Aleksandar Dragović

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Aleksandar Dragović
Aleksandar-Dragovic-2018-08-19.jpg
Dragović at the Bayer 04 season opener 2018
Personnel
birthday March 6, 1991
place of birth Vienna ,  Austria
size 184 cm
position Central defense
Juniors
Years station
1997-2007 FK Austria Vienna
Men's
Years station Games (goals) 1
2008-2011 FK Austria Vienna 67 (1)
2008 FK Austria Vienna II 8 (2)
2011-2013 FC Basel 77 (4)
2013-2016 Dynamo Kiev 66 (0)
2016– Bayer 04 Leverkusen 53 (2)
2017-2018 →  Leicester City  (loan) 11 (0)
National team
Years selection Games (goals) 2
Austria U-16 1 (0)
2007-2008 Austria U-17 11 (2)
2008-2009 Austria U-19 6 (2)
2009– Austria 80 (1)
1 Only league games are given.
Status: end of season 2019/20

2 As of November 19, 2019

Aleksandar Dragović (born March 6, 1991 in Vienna ) is an Austrian football player . The central defender has been under contract with German Bundesliga club Bayer 04 Leverkusen since the 2016/17 season .

Club career

Aleksandar Dragović on the ball for Austria Vienna

Dragović had started his career in the youth department of FK Austria Wien , before he was only included in the second team in 2008 and in the first team during the same year. He was a U-17 national player and a regular at the beginning of the 2008/09 season, he also won the Austrian Cup in 2009.

In February 2011 Dragović moved to FC Basel . He made his debut on February 12, 2011 in a 3-0 home win against FC St. Gallen . At the end of the 2010/11 season he became Swiss champions with FC Basel. He played in the watch cup with his new club and won the tournament. He scored his first goal in the Swiss football championship with a 1-0 goal in a 3-0 home win against Servette FC Genève on October 1, 2011. At the end of the 2011/12 season , he again won the championship title and won the tournament in the Swiss Cup also the double .

At the end of the 2012/13 season , Dragović became Swiss champions for the third time with FC Basel and stood with the team in the cup final , which they lost in the penalty shoot-out. In the UEFA Europa League 2012/13 Dragović made it to the semi-finals with FC Basel, where he was eliminated from the then reigning Champions League and later tournament winner, Chelsea .

On July 26, 2013 Dragović signed a five-year contract with Dynamo Kiev . In his first season he won the 2013/14 Ukrainian Cup with Dynamo Kiev. The following season he played with the club in the group stage of the Champions League, becoming Ukrainian champion and cup winner. In the 2015/16 season he reached the last sixteen of the Champions League with Dynamo Kiev and repeated the championship win. In July 2016 - shortly before his move to Leverkusen - he won the Ukrainian Supercup 2016 against Shakhtar Donetsk .

On August 23, 2016, he moved to the German Bundesliga club Bayer 04 Leverkusen , where he was given a contract that ran until the end of June 2021. For the 2017/18 season , Dragović was awarded to English first division club Leicester City on August 31, 2017 . After returning to Leverkusen for the 2018/19 season, he scored his first Bundesliga goal in the 6-2 away win against Werder Bremen on October 28, 2018 (9th match day).

National team career

Dragović in an international match against Iceland (2014)

Dragović gained experience in the Austrian U-16s (one game), the U-17 (eleven games, two goals) and U-19 selection (six games, two goals). In his first season as a regular for Austria Wien he was called up to the squad of the senior national team for the qualifying game for the 2010 World Cup against Romania , but could not play because he injured his nose in training before the game. For the qualification game against Serbia on June 6, 2009 he was nominated again under ÖFB team boss Dietmar Constantini . In this game he made his team debut, where he was used from the start. He scored his first goal for the national team on November 18, 2014 in a 2-1 home defeat against Brazil with a penalty.

For the Euro 2016 in France he was accepted into the Austrian squad. In the first game against Hungary (0: 2) he was in the starting line-up and was sent off in the 66th minute after repeated foul play with a yellow-red card . After a game suspension, he was called up in the third game again in the starting lineup. Austria lost this and was eliminated from the tournament as the bottom of the group after the preliminary round with only one point.

Life

Dragović's parents come from Grocka , a suburb of Belgrade .

In the spring of 2012, he came under public criticism after a humorous patting on the head of the Swiss Federal Councilor Ueli Maurer . After saying during the championship celebration that it was "very difficult" for him to apologize and that everyone knew inside that it was "very, very fun", he apologized personally to Maurer in Bern on May 25th.

titles and achievements

FK Austria Vienna

FC Basel

Dynamo Kiev

Personally

Web links

Commons : Aleksandar Dragović  - collection of images

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Aleksandar Dragovic comes to FCB . FC Basel website. 2011. Archived from the original on May 28, 2013. Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved January 30, 2011. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.fcb.ch
  2. ↑ FC Basel are Swiss champions . fussball.ch. May 25, 2011. Retrieved May 25, 2011.
  3. ↑ FC Basel are Swiss champions . fussball.ch. May 25, 2011. Retrieved May 25, 2011.
  4. ↑ Dominik Weber: Sovereign FC Basel beat Servette Geneva 3-0 . FC Basel website. 2011. Archived from the original on January 15, 2013. Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved October 1, 2011. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.fcb.ch
  5. ↑ Michael Schifferle: Season Review: Switzerland . Eufa. 2013. Retrieved June 10, 2013.
  6. ^ SFV: Telegram Swiss Cup Final . Swiss Football Association. 2013. Retrieved May 20, 2013.
  7. ↑ Michael Schifferle: The miracle for Basel is missing . Eufa. 2013. Retrieved May 3, 2013.
  8. ↑ Dragovic: “I took the next step” , kurier.at, accessed on July 26, 2013
  9. ↑ Dragovic speaks about his 2015 highlights , laola.at, accessed December 2015
  10. ↑ Bayer 04 sign national player Dragovic from Kiev ( memento from 23 August 2016 in the Internet Archive ); bayer04.de, published and accessed on August 23, 2016
  11. ^ Dragovic on loan to Leicester City ; bayer04.de, August 31, 2017, accessed September 1, 2017
  12. ↑ 6: 2! Havertz and Co. take Bremen's defense apart , match report on kicker.de, accessed on October 29, 2018.
  13. ↑ Match report on kicker.de, accessed on June 14, 2016
  14. ^ Dragović: FSS me nije zvao, teška srca sam prihvatio poziv Austrije. In: Blic.rs. November 21, 2015, accessed May 11, 2016 (sr-SP).
  15. ↑ Dragovic annoys Ueli Maurer , youtube.com, video file, length 0:16 minutes, from May 16, 2012, accessed on June 15, 2016
  16. ↑ Negative headlines about ÖFB defender Dragovic (May 21, 2012)
  17. ↑ Dragovic case escalates into state affair (May 24, 2012)
  18. ↑ Here Dragovic apologizes (May 25, 2012)
personal data
SURNAME Dragović, Aleksandar
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian soccer player
DATE OF BIRTH March 6, 1991
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna , Austria