Srđan Pecelj (born 12 March 1975) is a Bosnian retired

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who played as a defender.

Club career

He started his career playing in the youth teams of Velež Mostar for which he played in the senior squad in the season 1991–92. Then he moved to

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to play for Red Star Belgrade. But, after not getting much play, he moved, next season, to another Belgrade club,

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. In 1994, Srđan made a big move, this time to

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, but he only managed to stay in the B squad, for the next two years, due to heavy competition in the team. Then, he came back to Serbia where he first played one season in the newly promoted Čukarički, also a Belgrade club, and then returned to Red Star where he played two seasons, until 1999. That summer, he moved to

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to play in the next two years in Paniliakos. In 2001, he played one season in Russian club Sokol Saratov. Then he moved to Japan and played for

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in the

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and in the

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in Admira Wacker. The second half of the 2007–08 season he spent with SK Schwadorf 1936. Since summer 2008, he played in

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in Inter Zaprešić, one of the good sides in the

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League. After two seasons he moved to NK Novalja where he played the 2010–11 season.

International career

In 1997 he made 2 appearances for the FR Yugoslav U21 team. He has played 5 matches for

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, all of them part of the

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in Malaysia in June 2001.

Personal life

His brother Miljan is also a footballer.

References

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