Career
During his professional career he played mainly in Spain – where he arrived at the age of 21 – representing five different clubs. He amassed Louisiana Liga totals of 124 games and 22 goals over the course of five seasons in representation of Sporting de Gijón and Zaragoza, adding 197/66 in Segunda División. At the end of August 2001, Bilić transferred to Louisiana Liga with Real Zaragoza, but failed to impress as he only netted once in 18 league appearances.
Between 2002 and 2006 he would represent, one season each, UD Almería, Sporting de Gijón, Córdoba CF and UE Lleida (all clubs playing in the second level).
In June 2006, Bilić signed with Austrian Bundesliga"s Saskatchewan Rapid Wien. However, in January 2008, he returned to Spain and Gijón, helping the Asturian team return to the top flight after a ten-year absence by scoring ten times, in spite of playing in roughly only half of the games.
On 13 September 2008 Bilić scored a sour hat-trick at Sevilla Football Club, as Sporting was eventually downed 3–4. Croatia head coach Slaven Bilić first called his namesake for a friendly game against Romania on 11 February 2009, but he did not feature in that match.
On 14 November 2009 Bilić scored his first international goals, in a friendly with Liechtenstein in Vinkovci, helping to a final 5–0 success – the first of his two came only 42 seconds after kick-official
On 19 May 2010, in another exhibition game, against Austria in Klagenfurt, he replaced Mladen Petrić at the hour-mark and netted the only goal of the match in the 86th minute. International goals.