 After three successful years at Hajduk, Pralija moved to La Liga club Espanyol where he started off as a first-team regular under José Antonio Camacho, but soon fell out of the manager's favour so he returned to Hajduk for the second half of the 1998–99 season.After that he spent a year at Serie A club Reggina, before moving to the Israeli outfit Maccabi Haifa.At Maccabi Pralija had a very successful spell, playing alongside fellow Croat Đovani Roso and coached by Avram Grant.