Vanja Vučićević ( sr-cyr, Вања Вучићевић; born 22 March 1998) is a

Serbia Serbia (, ; Serbian language, Serbian: , , ), officially the Republic of Serbia (Serbian language, Serbian: , , ), is a landlocked country in Southeast Europe, Southeastern and Central Europe, situated at the crossroads of the Pannonian Bas ...

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who plays as a

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. He is a son of Serbian former professional footballer

Nebojša Vučićević Nebojša "Uške" Vučićević (; 29 June 1962 – 11 March 2022) was a Serbian football manager and player. Club career Vučićević started out at OFK Beograd, before transferring to Partizan in 1984. He spent the following five seasons with t ...

Club career

Early years

Born in

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, Vučičević was with Dorćol and

OFK Beograd OFK Beograd ( sr-Cyrl, ОФК Београд – Омладински фудбалски клуб Београд, English: ''Belgrade Youth Football Club'') is a Serbian professional football club based in Belgrade, more precisely in Karaburma, ...

youth selections, before he a scholarship contract FK Čukarički. As the best Serbian youth league scorer, Vučićević was licensed for the

2015–16 Serbian SuperLiga The 2015–16 Serbian SuperLiga is the tenth season of the Serbian SuperLiga since its establishment. The season was started on 17 July 2015 and will be finished on 21 May 2016 with a matches of the last round of the play-offs. Partizan are the de ...

season, but after he refused to sign a professional contract with club, he missed to play any official appearances with the first team.

Red Star Belgrade

In summer 2016, Vučićević signed his first four-year professional contract with

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 ...

, but due to administrative problems he failed to play with new club until November same year. He passed the winter break-off season with senior squad, but later also played with reserves and youth team. He made his professional debut in 36 fixture of the

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season under coach

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, replacing

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in 71 minute of the match against

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, played on 17 May 2017. Vučićević also started his first senior match on the field in last fixture match of the season, against Radnički Niš. In August 2017, Vučićević moved on one-year loan deal to

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. Vučićević suffered a

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fracture during the training on 18 September 2017, after which he left out of the team until the end of a year. After the end of the first half-season in the domestic competition, a loan deal was mutually terminated and Vučićević returned to

. Next he moved to Spartak Subotica on deal for the rest of season, which was officially confirmed on 8 February 2018. While with Spartak, Vučićević made an appearance against Red Star on 5 May 2018, joining the game as a back-up for Ognjen Đuričin. Returning to

, Vučićević passed the first training with the club on 11 June 2018. Later, he was excluded for the summer pre-season after which it was announced he would leave Red Star. He mutually terminated the contract and officially left the club on 19 June 2018.

Krylia Sovetov Samara

On 25 August 2018, he signed a one-year contract with the Russian Premier League side PFC Krylia Sovetov Samara. He only made 3 league appearances for the senior squad, mostly playing for the Under-21 team.

Sinđelić Beograd

On 29 July 2019, he signed with the Serbian club

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International career

Vučićević was a part of

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until 2015. As a coach of

Serbia national under-18 football team The Serbia national under-19 football team ( Serbian Latin: ''Omladinska reprezentacija Srbije'') is the national under-19 football team of Serbia and is controlled by the Football Association of Serbia. The team is considered the successor to th ...

, Ivan Tomić called Vučićević into the squad in summer 2015. He played several matches until the end of same year, scoring goals in matches against

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and

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. He was also called into the Serbia U19 level in 2017.

Style of play

In his early years, Vučićević mostly played as left winger. In a period while his father,

Nebojša Nebojša (Cyrillic script: Небојша ) is a Slavic given name, meaning "fearless". People with the name include: In arts and entertainment *Nebojša Bradić (born 1956), Serbian theater director *Nebojša Glogovac (born 1969), award-winning ...

, trained him as a coach in

youth academy, he started using Vanja as a

centre forward Forwards (also known as attackers) are outfield positions in an association football team who play the furthest up the pitch and are therefore most responsible for scoring goals as well as assisting them. As with any attacking player, the role ...

. After he converted his position on the field, Vučićević scored around 20 goals on average in each of the next several seasons in youth categories. Playing with youth team of FK Čukarički, Vučićević was the best scorer in the first half of the 2015–16 season in Serbian youth league with 16 goals, playing as a

. Moving to

, Vučićević was usually used as a second striker in his first caps with the club.

Career statistics

Club

References

External links

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