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Ante Rebić (; born 21 September 1993) is a Croatian professional
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who plays as a
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for
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club
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. Mainly a winger, he can be deployed at any forward position. Rebić began his senior career at RNK Split, and in 2013 signed for Serie A club
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for an undisclosed fee. He spent most of his time there out on loan to
RB Leipzig RasenBallsport Leipzig e.V. (), commonly known as RB Leipzig or informally as Red Bull Leipzig, is a German professional association football, football club based in Leipzig, Saxony. The club was founded in 2009 by the initiative of the company ...
,
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, and
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, before joining the latter permanently in July 2018. In September 2019, he returned to Italian football, joining
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, initially on a two-year loan, before joining permanently a year later. Rebić made his senior international debut for
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in 2013. That same year, he was voted Croatian Football Hope of the Year. He represented them at the
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in
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and
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, reaching the
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of the latter, as well as at the
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.


Club career


Youth levels

Rebić started his career playing at youth level for Vinjani before he moved to
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in 2008, where he spent two seasons. After his good performances at a tournament in Italy in 2010, where he went with
Hajduk Split Hrvatski Nogometni klub Hajduk Split, commonly referred to as Hajduk Split (), is a Croatian professional football club based in Split, that competes in the Croatian First League, the top tier in Croatian football. Since 1979, the club's home ...
youth team, Rebić was brought to RNK Split by
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.


RNK Split

Rebić made his debut for the first team against
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on 21 May 2011 in the last round of the 2010–11 Prva HNL as a second-half substitute. The match ended in a 1–1 draw, with Rebić scoring the late equalizer. In August 2011, Rebić signed a professional three-year contract with RNK Split. In the 2011–12 season, Rebić scored 5 league goals in 20 appearances, four of them when coming off the bench. In the 2012–13 season, Rebić scored 10 league goals in 29 appearances.


Fiorentina

On 28 August 2013, Rebić signed a five-year contract with
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club
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, for an undisclosed fee. Upon passing the medical exams, he was given the number 9 shirt. He made a debut on 30 September, coming on as a 36th-minute substitute for injured teammate
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, in a 2–2 home draw against
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. During his debut he sustained an injury, causing him to be sidelined for three weeks. Rebić made three more appearances for Fiorentina before he scored his first goal on 8 January 2014, starting and scoring the second goal of a 2–0
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last-16 home win against Chievo Verona. On 18 May, he scored his first goal in
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in 2–2 draw against
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at the
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, two minutes after replacing Manuel Pasqual. On 3 August 2014, Rebić joined 2. Bundesliga club
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for a season-long loan deal. After his loan spell with Leipzig ended, Rebić returned to Fiorentina and was given the number 11 shirt, previously worn by Juan Cuadrado, and was used primarily on the left wing. He made his European debut with the club on 1 October in a 4–0 defeat of Belenenses in the
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. In their next match in that competition, Rebić was sent off for a reckless challenge in stoppage time in a 2–1 defeat to
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. On 1 November, he scored his first goal in Serie A, in a 4–1 win against
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. After only making six appearances and scoring once for Fiorentina, Rebić was loaned to
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on 14 January 2016. However, he failed to score in nine appearances, and Verona were relegated to
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. On 20 March, on as a halftime substitute for Giampaolo Pazzini, he was sent off for two yellow cards at the end of a 2–1 loss to Carpi in the
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.


Eintracht Frankfurt

Rebić joined
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club
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on a season-long loan on 11 July 2016, reuniting with former national team manager Niko Kovač. After a short battle with
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, Rebić made his debut on 17 September against
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, coming on as a substitute and assisting
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for the winning goal in a 2–1 victory. On 5 February 2017 he scored his first goal for his new team to conclude a 2–0 win over fellow
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team SV Darmstadt 98 at the
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. On 27 May, he equalised in the 2017 DFB-Pokal Final, though Frankfurt lost 2–1 to
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. On 31 August 2017, Rebić joined Eintracht a second time on loan for another year with an option to buy. Across all competitions, he scored nine goals and assisted three that season. This included two goals on 19 May in the 2018 DFB-Pokal Final, a 3–1 victory that gave his club their first cup since
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and denied
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to complete their
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. At the conclusion of the season, Eintracht Frankfurt exercised their option to purchase Rebić permanently for
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2 million. On 10 August 2018, Rebić signed a new contract to last until June 2022. He had been tracked by clubs including
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,
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, Bayern Munich and
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, and Eintracht had lost several of their star players in addition to Kovač, who joined Bayern. Two days later, Eintracht lost the 2018 DFL-Supercup at home to precisely that team, with Rebić a 64th-minute substitute. On 11 August 2019, he scored a
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in a
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match against Waldhof Mannheim, which Eintracht won 5–3.


AC Milan


2019–20

On 2 September 2019, Rebić returned to Italy and signed a two-year loan deal with Serie A club
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, with André Silva moving in the other direction. After spending the first half of the
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on the bench, having played more minutes for the national team than the club, Rebić scored his first two league goals in a 3–2 victory over
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on 19 January 2020, having come on as a half-time substitute for Giacomo Bonaventura. A week later, he continued his super sub goalscoring run with a single goal in a 1–0 away victory over
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. On 9 February, he scored the opener in ''
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''; however, the game ended as a 4–2 victory for
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. Four days later, he scored Milan's only goal in a 1–1 draw with
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in
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. On 17 February he scored the only goal in a 1–0 victory over Torino. On 12 June, in the club's first game after the
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, the second leg of Coppa Italia fixture against Juventus, Rebić was sent off after sixteen minutes due to a rough tackle on Juventus' defender
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. On 4 July, he scored the third goal in a 3–0 victory over
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contenders
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, their first home defeat of the
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. On 7 July, he won a penalty, provided an assist and scored in a 4–2 comeback victory over Juventus. In total for the season, Rebic scored 12 goals, and assisted 4.


2020–21: contributions and second place finish

On 12 September 2020, Milan exercised their option to purchase Rebić permanently, and signed the player on a five-year contract. On 27 September, he won a penalty that Franck Kessié successfully converted into the first goal of the 2–0 victory over
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; however, in the 58th minute of the game, he fell during a counterattack and dislocated his elbow. He returned to the team on 1 November, coming on for
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in the 71st minute of the 2–1 victory over Udinese. On 23 December, he scored his first goal of the
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, the opening goal in the 3–2 victory over Lazio. On 6 January 2021, he tested positive for
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and was ruled out of the
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against Juventus, which Milan lost 3–1, their first defeat of the season. On 28 February, he scored the winning goal in the 2–1 victory over
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. On 9 May, he scored a spectacular goal in a 3–0 victory over Juventus, winning Milan crucial three points for the Champions League qualification. Three days later, in a 7–0 routing of Torino, he provided
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with an assist for the fourth goal before scoring a hat-trick. In total this season, Rebic scored 11 goals and assisted 3.


2021–22: injuries

On 12 September 2021, he assisted on both goals in a 2–0 victory over Lazio. Three days later, Rebić made his Champions League debut in a 3–2 defeat to
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, scoring Milan's first goal. On 19 September, he scored the equalizer against Juventus in a 1–1 draw, his 3rd overall league goal against Juventus. On 24 November it was reported that Rebic was injured in the training and expected to be out for a month. However he was not back on the pitch again until 9 January 2022 against Venezia. On 19 February, he scored the equalizer in away game against
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, which ended 2–2, a powerful shot from 25 yards, it was his first goal in 5 months.


Beşiktaş

On 31 July 2023, Rebić signed a two-year contract with
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club
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. On 31 July 2024, it was announced that Rebić's contract had been terminated.


Lecce

On 26 August 2024, Rebić returned to Italy and signed for Serie A club
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. He scored his first goal for Lecce with a last minute, stoppage time goal to draw with Juventus on 1 December 2024.


International career

On 31 July 2013, Rebić was called up for the first time to the
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, ahead of a friendly away to
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. He came on as a 63rd-minute substitute for Ivica Olić in the match, and four minutes later he scored in the 3–2 win. He was praised by manager
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after the game. Upon the arrival of the new national team coach Niko Kovač, his former Croatia U21 coach, Rebić was called up for the decisive World Cup play-off matches against
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in November 2013. He came on as a substitute in both games, as Croatia secured their spot in the
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by winning 2–0 on aggregate. Rebić was named in Kovač's final 23-man squad for the tournament in Brazil. He took part in the opening match against the
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in
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, as a late substitute in a 3–1 defeat. He played the same role in the next two matches as the Croatians were eventually eliminated from the group, and lasted only 20 minutes before being sent off versus
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in their last match for a studs-up tackle on Carlos Peña. From June 2015 to November 2017, Rebić was not capped for Croatia. He was named in manager
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's final squad for the
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in Russia. In the second group match against
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in
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, he volleyed after a mistake by opposing goalkeeper
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to open a 3–0 Croatian win. In the
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match against
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, he had a chance to score near the end of
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but was fouled by Mathias Jørgensen;
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missed the resulting penalty but the Croats won in the
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. Rebić started in the
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, and was substituted for
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after 71 minutes of a 4–2 loss to
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at the
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. He scored his third international goal on 24 March 2019 in an upset 2–1 defeat to
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in
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during Croatia's Euro 2020 qualifying campaign. After he had been benched at the club, his drop in form could also be seen in the qualifying games, which caused a public outcry and endangered his spot in the Euro squad. After missing the majority of Croatia's 2020–21 Nations League campaign due to injuries, Rebić was included in Dalić's final squad for the
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. In Croatia's first two
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games against
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and the
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, Rebić was deployed by Dalić as a striker rather than a winger with poor results, as Croatia lost 1–0 and drew 1–1 respectively. In the
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match against
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, Rebić came off the field in the 38th minute to change his
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. At that moment, Croatia were 1–0 up and Spain were in the attack, resulting in Pablo Sarabia's equalizing goal. Croatia would go on to lose the match 5–3 after extra time. Following the intense criticism he received in his homeland for that gesture, part of which came from Dalić himself, Rebić criticized Dalić and the
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on his
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account saying that "it is a fact that he national teamhave been hitfor the past two, three years" and that he is "personally sorry that they had nobody to make use of this talented generation". He also went on to ironically criticize Croatian pundits (more precisely
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, Goran Vlaović and Antun Samovojska), telling them to "let go of
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before broadcasts" (alluding to Prosinečki's drinking issues) and to "cheer for Croatia instead". Shortly after, he deleted the posts and deactivated his account. Ahead of the September World Cup qualifiers against
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,
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and
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, Rebić was omitted from the national team.


Style of play

Rebić is known for his physical strength and running speed, both on and off the ball; in 2019, he was the second fastest player in the
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alongside Achraf Hakimi after clocking at 21.81 mph while playing for Eintracht, as well as the fastest player at the 2018 World Cup alongside
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after clocking at 34 km/h. He is good at
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, especially in one on one situations, and at protecting the ball with his body strength when challenged. His first touch, however, has been cited as one of the areas of his game that is in need of improvement, with the others being the accuracy of his passing, crossing, and shots from long range, as well as his decision-making in high-pressure situations. Tactically, Rebić is a versatile forward who can operate in several positions across various formations. While he is mainly fielded as a left winger in a 4–3–3 or
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, he can also play as an out-and-out striker or supporting striker in a 4–4–2, while during Eintracht's 2018–19 season he was deployed as an
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in a 3–4–1–2, forming a fluid goalscoring triangle with Luka Jović and
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. Aside from his attacking duties, he has been praised for his willingness to participate in his team's defensive plays, including the pressing or counter-pressing of the opposition.


Personal life

In June 2018, it was reported that Rebić paid off all of the loans of the residents of Vinjani Donji, his childhood village. In February 2021, Rebić donated €10,000 to help fund the building of a new facility for the rehabilitation and education of children in
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.


Career statistics


Club


International

:''Croatia score listed first, score column indicates score after each Rebić goal''


Honours

Eintracht Frankfurt *
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: 2017–18 AC Milan *
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: 2021–22 Beşiktaş *
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: 2023–24 Individual * Croatian Football Hope of the Year: 2013 Orders * Order of Duke Branimir: 2018


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