Dragan Blatnjak

Dragan Blatnjak
	Blatnjak playing for FC Khimki
Personal information
Date of birth	1 August 1981
Place of birth	Studenci, SR Bosnia and Herzegovina, Yugoslavia
Height	1.81 m (5 ft 11 in)
Position(s)	Midfielder
Team information
Current team	Zadar (manager)
Youth career
1993–1997	Jadran LP
1998	Zagreb
1998	Jadran LP
1999–2000	HNK Grude
Senior career*
Years	Team
2000–2001	Brotnjo Čitluk
2001–2003	Zadar
2003–2006	Hajduk Split
2006–2010	FC Khimki
2010–2012	Rostov
2013	Osijek
International career
2002–2007	Bosnia and Herzegovina
Managerial career
2017–2018	Primorac Biograd
2018	Zadar
2019	Zagora Unešić
2021–2022	Zadar (assistant)
2022–	Zadar
	* Club domestic league appearances and goals

Dragan Blatnjak (born 1 August 1981) is a Bosnian football manager and former player. He is the current manager of Croatian club Zadar.

Club career

Previously Blatnjak played for Russian club FC Khimki (until 2010)^[1] and Hajduk Split in the Croatian First League.

He made his debut for Bosnia and Herzegovina in a March 2002 friendly match away against Macedonia and has earned a total of 12 caps, scoring no goals.^[2] His final international was an October 2007 European Championship qualification match against Norway.^[3]

After first being an assistant coach at the club, Blatnjak was named manager of Zadar in December 2022.^[4]

^ Легионеры покидают "Химки" (in Russian). fckhimki.ru. 15 January 2010. Archived from the original on 6 January 2014. Retrieved 27 April 2013.
^ Mamrud, Roberto (16 July 2009). "Bosnia and Herzegovina – Record International Players". RSSSF. Retrieved 2 February 2021.
^ "Player Database". eu-football.info. Retrieved 2 February 2021.
^ Dragan Blatnjak novi trener Zadra - Novilist (in Croatian)