Slobodan Rajković

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Slobodan Rajković (Serbian Cyrillic: Слободан Рајковић), (born February 3, 1989) is a football player from Serbia.

Beginning his career with OFK Belgrade, Rajković soon gained a reputation as an extremely talented youngster. By the age of sixteen he was a regular in the Serbia and Montenegro national under-21 football team. His reputation was such that in 2005, when he was aged just sixteen, English club Chelsea F.C. agreed to a 5,200,000 euro(3,8 million GBP) deal for the centre-half; a world record for a player under eighteen years of age. Under the terms of the deal Rajković will stay at OFK Belgrade until the 2007/08 season when he will move to Chelsea, but instead of going to the londonian club, he prefers the Football Club of Nantes Atlantique.

He was the youngest player ever to appear in a qualifying match of the UEFA European Under-21 Football Championship. [1]