Dino Arslanagic: Footy star learns his fate after threatening to kill a cop by shooting him in the head during drunken rampage

Footy star Dino Arslanagic has pleaded guilty to charges including intimidating a police officer after telling a cop ‘one bullet in your head, you’re dead’ as he was being thrown out of a trendy Sydney bar on December 19.

The A-League player has been sacked by the Macarthur club as a result of his drunken rampage outside the Jam Bar in the city’s CBD.

On Wednesday a Sydney court heard that the 31-yerar-old Belgian had been drinking in the Hunter Valley and dining at the well-known Totti’s restaurant before continuing his night at Jam Bar with his fiancee, Vasilisa Artemova.

Arslanagic’s lawyer told the court the star ‘freely admits having consumed a significant amount of alcohol’ during the day and staff asked him to leave the Jam Bar when he reacted aggressively to another man touching his partner.

Police attended the scene to escort them out and the court heard Arslanagic told one of the officers ‘Do you want to f***ing go?’.

When the player resisted their efforts to move him on, one of the officers used capsicum spray, with Arslanagic reacting by saying, ‘You spray my eye, do you know who I am? I play football.’

The court heard he then made a gun gesture with his hand and told constable Talon Bolton-Plimmer, ‘I’ll shoot you’ and ‘I will kill you’.

He followed that by telling the officers, ‘Come to my country, one bullet in your head, you’re dead.’

The court heard Artemova positioned herself between her partner and the police and pushed constable Caleb Hansford, who then wrestled with Arslanagic.

The star pleaded guilty to charges of intimidating a police officer in execution of their duty, resisting a police officer in execution of their duty, and being an excluded person who failed to leave a  premises when required, and was fined $1500.

Artemova pleaded guilty to assaulting and resisting a police officer in execution of their duty. She was fined $1500, with their lawyer telling the court they were ‘ashamed’ of their actions.

Magistrate Daniel Covington noted that the couple pleaded guilty without delay.

Arslanagic played for a long list of top-flight clubs before starting his Aussie journey with Macarthur FC last year, including Antwerp, Gent and Standard Liege.

He made nine appearances in the A-League in addition to representing his country from the under-15s through to the under-21s from 2008 to 2014.