Personal information | |||
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Full name | Ilija Ivić | ||
Date of birth | 17 February 1971 | ||
Place of birth | Banatski Despotovac, SFR Yugoslavia | ||
Playing position | Striker | ||
Club information | |||
Current team
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Red Star Belgrade | ||
Senior career* | |||
Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
1988–1991 | Proleter Zrenjanin | 92 | (26) |
1991–1994 | Red Star Belgrade | 77 | (38) |
1994–1999 | Olympiacos | 112 | (64) |
1999–2000 | Torino | 19 | (0) |
2001–2002 | Aris Thessaloniki | 18 | (6) |
2002–2004 | AEK Athens | 47 | (18) |
Total | 254 | (152) | |
National team | |||
1998 | FR Yugoslavia | 1 | (0) |
Teams managed | |||
2004–2007 | AEK Athens (Director of football) | ||
2007–2008 | Olympiacos (Director of football) | ||
2008–2009 | AEK Athens (Director of football) | ||
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only. |
Ilija Ivić (Serbian Cyrillic: Илиja Ивић, born 17 February 1971 in Zrenjanin) is a retired Serbian footballer. He is the Technical Director of AEK Athens from June 2014 . A skillful attacker who showed great technical ability, Ivić could often be found in a supporting attacking role, opening up spaces for team-mates. He played once for the national team of his country, against Switzerland in September 1998.
His football career began at 1986, to Proleter FC, where he stayed until 1991. He played for three years at Red Star (until 1994). With Red Star, he won the Yugoslav national championship with FK Crvena Zvezda in 1991/92, the season after he joined from first club FK Proleter, for whom he scored 26 goals in 92 games. He was a Yugoslav Cup winner with the Belgrade club in 1993 and departed the following season for Greece and Olympiacos after registering 16 goals in 30 top-flight games, where he stays until 1999.
While at Olympiacos CFP he won the Greek championship in 1997, 1998, and the double in 1999, having his best campaign in the second of those title triumphs, claiming 26 goals in 32 matches. He was a member of Olympiacos squad in 1999-99 UEFA Champions League, when his team achieved its greatest success in European competition while they reached the quarter finals and being eliminated by Juventus.