Ante Coric

Ante Coric (Croatian pronunciation: [aːnte tɕoːritɕ]; born 14 April 1997) is a Croatian professional footballer who plays as an attacking midfielder for Swiss Super League club Zurich, on loan from Roma. He has also represented the Croatia national team.

Club Career

Early years

Coric was born in Zagreb to Herzegovinian Croat parents from Siroki Brijeg; his father, Miljenko, is a football manager in the Zagreb area with whom Ante attended training sessions starting at a very young age. He started playing football at the age of 5 at Hrvatski Dragovoljac. When he was 9 years old, he signed for the youth academy of NK Zagreb. In 2009, Coric joined the youth academy of Red Bull Salzburg, despite the interest from other clubs, including Bayern Munich, Chelsea, and Barcelona. On joining the club, Coric commented, "I wanted to become a Red Bull Salzburg player because my team-mates here are better than players of the same age anywhere else. We train better and more often than others. And I was very impressed by how warmly I was welcomed." In 2013, after four years in Salzburg, Coric returned to Croatia and signed with Dinamo Zagreb for a fee of €900,000.

Dinamo Zagreb

On 16 April 2014, Coric made his senior debut against RNK Split, coming in as a 69th-minute substitute for Ivo Pinto. On 26 April, he made his first start in a 1–1 draw against Lokomotiva Zagreb. On 10 May, he scored his first senior goal for Dinamo in a 1–2 loss to NK Istra 1961. On 18 September, Coric came on as a 77th-minute substitute and scored the fifth goal in Dinamo's 2014–15 Europa League opener against Astra Giurgiu, a 5–1 win. With this goal, he became the youngest goalscorer in Europa League history, at the age of 17 years and 157 days. In 2015, the newspaper, Vecernji list, awarded Coric the Croatian Hope of the Year award. In his nearly five seasons at the club, Coric made 143 appearances, winning four league titles, and two cup titles, and was named by the Italian news

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