Ivan Turina (Serbo-Croatian pronunciation: [iːʋan turina];3 October 1980, Zagreb - 2 May 2013,Solna) was a Croatian football goalkeeper who was until the time of his death playing for AIK.

Club career

Turina started his professional career with Dinamo Zagreb in the summer of 1998, initially serving as the club's fourth-choice goalkeeper behind Dražen Ladić, Tomislav Butina and Vladimir Vasilj. He did not make any competitive appearances for Dinamo until 2003 and also spent three seasons on loan to Croatia Sesvete, Kamen Ingrad and Osijek.

Turina became the first-choice goalkeeper at Dinamo Zagreb during the 2003–04 season, making 22 appearances in the Croatian First League. He also made his first two UEFA Cup appearances for the club in the autumn of 2003. The 2004–05 season saw him making 12 domestic league appearances for Dinamo as their second-choice goalkeeper, but then he went on to regain his place as the first-choice goalkeeper at the club for the 2005–06 season and appeared in all of their 32 domestic league matches during a title-winning season.

He also started the 2006–07 season as Dinamo Zagreb's first-choice goalkeeper, appearing in all of their four UEFA Champions League qualifiers against Ekranas and Arsenal as well as both of their UEFA Cup matches against Auxerre early in the season. However, a couple of costly blunders saw him losing his place to Filip Lončarić by the end of September 2006, after the opening 7 domestic league matches of the season, and he made no further competitive appearances for the club before eventually being sold to Skoda Xanthi of the Greek Super Leaguein the summer of 2007 after Dinamo signed Georg Koch as their new first-choice goalkeeper.

At Skoda Xanthi, Turina started the 2007–08 season as the first-choice goalkeeper, but lost his place to Michael Gspurning after the opening 8 matches in the Super League and made no further appearances in the league until the end of the season. On 26 August 2008, he signed a three-year contract with Polish Ekstraklasa club Lech Poznań, where he was the first-choice goalkeeper at some stages of the 2008–09 season, making 12 appearances in the Ekstraklasa and 6 in the UEFA Cup.

On 11 September 2009, Turina terminated his contract with Lech Poznań and started training with Dinamo Zagreb later that month. On 28 January 2010, Dinamo Zagreb confirmed the signing of Turina on a short-term contract until the end of the 2009–10 season. His only competitive appearance for Dinamo during the 2009–10 season came on 14 April 2010 in their 2–1 win atVarteks, where he replaced Tomislav Butina at half-time.

On 26 May 2010, Turina signed a three-and-a-half-year deal with the reigning Swedish championsAIK from Stockholm, where he was previously on trial for more than a week. He made his league debut for the club on 17 July 2010 in a 2–0 win at home to Malmö.

nternational career

In September 1996, Turina won two international caps for the Croatian national under-17 football team and went on to appear in four international matches for the Croatian national under-19 football team between October 1998 and May 1999. He also appeared in four international friendlies for the Croatian national under-21 football team in 2000.

On 1 February 2006, Turina won his only international cap for the Croatian national football team in their friendly match against Hong Kong at the 2006 Carlsberg Cup, coming on as a half-time substitute for Joey Didulica. Croatia won the match 4–0.

Death

On 2 May 2013, Turina was found dead in his apartment in Solna. Turina presumably died of heart failure during sleep.