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| Date of birth | (1975-07-06)6 July 1975 (age 50) | ||||||||||
| Place of birth | Hanover,West Germany | ||||||||||
| Height | 1.88 m (6 ft 2 in) | ||||||||||
| Position | Goalkeeper | ||||||||||
| Youth career | |||||||||||
| 199?–1995 | Mladost Dubint | ||||||||||
| Senior career* | |||||||||||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) | ||||||||
| 1995–1998 | Hrvatski Dragovoljac | 63 | (0) | ||||||||
| 1998–2001 | Dinamo Zagreb | 5 | (0) | ||||||||
| 2001–2003 | NK Zagreb | 57 | (0) | ||||||||
| 2004 | Varteks | 30 | (0) | ||||||||
| 2004–2005 | Dinamo Zagreb | 20 | (0) | ||||||||
| 2005 | Konyaspor | 2 | (0) | ||||||||
| 2006–2009 | Široki Brijeg | 61 | (0) | ||||||||
| Total | 238 | (0) | |||||||||
| International career | |||||||||||
| 1996–1997 | Croatia U21 | 7 | (0) | ||||||||
| 1998–2004 | Croatia | 2 | (0) | ||||||||
| Managerial career | |||||||||||
| 2011–2013 | Brotnjo (sports director) | ||||||||||
Medal record
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| * Club domestic league appearances and goals | |||||||||||
Vladimir Vasilj (born 6 July 1975)[1] is a Croatian former professionalfootballer who played as agoalkeeper. Born in Germany, he made two appearances for theCroatia national team.
Born inHanover,West Germany, Vasilj started his professional career at Croatian clubHrvatski Dragovoljac in the 1995–96 season. He continued to play for the club in the following three seasons, being their first-choice goalkeeper in two of the three seasons.
In the spring of 1998, he became theCroatia national team's third-choice goalkeeper and was also named to the final 22-man squad for the1998 World Cup finals in France, but did not play any matches at the tournament where Croatia finished third. Prior to the World Cup, he made his international debut by appearing as a substitute goalkeeper in the second half of Croatia's friendly match againstSlovakia played on 29 May 1998 inPula.
He left Hrvatski Dragovoljac forDinamo Zagreb in the summer of 1998, but was merely the club's third-choice goalkeeper and managed to make only twodomestic league appearances in the following two seasons. He became the club's second-choice goalkeeper afterDražen Ladić's retirement in May 2000 and made three domestic league appearances in the 2000–01 season before transferring to Dinamo's local rivalsNK Zagreb for the 2001–02 season. He played for the club in the following two seasons and was their first-choice goalkeeper in both of them, also playing a significant role in the Zagreb team that surprisingly won the Croatian First League champions title in 2002.
In the spring of 2002, he returned to the Croatia national team as their third-choice goalkeeper and was also named to the final 23-man squad for the2002 World Cup finals in South Korea and Japan, but once again did not manage to play any matches at the tournament. Prior to the World Cup, he won his second international cap in a friendly match againstHungary. He subsequently did not win any international caps,[2] but was called up to be the Croatia national team's third-choice goalkeeper at theEuro 2004 finals in Portugal after the team's first-choice goalkeeperStipe Pletikosa was forced to withdraw from the tournament due to an injury.
At club level, Vasilj left Zagreb forNK Varteks in the summer of 2003 and spent one season at the club as their first-choice goalkeeper, making 30 domestic league appearances as well as appearing in both of the club's two matches in the first round of theUEFA Cup, where they were eliminated by Hungarian clubDebreceni VSC. He returned to Dinamo Zagreb in the summer of 2004 and spent one season at the club as their first-choice goalkeeper, making a total of 20 domestic league appearances and also appearing in all of the club's six UEFA Cup matches that season.
He left Dinamo in the summer of 2005 and joined Turkish clubKonyaspor, where he spent the first part of the 2005–06 season as the second-choice goalkeeper, making only two appearances in theSüper Lig, and he subsequently went on to leave Konyaspor forNK Široki Brijeg from Bosnia and Herzegovina at the beginning of 2006, signing an 18-month contract until June 2007. He was released by the club and then retired in July 2009.
Vladimir is the father of Bosnian footballerNikola Vasilj.[3]
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