Vedran Ješe born (born 3 February 1981) is a

Croatia Croatia, officially the Republic of Croatia, is a country in Central Europe, Central and Southeast Europe, on the coast of the Adriatic Sea. It borders Slovenia to the northwest, Hungary to the northeast, Serbia to the east, Bosnia and Herze ...

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who currently plays for

HNK Primorac Biograd na Moru HNK Primorac is a Croatian football club based in town of Biograd na Moru Biograd na Moru (), shortened to simply Biograd, is a town in northern Dalmatia in Croatia. It is significant for being another capital of the medieval Kingdom of Croa ...

Club career

Born in

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, where he practiced

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, Ješe took up football after emigrating to

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at 13 years of age, at HAŠK. Soon he was scouted and taken into the

NK Zagreb Nogometni klub Zagreb (''Zagreb Football Club''), commonly known as NK Zagreb or simply Zagreb (), is a Croatian football club based in the capital city of Zagreb. It currently competes in the fifth tier league competition of Croatian footbal ...

academy where he started his professional career. With

he won the

Croatian First Football League 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. Establishe ...

title in the 2001/02 season. In September 2004, due to political pressure, he joined

Dinamo Zagreb Građanski nogometni klub Dinamo Zagreb (), commonly referred to as simply Dinamo Zagreb (), is a Croatian professional football club based in Zagreb. Dinamo play their home matches at Stadion Maksimir. They are the most successful club in Cr ...

, staying one season at the club before moving on to

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. Ješe signed a 3-year contract for

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in 2006. On 15 September 2009, he signed for

FK Olimpik Sarajevo Fudbalski klub Olimpik Sarajevo () was a professional football club from Sarajevo, based in the part of the city which is called Otoka. Being one of the first teams to be formed in independent Bosnia and Herzegovina, they started off playing in ...

. On 31 January 2010, he signed for Greek side

Kavala FC Kavala Football Club (, ) is a Greek professional football club based in the city of Kavala, Greece. They compete in the Super League Greece 2, the second tier of the Greek football league system. The club's home ground is the Anthi Karagianni Sta ...

. Playing there for only one season he then joined

NK Široki Brijeg Nogometni klub Široki Brijeg () is a professional association football club from the city of Široki Brijeg, that is situated in Bosnia and Herzegovina. Currently, Široki Brijeg plays in the Premier League of Bosnia and Herzegovina and plays ...

. Playing there until the summer of 2014 when he signed for

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 ...

International career

He was part of the

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2004 UEFA European Under-21 Football Championship The 2004 UEFA European Under-21 Championship was the 14th staging of UEFA's European Under-21 Championship. The final tournament was hosted by Germany between 27 May and 8 June 2004. Italy won the competition for the fifth time. Italy's Alberto G ...

. Ješe made his senior debut for Croatia in a January

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match against

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and has earned a total of 2 caps, scoring no goals. His other international was three days later at the same tournament against

Hong Kong Hong Kong)., Legally Hong Kong, China in international treaties and organizations. is a special administrative region of China. With 7.5 million residents in a territory, Hong Kong is the fourth most densely populated region in the wor ...

References

External links

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Profile of Dimitar Makriev on 1hnl.net
*http://www.hns-cff.hr/?ln=hr&w=statistike&repka=A&id=19380
football.ch profile
1981 births Living people Footballers from Banja Luka Bosnia and Herzegovina emigrants to Croatia Men's association football defenders Bosnia and Herzegovina men's footballers 21st-century Bosnia and Herzegovina sportsmen Croatian men's footballers 21st-century Croatian sportsmen Croatia men's youth international footballers Croatia men's under-21 international footballers Croatia men's international footballers NK Zagreb players GNK Dinamo Zagreb players NK Inter Zaprešić players FC Thun players Bnei Yehuda Tel Aviv F.C. players F.C. Ashdod players FK Olimpik players Kavala F.C. players NK Široki Brijeg players NK Zadar players HNK Primorac Biograd na Moru players Croatian Football League players Second Football League (Croatia) players Swiss Super League players Israeli Premier League players Premier League of Bosnia and Herzegovina players Croatian expatriate men's footballers Expatriate men's footballers in Switzerland Croatian expatriate sportspeople in Switzerland Expatriate men's footballers in Israel Croatian expatriate sportspeople in Israel Expatriate men's footballers in Greece Croatian expatriate sportspeople in Greece {{Croatia-footy-defender-stub