Dejan Stefanović

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Dejan Stefanović
Personnel
birthday October 28, 1974
place of birth Niš ,  SFR Yugoslavia
size 180 cm
position Central defender
Men's
Years station Games (goals) 1
1992-1995 FK Red Star Belgrade 46 (9)
1995-1999 Sheffield Wednesday 66 (4)
1999 Perugia Calcio 0 (0)
2000 OFK Belgrade 0 (0)
2000-2003 Vitesse Arnhem 94 (4)
2003-2007 Portsmouth FC 112 (3)
2007-2008 Fulham FC 13 (0)
2008-2009 Norwich City 12 (0)
2009–2012 Havant & Waterlooville FC
National team
Years selection Games (goals)
1995-2004 Serbia and Montenegro 20 (0)
1 Only league games are given.
Status: end of career

Dejan Stefanović ( Cyrillic Дејан Стефановић , born October 28, 1974 in Niš , SFR Yugoslavia ) is a former Serbian football player . The central defender won the Yugoslav championship with Red Star Belgrade in 1995 .

Club career

Stefanović started his professional career in the 1992/93 season at the top Serbian club Red Star Belgrade . In 1995 he was national champion with the club, in 1993 and 1995 he won the national cup with his team.

At the end of December 1995 he was signed like his Belgrade teammate Darko Kovačević for two million pounds from the English first division club Sheffield Wednesday . Stefanović did not succeed at Sheffield in his four years to keep permanently in the regular formation. In 1999 he left the English club again and moved to Perugia Calcio on a free transfer , which he left only a short time later without having played a game and returned to his home country at OFK Belgrade . He stayed there only a few months before joining the Dutch club Vitesse Arnhem .

At Arnhem he quickly became a regular player and later also team captain. After four years in the Netherlands, he moved back to the Premier League in England at the beginning of the 2003/04 season. The Portsmouth paid 1.85 million pounds transfer fee to secure the services of central defender himself. Unlike his time at Sheffield, he was able to secure a regular place at Portsmouth and was voted Player of the Year by the fans in the 2005/06 season.

He was named team captain by coach Alain Perrin , but it is also rumored that his influence on then club president Milan Mandarić helped to dismiss the Frenchman and re- sign Harry Redknapp .

In the 2006/07 season, Stefanović was switched from central defense to the position of left full-back and was also able to convince in this position. With the obligations of Hermann Hreiðarsson and Sylvain Distin , his regular place was endangered, and he was replaced as captain by Sol Campbell . He then moved to league rivals Fulham FC for a million pounds in late August . After a year he joined Norwich City . In the summer of 2009 he left the club to end his career in the sixth-class National League South with Havant & Waterlooville FC.

National team

Stefanović made his debut in 1995 in a friendly against Hong Kong in the national team of the rest of Yugoslavia . Until his resignation in 2004, he completed 20 international matches for his national team, but he was denied participation in a major international tournament.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ bbc.co.uk: Pompey seal Stefanovic deal (June 20, 2003)
  2. ↑ portsmouth.co.uk: Dejan Stefanovic (Feb. 28, 2007) ( Memento of the original from September 27, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) 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. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.portsmouth.co.uk
  3. ↑ bbc.co.uk: Fulham complete Stefanovic deal (Aug. 31, 2007)

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personal data
SURNAME Stefanović, Dejan
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Serbian soccer player
DATE OF BIRTH October 28, 1974
PLACE OF BIRTH Niš