Aleksandar Kosorić (; born 30 January 1987) is a Bosnian professional

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who plays as a

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for First League of RS club Romanija Pale.

Club career

Kosorić played for

Slavija Sarajevo Fudbalski klub Slavija Sarajevo (Serbian Cyrillic: Фудбалски клуб Славија Сарајево) is a professional association football club from the city of Istočno Sarajevo, Republika Srpska that is situated in Bosnia and Herzeg ...

from 2004 to 2008. In January 2009, he moved to

Serbian SuperLiga The Serbian Super League (), also known as Mozzart SuperLiga for sponsorship reasons, is a professional association football league in Serbia and the highest level of the Serbian football league system. Contested by 16 clubs, it operates on a sys ...

club Partizan after being noticed during a friendly game played between Partizan and Slavija in the summer of 2008. After not getting many chances there, he moved in January 2010 to another Belgrade club, Rad. During the winter break of the 2011–12 season, Kosorić moved to Radnički 1923. A year later he would leave Serbia and move to Iraq to join

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playing in the

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. After Iraq, he returned to Serbia and played the second half of the 2013–14 season with Radnički Niš. In the summer of 2014, Kosorić joined

Bosnian Premier League The Premier League of Bosnia and Herzegovina (; ; sr-Cyrl, Премијер лига Босне и Херцеговине), officially known as the Wwin League of Bosnia and Herzegovina for sponsorship purposes, is the top tier football leagu ...

club Željezničar and played for the next two and half years at the Sarajevo based club. While playing at Željezničar, Kosorić became the team

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and received a call for the

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. He left Željezničar in December 2016. After Željezničar, Kosorić played for Radnik Bijeljina in 2017 and for Spartaks Jūrmala from 2017 to 2018 with whom he won the Latvian Championship in 2017. On 10 November 2018, Kosorić left Spartaks. On 3 January 2019, Kosorić signed with

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club

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. He won his first trophy with Balzan on 18 May 2019, the 2018–19 Maltese FA Trophy after beating

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in the

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. He decided to terminate his contract and leave the club in January 2020. On 30 January 2020, Kosorić came back to Željezničar, signing a two-and-a-half-year contract with the club. On 17 October 2020, in a league win against

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, he made his 100th appearance for Željezničar. In December 2023, Kosorić announced his decision to retire from football. He played his last game for Željezničar against GOŠK Gabela on 16 December. In January 2024, Kosorić decided to continue his career, joining First League of RS club Romanija Pale.

International career

Kosorić made his only Bosnia and Herzegovina national team appearance in the final of the 2016

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against

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as a 90th-minute substitute.Kirin Cup soccer2016
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Honours

Partizan *

: 2008–09, 2009–10 *

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: 2008–09 Spartaks Jūrmala *

Latvian Higher League Latvian Higher League or Virslīga, also known as TonyBet Virslīga for sponsorship reasons, is a professional association football league in Latvia and the highest level of the Latvian football league system. Organised by the Latvian Footbal ...

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Balzan *

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: 2018–19 Bosnia and Herzegovina *

: 2016

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