Stefan Hajdin ( sr-cyr, Стефан Хајдин; born 15 April 1994) is a Serbian professional

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who plays for Serbian club

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Club career

Early years

Hajdin made his first football steps in

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, playing with local club Jedinstvo. Later was member of

Red Star Belgrade Fudbalski klub Crvena zvezda ( sr-Cyrl, Фудбалски клуб Црвена звезда, lit=Red Star Football Club, ), commonly known as Red Star Belgrade in English-language media, is a Serbian professional football club based in Bel ...

academy from 2003 to 2008, and finally completed his youth career with

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, where he also made his first senior appearances in the

Serbian League Belgrade Serbian League Belgrade ( Serbian: Српска лига Београд / Srpska liga Beograd) is one of four sections of the Serbian League, the third national tier. The other three sections are Serbian League East, Serbian League Vojvodina and ...

. Next he moved to

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and later to Dunav Stari Banovci. Finally, Hajdin joined Radnički Nova Pazova in summer 2014, where he affirmed in next three season, scoring 6 goals on 72 matches in the

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. In summer 2016, Hajdin was also called into the amateur squad under Football Association of Vojvodina for the

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Spartak Subotica

In summer 2017, Hajdin's agent Raša Bebić connected him with Spartak Subotica. Hajdin passed a trial period, spending the complete pre-season with club. After he convinced the management in friendly matches, Hajdin signed a four-year professional contract in July 2017. He made his official debut for the club in the first fixture match of the

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campaign against

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. He scored his first goal for the club in 1–1 draw to his former club,

, on 24 September 2017. He also scored in the last SuperLiga match in 2017, for 1–1 draw to

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on 13 December. During the first half-season with the club, Hajdin collected 23 matches in both domestic competitions usually as the first choice under coach Aleksandar Veselinović, missing the first round cup match against Polet Lipljan only.

Red Star Belgrade

On 12 January 2018, Hajdin agreed on a three-year deal with

. The transfer fee was reported as €200k plus 20 percent of the future transfer. He officially promoted in new club by

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next day. Hajdin chose to wear number 34 jersey. Hajdin made his official debut for the club in the

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match against

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on 14 March 2018. Hajdin also made his league debut for the club on 13 May 2018, replacing

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in 52 minute of the away match against

. After passing the complete pre-season with first team in summer 2018, Hajdin was excluded from the

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player list for the 2018–19 qualifying phase.

Playing style

Standing at 6-foot-2-and-a-half-inches (1.89 m), Hajdin uses both legs equally well. He usually operates as an offensive full-back or wing-back on the left flank, being capable of playing as a

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and participating in final actions. Although he mostly plays on the left side of the field, he often enters to the middle and take a shot with an inverted leg. Hajdin is also a long distance taker. While with

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used him as a right full-back respectively.

Career statistics

Club

Honours

Club

;Red Star Belgrade *

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(2): 2017–18, 2018–19

Personal life

Hajdin was born in

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but moved to

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at an early age. He had lived at

and

until he became an adult. Hajdin is a Sport and Physical Education faculty student at the

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. Hajdin likes to read books in his spare time and as some of his favorite writers quotes

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and

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* * * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Hajdin, Stefan 1994 births Living people People from Glina, Croatia Serbs of Croatia Association football defenders Serbian footballers FK Zemun players FK BASK players FK Radnički Nova Pazova players FK Spartak Subotica players Red Star Belgrade footballers FK Voždovac players Serbian SuperLiga players People from the Republic of Serbian Krajina Yugoslav Wars refugees