Dragan Ćirić

Dragan Ciric ( born September 15, 1974 in Jakovo, Belgrade ) is a former Yugoslav football player.

Career

Ciric began his career in Jakovo, a village near Belgrade. Later he joined the youth wing of Partizan Belgrade and was there in the 1992/93 season his professional debut. Overall Ciric spent five seasons with Partizan, where he can produce 31 goals in 126 league matches. After four Yugoslav championships won Ciric be adopted in 1997, to Spain, to join FC Barcelona. In the Catalan club he came but not beyond the status of a supplementary player. During his two seasons there, he won two Spanish championships though and one Spanish Cup and the UEFA Super Cup, but played a total of 26 league games only six from the start. The 1999/00 season on loan with Greek club spent Ciric AEK Athens, where he again became a regular player and helped at the end of the season to win the Greek Cup. In 2000, Ciric within Spain to Real Valladolid, which he in 2004, in the Segunda División after descending, left to return for a final season at Partizan Belgrade. At the end of the season 2004/ 05, after it one more time won the championship, finished Ciric at the age of 30 years of his career.

For the Yugoslav team Ciric graduated between 1995 and 1997 a total of four matches, all as a substitute. His first international game he played on November 12, 1995 in a 4-1 victory over El Salvador.

After his playing days Ciric opened a Spanish- Mediterranean restaurant in Belgrade's municipality of Zemun.

Achievements

• Yugoslav Cup (4): 1993, 1994, 1996, 1997
• Serbian - Montenegrin Cup ( 1): 2005
• Yugoslavian Cup ( 1): 1994
• Spanish Championship (2): 1998, 1999
• Spanish Cup ( 1): 1997
• Greek Cup (1 ): 2000
• UEFA Super Cup ( 1): 1997