Mladen Krstajić
Serbian footballer (born 1974) / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Mladen Krstajić (Serbian Cyrillic: Младен Крстајић, pronounced [mlǎden kr̩stâjitɕ]; born 4 March 1974) is a Serbian professional football manager and former player who played as a centre-back.
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Full name | Mladen Krstajić[1] | ||
Date of birth | (1974-03-04) 4 March 1974 (age 50) | ||
Place of birth | Zenica, SR Bosnia and Herzegovina, Yugoslavia | ||
Height | 1.91 m (6 ft 3 in) | ||
Position(s) | Centre-back | ||
Youth career | |||
1984–1992 | Čelik Zenica | ||
Senior career* | |||
Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
1992–1993 | Senta | ||
1993–1996 | Kikinda | 55 | (2) |
1996–2000 | Partizan | 84 | (7) |
2000–2004 | Werder Bremen | 112 | (11) |
2004–2009 | Schalke 04 | 131 | (7) |
2009–2011 | Partizan | 43 | (3) |
Total | 425 | (30) | |
International career | |||
1999–2006 | Serbia and Montenegro[note 1] | 48 | (2) |
2006–2008 | Serbia | 11 | (0) |
Managerial career | |||
2016–2017 | Serbia (assistant) | ||
2017–2019 | Serbia | ||
2021 | TSC | ||
2021–2022 | Maccabi Tel Aviv | ||
2022–2023 | Bulgaria | ||
*Club domestic league appearances and goals |
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He represented Serbia and Montenegro at the 2006 FIFA World Cup. From January 2015[2] until March 2020,[3] Krstajić served the role of chairman of the board of Bosnian Premier League club Radnik Bijeljina. Krstajić coached Serbia at the 2018 FIFA World Cup and then became head coach of Maccabi Tel Aviv in December 2021. He was manager of the Bulgaria national football team before being sacked in October 2023.