Ivan Petrović (footballer, born 1978)

Ivan Petrović
Personal information
Full name Ivan Petrović
Date of birth (1978-10-05) 5 October 1978 (age 46)
Place of birth Kraljevo, SFR Yugoslavia
Height 1.85 m (6 ft 1 in)[1]
Position(s) Midfielder
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
Sloga Kraljevo
Partizan
Milicionar
2001–2004 Čukarički 21 (2)
2004–2006 OFK Beograd
2007 Nanjing
2007–2011 Ethnikos Achna 41 (8)
2011 OFK Beograd 4 (0)
2016–2017 Radnički Kovači 9 (1)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 18 January 2018

Ivan Petrović (Serbian Cyrillic: Иван Петровић; born 5 October 1978) is a Serbian retired footballer who played as a midfielder. He is a president of Apolon football academy which corresponds as the youth team of OFK Radnički and also based in Kovači.[2]

Club career

Born in Kraljevo, Petrović played with local club Sloga at the beginning of career. Later he played with Partizan, Milicionar[3] and Čukarički until 2004, when he signed with joined OFK Beograd.[4] After he left the club, Petrović moved to Nanjing, where he spent some period playing with local club.[5] Petrović also played with Ethnikos Achna between 2007 and 2011. In summer 2011, he returned to OFK Beograd, where he ended his professional career.[6] After he ended his professional career, Petrović returned to his home town and joined OFK Radnički Kovači.

Petrović is also one of founders of FC Apolon,[7] which organized as an academy of OFK Radnički Kovači.[8] At the beginning of 2016, Petrović was elected as a president of football association of Kraljevo.[9]

In the first half of 2016–17 season, Petrović also made 1 appearance for Radnički Kovači in the Morava Zone League. He was substituted in during the fifth fixture match against Tutin, and later scored a goal from direct free kick for 2–0 victory.[10] He also made 8 appearances for the team in second half-season as the most experienced midfielder in front of Dejan Radosavljević and Milutin Trnavac.[11]

References

  1. ^ "Ivan Petrović". jelenfootball.com (in Serbian). Retrieved 27 September 2012.
  2. ^ Краљевачки Аполон потписао уговор о сарадњи са кијевским Динамом. Sportski žurnal (in Serbian). 18 January 2018. Retrieved 18 January 2018.
  3. ^ "Petrovic, Ivan". dekisa.tripod.com (in Serbian). Retrieved 8 January 2017.
  4. ^ "Ivan Petrović u OFK Beogradu". B92 (in Serbian). 14 July 2004. Retrieved 8 January 2017.
  5. ^ "Uprava i treneri". FC Apolon official website (in Serbian). Retrieved 8 January 2017.
  6. ^ "Petrović i Stanojević jačaju vezu". OFK Beograd official website (in Serbian). 30 June 2011. Retrieved 8 January 2017.
  7. ^ ""Orlovi" uveličali otvaranje "Apolona"". kraljevo.com (in Serbian). 28 May 2010. Retrieved 8 January 2017.
  8. ^ "FK Apolon Kraljevo: Zadovoljstvo posle prve petoletke". srbijasport.net (in Serbian). 22 September 2015. Retrieved 8 January 2017.
  9. ^ "Početak koji (ne) obećava". srbijasport.net (in Serbian). 17 January 2016. Retrieved 8 January 2017.
  10. ^ "ZM : OFK Radnički (K) - Tutin 2:0". srbijasport.net (in Serbian). 12 September 2016. Retrieved 8 January 2017.
  11. ^ Раднички Ковачи - статистички приказ сезоне (PDF). [email protected] (in Serbian). Retrieved 13 June 2017.


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