Nikola Milenković

Nikola Milenković
Personal information
Full name Nikola Milenković
Date of birth (1997-10-12) 12 October 1997
Place of birth Belgrade, FR Yugoslavia[1]
Height 1.95 m (6 ft 5 in)[2]
Playing position Centre-back
Club information
Current team
 Fiorentina
Number 4
Youth career
Partizan
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
2015–2017 Partizan 36 (3)
2015–2016 → Teleoptik (loan) 13 (0)
2017– Fiorentina 0 (0)
National team‡
2015–2016 Serbia U19 3 (1)
2016– Serbia U20 1 (0)
2017– Serbia U21 1 (0)
2016– Serbia 1 (0)
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and correct as of 21 May 2017.
‡ National team caps and goals correct as of 29 September 2016

Nikola Milenković (Serbian Cyrillic: Никола Миленковић; born 12 October 1997) is a Serbian football defender, playing for Fiorentina.

Club career

Partizan

2015–16 season

Passing the youth categories of Partizan, Milenković was loaned to Teleoptik for the 2015–16 season.[3] At the Beginning of 2016, he joined the first team of Partizan under coach Ivan Tomić and signed five-year contract, but also stayed with Teleoptik on dual registration until the end of season.[4] Several days after debut for U19 national team,[5] he made his debut for Partizan in the SuperLiga match against Mladost Lučani played on 10 April 2016.[6] Milenković also started match against Čukarički in 32 fixture match of the same season, but he got the red card and suspension for next 4 matches after one brutal foul on Petar Bojić.[7] Milenković scored his first senior goal for Partizan in the last fixture of the 2015–16 Serbian SuperLiga, against Vojvodina,[8] which was the hundredth goal of the club for the season.[9]

2016–17 season

Milenković started new season pairing with Cédric Gogoua for the second qualifying round of the 2016–17 UEFA Europa League against Zagłębie Lubin. He also started SuperLiga competition in the first fixture match against Bačka Bačka Palanka, but later he spent next 2 rounds sitting on the bench. After several bad results and some injuries of the players in defense line, Milenković has started playing continuously from the 4th fixture match against Javor Ivanjica. He scored his first season goal in a match against Rad, played on 27 August 2016.[10] Milenković also made his Serbian Cup debut in the first round match, against Napredak Kruševac, played on 21 September 2016.[11] After Miroslav Vulićević's injury in a cup match against Žarkovo, played on 25 October 2016, Milenković succeeded a captain's armbrand.[12] In February 2017, Milenković took a place on the list of the best thirty youth footballers in the world, created by the Italian newspaper La Gazzetta dello Sport.[13] Milenković scored his third goal for Partizan as a senior in 27 fixture match of the season against Voždovac, played on 18 March 2017.[14]

On 27 May, in his last match for Partizan, Milenković scored a header against Partizans' biggest rival Red Star which won the game and clinched Partizans' double of the season, winning both the league and cup competitions.[15]

Fiorentina

On 24 May 2017, Partizan president Milorad Vučelić confirmed that Milenković will be joining Serie A side Fiorentina in the summer.[16]The reported fee is believed to be around €5.1 million.[17]

International career

Milenković was a member of Serbia U19 in early 2016.[18] He made his international debut for the Serbia national football team in a friendly 3-0 loss to Qatar.[19] Later, same year, Milenković was called in Serbia U20 national squad by coach Nenad Lalatović, and made his debut for the team in a match against Montenegro.[20] As a selector of U21 level, Lalatović also called Milenković into the squad in March 2017.[21] He capped his first game for U21 level on 28 March 2017, in a friendly match against Slovakia.[22]

Career statistics

Club

As of 27 May 2017[18]
Club Season League Cup Continental Other Total
DivisionAppsGoalsAppsGoalsAppsGoalsAppsGoalsAppsGoals
Teleoptik (loan) 2015–16[1] League Belgrade 130———130
Partizan 2015–16 SuperLiga 4100——41
2016–17 3226120—403
Total 3636120—444
Fiorentina 2017–18 Serie A 000000—00
Career total 4936120—574

International

As of 29 September 2016[23]
Serbia
YearAppsGoals
201610
Total10

Honours

Partizan

References

  1. 1 2 "Milenkovic, Nikola". srbijafudbal.com (in Serbian). Retrieved 12 October 2016.
  2. ↑ "Milenković, Nikola". FK Partizan official website (in Serbian). Retrieved 18 April 2016.
  3. ↑ ""FUDBAL" number 32 - page 2866" (PDF). Football Association of Serbia (in Serbian). 12 August 2015. Retrieved 18 April 2016.
  4. ↑ "ZIMSKI PRELAZNI ROK – FK PARTIZAN (18.01. – 12.02.2016.)" (PDF). FK Partizan official website (in Serbian). 18 February 2015. Retrieved 18 April 2016.
  5. ↑ "Никола Миленковић: Живим за деби у Партизану!". Sportski žurnal (in Serbian). 1 April 2016. Retrieved 18 April 2016.
  6. ↑ "PARTIZAN SPREMAN ZA DERBI Božinov se raspucao, majstorije Ilića presudile Mladosti /VIDEO/". Blic (in Serbian). 10 April 2016. Retrieved 10 April 2016.
  7. ↑ "Миленковићу четири, Јанковићу три утакмице паузе!". Sportski žurnal (in Serbian). 27 April 2016. Retrieved 28 April 2016.
  8. ↑ "Partizan nemilosrdan - Mihajlović već po navici odlučio; Voša videla koliko je teže kad moraš da napadneš večite (VIDEO)". mozzartsport.com (in Serbian). 21 May 2016. Retrieved 22 May 2016.
  9. ↑ "Partizan prebacio stotku: Milenković jubilarac". mozzartsport.com (in Serbian). 23 May 2016. Retrieved 23 May 2016.
  10. ↑ "Partizan – Rad 4:0 (2:0)". FK Partizan official website (in Serbian). 27 August 2016. Retrieved 28 August 2016.
  11. ↑ "Partizan – Napredak 3:1 (3:0)". FK Partizan official website (in Serbian). 21 September 2016. Retrieved 23 September 2016.
  12. ↑ "Žarkovo – Partizan 0:2 (0:0)". FK Partizan official website (in Serbian). 25 October 2016. Retrieved 25 October 2016.
  13. ↑ "Oni će pokoriti svet: Spisak 30 najboljih mladih fudbalera planete, tu je i jedan iz Partizana". mozzartsport.com (in Serbian). 22 February 2017. Retrieved 22 February 2017.
  14. ↑ "Partizan – Voždovac 4:0 (2:0)". FK Partizan official website (in Serbian). 18 March 2017. Retrieved 18 March 2017.
  15. ↑ "Milenković doneo duplu krunu Partizanu!". B92 (in Serbian). 27 May 2017. Retrieved 27 May 2017.
  16. ↑ "NADA SE LIGI ŠAMPIONA Vučelić posle titule: Ostaju Đurđević i Leonardo". Blic.rs (in Serbian). 24 May 2017. Retrieved 27 May 2017.
  17. ↑ "‘Milenkovic will join Fiorentina’". football-italia.net. 15 March 2017. Retrieved 27 May 2017.
  18. 1 2 3 4 Nikola Milenković at Soccerway
  19. ↑ "Qatar - Serbia match report". eurosport.com. 29 September 2016. Retrieved 8 October 2016.
  20. ↑ "Лалатовићева Србија (селекција до 20 година) боља од Црне Горе у Подгорици – 2:1(0:0)". Football Association of Serbia (in Serbian). 13 November 2016. Retrieved 25 November 2016.
  21. ↑ "Zasluženo: Milenković u reprezentaciji!". mozzartsport.com (in Serbian). 17 March 2017. Retrieved 18 March 2017.
  22. ↑ "Млада репрезентација са промешаним картама у Словачкој – 1:2 (0:0)". Football Association of Serbia (in Serbian). 28 March 2017. Retrieved 31 March 2017.
  23. ↑ Nikola Milenković at National-Football-Teams.com
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