Ivan Anton Vasilj (born 5 April 1991) is a

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n football player who plays for

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Club career

Vasilj passed through all the ranks of the

NK Zadar Nogometni klub 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 almost twenty years. Histor ...

academy. A captain of their U-19 team at the time, he made his professional debut in the

Prva HNL The Hrvatska nogometna liga (; ), abbreviated as HNL and also known for sponsorship reasons as the SuperSport HNL, is a professional association football league in Croatia and the highest level of the Croatian football league system. Establish ...

at 6 March 2010 against

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. A left-footed left back/winger, he went on to establish himself in the

first team, featuring regularly in the second part of the 2010–11 season onwards. In December 2012, the doping test after a match revealed the presence of the illegal cannabinoid

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in his body. It was, however, ascertained, that it wasn't taken directly and willingly, possibly inhaled unwittingly somewhere in form of incense or air freshener, and therefore not punished harshly and he only ended up missing one match because of it. He would go on to feature regularly for the rest of the season. In January 2014 he terminated his contract with NK Zadar. In February, he joined

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 ...

on a free transfer. He's a

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Personal life

Though born and raised in

, his family originally came from

Međugorje Medjugorje (, ) is a village in the municipality of Čitluk in Herzegovina-Neretva Canton of the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina, an entity of Bosnia and Herzegovina. Since 1981, it has become a popular site of Catholic pilgrimage due to Our ...

but Serbian origin
Predstavljen Ivan Anton Vasilj
at hajduk.hr/youtube.com

References

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Ivan Anton Vasilj
at hajduk.hr * http://hajduk.hr/vijest/ivan-anton-vasilj-novi-je-igrac-hajduka/4360 {{DEFAULTSORT:Vasilj, Ivan Anton 1991 births Living people Footballers from Zadar Men's association football fullbacks Croatian men's footballers 21st-century Croatian sportsmen NK Zadar players HNK Hajduk Split players NK Slaven Belupo players RNK Split players GNK Dinamo Zagreb II players NK Brežice 1919 players Croatian Football League players First Football League (Croatia) players Second Football League (Croatia) players Slovenian Second League players Croatian expatriate men's footballers Expatriate men's footballers in Slovenia Croatian expatriate sportspeople in Slovenia