Ivan Fatić (, ; born 21 August 1988) is a Montenegrin retired

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player who played as a defender or

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. He Is manager in youth categories of

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Club career

Italy

Fatić was signed by Italian

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side

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from relegated

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on 4 July 2007, for €170,000.

still hold half of the player's registration rights. He made his first team (official match) debut against

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on 19 December 2007, a Coppa Italia match, he also played the return leg. On 9 June 2008 Internazionale announced that's they loaned Fatić to Vicenza to play 2008–09 season. In June 2009,

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bought half of the rights of the defender from Chievo after Chievo had bought Inter's 50% stake in the player. It was part of the deal that

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and

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move to Internazionale. Half of its contractual value was valued €200,000 at that time. He spent a season with Genoa and played as a fullback or wing back in 3–5–2 formation. This co-ownership deal was renewed on 26 July 2010 with Fatić to remain with Genoa. However, he was subsequently loaned to Cesena for the 2010–11 season. In June 2011 Chievo bought back Fatić for €200,000. That week Genoa also sold defender

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to Chievo for €2 million as part of the deal that

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joined Genoa for €7.8 million. On 31 August 2011, Fatić left for

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After returning from Empoli, Chievo again sent Fatić to

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, this time on loan to Hellas Verona F.C. On 31 January 2013 he was signed by

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Serbia

On 28 July 2013 Fatić returned to Serbia for

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in 2+1 year contract. On 10 October 2013 the contract was terminated.

Malaysia and Bosnia-Herzegovina

In November 2014, he was signed by

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to play in

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. He played for 25 games and scored 3 goals before moving to Bosnian club, FK Slobodan Tuzla, on July 1, 2016 where he appeared in 10 games and scored 1 goal for them.

International career

Fatić made his debut for

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in a June 2009

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match away against

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and has earned a total of 6 caps, scoring no goals. His final international was a June 2011 European Championship qualification match against

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