Perica Ognjenović
| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Full name | Perica Ognjenović | ||
| Date of birth | 24 February 1977 | ||
| Place of birth | Smederevska Palanka, SFR Yugoslavia | ||
| Height | 1.70 m (5 ft 7 in) | ||
| Playing position | Forward | ||
| Club information | |||
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Current team
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Serbia U17 (coach) | ||
| Youth career | |||
| Mladost Goša | |||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| 1993–1994 | Mladost Goša | 28 | (9) |
| 1994–1998 | Red Star | 78 | (19) |
| 1999–2001 | Real Madrid | 12 | (0) |
| 2002 | 1. FC Kaiserslautern | 2 | (0) |
| 2003 | Dalian Shide | 2 | (0) |
| 2003–2004 | Dynamo Kyiv | 2 | (0) |
| 2005 | Angers | 7 | (0) |
| 2006 | Selangor | 16 | (2) |
| 2006–2008 | Ergotelis | 26 | (3) |
| 2008–2009 | Kallithea | 9 | (1) |
| 2009–2011 | Jagodina | 43 | (3) |
| Total | 225 | (37) | |
| National team | |||
| 1999 | FR Yugoslavia U21 | 1 | (0) |
| 1995–1998 | FR Yugoslavia | 8 | (0) |
| Teams managed | |||
| 2017– | Serbia U17 | ||
| * Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only. |
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Perica Ognjenović (Serbian Cyrillic: Перица Огњеновић; born 24 February 1977) is a Serbian retired footballer who played mainly as a forward.
At one point considered to be among Serbia's brightest footballing talents, he signed with European giants Real Madrid in his early 20's, but never settled there, going on to have an irregular career in six other countries.
Ognjenović represented Yugoslavia in the 1998 World Cup.
Born in Smederevska Palanka, Serbia, Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, Ognjenović's first football steps were taken with modest hometown club Mladost Smederevska Palanka where he went through all age levels before breaking through to the senior squad just short of his 16th birthday, during the 1992–93 season. At the time, the team competed in the third division, and it soon became apparent the player's skill and talent far surpassed that level of competition.
Ognjenović caught the eye of country powerhouse Red Star Belgrade, which signed the promising youngster in the 1994 summer.
A series of solid performances for Red Star earned Ognjenović a move to Real Madrid on 12 January 1999 for a transfer fee of DM5 million (€2.5 million), and a reported annual salary of DM1.2 million. The contract negotiations between the player's agent Zoran Vekić and Real president Lorenzo Sanz ran very long, as the team had a surplus of forwards on its roster and had to offload 17-year-old Samuel Eto'o on a loan spell to RCD Espanyol before signing any new ones; everything was finally concluded just hours before the Spanish winter transfer window closed, and the player joined compatriot Predrag Mijatović at his new club.
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