Darío Cvitanich
Personal information | |||
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Full name | Darío Cvitanich | ||
Date of birth | (1984-05-16) 16 May 1984 (age 40) | ||
Place of birth | Baradero, Argentina | ||
Height | 1.72 m (5 ft 8 in)[1] | ||
Position(s) | Striker | ||
Youth career | |||
Banfield | |||
Senior career* | |||
Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
2003–2008 | Banfield | 92 | (37) |
2008–2012 | Ajax | 30 | (14) |
2010–2011 | → Pachuca (loan) | 32 | (14) |
2011–2012 | → Boca Juniors (loan) | 27 | (9) |
2012–2015 | Nice | 69 | (30) |
2015 | Pachuca | 14 | (2) |
2016 | Miami FC | 26 | (9) |
2017–2019 | Banfield | 47 | (23) |
2019–2021 | Racing Club | 56 | (8) |
2022 | Banfield | 6 | (1) |
*Club domestic league appearances and goals |
Darío Cvitanich (Croatian: Dario Cvitanić; born 16 May 1984) is an Argentine retired professional footballer who played as a striker.
Career
Banfield
Cvitanich started his career in Club Atlético Banfield's youth and made his debut for the club's first team at the age of 19 on 20 October 2003 in a 3–1 defeat to Olimpo de Bahía Blanca. He scored a hat-trick in a 4–0 win against Newell's Old Boys on 27 April 2007. He played, and scored, for Banfield in the Copa Libertadores 2007.[2] He also served as a loyal member of Banfield during his early youth years in Argentina. Just prior to leaving his childhood side, he excelled his final loyalty by scoring 13 times during Banfield's run at the Clausura 2008 tournament.
Ajax
Cvitanich signed for Ajax, although he did not leave Banfield until the end of the 2008 season. He was labelled the successor to Klaas-Jan Huntelaar[3] and scored his first goal against NAC Breda on 12 December 2008.[4] Following the match against NAC, Cvitanich scored his first brace and his first hat-trick in subsequent weeks against De Graafschap and ADO Den Haag. He scored his first hat-trick of the 2009–10 season against NAC Breda.
Loan to Pachuca
Cvitanich joined Mexican side Pachuca on a year's loan on 1 January 2010.[5][6] He helped the Mexican side to win their fourth CONCACAF Champions League title, and returned to Ajax on 3 November 2010, helping the club win their 30th Dutch league title.
Loan to Boca Juniors
Cvitanich signed with Boca Juniors in July 2011, on a one-year loan deal. He scored his first goal for Boca on 28 August 2011, against San Lorenzo de Almagro. Cvitanich scored again in the last games of the tournament against Godoy Cruz, two goals against Banfield and one against All Boys. He won the 2011 Argentine Torneo Apertura with Boca Juniors, as well as help the team to place in the final of the 2012 Copa Libertadores, where they faced Corinthians from Brazil. Cvitanich was also voted Copa Libertadores player of the week, in the 10th week of the tournament in April.
OGC Nice
On 25 July 2012, Cvitanich joined French Ligue 1 outfit OGC Nice on a three-year contract.
Return to Pachuca
On 5 January 2015, Cvitanich joined Mexican Liga MX[7] club Pachuca.[8]
After having a second knee injury and as a consequence missed the rest of the tournament, Pachuca agreed to release him from the team and hired Franco Jara as his replacement.
Career statistics
- As of 24 October 2011[9]
Club performance | League | Cup | Continental | Total | ||||||
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Season | Club | League | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals |
Argentina | League | Cup | South America | Total | ||||||
2002–03 | Banfield | Primera División | 0 | 0 | - | - | - | - | 0 | 0 |
2003–04 | 4 | 0 | - | - | - | - | 4 | 0 | ||
2004–05 | 12 | 3 | - | - | - | - | 12 | 3 | ||
2005–06 | 21 | 5 | - | - | - | - | 21 | 5 | ||
2006–07 | 25 | 10 | - | - | - | - | 25 | 10 | ||
2007–08 | 30 | 19 | - | - | - | - | 30 | 19 | ||
Netherlands | League | KNVB Cup | Europe | Total | ||||||
2008–09 | AFC Ajax | Eredivisie | 18 | 9 | - | - | - | - | 18 | 9 |
2009–10 | 6 | 4 | - | - | - | - | 6 | 4 | ||
Mexico | League | Cup | North America | Total | ||||||
2009–10 | Pachuca (loan) | Primera División | 16 | 5 | - | - | 2 | 0 | 18 | 5 |
2010–11 | 16 | 8 | - | - | 2 | 2 | 18 | 10 | ||
2014–15 | 10 | 2 | - | - | 2 | 2 | 10 | 2 | ||
Netherlands | League | KNVB Cup | Europe | Total | ||||||
2010–11 | AFC Ajax | Eredivisie | 6 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 8 | 0 |
Argentina | League | Cup | South America | Total | ||||||
2011–12 | Boca Juniors (loan) | Primera División | 24 | 9 | 1 | 0 | 7 | 1 | 32 | 10 |
France | Ligue 1 | Coupe de France | Europe | Total | ||||||
2012–13 | Nice | Ligue 1 | 29 | 19 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 32 | 22 |
2013–14 | 31 | 8 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 34 | 10 | ||
2014–15 | 9 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 10 | 4 | ||
Total | Argentina | 115 | 45 | 1 | 0 | 7 | 1 | 122 | 46 | |
Mexico | 42 | 15 | - | - | 4 | 2 | 46 | 17 | ||
Netherlands | 30 | 13 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 32 | 13 | ||
France | 69 | 30 | 5 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 76 | 36 | ||
Career total | 258 | 102 | 7 | 5 | 13 | 4 | 278 | 113 |
International career
Cvitanich was born in Argentina with distant Croatian heritage. He established himself as a quality footballer in his home country playing for Banfield in the Argentine Primera División. After much consideration he eventually pledged to play for the Croatia national team, stating that "such an opportunity only comes once and you must take it."[10] It became known on 14 January 2009 that he could not play for Croatia, because the FIFA rules do not allow nationality to be taken from great-grandparents.[11]
La FIFA se opone a que el jugador del Ajax Amsterdam, de 24 años, vista la camiseta "ajedrezada", por considerar sus orígenes croatas como demasiado lejanos, señaló el secretario general de la HNS, Zorislav Srebric.
"La FIFA exige que como mínimo uno de los abuelos debe haber nacido en un país para que se conceda la ciudadanía futbolística", dijo el representante de la HNS.
«Seguiremos intentando persuadir a la FIFA para que haga una excepción, aunque no tenemos muchas esperanzas», adelantó Srebric.
FIFA opposes the 24-year-old Ajax Amsterdam player wearing the "checkered" shirt, considering his Croatian origins too distant, HNS-CFF Secretary General Zorislav Srebric said.
"FIFA requires that at least one of the grandparents must have been born in a country to grant a football citizenship," said the HNS-CFF representative.
"We will continue to try to persuade FIFA to make an exception, although we are not very hopeful," Srebric said.
In the case of the striker, only one of his great-grandparents was being born at the Croatian territories and later emigrated to Argentina.
Neither that nor his typical surname from Croatia will be able to help him against FIFA.
Cvitanich obtained the Croatian passport back in 2008, but that's not a sufficient argument for the FIFA.
Personal life
Cvitanich obtained a Croatian passport in August 2008.[12] He has dual citizenship, holding both Argentine and Croatian passports. The surname Cvitanić has his origin on the island of Brač. During the last century, every tenth citizen of the island was one of the family of the Cvitanić's.
Honours
Pachuca
Ajax
Boca Juniors
Racing Club
Individual
- Argentine Primera División top scorer: 2008 Clausura
References
- ^ "Plantel Profesional: Darío Cvitanich". Archived from the original on 16 June 2019. Retrieved 16 June 2019.
- ^ Flamengo, the first qualified to the round of 16 Archived 29 September 2007 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ "Ajax and Real Madrid agree on transfer". ajax.nl. 3 December 2008. Archived from the original on 5 December 2008. Retrieved 3 December 2008.
- ^ "Ajax too strong for NAC". ajax.nl. 13 December 2008. Archived from the original on 17 December 2008. Retrieved 13 December 2008.
- ^ Official: Pachuca Sign Ajax Striker Dario Cvitanich On Loan
- ^ Darío Cvitanich, delantero croata que llega a Pachuca
- ^ *Darío Cvitanich – Liga MX stats at MedioTiempo.com (archived) (in Spanish)
- ^ "Darío Cvitanich regresó a Pachuca". Medio Tiempo. Retrieved 6 January 2015.
- ^ "Dario Cvitanich". Soccerway.com. Retrieved 24 October 2011.
- ^ Cvitanich Pins His Future to Croatia – Australian FourFourTwo – The Ultimate football Website Archived 23 August 2008 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ Imposibilitado de jugar por Croacia[permanent dead link] El Periódico Austral. 14 January 2009. Retrieved on 2009-01-31.
- ^ "Ajax – Weg naar Kroatisch team ligt open voor Cvitanich". ajax.nl. Archived from the original on 17 August 2008.
External links
- "Career statistics at Irish Times". Archived from the original on 3 January 2013. Retrieved 21 April 2009.
- Argentine Primera statistics at Futbol XXI (in Spanish)
- Israel article (in Hebrew)
- Darío Cvitanich at Soccerway
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