Dušan Basta

Dušan Basta

Basta in 2006
Personal information
Full name Dušan Basta
Date of birth (1984-08-18) 18 August 1984
Place of birth Belgrade, SFR Yugoslavia
Height 1.83 m (6 ft 0 in)
Playing position Right back / Right winger
Club information
Current team
 Lazio
Number 8
Youth career
1992–1997 PKB Padinska Skela
1997–2002 Red Star Belgrade
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
2002–2008 Red Star Belgrade 97 (3)
2003–2004 → Jedinstvo Ub (loan) 27 (9)
2008–2014 Udinese 105 (9)
2008–2009 → Lecce (loan) 7 (0)
2014– Lazio 77 (1)
National team‡
2005–2007 Serbia U21 18 (0)
2005–2015 Serbia 17 (2)
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and correct as of 28 May 2017.
‡ National team caps and goals correct as of 29 March 2015

Dušan Basta (Serbian Cyrillic: Душан Баста; born 18 August 1984) is a Serbian professional football player who plays for Italian club Lazio. He often plays as a right fullback. Basta was a non-playing member of the Serbia and Montenegro squad at the 2006 FIFA World Cup.

Club career

Early years

The first football step Basta made was when he was eight – in local football club PKB from Padinska Skela, the suburb where he lived and where he was born. He then signed for Red Star aged thirteen, becoming a part of one of the most talented generations in the history of Red Star's youth academy.

Red Star Belgrade

Basta signed his first professional contract at the age of 17, when he together with a few teammates from Red Star's youth team broke out into the senior squad. He made his professional debut on his 18th birthday (18 August 2002) in a 1–0 defeat from Sutjeska in Nikšić, Montenegro. In following second season, he played on loan in Jedinstvo Ub (along with Aleksandar Luković and Boško Janković). Over the season Basta displayed great technique, skills, and pass accuracy and very soon he became one of the most important players for Red Star Belgrade. In April 2005 Basta suffered an injury which kept him out of football for five months. By the end of his spell at Red Star, Basta won six trophies with Red Star Belgrade, including three domestic doubles.

Udinese

In July 2008 he moved from Red Star Belgrade to Udinese. He played in pre-season friendlies for Udinese.[1] However, Udinese did not wish to allocate one of the two non-EU registration quota on Basta, and Basta moved to Lecce on loan from Red Star Belgrade,[2] in order to borrow the quota from Lecce, likes his teammate and countryman Aleksandar Luković.

After returning to Udinese in summer 2009, he became the starting right wingback soon after the season started instead of his usual midfield position. He made his debut on 23 September 2009 against A.C. Milan, replacing Mauricio Isla after 27 minutes. Udinese won the match 1–0. After injuries to Simone Pepe, he played as a right-sided midfielder in their 3–5–2 formation for a few matches. Basta was later injured and missed the whole 2010–11 Serie A season, meaning that Mauricio Isla secured Basta's place in the team.

Basta made his return after 18 months on 11 September, the first gameweek of the 2011–12 Serie A season. In that match the coach Francesco Guidolin rested Isla, using Basta as the right wingback in their 3–5–2 formation. He scored a goal, beating Lecce 2–0. In the next match, the first group stage match of the 2011–12 UEFA Europa League, Basta returned to the bench. On 6 November 2011, Basta scored the first goal in a 2–1 victory against Siena. On 11 December 2011, the Serb headed in Udinese's second goal in a 2–1 victory against Chievo. He then scored a powerful shot against struggling Cesena.

Lazio

Basta signed with Lazio on 23 June 2014 in a temporary deal, with an obligation to buy.[3][4] Eventually Basta cost Lazio €10.5 million.[5]

On 30 April 2017 Basta returned to score a goal in the Serie A, three years later the previous one (Udinese-Roma 2-3, 17 March 2014[6]) and against the same oppoent team: his goal allowed Lazio to win the Derby della Capitale against the city rivals of Roma (Lazio won the match 3-1 away and Basta scored the second goal).[7]

International career

Basta debuted for his country against Spain on 31 March 2005.[8] He substituted Ognjen Koroman in 77 minutes. He collected his second cap in Tunisia.[9] He was in Serbia and Montenegro team for World Cup in Germany, but he did not play.

For U21's selection of Serbia he played 18 games and he played on two European Under-21 Football Championship, First time in Portugal 2006 he reached semifinal, second time he became losing finalists in the Netherlands 2007. He was called up by the caretaker of the Serbia national football team, Radovan Ćurčić, for two friendly matches, against Mexico and Honduras, as a replacement for the injured Neven Subotić. Shortly after being called up, he suffered an injury. Ćurčić called up Nemanja Tomić, Adem Ljajić and Andrija Kaluđerović instead.

Personal life

Basta originates from a Serb family in Udbina, Croatia. His godbrother is Nenad Nikolić.

Career statistics

Club

As of May 2017[10]
Club Season League Cup Europe Other Total
AppsGoalsAppsGoalsAppsGoalsAppsGoalsAppsGoals
Red Star Belgrade 2002–03 120??10– 130
2003–04 10??00– 10
Jedinstvo Ub (loan) 2003–04 279??00–279
Red Star Belgrade 2004–05 232??50– 282
2005–06 250??61– 311
2006–07 1600040– 200
2007–08 2010091– 292
Total 973??252–1225
Lecce (loan) 2008–09 7000000070
Total 7000000070
Udinese 2009–10 160000000160
2010–11 0000000000
2011–12 315107000395
2012–13 281105100332
2013–14 303004100344
Total 1059201620012311
Lazio 2014–15 270610000331
2015–16 230001000240
2016–17 271000000271
Total 771611000842
Career total 31322814240036327

International

As of match played 29 March 2015
Serbian national team
YearAppsGoals
200510
200610
2007–201100
201230
201372
201440
201510
Total172

International goals

# Date Venue Opponent Score Result Competition
1. 6 February 2013 GSP Stadium, Nicosia, Cyprus  Cyprus
1–3
1–3
 Friendly
2. 15 October 2013 Jagodina City Stadium, Jagodina, Serbia  Macedonia
2–0
5–1
 2014 FIFA World Cup qualification

Honours

Red Star Belgrade

See also

References

  1. ↑ "Il Bassano regge dignitosamente all'Udinese(0/3)" (in Italian). Bassano Virtus 55 Soccer Team. 25 July 2008. Archived from the original on 7 August 2011. Retrieved 4 November 2010.
  2. ↑ "Lecce lure Basta from Udinese". skysports. 2008-09-01. Retrieved 2009-12-02.
  3. ↑ "Basta potpisao četvorogodišnji ugovor sa Lacijom". novosti.rs (in Serbian). 23 June 2014. Retrieved 29 March 2015.
  4. ↑ "Calcio Mercato Squadre (Lazio)" (in Italian). Lega Serie A. 1 September 2014. Archived from the original on 15 September 2014.
  5. ↑ "RELAZIONE FINANZIARIA SEMESTRALE CONSOLIDATA AL 31 DICEMBRE 2015" (PDF) (in Italian). S.S. Lazio. 29 February 2016. Retrieved 1 May 2016.
  6. ↑ "Roma-Udinese 3-2. Gol di Totti, Destro, Pinzi, Torosidis e Basta. +3 sul Napoli". Gazzetta.it (in Italian). 2014-03-17. Retrieved 2017-05-03.
  7. ↑ "Serie A: Roma-Lazio 1-3, la Juve è a +9". Ansa.it (in Italian). 2017-04-30. Retrieved 2017-05-03.
  8. ↑ "Petkovic puts faith in new faces". UEFA.com. 2005-03-20. Retrieved 2009-12-02.
  9. ↑ "Petković names squad for Tunisia test". UEFA.com. 2006-02-24. Retrieved 2009-12-02.
  10. ↑ "D.Basta". Soccerway. Retrieved 5 February 2014.

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