Ivan Obradović

Ivan Obradović
Personal information
Full name Ivan Obradović
Date of birth (1988-07-25) 25 July 1988
Place of birth Obrenovac, SFR Yugoslavia
Height 1.81 m (5 ft 11 1⁄2 in)
Playing position Left back
Club information
Current team
 Anderlecht
Number 37
Youth career
1997–2006 Partizan
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
2006–2007 Teleoptik 20 (0)
2007–2009 Partizan 55 (1)
2009–2013 Zaragoza 47 (0)
2014–2015 Mechelen 42 (2)
2015– Anderlecht 16 (1)
National team‡
2007–2009 Serbia U21 4 (0)
2008– Serbia 23 (1)

* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and correct as of 4 December 2016.

‡ National team caps and goals correct as of 12 November 2016

Ivan Obradović (Serbian Cyrillic: Иван Обрадовић; born 25 July 1988) is a Serbian footballer who plays for Belgian club Anderlecht, as a left back.

Club career

Obradović is a product of FK Partizan's youth system. On 22 April 2007, he made his senior debut for Partizan under head coach Miroslav Đukić in a league match against FK Vojvodina. Until the end of the 2006–07 season, he recorded four more league appearances. He signed his first professional contract with Partizan on 7 June 2007.[1]

In the 2007–08 season, his first full playing for Partizan, he made 19 league appearances and ended the season winning his first league medal.

At Partizan, Obradović made 55 league appearances scoring only one goal against FK Javor, the game ended 1–1. While in the youth categories of Partizan, he held the nickname of Gari which in Serbian alludes to the fact that he has tanned skin.[2]

Obradović left Partizan and was signed up by Real Zaragoza in 2009 on a 5-year contract for an undisclosed fee[3] He made his La Liga debut on 29 August, against CD Tenerife.[4]

In 2013 he was released by the club. In January 2014 he was close to a move to Dutch Eredivisie leaders Vitesse Arnhem, but the club decided to buy Rochdi Achenteh instead.

International career

Obradović made his international debut for the Serbian national team on 6 September 2008, in a FIFA World Cup 2010 qualifier, in Belgrade against Faroe Islands. He scored his first international goal against Austria on 15 October 2008. Also representing Serbia at the 2010 world cup.

Career statistics

Club

As of 4 December 2016 [5]
Club Season League Cup Europe Other Total
AppsGoalsAppsGoalsAppsGoalsAppsGoalsAppsGoals
Teleoptik 2006–07 200000000200
Total 200000000200
Partizan 2006–07 5000000050
2007–08 190301000230
2008–09 290409000420
2009–10 2100400061
Total 5517014000761
Zaragoza 2009–10 9000000090
2010–11 200100000210
2011–12 170000000170
2012–13 1000000010
Total 470100000480
Mechelen 2013–14 121300000151
2014–15 301914000432
Total 4221214000583
RSC Anderlecht 2015–16 130000030160
2016–17 3100001031
Total 161000030191
Career total 18041211201702215

International

Serbia national team
YearAppsGoals
200841
200960
201050
201130
201220
201300
201400
201520
201610
Total231

International goals

# Date Venue Opponent Score Result Competition
1. 15 October 2008 Ernst-Happel-Stadion, Vienna  Austria 3–0 3–1 2010 FIFA World Cup qualification

Honours

Club

Partizan

References

  1. ↑ "Ivan Obradović postao profesionalac" (in Serbian). partizan.rs. 7 June 2007. Retrieved 26 April 2010.
  2. ↑ Izaberi Partizan.
  3. ↑ Real Zaragoza sign Partizan Belgrade fullback Obradovic; Tribal Football, 23 August 2009
  4. ↑ Real Zaragoza 1–0 Tenerife; ESPN Soccernet, 29 August 2009
  5. ↑ "I.Obradović". Soccerway. Retrieved 13 May 2016.
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