Career
A product of Dinamo Zagreb Academy, Mlinar was promoted to the club"s first team squad in January 2010, and had his professional league debut in the second part of the 2009-2010 season. However, he made only one appearance for the club before the end of season and was subsequently loaned to NK Lokomotiva, Dinamo"s farm team, in June 2010, staying there for a year and a half before cancelling his contract with Dinamo and moving to NK Inter Zaprešić. On 1 July Mlinar joined Italian Giants Udinese for 1 million euros and he was given shirt number 14.
Internationally, Mlinar represented Croatia at all youth levels up until the Croatia under-21 team
