Dražen Bolić (; born 12 September 1971) is a Serbian former

footballer A football player or footballer is a sportsperson who plays one of the different types of football. The main types of football are association football, American football, Canadian football, Australian rules football, Gaelic football, rugby le ...

who played as a defender.

Club career

After playing for

Obilić Obiliq, ) or Obilić ( sr-cyr, Обилић, ), also referred to as Kastriot ( sq-definite, Kastrioti, ) is a town and municipality in Kosovo. According to the Kosovo Agency of Statistics (KAS) estimate from the 2011 census, there were 21,549 peo ...

, Bolić was transferred to

Partizan Partizan may refer to: Sport * JSD Partizan, a sports society from Belgrade, Serbia, which includes the following clubs: **AK Partizan, athletics ** Biciklistički Klub Partizan, cycling ** Džudo Klub Partizan, judo **FK Partizan, association fo ...

in 1994, spending the next four seasons with the ''Crno-beli''. He then went abroad to Italy and signed with

Serie A The Serie A (), also called Serie A TIM for national sponsorship with TIM, is a professional league competition for football clubs located at the top of the Italian football league system and the winner is awarded the Scudetto and the Coppa ...

club

Salernitana Unione Sportiva Salernitana 1919, commonly referred to as Salernitana, is an Italian football club based in Salerno, Campania. The original club was founded in 1919 and has been reconstituted three times in the course of its history, most recentl ...

in 1998. In his debut season, Bolić played regularly for the side, but the club failed to avoid relegation to

Serie B The Serie B (), currently named Serie Balkrishna Industries, BKT for sponsorship reasons, is the second-highest division in the Italian football league system after the Serie A. It has been operating for over ninety years since the 1929–30 ...

. He spent the following 10 years in the country, also playing for

Ancona Ancona (, also , ) is a city and a seaport in the Marche region in central Italy, with a population of around 101,997 . Ancona is the capital of the province of Ancona and of the region. The city is located northeast of Rome, on the Adriatic S ...

Vicenza Vicenza ( , ; ) is a city in northeastern Italy. It is in the Veneto region at the northern base of the ''Monte Berico'', where it straddles the Bacchiglione River. Vicenza is approximately west of Venice and east of Milan. Vicenza is a th ...

, and

Lanciano Lanciano (; nap, label= Abruzzese, Langiàne ) is a town and ''comune'' in the province of Chieti, part of the Abruzzo region of central Italy. It has 36,304 inhabitants as of 2011. The town is known for the first recorded Catholic Eucharistic ...

International career

At international level, Bolić was capped seven times for

FR Yugoslavia Serbia and Montenegro ( sr, Cрбија и Црна Гора, translit=Srbija i Crna Gora) was a country in Southeast Europe located in the Balkans that existed from 1992 to 2006, following the breakup A relationship breakup, breakup, or ...

between 1995 and 2000, making his debut in a 2–0 friendly loss to

Greece Greece,, or , romanized: ', officially the Hellenic Republic, is a country in Southeast Europe. It is situated on the southern tip of the Balkans, and is located at the crossroads of Europe, Asia, and Africa. Greece shares land borders with ...

Post-playing career

After hanging up his boots, Bolić served as assistant manager to

Ivan Tomić Ivan Tomić (Serbian Cyrillic: Иван Томић; born 5 January 1976) is a Serbian football manager and former player. Club career After coming through the youth categories of Radnički Beograd, Tomić joined Partizan in the summer of 1993, a ...

at Partizan from 2015 to 2016. He also worked as an assistant to

Žarko Lazetić Žarko Lazetić (; born 22 February 1982) is a Serbian football manager and former player. Playing career In December 2006, it was announced that Lazetić agreed to join Partizan from Bežanija in the January transfer window, along with his tea ...

at Metalac Gornji Milanovac.

Career statistics

Honours

Partizan *

First League of FR Yugoslavia The First League of Serbia and Montenegro ( sr, Прва савезна лига / Prva savezna liga) was the top football league of Serbia and Montenegro, before the country's dissolution in 2006. The league was formed following the breakup of Yu ...

: 1995–96, 1996–97 *

FR Yugoslavia Cup The Serbia and Montenegro Cup was an association football knockout cup tournament of Serbia and Montenegro played between 1992 and 2006, after which Serbia and Montenegro became separate nations. The competition was the continuation of the old M ...

: 1997–98

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* * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Bolic, Drazen A.C. Ancona players Association football defenders Expatriate footballers in Italy First League of Serbia and Montenegro players FK Obilić players FK Partizan non-playing staff FK Partizan players L.R. Vicenza players Serbia and Montenegro expatriate footballers Serbia and Montenegro expatriate sportspeople in Italy Serbia and Montenegro footballers Serbia and Montenegro international footballers Serbian expatriate footballers Serbian expatriate sportspeople in Italy Serbian footballers Serbs of Croatia Serie A players Serie B players Sportspeople from Karlovac S.S. Virtus Lanciano 1924 players U.S. Salernitana 1919 players 1971 births Living people