Albert Nađ

Albert Nađ

Personal information
Full name	Albert Nađ
Date of birth	(1974-10-29) October 29, 1974
Place of birth	Zemun, SFR Yugoslavia
Height	1.74 m (5 ft 8 1⁄2 in)
Playing position	Defensive midfielder (retired)
Senior career*
Years	Team	Apps†	(Gls)†
1992–1996	Partizan	111	(8)
1996–1998	Real Betis	56	(1)
1998–1999	→ Real Oviedo (loan)	27	(1)
1999–2002	Real Oviedo	43	(0)
2001	→ Elche (loan)	16	(1)
2002–2007	Partizan	92	(5)
2007–2008	Rostov	7	(0)
2008–2009	Čukarički	33	(1)
Total		385	(17)
National team
1994–2006	Serbia and Montenegro	45	(3)
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only. † Appearances (goals)

Albert Nađ (Serbian Cyrillic: Алберт Нађ, Hungarian: Nagy Albert; born October 29, 1974) is a Serbian former footballer of Hungarian ethnicity.

Playing career

Nađ was first spotted in 1992, when he played 25 games in his first season with Partizan. He had been regarded as a player with a "lion's heart", as the Serbian football press liked to call it. Nađ was one of the best players at the Partizan Stadium. Albert held the honor of being Partizan's youngest captain ever (age 19) until he was surpassed by Stevan Jovetić who became captain in January 2008. Until 1996 he became one of the most reliable and steady players and a move abroad was the most logical next step in his career.

At Real Betis, Nađ made 56 appearances during his two years at the Lopera stadium, before he was signed by Real Oviedo. The first two seasons in Oviedo, Nađ played 43 league games, but in 2000 he was transferred to the bench. Before returning to Serbia, he nevertheless had a pretty good “farewell season” at Oviedo, playing 24 games as a first team regular.

Nađ made further 192 league appearances for Partizan and scored 11 goals. His "never give up" mentality was a realistic picture of his skills and qualities, what made him a regular in Partizan's team, since he re-joined the "crno-beli" in 2002.

On August 9, 2007, Nađ and Russian side Rostov agreed to a contract that tied the 32-year-old player to the club until the end of the Russian Premier League season in December 2007.^[1] At the time of Nađ's signing the club was already in a bad position with slim chances of avoiding relegation.

Rostov got relegated at the end of the Russian league and Nađ went back to his country Serbia where he signed with Čukarički in mid-January 2008.^[2]

On May 30, 2009 he played his last professional match in the last round of the 2008–09 Serbian Superliga season, and of course, it was against Partizan. Nađ continued to be a fan-favorite of the Grobari even when he was on the opposing side as they cheered Albert is the only captain throughout the course of the match. Albert responded by lifting his Čukarički jersey to show he was wearing a Partizan jersey underneath.

International career

He played 45 games for the Serbia and Montenegro national football team and scored 3 goals. He was a member of the Serbia and Montenegro national football team for the 2006 FIFA World Cup, and was also in the squad for the UEFA Euro 2000.

Managing career

On May 30, 2013, he was appointed as the director of sports at FK Partizan Belgrade.^[3]

Career statistics

References

External links

• Albert Nađ at reprezentacija.rs

FR Yugoslavia squad – UEFA Euro 2000 1 Korać 2 Dudić 3 Đorović 4 Jokanović 5 Đukić 6 D. Stanković 7 Jugović 8 Mijatović 9 Milošević 10 Stojković (c) 11 Mihajlović 12 Cicović 13 Komljenović 14 Saveljić 15 Bunjevčević 16 Govedarica 17 Drulović 18 Kovačević 19 J. Stanković 20 Kežman 21 Nađ 22 Kralj Coach: Boškov

Serbia and Montenegro squad – 2006 FIFA World Cup 1 Jevrić 2 Ergić 3 Dragutinović 4 Duljaj 5 Vidić 6 Gavrančić 7 Koroman 8 Kežman 9 Milošević (c) 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