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Nicolás Perić

Peric playing for Audax Italiano in 2006
Personal information
Full name	Nicolás Miroslav Perić Villarreal
Date of birth	(1978-10-19) October 19, 1978 (age 46)
Place of birth	Talca, Chile
Height	1.83 m (6 ft 0 in)
Position(s)	Goalkeeper
Team information
Current team	Audax Italiano
Number	--
Youth career
	Rangers
Senior career*
Years	Team	Apps	(Gls)
1998–2003	Rangers	102	(0)
2004	Universidad de Concepción	29	(1)
2005	Unión Española	5	(0)
2006–2007	Audax Italiano	82	(0)
2008	Gençlerbirliği	15	(0)
2009	Everton	10	(0)
2009–2010	Argentinos Juniors	20	(0)
2010	Olimpia Asuncion	13	(0)
2011	Cobreloa	35	(0)
2012–2014	Rangers	32	(0)
2014–2015	Cobresal	31	(0)
2015–	Audax Italiano	0	(0)
International career‡
2001–2012	Chile	5	(0)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 2 December 2012 ‡ National team caps and goals, correct as of 16 October 2012

Nicolás Miroslav Perić Villarreal (born 19 October 1978 in Talca, Chile), is a Chilean goalkeeper of Croatian origin who currently plays for Audax Italiano. His nickname is Loco (crazy).

Peric began his professional career in his home team of Rangers. He then spent one year with U. de Concepción in 2004. In December 2004 Peric was suspended for six months by the CONMEBOL because he had tested positive for cocaine -he and team members would have drunk coca leaf tea before the game- against Bolívar in La Paz, Bolivia. In that very game Peric scored a goal.^[1][2] Returning for the Clausura of 2005, Peric was set to play for U. de Concepción but refused to stating the financial state of the club as the reason. He was soon sold to Unión Española where he rarely got playing time, but the club was the defending champions.

His best moment of his career in Chile came with Audax Italiano where he has played in the Copa Libertadores and has finished runner-up and third place in the 2006 Clausura and the 2007 Apertura tournaments respectively. For the 2007 Copa America Peric received a call up the national team. On January 7, 2008, it was confirmed that, Chilean goalkeeper would play for Gençlerbirliği in Ankara, Turkey.^[3]

Peric joined the Turkish club in January 2008. As the season winded down the team was able to ultimately avoid relegation from the Turkcell Super League. That same year the club reached the final of the Fortis Turkey Cup losing to Kayseri based Kayserispor on penalty kicks.^[4]

On December the 2nd, 2008, Peric and the club parted ways, apparently due to his recent injury troubles and lack of first team football.^[5]

Peric was signed by new Argentinos Juniors manager Claudio Borghi in 2009. He played occasionally in the Apertura 2009 tournament but established himself as the first choice goalkeeper for the Clausura 2010 championship playing in 16 of the club's 19 games during their championship winning campaign. He missed the final game due to an injury sustained in the 4-3 victory against Independiente in the penultimate round of fixtures.

Argentinos Juniors

• Argentine Primera División (1): Clausura 2010

• Gençlerbirliği Site Profile
• Profile at TFF.org
• Template:Es icon Primera División statistics
• Nicolás Peric at National-Football-Teams.com

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