Aleksandar Popović (footballer)

Aleksandar Popović

Personal information
Full name	Aleksandar Popović
Date of birth	2 November 1983
Place of birth	Klagenfurt, Austria
Height	1.80 m (5 ft 11 in)
Playing position	Central midfielder
Club information
Current team	FK Beograd
Number	7
Youth career
	BSV Bad Bleiberg
Senior career*
Years	Team	Apps	(Gls)
2001–2002	Red Star Belgrade	0	(0)
2001–2002	→ Jedinstvo Ub (loan)	5	(0)
2002–2003	BSV Bad Bleiberg	18	(0)
2003–2005	Olimpija Ljubljana	25	(1)
2005–2009	Vojvodina	51	(2)
2009–2010	Kavala	7	(0)
2010–	FK Beograd	?	(?)
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and correct as of July 28, 2014.

Aleksandar Popović (Serbian Cyrillic: Александар Поповић, born 2 November 1983) is an Austrian-Serbian football midfielder who plays for FK Beograd.

Career

He was born in Klagenfurt, Austria. He started his career playing with BSV Bad Bleiberg. In 2001 he moved to FR Yugoslavia and joined Serbian giants red Star Belgrade, however he spent most time on loan at FK Jedinstvo Ub. Afterwords, he returned to Austria and then played one season, already as senior, at his previous club, BSV Bad Bleiberg.^[1]

In 2003 he moved abroad again, this time just crossing the border and joining Slovenian top-league side Olimpija Ljubljana, playing with them the seaons 2003–04 and 2004–05.^[2]

His fine performances in SLovenian PrvaLiga made interst in the region grow, and he returned to Serbia and signed with FK Vojvodina. Popović became the team captain in Serbian SuperLiga club FK Vojvodina, and in summer 2009, he moved to Super League Greece to play in Kavala F.C. in the Greek Super League.^[3] In 2010 he returned again to Serbia and played with FK Beograd in third-tier, the Serbian League Belgrade.^[1]

Notes

1. Profile at Srbijafudbal
2. Stats from Slovenia at PrvaLiga.
3. Aleksandar Popović at Soccerway