Filip Mladenović (; born 15 August 1991) is a Serbian professional

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who plays as a

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for

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club

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and the Serbia national team.

Club career

Borac Čačak

Mladenović became a member of the Borac senior team in the

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season, making 18 league appearances that season. He played as

Red Star Belgrade

Mladenović signed a four-year contract for

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on 17 December 2011. During the summer of 2013, Red Star participated in the

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, where they lost the final against

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with a score of 2–1. Mladenović scored for Red Star and was voted best player of the game, for which he was supposed to get a watch as a prize, but he rejected it out of disappointment with the loss. By the end of 2013, Red Star's financial situation became very unstable as players and staff were not getting paid after several months of waiting. In spite of his frequent scoring and lanky frame, Mladenović was played mostly as a left back under coach

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, who said that Mladenović's playing style reminded him of

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. An exodus began when Sá Pinto announced in an emotional press conference when he said that he could no longer work at Red Star due to instabilities in the team's administration. On 5 October 2013, Mladenović filed a request to have his contract terminated with Red Star. The Arbitration Committee in the FSS ruled in Mladenović's favor on 23 November, giving him the status of a

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. After the ruling on Mladenović and

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, coach

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took both players off of the first team, but legally were still members of Red Star until the winter 2013–14 transfer window.

BATE Borisov

On 23 February 2014, Serbian news portal ''

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'' reported that Mladenović signed for Belarusian team

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with a three-year contract. He made his debut for BATE in the

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final against

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, and went on to score a goal 20 minutes into the game. On 29 September 2015, Mladenović scored two goals for BATE in the 2015–16 UEFA Champions League Group E against

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. Thanks to his breakthrough game, Mladenović was listed on UEFA.com's Champions League "Team of the Week" on 1 October 2015. Later that month,

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was reported to show interest with their coach

Siniša Mihajlović Siniša Mihajlović ( sr-Cyrl, Синиша Михајловић, ; 20 February 1969 – 16 December 2022) was a Serbian football manager and professional footballer who played as a defender. Mihajlović had an illustrious playing career, winni ...

having known Mladenović from coaching the Serbia national team.

1. FC Köln

On 5 January 2016, Mladenović signed a three-and-a-half-year contract with

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Legia Warsaw

On 1 July 2020, Mladenović signed a three-year contract with the Poland

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side

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. He scored his maiden for Legia on 14 August 2020 in his debut in a 6–1

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match victory against

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. He scored his first league goal for Legia on 2 November 2020 in a 3–0 win against

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. On 2 May 2023, he won the

, defeating

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in the final at the

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, before being sanctioned by the Disciplinary Committee of the

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on 5 May 2023 for post-match behavior with a three-month disqualification covering all games (including outside

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) and a financial penalty of PLN 120,000. His contract terminated after the 2022–23 season.

Panathinaikos

On 12 June 2023, Greek side

announced the signing of Mladenović on a two-year deal.

International career

Mladenović made his debut for the

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under coach Siniša Mihajlović on 31 May 2012, in a 2–0 loss against

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. In November 2022, he was selected in Serbia's squad for the

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in Qatar. He played in a group stage match against

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. Mladenović was part of the Serbia squad for

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. In the team's opening match of the tournament against

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, he came on as a substitute for the injured

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in the 43rd minute of the 1–0 loss. He also played in group stage matches against

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and

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. Serbia finished fourth in the group.

Career statistics

Club

International

:''Scores and results list Serbia's goal tally first, score column indicates score after each Mladenović goal.''

Honours

Red Star *

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: 2011–12 BATE Borisov *

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: 2014–15 *

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Lechia Gdańsk *

: 2018–19 *

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Legia Warsaw *

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*Polish Cup:

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Panathinaikos *

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: 2023–24 Individual *

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: 2011–12 *

Player of the Season:

Defender of the Season:

Player of the Month: February 2019

References

External links

Filip Mladenović
at Utakmica.rs {{DEFAULTSORT:Mladenovic, Filip 1991 births Living people Footballers from Čačak Serbian men's footballers Men's association football defenders Serbia men's under-21 international footballers Serbia men's international footballers Serbian SuperLiga players Belarusian Premier League players Bundesliga players Belgian Pro League players Ekstraklasa players III liga players FK Borac Čačak players Red Star Belgrade footballers FC BATE Borisov players 1. FC Köln players Standard Liège players Lechia Gdańsk players Legia Warsaw players Legia Warsaw II players Panathinaikos F.C. players 2022 FIFA World Cup players UEFA Euro 2024 players Serbian expatriate men's footballers Expatriate men's footballers in Belarus Expatriate men's footballers in Germany Expatriate men's footballers in Belgium Expatriate men's footballers in Poland Expatriate men's footballers in Greece Serbian expatriate sportspeople in Belarus Serbian expatriate sportspeople in Germany Serbian expatriate sportspeople in Belgium Serbian expatriate sportspeople in Poland Serbian expatriate sportspeople in Greece