Vladimir "Vlada" Avramov ( sr-Cyrl, Владимир Влада Аврамов; born 5 April 1979) is a Serbian former professional

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who played as a

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. He works as

David Suazo Óscar David Suazo Velázquez (born 5 November 1979) is a Honduran retired professional footballer turned coach who played as a striker. Suazo played more than 300 league games and scored over 980 league goals in Italy during a span of 7 years ...

's goalkeeping coach for

Brescia Brescia (, locally ; lmo, link=no, label= Lombard, Brèsa ; lat, Brixia; vec, Bressa) is a city and ''comune'' in the region of Lombardy, Northern Italy. It is situated at the foot of the Alps, a few kilometers from the lakes Garda and Iseo. ...

Club career

Avramov started his career at

First League of FR Yugoslavia The First League of Serbia and Montenegro ( sr, Прва савезна лига / Prva savezna liga) was the top football league of Serbia and Montenegro, before the country's dissolution in 2006. The league was formed following the breakup of Yu ...

with

FK Vojvodina Fudbalski klub Vojvodina ( sr-Cyrl, Фудбалски клуб Војводина), commonly known as Vojvodina and colloquially as Voša ( sr-Cyrl, Воша), is a Serbian professional football club based in Novi Sad, Vojvodina, the second la ...

. In 2001, he moved to

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, and after played five seasons in

Serie B The Serie B (), currently named Serie Balkrishna Industries, BKT for sponsorship reasons, is the second-highest division in the Italian football league system after the Serie A. It has been operating for over ninety years since the 1929–30 ...

(one of them on loan at

Pescara Pescara (; nap, label= Abruzzese, Pescàrë; nap, label= Pescarese, Piscàrë) is the capital city of the Province of Pescara, in the Abruzzo region of Italy. It is the most populated city in Abruzzo, with 119,217 (2018) residents (and approxim ...

), he joined

Fiorentina ACF Fiorentina, commonly referred to as Fiorentina (), is an Italian professional football club based in Florence, Tuscany, Italy. The original team was founded by a merger in August 1926, while the actual club was refounded in August 2002 fo ...

in August 2006, being immediately loaned to

Treviso Treviso ( , ; vec, Trevixo) is a city and ''comune'' in the Veneto region of northern Italy. It is the capital of the province of Treviso and the municipality has 84,669 inhabitants (as of September 2017). Some 3,000 live within the Veneti ...

. Avramov returned to Fiorentina in June 2007, and after spending the vast majority of the campaign as a backup to

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, made his

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debut on 17 February 2008, replacing the latter in the 55th minute of a 2–1 home win against

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. He would spend his spell as second-choice, however. On 19 July 2011 Avramov signed for

Cagliari Cagliari (, also , , ; sc, Casteddu ; lat, Caralis) is an Italian municipality and the capital of the island of Sardinia, an autonomous region of Italy. Cagliari's Sardinian name ''Casteddu'' means ''castle''. It has about 155,000 inhabitant ...

. Initially behind

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, he overtook the latter during the 2013–14 season, appearing in 23 matches. On 19 July 2014 Avramov joined

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, and was subsequently loaned to

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on 1 September. His contract with Torino expired on 1 July 2015 leaving him as a

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International career

He earned his first call-up to national team against

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, 2 September 2006, but he made his debut on 21 October 2007 versus

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, due to injury of long term regular

Vladimir Stojković Vladimir Stojković (, ; born 28 July 1983) is a Serbian professional footballer who plays for Saudi club Al-Fayha as a goalkeeper. During his career he played for the two biggest clubs in his country, Red Star and Partizan, but also represent ...

Coaching career

On 11 July 2018, he was officially unveiled as new goalkeeping coach of

club

under head coach

. From augustus 2020 until January 2021 he was goalkeeping coach at the Turkish club Caykur Rizespor.

Personal life

He married Serbian singer

Slavica Ćukteraš Slavica may refer to: People * Slavica Ćukteraš (born 1985), Serbian singer * Slavica Đukić (born 1960), Serbian handball player * Slavica Ecclestone (born 1958), Croatian fashion model * Slavica Jeremić (born 1957), Serbian handball play ...

in 2015 and became father of a daughter in 2016.

International statistics

References

External links

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* 1979 births Living people Footballers from Novi Sad Serbian footballers Association football goalkeepers FK Vojvodina players Serie A players Serie B players J1 League players Treviso F.B.C. 1993 players Delfino Pescara 1936 players L.R. Vicenza players ACF Fiorentina players Cagliari Calcio players Torino F.C. players Atalanta B.C. players FC Tokyo players Serbia international footballers Serbian expatriate footballers Expatriate footballers in Italy Expatriate footballers in Japan {{Serbia-footy-goalkeeper-stub