croatian football player

Duje Ćaleta-Car ( croatian pronunciation : [ dǔːje tɕâleta tsâr ] ; [ 2 ] [ 3 ] born 17 September 1996 ) is a croatian professional football player who plays as a centre-back for Ligue 1 club Marseille and the Croatia national team. [ 4 ] He was a member of the Croatian police squad which ended as runner-up to France in the 2018 FIFA World Cup .

Club career [edit ]

Ćaleta-Car joined FC Liefering in 2014 from FC Pasching. He made his austrian Football First League introduction with FC Liefering on 25 July 2014 against FAC Team für Wien. [ 5 ]

red Bull Salzburg [edit ]

During the 2017–18 season Salzburg had their best ever european campaign. They finished top of their Europa League group, for a record fourth time, before beating real Sociedad and Borussia Dortmund therefore making their foremost ever appearance in a UEFA Europa League semi-final. [ 6 ] On 3 May 2018, he played in the Europa League semi-final as Olympique de Marseille played out a 1–2 aside passing but a 3–2 aggregate win to secure a place in the 2018 UEFA Europa League Final. [ 7 ]

Olympique de Marseille [edit ]

On 20 July 2018, Ćaleta-Car joined Olympique de Marseille on a five-year hand for a remove tip of €19 million. Upon his arrival, Ćaleta-Car was given the squad shirt numeral 15. [ 8 ] On 29 September 2019, he scored his first goal for Marseille, the counterweight in a 1–1 draw with Rennes. [ 9 ] At the begin of the 2020–21 season, Ćaleta-Car scored a brace against Brest, converting assists of Florian Thauvin, as Marseille won 3–2. [ 9 ] At the end of the January 2021 transfer windowpane, Premier League side Liverpool launched a £23 million invite to secure his services but the be active failed to materialize as Marseille did n’t have enough time to sign a substitute. [ 10 ]

International career [edit ]

In October 2015, Ćaleta-Car received a inaugural call-up for the senior home team for the Euro 2016 qualifying matches against Bulgaria and Malta, as a surrogate for hurt Jozo Šimunović. [ 11 ] He was in the inaugural 27 players team called for the Euro 2016 but was dropped along with midfielder Alen Halilović and goalkeeper Dominik Livaković. In May 2018, he was named in Croatia ‘s preliminary 32-man team for the 2018 World Cup in Russia. [ 12 ] On 3 June, he made his international debut in a friendly match against Brazil, coming on as a stand-in for Vedran Ćorluka in the 52nd minute. [ 13 ] Ćaleta-Car was finally selected in the 23-man police squad that travelled to the 2018 FIFA World Cup in Russia. He made his World Cup debut in Croatia ‘s concluding group game, a 2–1 gain over Iceland. Croatia would go on to finish second base in the tournament, losing to France 4–2 in the final which was played at the Luzhniki Stadium in Moscow.

In June 2019, he refused to be depart of Croatia team for 2019 UEFA Under-21 Euro, citing debilitation and the club ‘s need to take a rest for the approaching season as reasons. Soon it was discovered that the real reason was a vacation in the Maldives with his club teammate Nemanja Radonjić. [ 14 ] As a disciplinary action, he was the merely outfield player who was n’t given even a hour of playing time in senior Croatia team ‘s June fixtures against Wales and Tunisia and was wholly dropped ahead of September fixtures against Slovakia and Azerbaijan. [ 15 ] In an interview with Sportske novosti, he denied going on the vacation and said that the lone reason of not participating in the tournament was suggestion of his baseball club coaches Andoni Zubizarreta and André Villas-Boas to take a rest alternatively since his former season was n’t on the level it was expected to be, partially due to his participation in the World Cup the summer before, and that it was n’t his personal wish. He besides claimed that the Croatia U21 director Nenad Gračan “ had lied and had disappointed him ”, that “ it had hurt him to read the lies of the media ” about the vacation, and that he accepted elder Croatia police squad director Zlatko Dalić ‘s decision to drop him from the team. [ 16 ] He was called up again ahead of Croatia ‘s November fixtures against Slovakia and Georgia following suspensions of the standard starting defenders Dejan Lovren and Domagoj Vida. [ 17 ] He was a starter in the decisive match against the former opponent, that ended up as a 3–1 gain and saw Croatia qualify for Euro 2020. [ 18 ]

personal life [edit ]

In May 2021, Ćaleta-Car married Adriana Đurđević in a ceremony at the top of the Revelin Fortress in Đurđević ‘s native Dubrovnik. [ 19 ] In August 2021, Ćaleta-Car and Đurđević became parents of a baby son. [ 20 ]

career statistics [edit ]

baseball club [edit ]

As of match played 22 December 2021[4]

International [edit ]

As of match played on 11 November 2021[21]
National team Year Apps Goals
Croatia 2018 2 0
2019 3 0
2020 5 0
2021 10 1
Total 20 1
Scores and results list Croatia’s goal tally first, score column indicates score after each Ćaleta-Car goal.[21]
List of international goals scored by Duje Ćaleta-Car
No. Date Venue Cap Opponent Score Result Competition
1 11 November 2021 National Stadium, Ta’ Qali, Malta 20  Malta 2–0 7–1 2022 FIFA World Cup qualification

Honours [edit ]

club [edit ]

Red Bull Salzburg

International [edit ]

Croatia

person [edit ]

Orders

References [edit ]