Josip Brezovec
{{short description|Croatian professional footballer|bot=PearBOT 5}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=June 2018}}
{{Infobox football biography
| name = Josip Brezovec
| image = Loco-Sherif (4).jpg
| birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1986|03|12|df=y}}
| birth_place = Varaždin, SR Croatia, SFR Yugoslavia
| height = {{height|m=1.75}}
| currentclub = NK Polet
| clubnumber = 21
| position = Defensive midfielder
| youthyears1 = 1994–1996 | youthclubs1 = NK Nedeljanec
| youthyears2 = 1996–2004 | youthclubs2 = Varteks
| years1 = 2005 | clubs1 = NK Nedeljanec | caps1 = | goals1 =
| years2 = 2005–2006 | clubs2 = SV St. Michael | caps2 = | goals2 =
| years3 = 2006 | clubs3 = Belišće | caps3 = 14 | goals3 = 1
| years4 = 2007–2010 | clubs4 = Varteks | caps4 = 97 | goals4 = 10
| years5 = 2010–2011 | clubs5 = Dinamo Zagreb | caps5 = 6 | goals5 = 0
| years6 = 2011–2012 | clubs6 = Slaven Belupo | caps6 = 26 | goals6 = 5
| years7 = 2012–2016 | clubs7 = Rijeka | caps7 = 73 | goals7 = 4
| years8 = 2014–2015 | clubs8 = → Spezia (loan) | caps8 = 51 | goals8 = 7
| years9 = 2016–2018 | clubs9 = Sheriff Tiraspol | caps9 = 37 | goals9 = 17
| years10 = 2018 | clubs10 = Slaven Belupo | caps10 = 8 | goals10 = 0
| years11 = 2018 | clubs11 = Varaždin | caps11 = 7 | goals11 = 1
| years12 = 2018–2019 | clubs12 = Inter Zaprešić | caps12 = 17 | goals12 = 0
|years13 = 2019– |clubs13 = NK Polet |caps13 = 0 |goals13 = 0
| nationalyears1 = 2005–2008
| nationalteam1 = Croatia U21
| nationalcaps1 = 5
| nationalgoals1 = 2
| pcupdate = 19 May 2018
| ntupdate =
}}
Josip "Beli" Brezovec (born 12 March 1986) is a Croatian professional footballer who plays as a defensive midfielder for NK Polet.
Club career
Brezovac was born Varaždin. His home club was NK Nedeljanec but as a 10-year-old, he joined NK Varteks and played there until leaving the junior experience in winter 2004–05.
As a junior, he did not manage to enter into the first team at Varteks, so he returned to his home club Nedeljanec. Then he went to the Austrian Regionalliga (Club St. Michael). After a short time in Austria, he returned in Croatia in the summer of 2006. He signed a contract with the Croatian second division club NK Belišće.
In November 2010, it was announced that Brezovec agreed on terms with Dinamo Zagreb and will be transferred out of NK Varaždin (new name of the Varteks) in the mid-season for an undisclosed fee. He signed a four-and-a-half-year contract.{{cite news |url=http://www.hrsport.net/vijesti/408010/nogomet-1-hnl/brezovec-se-dogovorio-s-dinamom |title=Brezovec se dogovorio s Dinamom |last=Strahija |first=Ivana |date=25 November 2010 |work=Sportnet.hr |language=hr |accessdate=15 June 2011 |archive-date=29 December 2010 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101229213302/http://www.hrsport.net/vijesti/408010/nogomet-1-hnl/brezovec-se-dogovorio-s-dinamom |url-status=dead }} However, after playing only nine games for Dinamo by the end of season, Brezovec was signed by Slaven Belupo.{{cite news |url=http://www.hrsport.net/vijesti/419335/nogomet-1-hnl/skender-i-brezovec-napustili-maksimir |title=Skender i Brezovec napustili Maksimir |last=Glasnović |first=Mario |date=15 June 2011 |work=Sportnet.hr |language=hr |accessdate=15 June 2011 |archive-date=1 February 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160201164734/http://www.hrsport.net/vijesti/419335/nogomet-1-hnl/skender-i-brezovec-napustili-maksimir/ |url-status=dead }} In June 2012, Brezovec was signed by HNK Rijeka. With ten assists to his account, he was the league leader in the 2012–13 season. In September 2014, Brezovec was loaned to Spezia Calcio in Italy's Serie B.{{cite news|url=http://www.vecernji.hr/nogomet/rijeka-posudila-brezovca-speziji-iako-nije-htio-napustiti-klub-958030 |title=Brezovec na posudbi u Speziji |date=29 August 2014 |work=Vecernji.hr |language=hr |accessdate=29 August 2014}} In January 2016, he returned to Rijeka, where he played for the remainder of the 2015–16 season.{{cite news |url=http://www.nk-rijeka.hr/vijest/josip-brezovec-sretan-sam-sto-sam-se-vratio-u-rijeku/ |title=Josip Brezovec: Sretan sam što sam se vratio u Rijeku |date=12 January 2016 |work=nk-rijeka.hr |language=hr |accessdate=4 July 2016 |archive-date=6 January 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180106065213/http://www.nk-rijeka.hr/vijest/josip-brezovec-sretan-sam-sto-sam-se-vratio-u-rijeku/ |url-status=dead }} On 2 July 2016, it was announced that Brezovec was signed by FC Sheriff Tiraspol for a fee of €250,000.{{cite news |url=http://radio.hrt.hr/radio-rijeka/clanak/josip-brezovec-napusta-bijele-redove/122656/ |title=Josip Brezovec napušta Bijele redove |last=Vujnović |first=Korado |date=2 July 2016 |work=Radio Rijeka |language=hr |accessdate=4 July 2016 |archive-date=6 July 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160706084436/http://radio.hrt.hr/radio-rijeka/clanak/josip-brezovec-napusta-bijele-redove/122656 |url-status=dead }}
On 19 November 2018, Brezovec joined Croatian First Football League side Inter Zaprešić.{{cite web|url=http://www.inter.hr/aktualno/novi_igrac_josip_brezovec|title=JOSIP BREZOVEC POJAČAO INTER|publisher=NK Inter Zaprešić|date=19 November 2018|accessdate=20 November 2018|language=hr}}
On 23 June 2019, Brezovec joined Croatian Third Football League side NK Polet.{{cite web|url=https://evarazdin.hr/nasim-krajem/najzvucnije-pojacanje-u-dosadasnjem-prelaznom-roku-josip-brezovec-u-nk-polet-iz-svetog-marina-na-muri-378589/|title=JOSIP BREZOVEC U NK POLET IZ SVETOG MARINA NA MURI|publisher=EVarazdin|date=23 June 2019|accessdate=26 June 2019|language=hr}}
Career statistics
{{Updated|match played 27 May 2019}}
| class="wikitable" style="text-align: center" | |||||||
| rowspan="2"|Club
!rowspan="2"|Season !rowspan="2"|League !colspan="2"|League !colspan="2"|Cup & Supercup !colspan="2"|Europe !colspan="2"|Total | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apps||Goals||Apps||Goals||Apps||Goals||Apps||Goals | |||||||
| Belišće
|14 | 1 | 2 | 3 | colspan="2"|– | 16 | 4 | |
| rowspan="6"|Varteks
|rowspan="5"|1. HNL |8 | 0 | colspan="2"|– | colspan="2"|– | 8 | 0 | ||
| 2007–08
|26 | 2 | 4 | 0 | colspan="2"|– | 30 | 2 | |
| 2008–09
|29 | 4 | 2 | 0 | colspan="2"|– | 31 | 4 | |
| 2009–10
|18 | 0 | 3 | 1 | colspan="2"|– | 21 | 1 | |
| 2010–11
|16 | 4 | 3 | 2 | colspan="2"|– | 19 | 6 | |
| colspan="2"|Total
!97||10||12||3||0||0||109||13 | |||||||
| Dinamo Zagreb
|rowspan="6"|1. HNL |6 | 0 | 3 | 0 | colspan="2"|– | 9 | 0 | |
| Slaven Belupo
|26 | 5 | 2 | 0 | colspan="2"|– | 28 | 5 | |
| rowspan="5"|Rijeka
|30 | 2 | 1 | 0 | colspan="2"|– | 31 | 2 | |
| 2013–14
|25 | 1 | 7 | 1 | 6 | 0 | 38 | 2 |
| 2014–15
|6 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 12 | 0 |
| 2015–16
|11 | 1 | 1 | 0 | colspan="2"|– | 12 | 1 | |
| colspan="2"|Total
!73||4||10||1||11||0||94||5 | |||||||
| rowspan="3"|Spezia (loan)
|rowspan="2"|Serie B |34 | 5 | colspan="2"|– | colspan="2"|– | 34 | 5 | ||
| 2015–16
|17 | 2 | 4 | 0 | colspan="2"|– | 21 | 2 | |
| colspan="2"|Total
!51||7||4||0||0||0||55||7 | |||||||
| rowspan="3"|Sheriff Tiraspol
|rowspan="2"|Nat. Div. |28 | 12 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 33 | 13 |
| 2017
|9 | 5 | colspan="2"|– | 12 | 1 | 21 | 6 | |
| colspan="2"|Total
!37||17||3||0||14||2||54||19 | |||||||
| Slaven Belupo
|1. HNL |8 | 0 | colspan="2"|– | colspan="2"|– | 8 | 0 | ||
| Varaždin
|2. HNL |7 | 1 | 1 | 1 | colspan="2"|– | 8 | 2 | |
| Inter Zaprešić
|1. HNL |17 | 0 | 2 | 1 | colspan="2"|– | 19 | 1 | |
| colspan="3"|Career total
!336||45||39||9||25||2||400||56 |
Honours
Dinamo Zagreb
Rijeka
- Prva HNL runner-up (4): 2012–13, 2013–14, 2014–15, 2015–16
- Croatian Cup: 2014
- Croatian Super Cup: 2014
Sheriff Tiraspol
References
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External links
- {{Soccerway|josip-brezovec/36793}}
- {{CFF player|37861/josip-brezovec}}
- {{hrnogomet|2035|Josip Brezovec}}
{{DEFAULTSORT:Brezovec, Josip}}
Category:Men's association football midfielders
Category:Croatian men's footballers
Category:Croatia men's under-21 international footballers
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Category:GNK Dinamo Zagreb players
Category:NK Slaven Belupo players
Category:HNK Rijeka II players
Category:Spezia Calcio players
Category:FC Sheriff Tiraspol players
Category:NK Inter Zaprešić players
Category:Croatian Football League players
Category:Moldovan Super Liga players
Category:First Football League (Croatia) players
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Category:Croatian expatriate men's footballers
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