Aleksandar Đurić
| Aleksandar Đurić | ||
 Đurić in the national shirt of Singapore against Lebanon (March 2008)
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| Personnel | ||
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| birthday | August 12, 1970 | |
| place of birth | Doboj , Yugoslavia | |
| size | 192 cm | |
| position | striker | |
| Men's | ||
| Years | station | Games (goals) 1 |
| 1992 | FK Sloga Doboj | |
| 1993 | Szeged LC | 24 (7) |
| 1994-1995 | South Melbourne FC | 15 (4) |
| 1995 | Port Melbourne Sharks | 10 (0) |
| 1995-1996 | South Melbourne FC | 5 (0) |
| 1996 | Port Melbourne Sharks | 18 (12) |
| 1996-1997 | Gippsland Falcons | 15 (4) |
| 1997 | Tianjin locomotive | 16 (2) |
| 1997-1998 | West Adelaide SC | 8 (3) |
| 1998 | Heidelberg United | 8 (2) |
| 1998-1999 | West Adelaide SC | 27 (5) |
| 1999 | Tanjong Pagar United | 16 (11) |
| 1999-2000 | Marconi Stallions | 15 (2) |
| 2000 | Sydney Olympic | 3 (0) |
| 2000 | Home United | 10 (6) |
| 2001-2004 | Geylang United | 126 (97) |
| 2005-2009 | FC Singapore Armed Forces | 150 (129) |
| 2010-2014 | Tampines Rovers | 137 (78) |
| National team | ||
| Years | selection | Games (goals) |
| 2007–2012 | Singapore | 54 (27) |
| 1 Only league games are given. | ||
Aleksandar Đurić (born August 12, 1970 in Doboj , Yugoslavia ) is a former Bosnian-Herzegovinian canoeist and Singaporean football player on the position of the striker . At the end of his career in 2014, at the age of 44, he was the oldest still active professional footballer.
canoe
Before his football career, Đurić was a canoeist and four-time Yugoslav youth champion. Because of the beginning of the Yugoslav wars, he came to southern Hungary, where he received the offer to represent the young state of Bosnia and Herzegovina at the 1992 Olympic Games in Barcelona. Without prior training or his own equipment, Đurić came to Spain, sometimes by hitchhiking . In the single canoe over 500 m he finished last among 19 participants under these circumstances.
Soccer
Club teams
About clubs in former Yugoslavia and Hungary came Đurić to Australia in 1994 , where he was first under contract with South Melbourne FC . Until the end of the decade he played mainly for various Australian clubs, most recently at Sydney Olympic . In 2000 Đurić moved to Home United in the city-state of Singapore, where he worked briefly for Tanjong Pagar United in 1999 . With Home United he won the Singapore Cup in 2000 .
From 2001 to 2004 Đurić played for Geylang United , in 2001 he won the S. League for the first time with this team . The former Yugoslav experienced his most successful sporting period from 2005 when he played for the Singapore Armed Forces club, the Singapore Armed Forces FC . Đurić won the Cup twice and the championship four times, and in 2007 and 2008 he was Singapore's top scorer. He has been under contract with Tampines Rovers since 2010 . In the 2010 season Đurić was the first player to score his 300th goal in the S. League.
At the end of his career he had finally scored 321 goals in 439 league games and an additional 49 goals in 84 other competitive games for Singaporean teams. In Australia, he had previously scored 16 goals in 81 league games.
National team
Aleksandar Đurić made his debut for the Singapore national soccer team in November 2007 after receiving citizenship of the country. In the World Cup qualifier against Tajikistan , the then 37-year-old scored both goals for a 2-0 win. Most recently, Zuletzturić was in the Asian World Cup qualifiers in 2011 , where he scored two goals in the second round against Malaysia and scored one of the two goals for Singapore in the group stage of the third round.
successes
- S. League (8 ×): 2001, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2011, 2012, 2013
- Singapore Cup (3 ×): 2000, 2007, 2008
Awards
- Top scorer (4 ×): 2007, 2008, 2009, 2013
- Singapore's Player of the Year (3 ×): 2007, 2008, 2012
- Southeast Asian Champion (1 ×): 2012
Web links
- Aleksandar Đurić in the database of National-Football-Teams.com (English)
- Aleksandar Đurić in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
- Interview at tipura.com (Croatian)
Individual evidence
- ↑ The value is uncertain because data is not collected uniformly and completely. Other sources also cite 53 games and 24 goals or 36 games and 19 goals.
- ↑ sleague.com
- ↑ Singapore - Tajikistan 2: 0 (2: 0) ( Memento from July 8, 2012 in the Internet Archive )
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Đurić, Aleksandar |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Bosnian-Herzegovinian canoeist and Singaporean football player |
| DATE OF BIRTH | August 12, 1970 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Doboj , Yugoslavia |