Zdravko Kuzmanović

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Zdravko Kuzmanović

Date of birth	September 22, 1987 (1987-09-22) (age 20)
Place of birth	Bern, Switzerland
Height	1.86 m (6 ft 1 in)
Playing position	Midfielder
Club information
Current club	ACF Fiorentina
Number	22
Youth clubs
1994-2001 2001-2003 2003-2005	FC Dürrenast BSC Young Boys FC Basel
Senior clubs¹
Years	Club	App (Gls)*
2005-2007 2007-	FC Basel ACF Fiorentina	34 (4) 34 (1)
National team²
2007-	Switzerland U-21 Serbia	11 (2)
¹ Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and correct as of April 20, 2008. ² National team caps and goals correct as of October 17, 2007. * Appearances (Goals)

Zdravko Kuzmanović (Serbian Cyrillic: Здравко Кузмановић; born 22 September 1987 in Bern, Switzerland) is a Swiss-born Serbian footballer who currently plays as a midfielder for ACF Fiorentina in the Italian Serie A.

Born in Switzerland to a family of Serbian expats (his father hails from a small Skugrići village near Modriča, Bosnia and Herzegovina, SFR Yugoslavia), Kuzmanović continued the family tradition as both his father Ljubo and his grandfather played football for the local club in Gradačac - FK Zvijezda.^[1] Kuzmanović's father also played professionally in Berlin, before eventually ending his career at FC Thun of Switzerland, and continuing to live in the country.

1 Club career
2 International career
3 References
4 External links

[edit] Club career

On January 30th 2007 he signed for ACF Fiorentina^[2].

On March 4, 2007 he played his first Serie A match for Fiorentina against Torino F.C. ^[3] Since then Kuzmanovic has all but consolidated his spot in the Fiorentina starting line up and has played an integral part in the ongoing successful Serie A and Uefa Cup runs.

[edit] International career

In early 2007, Serbian FA began talks with him about the possibility of playing for the Serbian National football team^[4] and he accepted call up to squad against Kazakhstan and Portugal in March 2007. He scored his first two (and only so far) goals for Serbia in the away game versus Belgium, but they weren't enough to get a point, since Serbia lost 3-2. Although Kuzmanović was born in Thun and played for Switzerland at youth level, he has decided to play for Serbia on the senior level, stating: "I'm Serbian and I want to give all for my country, it's a matter of what you feel in your heart and I must listen to it." ^[5]