Ante Pavlović is a Croatian retired footballer who played in the

Croatian First Football League The Hrvatska nogometna liga () ( en, Croatian football league), also known as HNL or for sponsorship reasons the SuperSport HNL, is the top Croatian professional football (soccer), football league competition, established in 1992. Previously, i ...

, and Canadian Professional Soccer League.

Playing career

Pavlović played in the

in 2001 with

NK Zadar Nogometni klub Zadar ( en, Football Club Zadar), commonly referred to as NK Zadar or simply Zadar, was a Croatian football club based in Zadar, a city on the Adriatic coast, best known for playing in the top flight of Croatian football for almo ...

. In 2004, he went abroad to play in the Canadian Professional Soccer League with

Toronto Croatia Toronto ( ; or ) is the capital city of the Canadian province of Ontario. With a recorded population of 2,794,356 in 2021, it is the most populous city in Canada and the fourth most populous city in North America. The city is the anchor ...

. In his debut season he won the CPSL Championship after defeating

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. The following season he assisted in clinching a postseason berth by finishing second in the Eastern Conference.

References

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