Gordon Schildenfeld

Gordon Schildenfeld (born 18 March 1985) is a Croatian professional footballer who plays as a centre-back for Aris Limassol. He played several years for Croatia national team.

Club Career

Sibenik

Schildenfeld began playing football at his hometown club HNK Sibenik. The club's then manager Stanko Mrsic gave him his senior debut at age 16 against Kamen Ingrad. In the 2005–06 season, Schildenfeld helped Sibenik win promotion to the top flight.

Dinamo Zagreb

Midway through his first season in the Croatian first division, the country's top clubs Dinamo Zagreb and Hajduk Split became interested in signing Schildenfeld and his Sibenik teammate Ante Rukavina. It first seemed likely that Schildenfeld and Rukavina would move to Hajduk together, but then Dinamo entered the race for the two players. In the end, on 2 January 2007, Schildenfeld moved to Dinamo while Rukavina joined archrivals Hajduk. Despite only having five months of top-flight experience at the time, Schildenfeld quickly managed to establish himself as a regular at Dinamo and helped the club winning both Croatian league and cup titles, also netting the crucial away goal against Slaven Belupo in the second leg of the cup final.

In the first part of the 2007–08 season, Schildenfeld was also one of the regulars in Dinamo's UEFA Champions League and UEFA Cup campaign, appearing in five Champions League qualifying matches and four UEFA Cup matches before the club was knocked out of the latter competition in the group stage. Schildenfeld became an unlucky figure in Dinamo's 2–1 defeat at Norwegian side Brann in their second match in the UEFA Cup group stage, causing a penalty and being sent off for a professional foul in the final moments of the first half. He missed the last two group matches, against Hamburger SV and Rennes, because of the red card.

Besiktas

Although he was initially set to stay at Dinamo Zagreb, Schildenfeld was

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