Saturday, December 18, 2010

Profile Dejan Stankovic

Personal information

Full name : Dejan Stanković
Date of birth : 11 September 1978
Place of birth : Belgrade, SFR Yugoslavia
Height : 1.81 m (5 ft 11 1⁄2 in)
Playing position : Midfielder
Current club : Internazionale
Number : 5
Youth career
1992–1994 Red Star Belgrade
Senior career
1994–1998 Red Star Belgrade
1998–2004 Lazio
2004– Internazionale
National team
1998– Serbia

Club career

Stanković originated playing football for FK Teleoptik, founded in his neighbourhood of Zemun. When spotted via Red Star cadet squad bus Branko Radović, however, 14-year-old Dejan transferred to Red Star Belgrade's youth system.

Red Star Belgrade

Stanković thereafter exceeded every age category at his hometown club. In the youth teams, he was coached via Pižon Petrović, playing alongside future experts Nikola Lazetić and Nenad Lalatović.

During the 1994–95 season, Stanković's debut frontier for first team movement came beneath chief bus Ljupko Petrović against crosstown rivals OFK Beograd. Fighting for a dot on the team led via, among others, Rambo Petković, Darko Kovačević, and Nebojša Krupniković, 16-year-old Dejan prepared seven league arrivals that season as the team won league title. He scored his first target against Budućnost Podgorica, shortly becoming a first team regular and a fan favourite. Before the begin of the 1997–98 season, he was prepared squad captain at the bid age of 19, the youngest ever in the club's history. Despite not winning the league he captained the team to pair servant cup victories.
During the early '90s, Red Star was beneath an global ban because of a United Nations sanction inflicted on FR Yugoslavia, meaning that the team could not compete in any European competition. The ban was lifted forward of the 1996–97 season, and Stanković played a massive fraction in a memorable two-leg victory across Kaiserslautern in the Cup Winners' Cup.

Lazio

In the summer of 1998, he transferred for £7.5 million (DM24 million) to Lazio, where he scored on his Serie A debut versus Piacenza on 13 September 1998. In those years, Lazio had an all-star squad with world category players at nearly every location, but Stanković rapidly roped a regular first-team position regardless competition from fellow midfielders Pavel Nedvěd, Juan Sebastián Verón, and Roberto Mancini. He shaped a formidable midfield combination with Nedvěd and Mancini and were an integral fraction of the successful Lazio side at the turn of the decade. His labor rate and grand plays earned him the nickname Il Dragone (The Dragon) from fans. He had five-and-a-half successful seasons in the biancoceleste fraction of Rome, ago earning a high profile shift to Internazionale in February 2004.

Internazionale

During the latter fraction of Stanković's career at Lazio, the Biancoceleste strained with commercial troubles and were coerced to sell a lot of their best players. Many of the big-name teams in European football knew that the club would have to sell Stanković in the near future, so there was ferocious competition for his services during the 2003–04 winter transfer window. Juventus were favorite to fetching Stanković's signature, but he finally chose Internazionale. He was gestured as fraction of a sell value €4 million that also sent Macedonian global Goran Pandev (plus 50% of Pandev's contract) in the facing direction.
The observation that old Lazio teammate Roberto Mancini was already at Inter may have affected his decision. In early February 2004, Stanković played his debut suit for Inter, a Serie A clash against Siena. On 21 February 2004, he scored a dramatic target immediately from a corner kick to placed Inter 1–0 upward in Derby della Madonnina versus ferocious rivals Milan.
On seven May 2006, he played his 100th suit for Inter. Stanković illustrated good model during the 2006–07 Serie A campaign, scoring several definite goals. His attack against Catania and his memorable target against city rivals Milan have sweetened his reputation with the fans of Internazionale.
According to the official ratings of the La Gazzetta dello Sport, Stanković was chosen as the man of the suit five times during the 2006–07 Serie A campaign. He rekindled his contract on two February 2007, with Inter securing his services until at least 2010.
On 19 October 2008, Stanković scored a exquisite target in Inter's 4–0 nailing of Roma. After receiving a exceed from Sulley Muntari, he slid the ball past the Roma goalkeeper into the net, his 24th target in all contests for the Nerazzuri, therefore ending a year-long target drought. On seven February 2009, Stanković celebrated his 200th arrivals for Inter in all contests at the away game with Lecce. Inter nailed the newly-promoted team 3–0 with Stanković heading in the third target chasing a glib exceed from Maicon. Stanković's good model lasted as he scored Internazionale's second target against Milan in the 270th Milan Derby on 15 February. This turned out to be the winning target afterwards Alexandre Pato had dragged one back. Inter went on to win a fourth consecutive name, his fifth Serie A trophy.

The 2009–10 season originated well for Stanković. In the 29 August Milan derby, he played in a deeper role to displace the injured Esteban Cambiasso. Nevertheless, he scored Inter's fourth target and his second in consecutive Milan derbies in a 4–0 thrashing, a dramatic 30-yard attack afterwards rapidly collecting Sulley Muntari's pass. He subsequently scored against Rubin Kazan and Udinese to extend his wealthy vein of model beneath the Portuguese José Mourinho. He also scored a wonder-goal from 54 metres out in a 5–0 thrashing against Genoa, volleying the ball straight in from Marco Amelia's clearance. On the 28th of November, Stankovic netted a hattrick in an emphatic 5-2 victory across Parma at the San Siro.

International career

Stanković prepared his global debut for the old Yugoslavia team against South Korea on 22 April 1998, scoring pair targets in a 3–1 victory. He played at the 1998 World Cup and Euro 2000 as shortly as the Serbian national team was motionless paged Yugoslavia and shortly deployed himself as an significant player.
The Yugoslavian team became Serbia and Montenegro via the time 2006 World Cup qualifying began, and Stanković began in all sport and scored pair targets, but missed the final qualifier through injury. At the 2006 FIFA World Cup, he was given the figure ten shirt and Savo Milošević captained the fresh Serbia and Montenegro team in their first World Cup, but they malfunctioned to progress to the knock-out circles afterwards losing all their team suits to Côte d'Ivoire, Argentina, and the Netherlands. After Milošević retired, the midfielder took across as captain of the re-formed Serbian national team, chasing the breach upward of Serbia and Montenegro.

In the 2010 World Cup qualifying, Stanković has began in and captained all but pair of Serbia's matches. They qualified for their first World Cup as an independent nation. He was instrumental in their horrify 1-0 win across favorites Germany but they were not able to progress to the following around due to narrow losses against Ghana and Australia.

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