Ante Ćorić
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| Personal information | |||
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| Full name | Ante Ćorić | ||
| Date of birth | 14 April 1997 | ||
| Place of birth | Zagreb, Croatia | ||
| Height | 1.72 m (5 ft 7 1⁄2 in) | ||
| Playing position | Attacking midfielder | ||
| Club information | |||
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Current team
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GNK Dinamo Zagreb | ||
| Number | 41 | ||
| Youth career | |||
| 2002–2006 | Hrvatski Dragovoljac | ||
| 2006–2009 | NK Zagreb | ||
| 2009–2013 | Red Bull Salzburg | ||
| 2013–2014 | Dinamo Zagreb | ||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| 2014– | Dinamo Zagreb | 76 | (11) |
| National team‡ | |||
| 2012 | Croatia U-15 | 4 | (1) |
| 2012–2013 | Croatia U-16 | 5 | (1) |
| 2012–2013 | Croatia U17 | 8 | (0) |
| 2014 | Croatia U18 | 3 | (0) |
| 2014–2015 | Croatia U19 | 5 | (0) |
| 2014– | Croatia U21 | 2 | (0) |
| 2016– | Croatia | 2 | (0) |
| * Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and correct as of 1 March 2017 (UTC). ‡ National team caps and goals correct as of 4 June 2016 (UTC) |
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Ante Ćorić (born 14 April 1997) is a Croatian footballer who currently plays for Dinamo Zagreb in the Croatian First Football League and Croatia national team, as an attacking midfielder.
Ćorić was born in Zagreb to Herzegovian Croat parents from Široki Brijeg; his father, Miljenko, is a football manager in the Zagreb area with whom Ante attended training sessions starting at a very young age. Ćorić 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, Ćorić joined the youth academy of Red Bull Salzburg, in spite of interest from other clubs, including Bayern Munich, Chelsea, and Barcelona. On joining the club Corić 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, Ćorić returned to Croatia and signed with Dinamo Zagreb for a fee of €900,000.
On 16 April 2014, Ćorić 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, Ćorić scored his first senior goal for Dinamo in a 1-2 loss to NK Istra 1961. On 18 September, Ćorić 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 goal scorer in Europa League history, at the age of 17 years and 157 days. In 2015, newspaper Večernji list awarded Ćorić the Croatian Hope of the Year as the best young Croatian player of the year.
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