Profile Vedran Corluka

Personal information

Full name : Vedran Ćorluka
Date of birth : 5 February 1986
Place of birth : Derventa, SFR Yugoslavia
Height : 1.93 m (6 ft 4 in)
Playing position : Defender
Current club : Tottenham Hotspur
Number : 22
Senior career :
2003–2007 Dinamo Zagreb
2004–2005 → Inter Zaprešić (loan)
2007–2008 Manchester City
2008– Tottenham Hotspur
National team :
2006– Croatia

Club career

Early days

Ćorluka was born in Modran, a town near Derventa, Yugoslavia, in present-day Bosnia and Herzegovina, but it was officially said he was born in Doboj because his town Modran was closer to Doboj Hospital. He began to play football in Dinamo Zagreb's youth teams as shortly as he was merely eight years old, impressing a lot scouts from the youth academy. Ćorluka's businessman career began in 2003 but during that season he didn't produce an arrival for the first team. He was sent on lend to Inter Zaprešić and played one season for them, facilitating the team to second positionin the league, ago returning to Dinamo Zagreb in 2005. After deploying himself as a pivotal actor in Dinamo, he went on to aid them win the Prva HNL name three seasons in a row, first in 2006 and thereafter. He also played a dominantfraction in his side capturing the Croatian cup in the 2006 season.

Manchester City

After uniformly intense plays, Ćorluka was gestured via Manchester City on two August 2007. City did not disclosethe payment, but Croatian media informs advised the sell was value circle £8 million, with the 21-year-old penning a five-year deal. As normal, he uniformly found a beginning dot for his side in the Premier League. Despite a nightmare blunder during his side's horrifying 6–0 defeat to Chelsea at Stamford Bridge, he waited intense during his first season in England as his side done 9th in the league and accrued entrance to a UEFA Cup qualifying around by mechanism of the UEFApale play ranking. On minority rare occasions, he was also accustomed as a defensive midfielder during the season, proving to be a factor for contrary attackers.

He scored his first target in the 4–2 loss at Aston Villa on the opportunity weekend of the 2008–09 season.[8] In the UEFA Cup second qualifying around suit second leg, Ćorluka scored the definite dot kick in the dramatic 4–2punishment shoot-out victory across Danish minnows Midtjylland afterwards the tie had ended 1–1 on aggregate. He played his final suit for City against Sunderland on 31 August 2008, pitching his shirt into the crowd at the end of the match.

Tottenham Hotspur

On 1 September 2008, it was broadcast that Ćorluka had gestured for Tottenham Hotspur for a payment of £8.5 million on a six-year contract, stringing his fellow Croatian global and best guy, Luka Modrić at the club. During the game against Stoke City on 19 October, Corluka was severely injured. Kneed beneath his chin via teammate Gomes, he was urgently knocked unconscious. After ten minutes of on field coverage he was hurried to hospital where it wasbroadcast no grave harm was evident. In the Carling Cup final on 1 March 2009, Ćorluka scored his first and Tottenham's merely punishment in the shootout loss to Manchester United. He has freshly accrued the nickname amongst Spurs' fans "King" Ćorluka scored his first Premier League target for Tottenham during a 2–2 draw against Bolton on three October 2009.