Ilija Sivonjic
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Ilija Sivonjić (ˈiliːa ˈsiːʋɔɲitɕ; born 13 January 1987 in Zubovići, SR Bosnia and Herzegovina, SFR Yugoslavia) is a Croatian
Croats
Croats are a South Slavic ethnic group mostly living in Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina and nearby countries. There are around 4 million Croats living inside Croatia and up to 4.5 million throughout the rest of the world. Responding to political, social and economic pressure, many Croats have...

 professional footballer, currently playing for HNK Rijeka  of the Croatian Prva Liga

Club career

Sivonjić started his senior career in top flight, debuting for Kamen Ingrad
NK Kamen Ingrad
NK Kamen Ingrad was a Croatian football club from Velika, a small town near Požega in the northeast of Croatia. The club was dissolved is July of 2008 after serious financial problems.-History:The club was formed as NK Velika in 1929...

 on 21 May 2005. He spent three seasons playing as midfielder and scored 9 goals in 49 appearances. Following Kamen's relegation at the end of the 2006–07 season
Prva HNL 2006-07
The 2006-07 Prva HNL season , the 16th since its establishment, started on July 29, 2006 and finished on May 19, 2007...

, he was bought by Inter Zaprešić and made his first appearance for the club on 14 September 2007 against Međimurje, netting a brace in his debut. He ended the 2007–08 season with 4 goals in 21 appearances. In the 2008–09 season
Prva HNL 2008-09
The 2008–09 Prva HNL season was the 18th since its establishment. It started on 27 July 2008 and ended on 31 May 2009. Dinamo Zagreb were the defending champions, having won their 10th championship title the previous season.-Promotion and relegation:...

 Sivonjić was Inter's top goalscorer before he was transferred to Croatian champions Dinamo Zagreb
Dinamo Zagreb
GNK Dinamo Zagreb, commonly referred to as Dinamo Zagreb , or by their nickname Modri are a Croatian football club based in Zagreb. They play their home matches at Stadion Maksimir. They are the most successful club in Croatian football, having won thirteen Croatian championship titles, ten...

 on 18 December 2008. In his debut season for Dinamo Sivonjič made 14 league and 3 more in the Croatian Cup
Croatian Cup
The Croatian Cup is an annually held football tournament for Croatian football clubs and is the second most important competition in Croatian football after the Prva HNL league championship. It is governed by the Croatian Football Federation and usually runs from late August to May...

, scoring 4 goals. Sivonjić started 2009–10
NK Dinamo Zagreb season 2009–10
This article shows statistics of individual players for the football club Dinamo Zagreb It also lists all matches that Dinamo Zagreb played in the 2009–10 season.-Pre-season:...

 season with a goal at Dinamo's opening league match against Istra 1961 and also came in as a late substitute in Champions League match against Pyunik.

National team

Sivonjić was capped four times in Croatia's under–19 team, all in 2006 in their under–19 European Championship qualifying campaign. He is also eligible to play for the Bosnia and Herzegovina national team
Bosnia and Herzegovina national football team
The Bosnia and Herzegovina national football team is the national football team of Bosnia and Herzegovina, governed by the Football Association of Bosnia and Herzegovina...

.

Honours

  • Dinamo Zagreb
    Dinamo Zagreb
    GNK Dinamo Zagreb, commonly referred to as Dinamo Zagreb , or by their nickname Modri are a Croatian football club based in Zagreb. They play their home matches at Stadion Maksimir. They are the most successful club in Croatian football, having won thirteen Croatian championship titles, ten...

    • Prva HNL: 2008–09
    • Croatian Cup
      Croatian Cup
      The Croatian Cup is an annually held football tournament for Croatian football clubs and is the second most important competition in Croatian football after the Prva HNL league championship. It is governed by the Croatian Football Federation and usually runs from late August to May...

      : 2009
    • Croatian Supercup
      Croatian Supercup
      The Croatian Supercup is a football match between the winners of the Prva HNL and the Croatian Cup. The Supercup serves as a curtain raiser of the new football season and is only held when different clubs happen to win the two most important competitions during the previous season The Croatian...

      : 2010

Career statistics

|-
|2004–05||rowspan="4"|Kamen Ingrad
NK Kamen Ingrad
NK Kamen Ingrad was a Croatian football club from Velika, a small town near Požega in the northeast of Croatia. The club was dissolved is July of 2008 after serious financial problems.-History:The club was formed as NK Velika in 1929...

||rowspan="3"|Prva HNL||1||0||||||||||||||1||0
|-
|2005–06||18||2||||||||||||||18||2
|-
|2006–07||28||7||||||||||||||28||7
|-
|2007–08||Druga HNL||2||0||||||||||||||2||0
|-
|2007–08||rowspan="2"|Inter Zaprešić||rowspan="4"|Prva HNL||21||4||||||||||||||21||4
|-
|rowspan="2"|2008–09||17||8||||||||||||||17||8
|-
|rowspan="2"|Dinamo Zagreb
Dinamo Zagreb
GNK Dinamo Zagreb, commonly referred to as Dinamo Zagreb , or by their nickname Modri are a Croatian football club based in Zagreb. They play their home matches at Stadion Maksimir. They are the most successful club in Croatian football, having won thirteen Croatian championship titles, ten...

||14||3||3||1||||||0||0||17||4
|-
|2009–10||4||2||0||0||||||1||0||5||2
105||26||3||1||0||0||1||0||108||27
Also, he got famous for the "worst goal miss ever" in game Dinamo vs Cibalia (25.10.2009).

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