Dragan Mrđa

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Dragan Mrđa
Драган Мрђа
Personal information
Mrđa with the Serbian national team in 2010
Full name	Dragan Mrđa
Date of birth	(1984-01-23) January 23, 1984
Place of birth	Vršac, SFR Yugoslavia
Height	1.87 m (6 ft 2 in)
Playing position	Striker
Club information
Current club	Red Star Belgrade
Number	84
Youth career
2000–2001	Red Star Belgrade
Senior career*
Years	Team	Apps^†	(Gls)^†
2001–2005	Red Star Belgrade	39	(7)
2003–2005	→ Jedinstvo Ub (loan)	16	(8)
2005–2007	Lierse	30	(2)
2006–2007	→ Zulte Waregem (loan)	6	(0)
2007–2008	Khimki	9	(2)
2008–2010	Vojvodina	56	(35)
2010–2013	Sion	41	(10)
2013–	Red Star Belgrade	13	(10)
National team^‡
2003-2007	Serbia U21	8	(4)
2008–2011	Serbia	12	(2)
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and correct as of 15:39, 7 December 2013 (UTC). † Appearances (Goals). ‡ National team caps and goals correct as of 10:39, 12 November 2011 (UTC)

Dragan Mrđa (Serbian Cyrillic: Драган Мрђа, born January 23, 1984 in Vršac) is a Serbian football player who plays as striker for Serbian SuperLiga club Red Star Belgrade. In international competition he has represented Serbia.

Club career

Early career

After spending many years of his youth playing with Red Star Belgrade, during which he was loaned to FK Jedinstvo Ub, he decided to accept a challenge that came from Belgium and moved to Lierse S.K. in January 2006. In the next winter break, he was loaned to another Belgian First Division club, S.V. Zulte Waregem before moving to Russia to play with Premier League club FC Khimki.

Vojvodina

After one season in Russia, he returned to Serbia. This time he joined with FK Vojvodina, an ambitious Serbian SuperLiga club. In spite of arriving to the club off of dry spells in Belgium and Russia, he became Vojvodina's captain after a remarkably short period of time due to a spontaneous explosion of good form. His prolific goal-scoring with Vojvodina earned him calls from the Serbian national team from 2008, having been called up for a friendly against Bulgaria and another friendly match against Austria which took place the same year.^[1] By the end of the 2009-2010 season, Mrđa had scored 22 goals in 29 league games and was named SuperLiga Player of the Year.

Sion

After two seasons spent in Novi Sad, in summer 2010, he signed a 3-year contract with Swiss side FC Sion.^[2] In March 2011 in a match against FC Zürich he suffered a serious knee injury which kept him out of football for six months.^[3]

Return to Red Star Belgrade

After seasons spent in Sion, Mrđa returned to the club at which he debuted professionally, signing a two-year contract with Red Star Belgrade.^[4] On September 29, 2013, he scored a hat-trick in a 5-0 win against FK Spartak Subotica.^[5] On November 23, 2013, he scored another hat-trick in a 4-1 win against FK Sloboda Užice, becoming Red Star's highest goal-scorer of the half-season.^[6]

International career

Mrđa was a part of the Serbian U21 team that made it to the final of the 2007 UEFA European Under-21 Football Championship, where he scored coming off the bench against the Netherlands U21 side. By the end of the championship he had scored a total of two goals, which was on level with the likes of Ryan Babel. Mrđa scored two goals for the Serbian national team in a 3-0 friendly win against Japan on April 7, 2010.^[7] He was then called up by Radomir Antić to Serbia's squad at the 2010 FIFA World Cup, although Mrđa ended up not playing a single game in the competition.

Career statistics

Club

As of 2 November 2013

Club	Season	League		Cup		Continental		Total
Club	Season	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals
Vojvodina	2009–10	29	22	3	2	2	1	34	25
Vojvodina	Total	29	22	3	2	2	1	34	25
Sion	2010–11	18	8	4	6	0	0	22	14
	2011–12	9	1	1	1	0	0	10	2
	2012–13	5	0	1	1	0	0	6	1
	Total	32	9	6	8	0	0	38	17
Red Star Belgrade	2013–14	13	10	1	1	0	0	14	11
Red Star Belgrade	Total	13	10	1	1	0	0	14	11
Career total		74	41	10	11	2	1	86	53

International

Serbia national team
Year	Apps	Goals
2008	2	0
2010	7	2
2011	3	0
Total	12	2

International goals

#	Date	Venue	Opponent	Score	Result	Competition
1.	7 April 2010	Nagai Stadium, Osaka, Japan	Japan	0–1	0–3	Friendly
2.	7 April 2010	Nagai Stadium, Osaka, Japan	Japan	0–3	0–3	Friendly

References

↑ http://www.reprezentacija.rs/cgi-bin/index.pl?str=igraci&strana=Mrdja_Dragan
↑ http://www.b92.net/sport/fudbal/vesti.php?yyyy=2010&mm=08&dd=12&nav_id=451427
↑ Sportal: "Orlovi" bez jednog napadača protiv Irske i Estonije (Serbian) - March 13, 2011
↑ B92: Dragan Mrđa u Zvezdi - August 13, 2013
↑ Blic Sport: Petarda Zvezde: het-trik Mrđe i sjajni golovi Daude i Milijaša protiv Spartaka (Serbian) September 29, 2013. By B. Vinulović
↑ Mozzart Sport: Mrđa ne zna da da gol, on daje samo po dva-tri (Serbian) November 23, 2013
↑ Blic Sport: Mrđa i slobodnjak Tomića za trijumf Srbije u Japanu! (Serbian) April 7, 2010

External links

Dragan Mrđa at UEFA.com
Dragan Mrđa at Srbijafudbal.net
Dragan Mrđa at Soccerway.com
Dragan Mrđa at Reprezentacija.rs
Dragan Mrđa at National-Football-Teams.com

v t e 2009–10 SuperLiga Team of the Season

GK: Saša Stamenković DF: Pavle Ninkov DF: Marko Lomić DF: Milan Vilotić DF: Mladen Krstajić MF: Ljubomir Fejsa MF: Radosav Petrović MF: Nikola Lazetić MF: Dušan Tadić MF: Almami Moreira FW: Dragan Mrđa

v t e Serbian SuperLiga top scorers

FR Yugoslavia / Serbia and Montenegro (1992–2006)	1992–93: Drobnjak / Mihajlović 1993–94: Milošević 1994–95: Milošević 1995–96: Budimirović 1996–97: Jovičić 1997–98: Marković 1998–99: Osmanović 1999–00: Kežman 2000–01: Divić 2001–02: Đurašković 2002–03: Vukić 2003–04: Žigić 2004–05: Pantelić 2005–06: Radonjić

Serbia (2006–present)	2006–07: Baljak 2007–08: Jestrović 2008–09: Diarra 2009–10: Mrđa 2010–11: Iliev / Kaluđerović 2011–12: Spalević 2012–13: Stojanović

v t e Serbia squad – 2010 FIFA World Cup

1 Stojković 2 Rukavina 3 Kolarov 4 Kačar 5 Vidić 6 Ivanović 7 Tošić 8 Lazović 9 Pantelić 10 Stanković (c) 11 Milijaš 12 Isailović 13 Luković 14 Jovanović 15 Žigić 16 Obradović 17 Krasić 18 Ninković 19 Petrović 20 Subotić 21 Mrđa 22 Kuzmanović 23 Đuričić Coach: Antić

v t e Red Star Belgrade – current squad

1 Bajković 2 Petković 3 Nenadić 4 Lazić 5 Mijailović 6 Krneta 7 Rakić 8 Lazović 9 Dauda 10 Milijaš (c) 11 Pečnik 14 Pavićević 16 Milunović 17 Kasalica 18 Ožegović 19 Martinović 20 Araujo 22 Vesić 26 Gogić 27 Mihajlović 28 Savićević 30 Omega 33 Ninković 55 Kovačević 84 Mrđa 99 Onyilo Manager: Stojanović

Persondata
Name	Mrdja, Dragan
Alternative names
Short description	Serbian footballer
Date of birth	1984-01-23
Place of birth	Vršac, SFR Yugoslavia
Date of death
Place of death

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