Alen Peternac

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Alen Peternac

Full name	Alen Peternac
Date of birth	January 16, 1972 (1972-01-16) (age 36)
Place of birth	Zagreb, SFR Yugoslavia
Playing position	Striker
Senior clubs¹
Years	Club	App (Gls)*
1989-1995 1993-1995 1995-2000 2000-2001 2001-2002 2002-2003	Dinamo Zagreb HNK Segesta Real Valladolid Real Zaragoza Real Murcia Real Zaragoza	39 (7) 43 (20) 153 (53) 9 (0) 21 (2) 1 (0)
National team
1999	Croatia	2 (0)
¹ Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only. * Appearances (Goals)

Alen Peternac (born January 16, 1972) is a Croatian former football striker, who played professionally from 1989 to 2003 and spent the majority of his career playing for Spanish club Real Valladolid.

1 Early career
2 Valladolid (1995-2000)
3 Later career
4 References
5 External links

[edit] Early career

In 1989, Peternac started his football career at Dinamo Zagreb in his native city, and spent six seasons playing between Dinamo and HNK Segesta in the Croatian league before moving to Spain.

[edit] Valladolid (1995-2000)

Peternac spent five seasons at Real Valladolid, where he appeared in 153 league matches and scored 53 goals, becoming the all-time top goalscorer for the Valladolid in the first division. His goal total at the club also make him the second-highest Croatian goalscorer in La Liga history behind forward Davor Suker.

On May 19, 1996, on an 8-3 away victory for Valladolid against Oviedo which helped the club avoid direct relegation during the 1995-96 season, Peternac set a club record by scoring five goals, four of which were netted on penalty kicks.^[1] He finished that season among the league's top four scorers with 23 goals.

[edit] Later career

After the Valladolid years he joined Zaragoza, where he saw limited action in the 2000-01 season. He was then loaned to Murcia, where he played one season in Segunda División before closing out his career back with Zaragoza.

He made his international debut against Denmark in the 0-1 friendly loss in Split on 10 February 1999. He made two appearances overall for the Croatia national football team.