Stefan Selakovic

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Stefan Selakovic (b. 9 January 1977 in Varberg) is a Swedish football striker of Serbian descent.

After playing for Varbergs GIF, he joined Halmstads BK and won Allsvenskan in 2000 and was the top scorer in Allsvenskan in 2001. He then joined Dutch club SC Heerenveen. He wasn't able to contiune to play as well as he had done in Sweden and in 2001 he decided to move back to Sweden. Instead of his earlier club Halmstads BK he chose to play for IFK Göteborg and signed a contract in 2005.

During the clubs hunt for first place in the swedish allsvenskan in the season of 2005 he managed to miss an open goal a few feet in front of him in the deciding game against the eventual champions Djurgårdens IF in the dying seconds and many blamed him for not winning the championship that year. Even though IFK Gothenburg lost the game 1-3 after letting in another goal a few secounds after Selakovic's miss and after some questionable refereeing they then went on to lose the all cruical match against Hammarby IF, again in the last minutes of the match. It was largely thanks to Selakovic that the team was in the championship race at all.

During 2005 the swedish police raided Selakovic's home and claimed to have found evidence of tax fraud during his transfer from SC Heerenveen to IFK Gothenburg. It was decided in early 2006 that Selakovic is to stand trial but the date was not set. During the season 2006 Selakovic seemed unable to score at all, he had golden oppurtunities in many matches during the season and his six goals during the season might have been many more. People started to speculate if Selakovic was affacted by his tax fraud accusation and the possibility of spending time in jail. The fact that opposing fans took this as an advantage to disrupt Selakovic didn't help his game. He did however improve as the season came to a close but it was to late. Even after all this turmoil Stefan Selakovic is one of the most well known and liked players in the current IFK Gothenburg squad. Selakovic has not stood trial for his alleged tax fraud to this date.

He has played for the Sweden national football team.