Background
He was born in Hanover and started his professional career at Croatian club Hrvatski Dragovoljac in the 1995-1996 season.
He was born in Hanover and started his professional career at Croatian club Hrvatski Dragovoljac in the 1995-1996 season.
In the spring of 1998, he became the Croatian national team"s third-choice goalkeeper and was also named to the final 22-man squad for the 1998 World Cup finals in France, but did not play any matches at the tournament where Croatia surprisingly finished third.
He continued to play for the club in the following three seasons, being their first-choice goalkeeper in two of the three seasons. Prior to the World Cup, he made his international debut by appearing as a substitute goalkeeper in the second half of Croatia"s friendly match against Slovakia played on 29 May 1998 in Pula. He left Hrvatski Dragovoljac for Dinamo Zagreb in the summer of 1998, but was merely the club"s third-choice goalkeeper and managed to make only two domestic league appearances in the following two seasons.
In the spring of 2002, he returned to the Croatian national team as their third-choice goalkeeper and was also named to the final 23-man squad for the 2002 World Cup finals in of Korea and Japan, but once again did not manage to play any matches at the tournament.
He left Dinamo in the summer of 2005 and joined Turkish club Konyaspor, where he spent the first part of the 2005-2006 season as the second-choice goalkeeper, making only two appearances in the Süper Lig, and he subsequently went on to leave Konyaspor for NK Široki Brijeg from Bosnia and Herzegovina at the beginning of 2006, signing an 18-month contract until June 2007. He was released by the club and then retired in July 2009.