Ante Aračić (born 28 September 1981, in

Imotski Imotski (; it, Imoschi; lat, Emotha, later ''Imota'') is a small town on the northern side of the Biokovo massif in the Dalmatian Hinterland of southern Croatia, near the border with Bosnia and Herzegovina. Imotski, like the surrounding inland D ...

) is a Croatian retired

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defender.

Club career

He started his career with the local side

before moving to Segesta and later

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. He moved to Slavia Prague for the 2005–06 season and played with the club until August 2007, when he was sent off during UEFA Champions League qualifying match against Žilina. Since then, he played only for the Slavia reserve squad and he was subsequently sold to Brussels. He was released in summer 2008 without participating in a single league match, and was signed up by

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three months later, after a trial. The opportunities were scarce at Hajduk as well, but he managed to score in a match against

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. This turned out to be his last league match for Hajduk, as he was injured in a pre-season friendly against Blackburn Rovers, missing the larger part of the 2009–10 season and unable to get into the first team afterwards. He was released on a free transfer to Šibenik in August 2010.

References

HRsport.net profile
1981 births Living people People from Imotski Men's association football defenders Croatian men's footballers NK Zagreb players HNK Segesta players NK Imotski players K.V. Oostende players HŠK Posušje players HNK Zmaj Makarska players SK Slavia Prague players R.W.D.M. Brussels F.C. players HNK Hajduk Split players HNK Šibenik players NK Varaždin (1931–2015) players Croatian Football League players First Football League (Croatia) players Challenger Pro League players Czech First League players Croatian expatriate men's footballers Expatriate men's footballers in Belgium Croatian expatriate sportspeople in Belgium Expatriate men's footballers in Bosnia and Herzegovina Croatian expatriate sportspeople in Bosnia and Herzegovina Expatriate men's footballers in the Czech Republic Croatian expatriate sportspeople in the Czech Republic {{Croatia-footy-defender-stub