Ilija Aračić

Ilija Aračić

Personal information
Full name	Ilija Aračić
Date of birth	(1970-11-15) 15 November 1970
Place of birth	Slavonski Brod, SR Croatia, SFR Yugoslavia
Height
Position(s)	Striker
Team information
Current team	VfB Stuttgart (youth team coach)
Youth career
1980–1985	NK Ukrina Novo Selo
1985–1991	NK Polet Bosanksi Brod
Senior career*
Years	Team	Apps	(Gls)
1991–1993	Slavonski Brod
1993–1994	NK Rijeka	19	(2)
1994–1997	Chemnitzer FC	78	(22)
1997–1998	Tennis Borussia Berlin	49	(24)
1999–2000	Hertha BSC	25	(6)
2000–2002	Arminia Bielefeld	36	(3)
Total		188	(55)
Managerial career
2004–2011	FC Augsburg (youth team coach)
2012–	VfB Stuttgart (youth team coach)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Ilija Aračić (born 15 November 1970 in Slavonski Brod, SR Croatia, SFR Yugoslavia) is a retired Croatian footballer.

Coming from a sporting family, Aračić started his footballing career as a 9-year-old at Croatian team NK Ukrina Novo Selo, before moving aged 14 to the team his father Anto played for professionally at the time, NK Polet Bosanski Brod. He later played for his local team where he was spotted by scouts of Prva HNL side NK Rijeka. Aračić, a drafter by trade, left Croatia as a result of the War of Independence, signed for Chemnitzer FC in Germany before transferring to Tennis Borussia Berlin in the summer of 1997. During the 1998–99 season, after impressing Hertha BSC with his two goals against them in the DFB-Pokal, quickly signed for TeBe's fellow West Berlin rivals where he played for one and a half years before moving to Arminia Bielefeld and seeing out the twilight of his playing career.

In 2004 Aračić took over as coach of FC Augsburg's youth team. On 1 January 2012, he became head coach of the under-19 team of VfB Stuttgart.

External links

• Ilija Aračić profile at Fussballdaten
• data at hrnogomet.com