Vanja Vučićević ( sr-Cyrl, Вања Вучићевић; born 22 March 1998) is a

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who plays as a forward for Rudar. He is a son of Serbian former professional footballer

Nebojša Vučićević Nebojša "Uške" Vučićević (; 29 June 1962 – 11 March 2022) was a Serbian football manager and player. Playing career Vučićević started out at OFK Beograd, before transferring to Partizan in 1984. He spent the next five seasons with the ...

Club career

Early years

Born in

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, Vučičević was with

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and

OFK Beograd OFK Beograd ( sr-Cyrl, ОФК Београд – Омладински фудбалски клуб Београд, English language, English: ''Belgrade Youth Football Club''), also known in English as OFK Belgrade and currently referred to as OFK ...

youth selections, before he a scholarship contract

FK Čukarički Fudbalski klub Čukarički () is a Serbian professional football club from Belgrade, more precisely from the Čukarica municipality, that currently plays in the Serbian SuperLiga, the top tier of Serbian football. Founded in 1926, the club spe ...

. As the best Serbian youth league scorer, Vučićević was licensed for the

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season, but after he refused to sign a professional contract with club, he missed to play any official appearances with the first team.

Red Star Belgrade

In summer 2016, Vučićević signed his first four-year professional contract with

Red Star Belgrade Fudbalski klub Crvena zvezda ( sr-cyrl, Фудбалски клуб Црвена звезда, lit=Red Star Football Club), commonly referred to as Crvena zvezda () and colloquially referred to as Red Star Belgrade in anglophone media, is a ...

, but due to administrative problems he failed to play with new club until November same year. He passed the winter break-off season with senior squad, but later also played with reserves and youth team. He made his professional debut in 36 fixture of the

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season under coach Boško Gjurovski, replacing

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in 71 minute of the match against

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, played on 17 May 2017. Vučićević also started his first senior match on the field in last fixture match of the season, against Radnički Niš. In August 2017, Vučićević moved on one-year loan deal to Borac Čačak. Vučićević suffered a

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fracture during the training on 18 September 2017, after which he left out of the team until the end of a year. After the end of the first half-season in the domestic competition, a loan deal was mutually terminated and Vučićević returned to

. Next he moved to Spartak Subotica on deal for the rest of season, which was officially confirmed on 8 February 2018. While with Spartak, Vučićević made an appearance against Red Star on 5 May 2018, joining the game as a back-up for Ognjen Đuričin. Returning to

, Vučićević passed the first training with the club on 11 June 2018. Later, he was excluded for the summer pre-season after which it was announced he would leave Red Star. He mutually terminated the contract and officially left the club on 19 June 2018.

Krylia Sovetov Samara

On 25 August 2018, he signed a one-year contract with the

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side

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. He only made 3 league appearances for the senior squad, mostly playing for the Under-21 team.

Sinđelić Beograd

On 29 July 2019, he signed with the Serbian club

FK Sinđelić Beograd FK Sinđelić Beograd () is a football club based in Belgrade, Serbia. They compete in the Serbian League Belgrade, the third tier of the national league system. History Founded in 1937, the club was named after the historical Serbian figure Stev ...

International career

Vučićević was a part of

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until 2015. As a coach of Serbia national under-18 football team, Ivan Tomić called Vučićević into the squad in summer 2015. He played several matches until the end of same year, scoring goals in matches against

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and

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. He was also called into the Serbia U19 level in 2017.

Style of play

In his early years, Vučićević mostly played as

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. In a period while his father,

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, trained him as a coach in

youth academy, he started using Vanja as a

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. After he converted his position on the field, Vučićević scored around 20 goals on average in each of the next several seasons in youth categories. Playing with youth team of

, Vučićević was the best scorer in the first half of the 2015–16 season in Serbian youth league with 16 goals, playing as a

. Moving to

, Vučićević was usually used as a

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in his first caps with the club.

Career statistics

Club

References

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