Nenad Pralija
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| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Date of birth | 11 December 1970 | ||
| Place of birth | Split, SFR Yugoslavia | ||
| Height | 1.81 m (5 ft 11 1⁄2 in) | ||
| Playing position | Midfielder | ||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| 1990–1993 | RNK Split | ||
| 1993–1996 | Hajduk Split | 70 | (32) |
| 1996–1998 | Espanyol | 42 | (4) |
| 1998–1999 | Hajduk Split | 16 | (4) |
| 1999–2000 | Reggina | 23 | (0) |
| 2000–2003 | Maccabi Haifa | 81 | (21) |
| 2003–2005 | Hajduk Split | 44 | (3) |
| 2005–2007 | Trogir | 17 | (3) |
| Total | 293 | (67) | |
| National team | |||
| 1993 | Croatia U21 | 1 | (0) |
| 1995–1997 | Croatia | 11 | (1) |
| * Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only. |
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Nenad Pralija (born 11 December 1970) is a former Croatian footballer.
Pralija started his career at his hometown club RNK Split where he spent three years before moving to the local powerhouse Hajduk Split. In his first season at Hajduk, the club had a successful Champions League campaign and Pralija is still dearly remembered by Hajduk fans for his spectacular volley in the group stage game against Anderlecht which was unstoppable for the Belgian side's goalkeeper Filip de Wilde, even though Pralija played the whole game playing as a left back - a position he never played at before. His form kept improving in subsequent seasons, and he finished the 1995–96 season as the club's top scorer with 17 goals in 26 appearances. He instantly became Hajduk fans' favourite player and was awarded the Heart of Hajduk Award two years in a row, in 1995 and 1996.
After three successful years at Hajduk, Pralija moved to La Liga club Espanyol where he started off as a first-team regular under José Antonio Camacho, but soon fell out of the manager's favour so he returned to Hajduk for the second half of the 1998–99 season. After that he spent a year at Serie A club Reggina, before moving to the Israeli outfit Maccabi Haifa. At Maccabi Pralija had a very successful spell, playing alongside fellow Croat Đovani Roso and coached by Avram Grant. During this time he won two Israeli championships and played in the Champions League again, this time scoring against Bayer Leverkusen at BayArena. He is still regarded as one of the best Maccabi players of the early 2000s.
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