Mladen Krstajić

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Mladen Krstajić
Mladen Krstajić
Personal information
Full name Mladen Krstajić
Date of birth March 4, 1974 (1974-03-04) (age 34)
Place of birth    Zenica,Bosnia and Herzegovina, SFR Yugoslavia
Height 1.91 m (6 ft 3 in)
Playing position Defender
Club information
Current club Schalke 04
Number 20
Youth clubs
1984–1992 NK Čelik Zenica
Senior clubs1
Years Club App (Gls)*
1992–1995
1995–2000
2000–2004
2004–present		 OFK Kikinda
Partizan Belgrade
Werder Bremen
Schalke 04		 048 0(2)
111 (13)
112 (11)
107 0(6)   
National team2
1999–present Serbia
(Serbia and Montenegro
until June 28, 2006)		 057 0(2)

1 Senior club appearances and goals
counted for the domestic league only and
correct as of May 10, 2008.
2 National team caps and goals correct
as of November 26, 2007.
* Appearances (Goals)

Mladen Krstajić (Serbian Cyrillic: Младен Крстајић; born March 4, 1974 in Zenica, Bosnia and Herzegovina,SFR Yugoslavia) is a Serbian footballer. He plays for the German Bundesliga side, Schalke 04.

After playing in the youth system of Čelik Zenica, Krstajić fled to Senta, Serbia in April 1992, following the breakout of inter-ethnic war in Bosnia. Once in Serbia, he started playing with FK Senta for 6 months. He then moved on to OFK Kikinda, before eventually earning a dream move to powerhouse FK Partizan.

Krstajić has been a part of the Serbian national team's "Famous Four" defence, which conceded just one goal during the qualifying for the 2006 World Cup. The other members of the famous four are Goran Gavrančić of Dynamo Kiev, Manchester United's Nemanja Vidić, and Ivica Dragutinović of Sevilla.

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1 Jevrić • 2 Ergić • 3 Dragutinović • 4 Duljaj • 5 Vidić • 6 Gavrančić • 7 Koroman • 8 Kežman • 9 Milošević • 10 Stanković • 11 P. Đorđević • 12 Kovačević • 13 Basta • 14 N. Đorđević • 15 Dudić • 16 D. Petković • 17 Nađ • 18 Vukić • 19 Žigić • 20 Krstajić • 21 Ljuboja • 22 Ilić • 23 Stojković • Coach: I. Petković
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