Vladimir Torbica

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

Vladimir Torbica
Personal information
Full name Vladimir Torbica
Date of birth (1980-09-20) 20 September 1980
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)
National team
1998 FR Yugoslavia U18[lower-alpha 1] 3 (0)
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only

Club career

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

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
Club Season League Cup Continental Total
AppsGoalsAppsGoalsAppsGoalsAppsGoals
Spartak Subotica 2009–10 25120—271
2010–11 28820433411
2011–12 28920—309
2012–13 27330—303
2013–14 26451—315
2014–15 28430—314
2015–16 27450—324
2016–17 33200—332
2017–18 26222—284
2018–19 1502050220
Total 263372639330343

Notes
  1. Only official UEFA matches included

References
  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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