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 lea ...

who played as a defender.

Club career

After playing for Obilić, Bolić was transferred to Partizan 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 (), officially known as Serie A Enilive in Italy and Serie A Made in Italy abroad for sponsorship reasons, is a professional association football league in Italy and the highest tier of the Italian football league system. Establish ...

club

Salernitana Unione Sportiva Salernitana 1919 is an Italian professional 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 recently in 2011. The current ...

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 (), officially known as Serie 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 season. It had b ...

. 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 of central Italy, with a population of around 101,997 . Ancona is the capital of the province of Ancona, homonymous province and of the region. The city is located northeast of Ro ...

Vicenza Vicenza ( , ; or , archaically ) 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 Bacchiglione. Vicenza is approximately west of Venice and e ...

, and

Lanciano Lanciano (; ) is a town and ''comune'' in the province of Chieti, part of the Abruzzo region of central Italy. It has 33,944 inhabitants as of 2023. The town is known for the first recorded Catholic Church, Catholic Miracle of Lanciano, Eucharis ...

International career

At international level, Bolić was capped seven times for

FR Yugoslavia The State Union of Serbia and Montenegro or simply Serbia and Montenegro, known until 2003 as the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia and commonly referred to as FR Yugoslavia (FRY) or simply Yugoslavia, was a country in Southeast Europe locate ...

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

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Post-playing career

After hanging up his boots, Bolić served as assistant manager to Ivan Tomić 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 who is currently manager of Israeli Premier League club Maccabi Tel Aviv. Playing career Throughout his career, Lazetić played as a forward. In Decemb ...

at Metalac Gornji Milanovac and TSC.

Career statistics

Honours

Partizan *

First League of FR Yugoslavia The First League of Serbia and Montenegro () was the top football league of Serbia and Montenegro, before the country's dissolution in 2006. The league was formed as the First League of FR Yugoslavia following the breakup of Yugoslavia in 1992, ef ...

: 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 ...

: 1997–98

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* * {{DEFAULTSORT:Bolic, Drazen 1971 births Living people Footballers from Karlovac Serbs of Croatia Men's association football defenders Serbia and Montenegro men's footballers Serbia and Montenegro men's international footballers Serbian men's footballers FK Obilić players FK Partizan players US Salernitana 1919 players AC Ancona players LR Vicenza players SS Virtus Lanciano 1924 players First League of Serbia and Montenegro players Serie A players Serie B players Serbia and Montenegro expatriate men's footballers Expatriate men's footballers in Italy Serbia and Montenegro expatriate sportspeople in Italy Serbian expatriate men's footballers Serbian expatriate sportspeople in Italy FK Partizan non-playing staff