Dejan Lovren
Lovren playing for Liverpool in 2014
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| Personal information | |||
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| Full name | Dejan Lovren | ||
| Date of birth | 5 July 1989 | ||
| Place of birth | Zenica, SFR Yugoslavia | ||
| Height | 1.88 m (6 ft 2 in) | ||
| Playing position | Centre back | ||
| Club information | |||
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Current team
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Liverpool | ||
| Number | 6 | ||
| Youth career | |||
| 1999–2002 | NK Ilovac | ||
| 2002–2004 | NK Karlovac | ||
| 2004–2006 | Dinamo Zagreb | ||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| 2006–2010 | Dinamo Zagreb | 37 | (1) |
| 2006–2008 | → Inter Zaprešić (loan) | 50 | (1) |
| 2010–2013 | Lyon | 72 | (2) |
| 2013–2014 | Southampton | 31 | (2) |
| 2014– | Liverpool | 77 | (2) |
| National team‡ | |||
| 2004–2005 | Croatia U17 | 18 | (2) |
| 2006 | Croatia U18 | 2 | (0) |
| 2006–2008 | Croatia U19 | 10 | (1) |
| 2007–2009 | Croatia U20 | 5 | (0) |
| 2007–2010 | Croatia U21 | 19 | (3) |
| 2009– | Croatia | 31 | (2) |
| * Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and correct as of 19:00, 7 May 2017 (UTC). ‡ National team caps and goals correct as of 10:26, 23 March 2016 (UTC) |
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Dejan Lovren (Croatian pronunciation: [dɛjan loʋrêːn]; born 5 July 1989) is a Croatian professional footballer who plays as a centre back for Premier League club Liverpool and the Croatia national team.
Lovren began his career at Dinamo Zagreb before moving to Olympique Lyonnais in January 2010. He spent three-and-a-half seasons with the Ligue 1 team and won the 2012 Coupe de France before he signed for Southampton in 2013. After one season with Southampton, he joined Liverpool for £20 million.
He made his international debut for Croatia in 2009 and has gone on to make over 30 appearances and score two goals for his country, as well as being selected for the 2014 FIFA World Cup in Brazil.
Lovren was born to Croatian parents in the city of Zenica, SFR Yugoslavia (now Bosnia and Herzegovina). Lovren's family fled from Yugoslavia to Munich because of the Bosnian War when Lovren was three years old, and he spent the next seven years in Germany. Lovren states that he was "a happy boy, I spoke German perfectly, I went to school, I played for a little club." The family, however, eventually had to leave as they did not possess necessary documentation to reside in Germany. They settled in Karlovac, Croatia, 50 kilometres southwest of the capital city of Zagreb. Lovren initially found settling in Croatia difficult, and struggled in school for a couple of years due to his unfamiliarity with the Croatian language. His younger brother Davor is also a footballer.
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