Aleksandar Katai
| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Full name | Aleksandar Katai | ||
| Date of birth | 6 February 1991 | ||
| Place of birth | Srbobran, SFR Yugoslavia | ||
| Height | 1.82 m (5 ft 11 1⁄2 in) | ||
| Playing position | Winger / Attacking midfielder | ||
| Club information | |||
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Current team
|
Alavés | ||
| Number | 25 | ||
| Youth career | |||
| 2002–2009 | Vojvodina | ||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| 2009–2011 | Vojvodina | 29 | (6) |
| 2009 | → Palić (loan) | 10 | (3) |
| 2011–2015 | Olympiacos | 0 | (0) |
| 2011 | → OFI Crete (loan) | 2 | (0) |
| 2011–2013 | → Vojvodina (loan) | 31 | (6) |
| 2013–2014 | → Platanias (loan) | 24 | (8) |
| 2014–2015 | → Red Star Belgrade (loan) | 20 | (2) |
| 2015–2016 | Red Star Belgrade | 37 | (23) |
| 2016– | Alavés | 18 | (3) |
| National team‡ | |||
| 2011–2012 | Serbia U21 | 2 | (0) |
| 2015– | Serbia | 6 | (0) |
| * Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and correct as of 30 April 2017. ‡ National team caps and goals correct as of 15 November 2016 |
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Aleksandar Katai (Serbian Cyrillic: Александар Катаи; born 6 February 1991) is a Serbian professional footballer who plays for Spanish club Deportivo Alavés as a winger or an attacking midfielder.
Katai started playing football for his hometown club FK Vojvodina youth squad. After 6 months loan to lower league team FK Palić at the start of 2009–10 season he was promoted to Vojvodina's first team. He's debut in Serbian SuperLiga was on 14 March 2010, when he came in as substitute against FK Čukarički, and he scored his first goal just seven days later in a match against FK Mladi Radnik. On 28 June 2011, he left FK Vojvodina and went to Athens to join Olympiacos.
On 24 June 2011, Olympiacos agreed to sign Katai on a four-year contract. At his first trainings with the club, coach Ernesto Valverde told Katai that he did not defend enough and that he needed to improve as a player. Katai did not play a single match for Olympiacos, but was instead sent on loan four times. He was first loaned to OFI Crete, with whom he made his debut on 5 November 2011, against Panionios. The loan spell to Crete was unsuccessful, and so Olympiacos loaned him back to his hometown club FK Vojvodina. While on loan at Vojvodina, in 2012 after one game with Spartak Subotica, he felt very ill and went to the hospital, where he was diagnosed with thrombopenia. He had to have some blood removed and stayed in the hospital for two weeks before he was allowed to recover from home. During his recovery, he had gained over 20 pounds, and did not return to play football until the end of the year. He remained a loaned player for Vojvodina until the club president Ratko Butorović died unexpectedly on 8 June 2013, which led to a period of instability in the club during which Katai left. He subsequently was loaned to Platanias, for whom he scored a total of eight goals and six assists until his loan there expired in the summer of 2014.
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