Vladimir Torbica

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Vladimir Torbica
Personal information
Full name Vladimir Torbica
Date of birth (1980-09-20) 20 September 1980 (age 43)
Place of birth Sombor, SFR Yugoslavia
Height 1.75 m (5 ft 9 in)
Position(s) Midfielder
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
1997–2007 Mladost Apatin 99 (19)
2007–2008 Zlatibor Voda 23 (6)
2008–2019 Spartak Subotica 294 (44)
Total 416 (69)
International career
1998 FR Yugoslavia U18[a] 3 (0)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Vladimir Torbica (Serbian Cyrillic: Владимир Торбица; born 20 September 1980) is a Serbian former professional footballer who played as a midfielder.

Club career[edit]

Born in Sombor, Torbica made his senior debuts at Mladost Apatin in 1997. He spent the following 10 seasons at the club, before moving to Zlatibor Voda in 2007. After winning the Serbian League Vojvodina in the 2007–08 campaign, the club merged with Spartak Subotica and continued to compete in the Serbian First League.

In early 2009, Torbica spent some time training with Partizan,[1][2] but the transfer never happened. He eventually returned to Spartak Subotica and led the side to promotion to the Serbian SuperLiga. Subsequently, Torbica helped the club finish in fourth place in its first season in the top flight after a decade, thus earning a spot in the 2010–11 UEFA Europa League. He converted two penalties for a 2–1 home win over Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk in the first leg of the third qualifying round. However, they were eliminated after a 0–2 loss at Dnipro-Arena.

After having spent over a decade with Spartak Subotica, Torbica retired at the conclusion of the 2018–19 season.

International career[edit]

Torbica made three appearances for FR Yugoslavia at under-18 level during the team's unsuccessful qualifiers for the 1999 UEFA Under-18 Championship.

Statistics[edit]

Club Season League Cup Continental Total
Apps Goals Apps Goals Apps Goals Apps Goals
Spartak Subotica 2009–10 25 1 2 0 27 1
2010–11 28 8 2 0 4 3 34 11
2011–12 28 9 2 0 30 9
2012–13 27 3 3 0 30 3
2013–14 26 4 5 1 31 5
2014–15 28 4 3 0 31 4
2015–16 27 4 5 0 32 4
2016–17 33 2 0 0 33 2
2017–18 26 2 2 2 28 4
2018–19 15 0 2 0 5 0 22 0
Total 263 37 26 3 9 3 298 43

Notes[edit]

  1. ^ Only official UEFA matches included

References[edit]

  1. ^ "Crno-beli fleš" (in Serbian). partizan.rs. 3 February 2009. Retrieved 2 June 2017.
  2. ^ "Trening za pune oči" (in Serbian). partizan.rs. 4 February 2009. Retrieved 2 June 2017.

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