Saša Papac

Early career

Papac started his career with Široki Brijeg in the Bosnian Premier League in 2000. He made fourteen league appearances, scoring once for the club. He then moved to Austria with Kärnten a year later. Papac spent three years with Kärnten, making 100 appearances and scoring on three occasions. When Kärnten were relegated from the Austrian Bundesliga in 2004 he joined Austria Wien. While in Vienna he made 76 appearances (with three goals) and won the league in 2006. He was also part of the side which won successive Austrian Cups in 2005 and 2006.

Rangers

He signed for Rangers on 31 August 2006 for a fee of £450,000. He became Rangers' third signing from Austria Vienna in the 2006 summer transfer window, after Libor Sionko and Filip Šebo. Papac made his debut for Rangers on 17 September 2006, coming on as a half time substitute for Steven Smith in a Scottish Premier League game against Hibernian. The side went on to lose the match 2–1. With the arrival of Walter Smith in January 2007, Papac lost his place in the first team. He struggled to get into the side, making only one appearance in over two months, but returned towards the end of the season on the left side of defence. He was linked with a move to French club Saint-Etienne in the summer but rejected it in order to claim a first-team spot. He spent the early part of his career as a central defender but during his six-year stint at Rangers developed into a left-back. In the 2007–08 season Papac…

Papac made his debut on 12 January 2001, against Bangladesh at the Sahara Millennium Cup but quit in March 2007, citing problems with the staff at the Bosnian FA. He played his last match versus Greece before quitting the national team in October 2006. In January 2008, he decided to return to the international set-up under new boss Meho Kodro. Shortly after Kodro's dismissal, he was called up by new coach Miroslav Blažević but refused to come and retired from international football claiming it was to give space to new young players. However, in 2010 it emerged that Papac could make a return to the national team. In June 2011, Glasgow newspaper The Herald reported Papac was returning to international football. On 1 July 2011, Papac confirmed that he would return to play for the national team. His final international was a February 2012 friendly match against Brazil. In 2015, he was hired as a scout for the Bosnian national team.

On 15 November 2017, Papac was announced as the new sporting director of Bosnian Premier League side Željezničar. He left the club on 1 June 2018, after opting not to extended his contract.

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