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Several Croatian media report that Nikolic should be officially unveiled on Monday.
Split Hajduk is one of the most famous clubs in Croatia and in the entire Balkan region.
He has even won the national championship six times since regaining Yugoslavia’s independence, won the Croatian Cup the same number of times, and won the Super Cup five times.
Particularly successful for the Split club were the eighties and nineties of the last century, when the club, which was among the strongest teams in Yugoslavia, also clouded the waters at European tournaments.
Hajduk has played once in the semi-finals of the Cup Winners’ Cup and the UEFA Cup, more than once in the quarter-finals of these tournaments, and has even played in the quarter-finals of the European Cup (current UEFA Champions League).
It is true that in recent years it has become a difficult task for the Hajduk club to enter the group stage of European tournaments. Although they participate in the European League playoffs every year, the last time the Split Club played in the group was a decade ago, in 2010-2011. season.
This season, Hajduk is only fifth in the Croatian championship. After 14 matches, the Split team has 17 points and is even 12 points behind HNK Gorica, who is third.
2018 Nikolic, 37, who left for Croatia at the beginning of the year, turned HNK Gorica from a second league club into one of the strongest teams in the country.
2018 Velika Gorica’s team became the winner of the Croatian second division, in 2019. It ranked fifth in the country’s championship, in 2020. – sixth place, and this year it even ranks third, which would guarantee a place in the European tournament.
On the eve of the New Year, M. Nikoličius was recognized as the best in 2020. Croatian football director.
M. Nikoličius also attracted two Lithuanians to HNK Gorica. From 2020 Valdas Dambrauskas, who coached the club in February, will also leave the team and continue his career at the strongest club in Bulgaria, Razgrad Ludogorec, and midfielder Paul Golubickas will continue to represent the HNK Gorica team.
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