Domagoj Vida (; born 29 April 1989) is a Croatian professional

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who plays as a defender for

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club

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. He is capable of playing in any defensive position but is mostly deployed as a

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. Vida was the first Croatian footballer to win a league title in four different European football leagues (with

Dinamo Zagreb Građanski nogometni klub Dinamo Zagreb (), commonly referred to as simply Dinamo Zagreb (), is a Croatian professional football club based in Zagreb. Dinamo play their home matches at Stadion Maksimir. They are the most successful club in Cr ...

in Croatia,

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in Ukraine,

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in Turkey and

in Greece).

Club career

Youth career

Vida has spent his entire youth career in Croatia, rising through the

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youth system and being first featured with the senior team in the 2006–07 season, at the age of 17; he then went on to make 12 appearances in the season. In the 2007–08 season, Vida further solidified his credentials, being featured more regularly for his club. He was linked with Croatian champions

Bayer Leverkusen

On 29 April 2010, Vida signed for German

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side

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. He spent just one

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with the club, making a total of eight appearances in the

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. He did not make his

debut until 5 March 2011, when he came on as a substitute for the injured Manuel Friedrich in the 14th minute of a 3–0 win at home to

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. It turned out to be his only appearance in the league.

Dinamo Zagreb

On 14 June 2011, it was announced that Vida would join Dinamo Zagreb for an undisclosed fee. In December 2011, Dinamo Zagreb lost 7–1 against

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in the Champions League

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which allowed the French club to progress to the last 16 of the Champions League at the expense of

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, who lost 3–0 against

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. Following media coverage alleging match-fixing which also showed clips of Vida winking after Lyon's fifth goal, UEFA decided not to take action. On 25 July 2012, Vida scored a 98th–minute goal against Bulgarian side

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in a

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match and thus helped his team to a 3–2 home win, which enabled it to progress to the competition's next round. On 24 September 2012, he was thrown out of the first team and the team bus after he opened up a beer while the team were on their way to a cup match. He also had several altercations with Dinamo head coach

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prior to this incident. The next day, it was announced that he would be fined a record

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100,000.

Dynamo Kyiv

On 2 January 2013, it was announced that Vida had signed for Ukrainian club

on a five–year deal, for a reported transfer fee of €6 million. On 14 February, he made his debut for Dynamo in a home

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match against

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, which ended 1–1. A week later, he played in the tie's second leg and was unable to help Dynamo get to the

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, losing 0–1. In both games, Dynamo head coach

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used him as a right–back. On 3 March, Vida played his first game in the

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, against

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. The home 1–1 draw was disappointing for Dynamo, as it made much more difficult for them to get second place and qualify for the Champions League against

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and

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. On 10 March, Vida played his second league match for Dynamo, against

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; it ended 2–0 and was Dynamo's first victory in 2013. That match was notable because Oleh Blokhin used Vida for the first time as a central defender, partnered with

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, as the first three games for Dynamo he played as a right defender. On 17 March, Vida scored his first goal for Dynamo early in the game against

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after a corner kick taken by

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, by an excellent header, having forestalled Pavlo Rebenok and goalkeeper Serhiy Dolhanskyi. That goal gave Dynamo a 1–0 win. On 17 May 2015, Vida scored the winning goal against Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk to clinch Dynamo Kyiv their first

title in six years.

Beşiktaş

On 3 January 2018, Vida moved to

, signing a four-and-a-half-year contract. Vida made his Beşiktaş debut on 21 February 2018, in a 2–1 away win over

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. Vida was sent off 16 minutes into his club's

match against

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after he fouled

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. Beşiktaş went on to lose the match 5–0.

AEK Athens

On 31 July 2022, Vida signed for Greek club

. On 20 August 2022, he made his debut in a 3–0 away win over

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. On 22 January he scored his first goal in a 2–1 win over Ionikos. Vida scored a last minute header in a 2–2 draw, in a 4–3 aggregate win over

in the

play-offs scoring past his Croatian national teammate

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. AEK qualified for the Europa League Group stage and Vida played in 5 out of the 6 games. On 5 October 2023 he scored a powerful header against Ajax in a 1–1 draw. He went on to score another header against

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in the same week, opening the score. On 4 December 2023, Vida scored his 4th goal of the season against Aris, a header assisted by

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. AEK won the game by 1–0.

International career

Vida was an active member of the Croatia national under-21 team. On 23 May 2010, he made his full international debut in

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's 2–0 win against

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, entering as a substitute for

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in the 80th minute. Three days later, he played the full 90 minutes in a goalless draw with

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. In 2011, he featured for Croatia in four UEFA Euro 2012 qualifiers, including both play-off matches against

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, which saw them securing a place in the

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. His only appearance at the finals came when he was in the starting lineup for Croatia's final group match, a 1–0 defeat to

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, after which they were eliminated from the tournament. On 10 September 2013, Vida scored his first goal for the national side in the 65th minute of a friendly match against

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, played at the

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. Vida was a part of the Croatian squad at the

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tournament in Brazil, but remained as an unused substitute in the tournament. He regained his place as a regular during the

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, making nine appearances, and also appeared in three matches at the

, where the team were eliminated by

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in the round of 16. On 3 September 2017, Vida scored the only goal in a 1–0 victory over

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in the World Cup qualification. In June 2018, he was named in Croatia's final 23-man

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for the

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in Russia. Vida scored a header in the quarter-final against hosts

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to give his side a 2–1 lead in extra time. The match finished 2–2, Vida converted his spot kick in the

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to help his side advance. In the

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, he took a free kick from

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to set up

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for Croatia's first goal of the match, and picked up a runners-up medal as

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eventually defeated his side 4–2. On 15 October 2018, he captained the national team for the first time and scored in a 2–1 friendly win over

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. On 11 November 2020, he captained the national team once again in a friendly 3–3 draw with Turkey, being at fault for Turkey's first two goals. The same night, after the game, he tested positive for

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and was left to

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. On 16 November 2022, he played his 100th match for Croatia in a friendly match against

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. He remained an unused substitute at the

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and the

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. Croatia finished third at the former but had an early exit in the group stage at the latter. He announced international retirement after the Euro, having last cap in a pre-tournament friendly match against

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Controversy

Vida and

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celebrated Croatia's World Cup victory over Russia by shouting "

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!", a common slogan in Ukraine. FIFA's disciplinary code prohibits political, nationalist and racist slogans in any form. Vida later said: "I like Russian people. It was just a joke." Following Croatia's victory over 2018 World Cup hosts Russia in the quarter-finals, Vida, celebrating the victory with former Croatian international and current assistant coach,

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, was recorded saying "

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is burning!" in Croatian. Later it turned out Belgrade was the name of the tavern in

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where they used to hang out. Aleksandar Holiga, editor of Croatian website Telesport, has largely downplayed the incident saying "I don't think Vida understood the full meaning and context of what he was saying. Both of them were just doing it because they are close to

. It's something that fans would chant" and that "politically, Croatia doesn't have a perfect relationship with Russia, but then who does in the rest of Europe?"

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reported that "Ukrainians accused

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of siding with Russia and flooded the football body's

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page with declarations of 'Glory to Ukraine'." On 11 July, in an interview in Russian with Russia 24, Vida said that he was mistaken and apologized to Russian people.

Personal life

Domagoj Vida was born in

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, but grew up in

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in the family of Željka Ursanić and former footballer Rudika Vida. In 2015, Vida and his fiancee Ivana Gugić welcomed their first child, a baby boy they named David. Vida and Gugić married in

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in June 2017.

Career statistics

Club

International

:''Scores and results list Croatia's goal tally first, score column indicates score after each Vida goal.''

Honours

Dinamo Zagreb *

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: 2011–12,

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: 2011–12 Dynamo Kyiv *

: 2014–15, 2015–16 *

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: 2013–14, 2014–15 *

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2016 2016 was designated as: * International Year of Pulses by the sixty-eighth session of the United Nations General Assembly. * International Year of Global Understanding (IYGU) by the International Council for Science (ICSU), the Internationa ...

Beşiktaş *

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AEK Athens *

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Croatia *

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runner-up:

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; third place:

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Orders *

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: 2018

Individual

Centre-back of the Year: 2016–17 * Süper Lig Team of the Season: 2018–19,

* Super League Greece Team of the Season: 2023–24

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Vida, Domagoj 1989 births Living people People from Donji Miholjac Footballers from Osijek-Baranja County Croatian men's footballers 21st-century Croatian sportsmen Men's association football central defenders NK Osijek players Bayer 04 Leverkusen players GNK Dinamo Zagreb players FC Dynamo Kyiv players Beşiktaş J.K. footballers AEK Athens F.C. players Croatian Football League players Bundesliga players Ukrainian Premier League players Süper Lig players Super League Greece players Croatia men's youth international footballers Croatia men's under-21 international footballers Croatia men's international footballers UEFA Euro 2012 players 2014 FIFA World Cup players UEFA Euro 2016 players 2018 FIFA World Cup players UEFA Euro 2020 players 2022 FIFA World Cup players UEFA Euro 2024 players Croatian expatriate men's footballers Expatriate men's footballers in Germany Expatriate men's footballers in Turkey Expatriate men's footballers in Ukraine Expatriate men's footballers in Greece Croatian expatriate sportspeople in Germany Croatian expatriate sportspeople in Turkey Croatian expatriate sportspeople in Ukraine Croatian expatriate sportspeople in Greece FIFA Men's Century Club