peric playing for Audax Italiano in 2006
Personal information
Full name Nicolás Miroslav Perić Villarreal
Date of birth (1978-10-19) 19 October 1978 (age 38)
Place of birth Talca, Chile
Height 1.83 m (6 ft 0 in)
Playing position Goalkeeper
Club information
Current team
Audax Italiano
Number 22
Youth career
Rangers
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
1998–2003 Rangers 102 (0)
2004 U. de Concepción 29 (1)
2005 Unión Española 5 (0)
2006–2007 Audax Italiano 82 (0)
2008 Gençlerbirliği 15 (0)
2009 Everton 10 (0)
2009–2010 Argentinos Juniors 20 (0)
2010 Olimpia 13 (0)
2011 Cobreloa 35 (0)
2012–2014 Rangers 62 (0)
2014–2015 Cobresal 31 (0)
2015– Audax Italiano 45 (0)
National team
2001–2012 Chile 5 (0)
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and correct as of 1 October 2015.
‡ National team caps and goals correct as of 16 October 2012

Nicolás Miroslav Perić Villarreal (born 19 October 1978 in Talca, Chile) is a Chilean goalkeeper who plays for Audax Italiano in the Primera División de Chile.

He is of Croatian descent and is nicknamed Loco (Madman).

Born in Talca, Peric joined hometown professional side Rangers youth set-up. Years later in 1998, he was promoted to first-adult team where did an impressive season four years later reaching the 2002 Torneo Apertura final alongside future international players like Marcos González and Ismael Fuentes.

In 2004, he joined Universidad de Concepcion which for that season reached its first ever Copa Libertadores qualification where Peric appeared as a starter as well as in the local tournament. Just for his birthday, on 19 October, Peric scored his first professional goal after a goal kick in a 4–2 away loss with Bolívar at La Paz. However, later in December he received a six-month ban from the Conmebol for having launch positive in a doping test, because he allegedly would have drunk a coca leaf tea before the game with Bolívar.

Once finished his ban in April 2005, he joined Chilean freshly champion in the age Unión Española to face the Torneo Clausura where would have to challenge the first-choice post with Jaime Bravo. After only playing five league games he left the club and then moved to Audax Italiano where again performed well in his career.


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