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Nikola Šafarić

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Nikola Šafarić
Personal information
Full name Nikola Šafarić
Date of birth (1981-03-11) 11 March 1981 (age 41)
Place of birth Čakovec, SFR Yugoslavia
Height 1.66 m (5 ft 5 in)
Position(s) Midfielder
Youth career
Venera Sveti Juraj na Bregu
Čakovec
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
1998–2007 Varteks 195 (40)
2007–2008 Rijeka 34 (2)
2008–2010 Slaven Belupo 51 (3)
2010–2011 Varaždin 47 (6)
2011–2013 Kaposvári 43 (1)
2013–2015 Zavrč 50 (5)
2015 Inter Zaprešić 13 (1)
2015–2016 Međimurje 28 (9)
2016–2017 Varaždin 0 (0)
2017–2018 NK Novi Marof
2018–2021 NK Obres Sveti Ilija
International career
2004–2006 Croatia 3 (0)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Nikola Šafarić (born 11 March 1981) is a Croatian former footballer who played as midfielder. He current works as sporting director of NK Varaždin.

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Croatia

Croatia

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Association football

Association football

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Midfielder

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NK Varaždin (2012)

NK Varaždin (2012)

Nogometni klub Varaždin, commonly referred to as NK Varaždin or simply Varaždin, is a Croatian professional football club based in Varaždin that competes in the Croatian Football League, the top tier of Croatian football.

Club career

Early years

In 1998, Šafarić started his football career in Varaždin for Varteks as a young 17-year-old midfielder. He quickly established himself as irreplaceable in the Varteks team. Before his 20th birthday he has already played around 40 league games for Varteks and scoring several goals in the process.

Best years with Varteks

From the 2002–03 season, Nikola finally stepped up on the big scene. He became a first team regular in Varteks and in the next 5 seasons he scored 32 goals in the domestic league only. His good games as well as passion for football and leadership ability could not go unnoticed so he was appointed as team`s captain. Nikola Šafarić is also a great penalty and free kick taker and although he could play every possible position in the midfield he says he "plays best as a defensive midfielder."[1]

Subsequent teams

In the beginning of the 2007–08 season, Nikola Šafarić was sold to Rijeka. In Rijeka, Nikola was welcomed by many as a great acquisition. He instantly "grabbed" first team position and was one of the team's best players by scoring two goals and adding three more assists, which helped Rijeka to finish at the fourth place in the Prva HNL.

On 31 August 2008, Šafarić signed a 2-year contract with Slaven Belupo.[2]

He returned to the Varteks for the 2010–2011 season. Before the season started, the club lost its main sponsorship, the Varteks clothing factory, and changed its 52-year-old name to NK Varaždin. The club immediately fell into financial difficulties, and would be expelled from the top-level Prava HNL the following season, when it stopped paying its players. Šafarić avoided this, having signed a two-year contract with Kaposvári in 2011, but this will come to play later in Šafarić's career.

Šafarić signed a two-year contract with Zavrč in 2013. In January 2015, he signed for the Druga HNL outfit NK Inter Zaprešić.[3]

Šafarić signed with Međimurje for the 2015–2016 season, then returned to the city of Varaždin for the 2016–17 season. His earlier club, NK Varaždin, had declared bankruptcy and folded in 2015, but Šafarić had signed with a different NK Varaždin, unassociated with the earlier team. This club had formed in 2012, as Varaždin ŠN, than changed to NK Varaždin when the bankrupt team discarded the name.

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International career

Nikola Šafarić was a member of every Croatia national football team categories (U17, U19, U21, senior team).[4] That's why he was predicted a great international club career. But, unfortunately, up to this date Nikola has made only three appearances for Croatia national football team. His international debut came against Israel in the 1–0 friendly win at Varaždin on 18 August 2004. His second and third international cap came on 2006 Carlsberg Cup in Hong Kong on which Croatia finished third.[5]

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Varaždin is a city in Northern Croatia, 81 km (50 mi) north of Zagreb. The total population is 46,946, with 38,839 on 34.22 km2 (13.21 sq mi) of the city settlement itself (2011). The centre of Varaždin County is located near the Drava River, at 46.312°N 16.361°E. It is mainly known for its baroque buildings, music, textile, food and IT industry.

Croatia

Croatia

Croatia, officially the Republic of Croatia, is a country at the crossroads of Central and Southeast Europe. Its coast lies entirely on the Adriatic Sea. It borders Slovenia to the northwest, Hungary to the northeast, Serbia to the east, Bosnia and Herzegovina and Montenegro to the southeast, and shares a maritime border with Italy to the west and southwest. Its capital and largest city, Zagreb, forms one of the country's primary subdivisions, with twenty counties. The country spans 56,594 square kilometres, and has a population of nearly 3.9 million.

Source: "Nikola Šafarić", Wikipedia, Wikimedia Foundation, (2022, December 21st), https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nikola_Šafarić.

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Further Reading

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Leon Benko

History of GNK Dinamo Zagreb (2000–present)

Josip Brezovec

Dejan Glavica
References
  1. ^ Interview with Forza Fiume
  2. ^ Šafarić signs for Slaven Belupo
  3. ^ "Šafarić signs for Inter Zaprešić" (in Croatian). eVarazdin. Retrieved 31 May 2015.
  4. ^ Croatia`s national football team stats
  5. ^ "Player Database". EU-football. Retrieved 11 December 2022.
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