Dejan Ljubicic

Dejan Ljubicic
Dejan Ljubicic (2017)
Personnel
birthday	October 8, 1997
place of birth	Vienna ,  Austria
size	186 cm
position	midfield player
Juniors
Years	station
2004-2006	Favoritner AC
2006-2015	SK Rapid Vienna
Men's
Years	station	Games (goals) 1
2015-2017	SK Rapid Vienna II	45 (3)
2017–	SK Rapid Vienna	77 (6)
2017-2018	→  SC Wiener Neustadt  (cooperation)	7 (0)
National team
Years	selection	Games (goals) 2
2014	Austria U-17	1 (0)
2015	Austria U-18	3 (0)
2015-2016	Austria U-19	2 (0)
2017-2019	Austria U-21	12 (0)
1 Only league games are given. As of July 5, 2020 2 As of June 23, 2019

Dejan Ljubicic (born October 8, 1997 in Vienna ) is an Austrian football player .

Career

society

Born in Vienna, Dejan Ljubicic first played for the Favoritner AC as a child . In 2006 he joined the youth team at SK Rapid Vienna . After going through various youth teams, he moved up to the amateur team in the summer of 2015.

He made his debut for Rapid's second team in July 2015, when he was in the starting line-up against FK Austria Wien II on matchday one of the 2015/16 season until he was replaced in the 81st minute. At the end of the season he had 20 goalless games to book. In the following season he played 25 games in which he scored three goals.

In July 2017, Ljubicic received a professional contract with Rapid, but was immediately awarded as a cooperation player to the second division club SC Wiener Neustadt . In the same month he made his debut in the second division when he was in the starting line-up against SV Ried on the first day of the 2017/18 season.

In August 2017, due to the absence of Maximilian Wöber, he was ordered back into training with the Viennese, but could have played again as a cooperation player for Wiener Neustadt. In the same month he made his debut for Rapid in the Bundesliga , when he was in the starting line-up against LASK on matchday six , until he was replaced by Stephan Auer in the 78th minute . In the winter transfer window of season 2019/20, a change to the failed MLS - Franchise Chicago Fire due to a diagnosed by the doctors of Chicago Fire cruciate ligament injury. At SK Rapid Wien, this assessment was not shared after an accompanying investigation.

National team

Ljubicic played his only game for the Austrian U-17 team against Serbia in June 2014 . Between April and May 2015 he came to three missions for the U-18 team .

In October 2015, he played his first of two games for the U-19 team against Switzerland . In October 2017 he made his debut against Armenia for the U-21 selection .

Personal

Ljubicic's parents are Bosnian Croats who fled to Austria before the war . His father Zoran played as a striker for SKN St. Pölten, among others . His brother Robert (* 1999) is also a soccer player. Dejan Ljubicic grew up in Pressbaum and in Vienna .

At the end of December 2017, Ljubicic was temporarily arrested in the Bosnian city ​​of Kiseljak for vandalism because he and one other person had thrown glass bottles at a mosque. This incident was strongly condemned by the Rapid management team; Ljubicic apologized and agreed to repair the damage and make a donation to the affected religious community.

Web links

Commons : Dejan Ljubicic  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Dejan Ljubicic in the database of weltfussball.de
• Dejan Ljubicic in the database of transfermarkt.de
• Dejan Ljubicic in the database of fussballoesterreich.at

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c} Alexander Huber: Ljubicic: “I haven't been really angry for a long time” . kurier.at , October 21, 2017, accessed December 30, 2017.
2. ↑ Dejan Ljubicic receives a professional contract until 2020 . Press release from SK Rapid Vienna, July 7, 2017, accessed on December 30, 2017.
3. ↑ Current news about the professional team . Press release from SK Rapid Vienna, August 22, 2017, accessed on December 30, 2017.
4. ↑ Ljubicic: Rapid defense chief instead of US legionnaire - derStandard.at. Retrieved June 13, 2020 (Austrian German). 
5. ↑ Zoran Ljubicic . transfermarkt.at, accessed on December 30, 2017.
6. ↑ "Little brother" before a big jump  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. meinfussball.at, December 20, 2017, accessed May 12, 2018  
7. ↑ Alexander Huber: Ljubicic: "I haven't been really angry for a long time". In: Courier. Telekurier Online Medien GmbH & Co KG, October 21, 2017, accessed on July 25, 2020 . 
8. ↑ Vienna professional throws bottles at mosque , t-online.de from December 30, 2017, accessed on January 1, 2018
9. ↑ Statements on media reports about Dejan Ljubicic on the SK Rapid website from December 29, 2017, accessed on January 1, 2018