Vlado Šmit (

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: Владо Шмит; born 6 April 1980) is a Serbian professional

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and former

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Club career

Born in

Sremska Mitrovica Sremska Mitrovica (; sr-Cyrl, Сремска Митровица, ) is a List of cities in Serbia, city in Serbia. It is situated on the left bank of the Sava, Sava river. , the city has a total population of 36,764 inhabitants, while its adminis ...

, Šmit made his senior debut with Vrbas in the 1997–98 season, helping the club win promotion to the

Second League of FR Yugoslavia The Second League of Serbia and Montenegro was the second tier of the football league system in Serbia and Montenegro, one level below the First League of Serbia and Montenegro. History Formed in 1992 after the breakup of Yugoslavia, it consisted ...

. He then spent one year at

Vojvodina Vojvodina ( ; sr-Cyrl, Војводина, ), officially the Autonomous Province of Vojvodina, is an Autonomous administrative division, autonomous province that occupies the northernmost part of Serbia, located in Central Europe. It lies withi ...

, failing to make any appearance for their first squad. Afterwards, Šmit moved back to his former club Vrbas, scoring once in 17 league appearances during the 1999–2000 season. In summer 2000, Šmit switched to Milicionar, making his

First League of FR Yugoslavia The First League of Serbia and Montenegro () was the top football league of Serbia and Montenegro, before the country's dissolution in 2006. The league was formed as the First League of FR Yugoslavia following the breakup of Yugoslavia in 1992, ef ...

debut in the 2000–01 season. He then spent six months with

Železnik Železnik ( sr-cyr, Железник, ) is an List of Belgrade neighborhoods, urban neighborhood of Belgrade, Serbia. It is located in Belgrade's municipality of Čukarica. Location Železnik is located in the central part of the Čukarica mun ...

, before moving on loan to Italian club

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in January 2002. After a six-month period, Šmit signed a four-year contract with Bologna in the summer of 2002. He subsequently played at

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and

Serie B The Serie B (), officially known as Serie BKT for sponsorship reasons, is the second-highest division in the Italian football league system after the Serie A. It has been operating for over ninety years since the 1929–30 season. It had b ...

level with

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Pescara Pescara (; ; ) is the capital city of the province of Pescara, in the Abruzzo Regions of Italy, region of Italy. It is the most populated city in Abruzzo, with 118,657 (January 1, 2023) residents (and approximately 350,000 including the surround ...

and

Treviso Treviso ( ; ; ) is a city and (municipality) in the Veneto region of northern Italy. It is the capital of the province of Treviso and the municipality has 87.322 inhabitants (as of December 2024). Some 3,000 live within the Venetian wall ...

. In August 2009, after spending two months without a team following Treviso's exclusion from professional football, Šmit accepted an offer to join newly promoted Serie B side

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. He eventually switched to

SPAL Società Polisportiva Ars et Labor, commonly referred to by the acronym SPAL (), is a professional football club based in Ferrara, Emilia-Romagna, Italy. During the 2024–25 season the team played in Serie C, the third tier of the Italian foot ...

in January 2010. In summer 2012, Šmit moved to Slovenia and signed with Triglav Kranj. He spent the following six seasons with the club, collecting 111 league appearances and scoring 13 goals in the process.

International career

Šmit has represented FR Yugoslavia at both the under-18 and under-21 levels in

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Statistics

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References

External links

PrvaLiga profile
* * {{DEFAULTSORT:Smit, Vlado 1980 births Living people Footballers from Sremska Mitrovica Serbian men's footballers Serbian expatriate men's footballers Men's association football fullbacks Treviso FBC 1993 players ASD Città di Gallipoli players Atalanta BC players Bologna FC 1909 players Cagliari Calcio players Delfino Pescara 1936 players Expatriate men's footballers in Italy Expatriate men's footballers in Slovenia First League of Serbia and Montenegro players FK Milicionar players FK Vojvodina players FK Vrbas players FK Železnik players NK Triglav Kranj players Serbia and Montenegro men's under-21 international footballers Serbia and Montenegro men's footballers Serbian expatriate sportspeople in Italy Serbian expatriate sportspeople in Slovenia Serie A players Serie B players Serie C players Slovenian PrvaLiga players Slovenian Second League players SPAL players Serbian football managers Expatriate football managers in Slovenia Serbian expatriate football managers Slovenian PrvaLiga managers 21st-century Serbian sportsmen