Goran Vučević

Goran Vučević (born 18 May 1971) is a retired Croatian footballer who played as a central midfielder. Born in Split, Vučević started his career at local HNK Hajduk, where he became a key player at only 18, eventually winning the 1992 Sportske novosti Yellow Shirt award, issued to the best footballer playing in the Croatian League at the end of every season. Afterwards, Vučević was bought by Johan Cruyff's FC Barcelona but, during his five-year stay, he could never break into the first team, which also featured - as the clubs in Spain were not allowed to field more than three foreign players at the same time - Ronald Koeman, Michael Laudrup, Hristo Stoichkov, Romário, Gheorghe Hagi or Luís Figo. After two loans, first loaned to his...