croatian football player

Domagoj Vida ( croatian pronunciation : [ dômaɡoj ʋîːda ] ; [ 3 ] [ 4 ] born 29 April 1989 ) is a croatian football player who plays as a defender for Süper Lig club Beşiktaş and the Croatia national team. He is capable of playing in any defensive placement but is by and large deployed as a centre-back or a right-back .

Club career [edit ]

Youth career [edit ]

Vida has spent his integral young career in Croatia, rising through the Osijek young system and being first base featured with the senior team in the 2006–07 season, at the age of 17 ; he then went on to make 12 appearances in the season. In the 2007–08 season, Vida promote solidified his credentials, being featured more regularly for his cabaret. [ 5 ] He was linked with croatian champions Dinamo Zagreb. [ 6 ]

Vida in 2010

Bayer Leverkusen [edit ]

On 29 April 2010, Vida signed for german Bundesliga side Bayer Leverkusen. [ 7 ] He spent precisely one season with the club, making a total of eight appearances in the UEFA Europa League. He did not make his Bundesliga debut until 5 March 2011, when he came on as a utility for the hurt Manuel Friedrich in the 14th minute of a 3–0 winnings at home to VfL Wolfsburg. [ 8 ] It turned out to be his alone appearance in the league .

Dinamo Zagreb [edit ]

On 14 June 2011, it was announced that Vida would join Dinamo Zagreb for an undisclosed fee. [ 9 ] In December 2011, Dinamo Zagreb lost 7–1 against Lyon in the Champions League group degree which allowed the french club to progress to the last 16 of the Champions League at the expense of Ajax, who lost 3–0 against real Madrid. Following media coverage alleging match-fixing which besides showed clips of Vida wink after Lyon ‘s fifth goal, UEFA decided not to take carry through. [ 10 ] [ 11 ] [ 12 ] On 25 July 2012, Vida scored a 98th–minute goal against bulgarian side Ludogorets Razgrad in a UEFA Champions League peer and frankincense helped his team to a 3–2 home win, which enabled it to progress to the rival ‘s next round. On 24 September 2012, he was thrown out of the first team and the team busbar after he opened up a beer while the team were on their way to a cup match. He besides had several altercations with Dinamo head coach Ante Čačić prior to this incident. [ 13 ] The future day, it was announced that he would be fined a criminal record € 100,000. [ 14 ]

Dynamo Kyiv [edit ]

Vida with Dynamo Kyiv in 2015 On 2 January 2013, it was announced that Vida had signed for ukrainian club Dynamo Kyiv on a five–year deal, for a reported transfer fee of €6 million. [ 15 ] [ 16 ] On 14 February, he made his debut for Dynamo in a home Europa League match against Bordeaux, which ended 1–1. A workweek later, he played in the link ‘s second leg and was unable to help Dynamo get to the beat of 16, losing 0–1. In both games, Dynamo head coach Oleh Blokhin used him as a right–back. [ citation needed ] On 3 March, Vida played his first game in the ukrainian Premier League, against Kryvbas Kryvyi Rih. The home 1–1 draw was disappointing for Dynamo, as it made a lot more unmanageable for them to get second seat and qualify for the Champions League against Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk and Metalist Kharkiv. On 10 March, Vida played his moment league meet for Dynamo, against Volyn Lutsk ; it ended 2–0 and was Dynamo ‘s foremost victory in 2013. That meet was celebrated because Oleh Blokhin used Vida for the beginning time as a central defender, partnered with Yevhen Khacheridi, as the first three games for Dynamo he played as a correct defender. On 17 March, Vida scored his first finish for Dynamo early on in the bet on against Vorskla Poltava after a corner kick taken by Andriy Yarmolenko, by an excellent heading, having forestalled Pavlo Rebenok and goalkeeper Serhiy Dolhanskyi. That finish gave Dynamo a 1–0 acquire. [ citation needed ] On 17 May 2015, Vida scored the winning goal against Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk to clinch Dynamo Kyiv their first ukrainian Premier League title in six years. [ 17 ]

Beşiktaş [edit ]

On 3 January 2018, Vida moved to Beşiktaş, signing a four-and-a-half-year sign. [ 18 ] Vida made his Beşiktaş debut on 21 February 2018, in a 2–1 away win over Antalyaspor. Vida was sent off 16 minutes into his club ‘s UEFA Champions League turn of 16 peer against Bayern Munich. Beşiktaş went on to lose the couple 5–0. [ 19 ] In 2020-21, Vida won the domestic duplicate with Beşiktaş, taking out both the 2020–21 Süper Lig and 2020–21 turkish Cup .

International career [edit ]

Vida in 2013 Vida was an active extremity of the Croatia national under-21 team. [ 20 ] On 23 May 2010, he made his fully international introduction in Croatia ‘s 2–0 win against Wales in Osijek, entering as a ersatz for Darijo Srna in the eightieth infinitesimal. [ 21 ] Three days late, he played the full 90 minutes in a scoreless drawing card with Estonia. In 2011, he featured for Croatia in four UEFA Euro 2012 qualifiers, including both play-off matches against Turkey, which saw them securing a stead in the finals. His lone appearance at the finals came when he was in the start batting order for Croatia ‘s final examination group catch, a 1–0 get the better of to Spain, after which they were eliminated from the tournament. On 10 September 2013, Vida scored his first base finish for the national side in the sixty-fifth moment of a friendly match against South Korea, played at the Jeonju World Cup Stadium in Jeonju. [ 22 ] Vida was a function of the croatian team at the 2014 FIFA World Cup tournament in Brazil, but remained as an fresh alternate in the tournament. He regained his place as a regular during the UEFA Euro 2016 modification, making nine appearances, and besides appeared in three matches at the finals, where the team were eliminated by Portugal in the round of 16.

Vida and his croatian teammates Vedran Ćorluka ( left ) and Dejan Lovren ( properly ) celebrate after Vida had scored a goal during the 2018 World Cup quarter-final against Russia. On 3 September 2017, Vida scored the only finish in a 1–0 victory over Kosovo in the World Cup reservation. In June 2018, he was named in Croatia ’ s final examination 23-man squad for the 2018 FIFA World Cup in Russia. [ 23 ] Vida scored a header in the quarter-final against hosts Russia to give his side a 2–1 lead in extra prison term. The pit finished 2–2, Vida converted his spot gripe in the penalty gunfight to help his side progress. In the final, he took a free kick from Luka Modrić to setup Ivan Perišić for Croatia ‘s first goal of the catch, and picked up a runner-up decoration as France finally defeated his slope 4–2. [ 24 ] [ 25 ] On 15 October 2018, he captained the national team for the first clock and scored in a 2–1 friendly acquire over Jordan. On 11 November 2020, he captained the national team once again in a friendly 3–3 disembowel with Turkey, being at fault for Turkey ‘s first base two goals. [ 26 ] [ 27 ] The same nox, after the game, he tested positivist for COVID-19 and was left to self-isolate in Istanbul. [ 28 ]

controversy [edit ]

Vida and Ognjen Vukojević celebrated Croatia ‘s World Cup victory over Russia by shouting “ Glory to Ukraine ! “, [ 29 ] a common motto in Ukraine. [ 30 ] FIFA ‘s corrective code prohibits political, nationalist and racist slogans in any form. Vida late said : “ I like russian people. It was good a joke. ” [ 29 ] Following Croatia ‘s victory over 2018 World Cup hosts Russia in the quarter-finals, Vida, celebrating the victory with former Croatian international and current adjunct coach, Ivica Olić, was recorded saying “ Belgrade is burning ! ” in Croatian. Later it turned out Belgrade was the name of the tavern in Kyiv where they used to hang out. [ 31 ] Aleksandar Holiga, editor program of Croatian web site Telesport, has largely downplayed the incident saying “ I do n’t think Vida understood the full mean and context of what he was saying. Both of them were equitable doing it because they are airless to Dynamo Kyiv. It ‘s something that fans would chant ” and that “ politically, Croatia does n’t have a arrant relationship with Russia, but then who does in the remainder of Europe ? ” [ 24 ] BBC reported that “ Ukrainians accused FIFA of siding with Russia and flooded the football body ‘s Facebook page with declarations of ‘Glory to Ukraine ‘. ” [ 31 ] On 11 July, in an interview in russian with Russia 24, Vida said that he was mistaken and apologized to russian people. [ 32 ]

personal life [edit ]

Domagoj Vida was born in Našice, but grew up in Donji Miholjac in the class of Željka Ursanić and early football player Rudika Vida. [ 33 ] [ 34 ] In 2015, Vida and his fiancee Ivana Gugić welcomed their first base child, a child male child they named David. [ 35 ] Vida and Gugić married in Umag in June 2017. [ 36 ]

career statistics [edit ]

club [edit ]

As of match played 19 December 2021[37]

International [edit ]

As of match played on 11 October 2021[38]
National team Year Apps Goals
Croatia 2010 2 0
2011 5 0
2012 8 0
2013 6 1
2014 6 0
2015 7 0
2016 12 0
2017 9 1
2018 16 2
2019 8 0
2020 5 0
2021 11 0
Total 95 4

Honours [edit ]

Dinamo Zagreb
Dynamo Kyiv
Beşiktaş
Croatia
Orders

References [edit ]