Nicolás Peric

Nicolás Peric

Personal information
Full name	Nicolás Miroslav Peric Villarreal
Date of birth	October 19, 1978 (1978-10-19) (age 33)
Place of birth	Talca, Chile
Height	1.83 m (6 ft 0 in)
Playing position	Goalkeeper
Club information
Current club	Cobreloa
Number	22
Senior career*
Years	Team	Apps†	(Gls)†
1998–2003	Rangers de Talca	102	(0)
2004	Universidad de Concepción	29	(0)
2005	Unión Española	5	(0)
2006–2007	Audax Italiano	82	(0)
2008	Genclerbirligi	15	(0)
2009	Everton	10	(0)
2009–2010	Argentinos Juniors	20	(0)
2010	Olimpia Asuncion	13	(0)
2011–	Cobreloa	14	(0)
National team‡
2001–2007	Chile	5	(0)
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and correct as of 20:50, 18 May 2010 (UTC). † Appearances (Goals). ‡ National team caps and goals correct as of 23:25, 8 February 2010 (UTC)

Nicolás Peric (born 19 October 1978 in Talca, Chile), is a Chilean goalkeeper of Croatian origin who currently plays for Cobreloa. His nickname is Loco (crazy).

Career

Chile

Peric began his professional career in his home team of Rangers. He then spent one year with U. de Concepción in 2004. In December 2004 Peric was suspended for six months by the CONMEBOL because he had tested positive for cocaine -he and team members would have drunk coca leaf tea before the game- against Bolívar in La Paz, Bolivia. In that very game Peric scored a goal.^[1][2] Returning for the Clausura of 2005, Peric was set to play for U. de Concepción but refused to stating the financial state of the club as the reason. He was soon sold to Unión Española where he rarely got playing time, but the club was the defending champions.

His best moment of his career in Chile came with Audax Italiano where he has played in the Copa Libertadores and has finished runner-up and third place in the 2006 Clausura and the 2007 Apertura tournaments respectively. For the 2007 Copa America Peric received a call up the national team. On January 7, 2008, it was confirmed that, Chilean goalkeeper would play for Genclerbirligi in Ankara, Turkey.^[3]

Turkey

Peric joined the Turkish club in January 2008. As the season winded down the team was able to ultimately avoid relegation from the Turkcell Super League. That same year the club reached the final of the Fortis Turkey Cup losing to Kayseri based Kayserispor on penalty kicks.^[4]

On December the 2nd, 2008, Peric and the club parted ways, apparently due to his recent injury troubles and lack of first team football.^[5]

Argentina

Peric was signed by new Argentinos Juniors manager Claudio Borghi in 2009. He played occasionally in the Apertura 2009 tournament but established himself as the first choice goalkeeper for the Clausura 2010 championship playing in 16 of the club's 19 games during their championship winning campaign. He missed the final game due to an injury sustained in the 4-3 victory against Independiente in the penultimate round of fixtures.

Titles

Argentinos Juniors

• Argentine Primera División (1): Clausura 2010

References

1. ^ Peric goal against Bolívar
2. ^ (Spanish) http://www.lukor.com/deportes/noticias/0411/10102031.htm
3. ^ Peric to Turkey
4. ^ (Spanish) http://latercera.cl/contenido/82_21003_9.shtml
5. ^ (Spanish) Nicolás Peric dejó Genclerbirligi de Turquía por diferencias con dirigentes

External links

• Gençlerbirliği Site Profile
• Profile at TFF.org
• Profile at transfermarkt.de
• (Spanish) Primera División statistics
• Nicolás Peric at National-Football-Teams.com

Persondata
Name	Peric, Nicolas
Alternative names
Short description
Date of birth	1978-10-19
Place of birth	Talca, Chile
Date of death
Place of death