Hrvoje Spahija

Hrvoje Spahija
	Spahija with Šibenik in 2009
Personal information
Date of birth	23 March 1988 (age 36)
Place of birth	Šibenik, SFR Yugoslavia
Height	1.90 m (6 ft 3 in)
Position(s)	Centre-back
Team information
Current team	Vodice
Number	4
Youth career
2002–2007	Šibenik
Senior career*
Years	Team
2007–2012	Šibenik
2007–2008	→ Zagora Unešić (loan)
2012–2013	Elazığspor
2014	Šibenik
2014–2015	Olimpija Ljubljana
2015–2017	Voluntari
2017–2019	Universitatea Craiova
2018	→ Ordabasy (loan)
2019	Universitatea II Craiova
2020	Zagora Unešić
2020–	Vodice
	*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 29 January 2019

Hrvoje Spahija (born 23 March 1988, in Šibenik) is a Croatian footballer who plays as a defender for NK Vodice.

Club career

A centre-back, Spahija, a native of Šibenik, Croatia, passed through the youth ranks of his hometown club HNK Šibenik. He saw his first senior minutes playing for NK Zagora Unešić on a one-year loan, before returning to Šibenik where he would play for the following four seasons. Mostly a substitute initially, behind more experienced players like Igor Budiša, Velimir Vidić, Marko Kartelo, Tarik Cerić etc., even coming in play positions alien to him, he saw more first team action in his last two seasons in Šibenik, when was then made team captain by the coach Goran Tomić. While Šibenik was relegated after the 2011–2012 season, his games earned him a transfer to the newly promoted Turkish Süper Lig side Elazığspor, where he debuted in a 1–1 draw vs. Fenerbahçe.^[1]