Dejan Milovanović

Dejan Milovanović
	Milovanović with Lens in 2009
Personal information
Full name	Dejan Milovanović
Date of birth	21 January 1984 (age 40)
Place of birth	Belgrade, SFR Yugoslavia
Height	1.80 m (5 ft 11 in)
Position(s)	Midfielder
Youth career
	Red Star Belgrade
Senior career*
Years	Team
2001–2008	Red Star Belgrade
2008–2011	Lens
2010–2011	→ Red Star Belgrade (loan)
2011–2013	Panionios
2013–2014	Voždovac
Total
International career
2003–2007	Serbia U21
2008	Serbia
Medal record
	*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Dejan Milovanović (Serbian Cyrillic: Дејан Миловановић; born 21 January 1984) is a Serbian retired professional footballer who played as a midfielder.

Personal life

He is the son of Đorđe Milovanović, a member of Red Star Belgrade in the late 1970s and early to mid 1980s. Dejan is also the cousin of former Serbian international Branislav Ivanović.^[1]

Club career

Red Star Belgrade

Milovanović was a member of the talented 1984 generation, and was the first to become a first team player from that group. He made his debut for Red Star Belgrade on 17 November 2001 when he was 17. In that match Zvezda won against FK Zemun, the score finishing 2–0. He gathered the attention of the public on his debut, in a derby game against Partizan in which he worked his way past 3 players in fantastic style, scoring a goal that wrapped up the 3–0 victory.

Milovanović has played for the Red Star Belgrade first team since 2001 and he has been the captain of club since 2006. He was also team captain of the Serbian under-21 team who finished second at the 2007 UEFA European Under-21 Championship in the Netherlands. Milovanović played over 200 games for Red Star Belgrade and won three doubles.

Lens

On 4 July 2008, Milovanović officially signed a four-year contract with Lens for an undisclosed fee. Milovanović has been announced as one of the main new signings in the club's effort to return to the top French league. In the summer of 2010, RC Lens allowed Milovanović to return to his former club, Red Star, on a season long loan with an option for a permanent deal.

Voždovac

Milovanović signed with newly promoted Serbian side FK Voždovac in August 2013.^[2]

International career

Milovanović was capped twice for Serbia in 2008. With Serbia U21 he played in three UEFA European Under-21 Championships, in 2004, 2006 and 2007. He has won two silver medals in these competitions. He was also part of the Serbia and Montenegro squad at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens.

He especially made a good impression in the 2007 UEFA European Under-21 Championship in the Netherlands, carrying the captain's armband, on the way to the finals; in the first match he scored a winning goal against Italy.

Career statistics

Club performance			League		Cup		Continental		Total
Season	Club	League	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals
Serbia			League		Serbian Cup		Europe		Total
2001–02	Red Star Belgrade	SuperLiga	18	2	3	0	0	0	21	2
2002–03			26	1	5	0	4	1	35	2
2003–04			21	0	3	0	2	0	26	0
2004–05			18	0	3	0	4	0	25	0
2005–06			23	2	5	2	4	0	32	4
2006–07			23	3	5	1	6	1	34	5
2007–08			26	9	3	2	5	0	34	11
France			League		Coupe de France		Europe		Total
2008–09	Lens	Ligue 2	24	2	0	0	0	0	24	2
2009–10	Lens	Ligue 1	16	0	2	0	0	0	18	0
Serbia			League		Serbian Cup		Europe		Total
2010–11	Red Star Belgrade (loan)	SuperLiga	18	3	3	1	2	0	23	4
Greece			League		Greek Cup		Europe		Total
2011–12	Panionios	Superleague	14	0	0	0	0	0	14	0
2012–13	Panionios	Superleague	2	0	0	0	0	0	2	0
Serbia			League		Serbian Cup		Europe		Total
2013–14	Voždovac	SuperLiga	23	0	2	0	0	0	25	0
			League		Cup		Continental		Total
Total	Serbia		196	20	32	6	27	2	255	28
	France		40	2	2	0	0	0	42	2
	Greece		16	0	0	0	0	0	16	0
Career total			252	22	34	6	27	2	313	30

Honours

Red Star Belgrade

Lens

Ligue 2: 2008–09

References

^ Blic (12 April 2009). "Bane ima dušu veliku kao Srem" (in Serbian). Retrieved 8 June 2013.
^ [1] Blic Sport: Liveblog: Transferi: Milan zove Kačara, Milovanović u Voždovcu, Kasiljas razmišlja i o Arsenalu (in Serbian) 21 August 2013

External links

Dejan Milovanović at Soccerway
Dejan Milovanović at WorldFootball.net
Dejan Milovanović at Reprezentacija.rs (in Serbian)
Dejan Milovanović – French league stats at LFP – also available in French (archived)

[Bane_ima_dušu_veliku_kao_Srem-1] Blic (12 April 2009). "Bane ima dušu veliku kao Srem" (in Serbian). Retrieved 8 June 2013.

[2] [1] Blic Sport: Liveblog: Transferi: Milan zove Kačara, Milovanović u Voždovcu, Kasiljas razmišlja i o Arsenalu (in Serbian) 21 August 2013

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