Darko Dražić

Darko Dražić ( born January 17, 1963 in Novi Travnik ) is a former Croatian football player.

Career

In his first year as a professional Darko Dražić played for NK Solin. He played the next eight years at HNK Hajduk Split in the first Yugoslav league. During his time with Split he celebrated three Cup wins. In 1991 he moved to Germany in the Bundesliga to Fortuna Dusseldorf. In his first season with the team of Fortuna rose as Table from the second division. The season 1991/92 was conducted for the first and only time, as a result of integration of the eastern German clubs in the system of DFB after German reunification, with twenty teams. This means that Dražić and his teammates the Fortunen the only ones who were able to prove the twentieth table place in the history of the Bundesliga. In the following season 1992/93 the renewed decline followed in the Oberliga Nordrhein third-rate. Under coach Aleksandar Ristic, who returned at the end of the 1992/93 season to the people of Düsseldorf, success came back to Fortuna. In the following two seasons were two climbs in a row, so that Dražić in the 1995/96 season played in the Bundesliga again. After two years in the House of Lords was the renewed descent, Dražić played half a year in the second division. He played the last two years with HNK Šibenik and Rot-Weiss Oberhausen.

After his career as a player Dražić has worked as a trainer.

Achievements

• Yugoslav Cup in 1984, 1987, 1991