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Igor Jovićević

Igor Jovićević
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Igor Jovićević (2014)
Personal information
Full name Igor Jovićević
Date of birth (1973-11-30) 30 November 1973 (age 43)
Place of birth Zagreb, SFR Yugoslavia
Height 1.78 m (5 ft 10 in)
Playing position Forward
Club information
Current team
Celje (manager)
Youth career
1988–1991 Dinamo Zagreb
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
1991–1995 Real Madrid B 79 (15)
1996–1999 Zagreb
1999 Yokohama F. Marinos 1 (0)
2000 Guarani
2000–2001 Zagreb
2001–2002 Metz
2002 Shenyang Dongjin (2)
2003 Karpaty Lviv 26 (2)
2003 Karpaty-2 Lviv (loan) 1 (0)
2004 Zhuhai
National team
1994–1995 Croatia U21 8 (0)
Teams managed
2014–2015 Karpaty Lviv (interim)
2015–2016 Karpaty Lviv
2016– Celje
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only.

Igor Jovićević (born 30 November 1973 in Zagreb) is a Croatian former football player of Montenegrin descent.

After being labeled as the new Zvonimir Boban while playing in the youth team of the most successful Croatian club, NK Dinamo Zagreb, with only 17 years, he signed, in summer of 1991 a contract with Real Madrid. His transfer cost was one million dollars, however, the contract was based on the fact that the Merengues, in case of lining him in the first team, would have to pay a total of five million, being that the probable cause of having him playing in the B squad. There, he was trained by Rafael Benítez, among others, and had an opportunity of playing along some youngsters, like Raúl and Guti. On 11 June 1995, he gets injured while playing against Ukraine with the Croatian U21 national team. After having a one-year pause due to injury, he returned to Croatia to play with another club from the capital of the now independent Croatia, NK Zagreb. After that, he played with J. League Division 1 club Yokohama F. Marinos, Brazilian Guarani Futebol Clube and a short spell in France with FC Metz before moving to China to play with Shenyang Dongjin, a discrete passage in Ukraine with Karpaty Lviv before finishing his career in China, again, with a new knee ligaments injury, aged 32. After retiring, he returned to Spain, this time to Marbella where he owns a bar.


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