Danijel Aleksić
| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Full name | Danijel Aleksić | ||
| Date of birth | 30 April 1991 | ||
| Place of birth | Pula, SFR Yugoslavia | ||
| Height | 1.82 m (6 ft 0 in) | ||
| Playing position | Second striker | ||
| Club information | |||
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Current team
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Saint Gallen | ||
| Number | 23 | ||
| Youth career | |||
| 1998–2002 | Veternik | ||
| 2002–2007 | Vojvodina | ||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| 2007–2010 | Vojvodina | 48 | (8) |
| 2010–2011 | Genoa | 1 | (0) |
| 2010–2011 | → Greuther Fürth (loan) | 16 | (2) |
| 2012–2014 | Saint-Étienne | 3 | (0) |
| 2012–2014 | → Saint-Étienne B (loan) | 32 | (12) |
| 2013–2014 | → Arles-Avignon (loan) | 1 | (0) |
| 2013–2014 | → Arles-Avignon B (loan) | 2 | (1) |
| 2014–2015 | Lechia Gdansk | 3 | (0) |
| 2015– | St. Gallen | 36 | (13) |
| National team‡ | |||
| 2006–2008 | Serbia U17 | 12 | (9) |
| 2008–2010 | Serbia U19 | 13 | (7) |
| 2008–2011 | Serbia U21 | 8 | (1) |
| 2008 | Serbia | 1 | (0) |
| * Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and correct as of 25 May 2016 (UTC). ‡ National team caps and goals correct as of 20:40, 22 January 2011 (UTC) |
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Danijel Aleksić (Serbian Cyrillic: Дaниjeл Aлeкcић; born 30 April 1991 in Pula) is a Serbian footballer who currently plays for St. Gallen in the Swiss Super League.
Born in SR Croatia, Aleksić was only a couple of months old when his mother fled to Serbia due to the escalating ethnic conflict in Croatia. Aleksić never met his biological father and carries his mother's last name.
He started playing football at seven years of age in local club FK Veternik. By the age 11, he transferred to FK Vojvodina where he made it through every age group. Simultaneous to football he attended Jovan Vukanović streamlined technical high school.
On 5 May 2007, he made his senior debut for Vojvodina under head coach Milovan Rajevac in a league match away at Red Star Belgrade. Being only 16 years and five days old, Aleksić became the second youngest player ever to appear in a Serbian SuperLiga match (behind Slavko Perović). By the end of the 2006–07 season, he recorded one more league appearance.
He scored his first league goal on 2 April 2008 in a 4–1 home win versus Hajduk Kula.
During Vojvodina's 2008–09 season opening league match, a derby versus Red Star Belgrade, Aleksić scored a 90th-minute goal to put the game beyond reach and ensure a famous 2–0 win for his team. In November 2008, Aleksić started to figure as a transfer target for Serbia's biggest clubs – Red Star and Partizan – however, Vojvodina officials at the time were adamant that they would never sell him to league competitors. In late March 2009, he reportedly also started getting attention form abroad with scouts from Real Madrid and Villarreal coming to watch him play for the Serbian U19 national squad. For his part, in mid May 2009 Aleksić said that he would prefer his first transfer abroad to be to Holland's Eredivisie or Germany's Bundesliga. On 26 August 2009, The Daily Mail had claimed that Manchester City had agreed a fee of £6mil to sign the 18-year-old.
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