Stipe Pletikosa

I have a soft spot for goalkeepers, and Stipe Pletikosa embodies why. At 193 cm out of Split, he spent years as Croatia's last line of defense, doing the most thankless job in football, where a single error outweighs a hundred saves. What interests me more is the second act: returning to the Croatian Football Federation as technical director, shaping the national and under-21 setups. There's a quiet integrity in moving from guarding the goal to guarding the pipeline of talent behind it. He never needed flashy headlines to matter, and that understated, institution-building career is exactly the kind I find admirable.

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Name (English)

Stipe Pletikosa

Name (Japanese)

スティペ・プレティコサ

Reading

すてぃぺ・ぷれてぃこさ

Born

January 8, 1979 (age 47)

Origin

Split, Croatia

Height

193 cm

Occupation

association football player

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Capricorn / Goat

• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stipe%20Pletikosa
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%B9%E3%83%86%E3%82%A3%E3%83%9A%E3%83%BB%E3%83%97%E3%83%AC%E3%83%86%E3%82%A3%E3%82%B3%E3%82%B5
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q208706

Tags

• association football player

Last updated

November 2, 2026

Only publicly available facts are listed; non-public or unconfirmed items are omitted. Base data was compiled from Wikidata from June 2026 onward; ages are recalculated daily and deaths are checked against Wikidata on an ongoing basis. English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.