Vladimir Stojković (born 4 October 1996) is a Portuguese professional

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who plays for Saudi Arabian club

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as a

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Club career

Born in

Leça da Palmeira Leça da Palmeira () is a former civil parish in the municipality of Matosinhos in the Greater Porto area, Portugal. In 2013, the parish merged into the new parish Matosinhos e Leça da Palmeira. It has 5.97 km² and had 17.215 inhabitants ...

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to a Serbian father, Stojković joined

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's youth system in 2007, aged 10. On 21 February 2016 he made his professional debut, appearing for the reserves in a 1–1 home draw against

S.C. Freamunde Sport Clube Freamunde is a Portuguese Association football, football club based in Freamunde, Paços de Ferreira. Founded on 19 March 1933, it currently plays in the Campeonato de Portugal (league), Campeonato de Portugal, holding home matches at ...

in the Segunda Liga. Stojković played with the newly created under-23 team in the 2018–19 season, following which he left the club. On 10 August 2019, he signed a one-year contract with

G.D. Estoril Praia Grupo Desportivo Estoril Praia (), commonly known as Estoril, is a Portuguese sports club from Estoril, Cascais, Lisbon. Founded on 17 May 1939, its football team currently plays in Primeira Liga and hold home games at the Estádio António Coimb ...

also of the Portuguese second division. Only used in the under-23s, on 1 September the next year he transferred to hometown side

Leixões S.C. Leixões Sport Club, commonly known as Leixões (), is a Portuguese sports club from Matosinhos. It is organised into several departments for many sports, such as football, boxing, karate, volleyball, swimming and billiards. It is most well kno ...

where he had begun playing football aged 7. On 28 January 2021,

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Stojković joined Académica de Coimbra also of the Portuguese second tier, on a five-month deal. On 5 July 2022, after his team's relegation, he agreed to a contract at

in the

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International career

Stojković was

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once by Portugal at under-18 level. His appearance was a 2–0 win over the

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on 8 June 2014.

Personal life

Stojković's father and uncle, respectively named

Vladan Vladan (, sr-Cyrl, Владан) is a Serbo-Croatian masculine given name, a shorter form of Slavic dithematic names with the element ''vlad'' meaning "to rule, ruler". It is attested in Serbian society since the Middle Ages. The patronymic surnam ...

and

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, were also goalkeepers. Both spent several years in Portugal, and the latter was also a longtime Serbian international.

References

External links

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Portuguese League profile

National team data
* {{DEFAULTSORT:Stojkovic, Vladimir 1996 births Living people Portuguese people of Serbian descent Sportspeople from Matosinhos Portuguese footballers Association football goalkeepers Liga Portugal 2 players Sporting CP B players G.D. Estoril Praia players Leixões S.C. players Associação Académica de Coimbra – O.A.F. players Saudi First Division League players Al-Okhdood Club players Portugal youth international footballers Portuguese expatriate footballers Expatriate footballers in Saudi Arabia Portuguese expatriate sportspeople in Saudi Arabia