Dragan Blatnjak

{{Infobox football biography

| name = Dragan Blatnjak

| image = Blatnjak.JPG

| caption = Blatnjak playing for FC Khimki

| birth_date = {{birth date and age|1981|8|1|df=y}}

| birth_place = Studenci, SR Bosnia and Herzegovina, Yugoslavia

| height = 1.81 m

| position = Midfielder

| currentclub = Zadar (manager)

| youthyears1 = 1993–1997 | youthclubs1 = Jadran LP

| youthyears2 = 1998 | youthclubs2 = Zagreb

| youthyears3 = 1998 | youthclubs3 = Jadran LP

| youthyears4 = 1999–2000 | youthclubs4 = HNK Grude

| years1 = 2000–2001 | clubs1 = Brotnjo Čitluk | caps1 = 40 | goals1 = 18

| years2 = 2001–2003 | clubs2 = Zadar | caps2 = 37 | goals2 = 12

| years3 = 2003–2006 | clubs3 = Hajduk Split| caps3 = 91 | goals3 = 17

| years4 = 2006–2010 | clubs4 = FC Khimki | caps4 = 74 | goals4 = 7

| years5 = 2010–2012 | clubs5 = Rostov | caps5 = 59 | goals5 = 6

| years6 = 2013 | clubs6 = Osijek | caps6 = 9 | goals6 = 0

| nationalyears1 = 2002–2007 | nationalteam1 = Bosnia and Herzegovina | nationalcaps1 = 12 |nationalgoals1 = 0

| manageryears1 =2017–2018

| managerclubs1 = Primorac Biograd

| manageryears2 = 2018

| managerclubs2 = Zadar

| manageryears3 = 2019

| managerclubs3 = Zagora Unešić

| manageryears4 = 2021–2022

| managerclubs4 = Zadar (assistant)

| manageryears5 = 2022–

| managerclubs5 = Zadar

}}

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){{cite web | url = http://fckhimki.ru/modules/news/index.php?current_id=1&news_id=1471 | script-title = ru:Легионеры покидают "Химки" | language = Russian | publisher = fckhimki.ru | date = 15 January 2010 | accessdate = 27 April 2013 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20140106041432/http://fckhimki.ru/modules/news/index.php?current_id=1&news_id=1471 | archive-date = 6 January 2014 | url-status = dead }} and Hajduk Split in the Croatian First League.

International career

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.{{Cite web|author=Mamrud, Roberto|title=Bosnia and Herzegovina – Record International Players| url=https://www.rsssf.org/miscellaneous/bih-recintlp.html|date= 16 July 2009 |website=RSSSF|access-date = 2 February 2021}} His final international was an October 2007 European Championship qualification match against Norway.{{cite web|url=https://eu-football.info/_player.php?id=2076|title=Player Database|website=eu-football.info|accessdate=2 February 2021}}

Managerial career

After first being an assistant coach at the club, Blatnjak was named manager of Zadar in December 2022.[https://zadarskilist.novilist.hr/uncategorized/dragan-blatnjak-novi-trener-zadra/ Dragan Blatnjak novi trener Zadra] - Novilist {{in lang|hr}}