Josip Jurendić

Josip Jurendić
Personal information
Full name Josip Jurendić
Date of birth (1987-04-26) 26 April 1987 (age 37)
Place of birth Slavonski Brod, SR Croatia, SFR Yugoslavia
Height 1.80 m (5 ft 11 in)
Position(s) Right back, right winger
Team information
Current team
Uskok
Youth career
2001–2005 NK Zagreb
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
2005–2015 NK Zagreb 216 (29)
2005Vrapče (loan)
2015–2016 Dukla Prague 17 (0)
2016–2017 RNK Split 24 (2)
2017–2018 NK Zagreb 10 (2)
2018–2021 Urania
2021–2022 Hrvace
2022- Uskok
International career
2004 Croatia U18 2 (0)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 20 December 2017

Josip Jurendić (born 26 April 1987) is a Croatian football defender who plays for Uskok Klis.[1]

Club career

NK Zagreb

Jurendić, Zagreb academy product, was promoted from the NK Zagreb U18 squad in spring of 2005 after signing his first professional contract and spent his first senior season on a loan at a lower league club NK Vrapče, an evolvent club for NK Zagreb. In 2006–07 season he was gradually introduced to the first team contributing to a third overall place in Championship. In 2013–14 season after being relegated a year before, Jurendić as a team captain carried out his NK Zagreb in a superb manner earning league championship title and a rapid promotion to First division. After nine wearisome seasons in unconvincing Zagreb fraught with overall problems, Jurendić went on to sign for a Czech first divison side Dukla Prague where he stayed for only one season before returning back to Croatia. Jurendić joined RNK Split for 2016–17 season in which club performed badly, ending relegated. After Zagreb president Dražen Medić plea to Jurendić, as a free player he decided to join his Zagreb who was now a third tier club for the first time in an attempt to achieve a comeback promotion in 2017–18 season. However, after only 10 matches and 2 goals into the season Jurendić abruptly ended his stay with NK Zagreb due to verbal conflict of foul words with its controversial president Dražen Medić during an official league match. Long term first division player, captain with more than 230 appearances and 30 goals scored, scoring goals against Dinamo, Hajduk, Rijeka and Osijek in his career span for Zagreb left the club after confronting clash in a mid-season.[2]

In summer 2018 Jurendić surprisingly signed for third tier-side Urania Baška Voda instead of one of the interested top level sides.[2]

References

  1. ^ Bivši kapetan Zagreba s preko 200 nastupa u HNL-u novi je igrač Uskoka iz Klisa – Index (in Croatian)
  2. ^ a b Babić, Vedran (8 September 2018). "Trećeligašu pristupio 'kapitalac'" [Third division team acquired a 'big shoot'] (in Croatian). Free Dalmatia. Retrieved 26 January 2025.