Montenegrin football player

Stefan Savić ( Montenegrin Cyrillic : Стефан Савић, pronounced [ stêfaːn sâʋitɕ ] ; born 8 January 1991 ) is a Montenegrin professional football player who plays for spanish club Atlético Madrid and the Montenegro national team as a cardinal defender. Born in Mojkovac, Savić started his career at the local club Brskovo, [ 4 ] before moving to BSK Borča, and then to Partizan. He won the double with Partizan, and then joined Manchester City for £ 6 million, winning the Premier League title in his only season there. In 2012, he was transferred to Fiorentina, making over 100 appearances across three seasons before signing with Atlético Madrid in 2015, where he won the UEFA Europa League and UEFA Super Cup in 2018. [ 5 ]

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A full international since 2010, Savić has made over fifty dollar bill appearances and scored five goals for Montenegro. [ 6 ]

Club career [edit ]

career in Serbia [edit ]

Savić began his professional career with BSK Borča during the 2008–09 season. In early 2010, he was on a ten-day trial with Arsenal. According to Savić, he had agreed to join Arsenal in the summer, but the transfer never went through. [ 7 ] On 29 August 2010, it was announced that Savić had signed for Partizan on a four-year contract and was given the numeral 15 shirt. [ 8 ] He made 4 appearances in the 2010–11 UEFA Champions League group stage and helped the club win the doubling .

Manchester City [edit ]

On 6 July 2011, Savić signed a four-year abridge for Manchester City in a £ 6 million batch. [ 9 ] [ 10 ] He made his debut against Swansea City on 15 August as a utility at the City of Manchester Stadium. On 1 October, he came off the bench and scored his beginning finish for the cabaret in a 4–0 victory away to Blackburn Rovers, heading in the conclusive goal from a corner from Samir Nasri. Throughout centre-back Vincent Kompany ‘s four-match ban from 11 to 25 January, Savić replaced him in the starting line-up, with third-choice Kolo Touré aside on international duty with the Ivory Coast in the 2012 Africa Cup of Nations. Although Savić showed brief flashes of form in this time, he showed many instances of jitteriness resulting in frequent misplaced passes, clearances and crucially conceded a punishment against Liverpool in a League Cup match, resulting in a Liverpool win. [ 11 ] Via a hapless first touch, he caused Jermain Defoe ‘s goal in City ‘s 3–2 acquire over Tottenham Hotspur. [ 12 ] With Kompany ‘s render to the originate team, Savić returned to the terrace. He ended the season with 12 league appearances, enough for a decoration, as Manchester City won the 2011–12 Premier League on the last day of the season. [ 13 ]

Fiorentina [edit ]

On 31 August 2012, italian Serie A club Fiorentina signed Savić as part of a deal for Matija Nastasić to transfer the other direction. He was given the number 15 shirt and made his Fiorentina debut on 7 October, playing the full 90 minutes in a 1–0 over Bologna, and in December he scored his first two goals in a 2–2 family draw with Sampdoria. [ 14 ] He finished the season with 26 league appearances and one Coppa Italia appearance, helping Fiorentina to finish in fourthly station in the 2012–13 Serie A, thereby securing a UEFA Europa League place for 2013–14. Savić continued to be a mainstay in the Fiorentina defense in the 2013–14 temper, making 31 appearances in the league as Fiorentina again finished in fourth place. Savić made four appearances in the Europa League proper and two more in stipulate as Fiorentina made the last 16 of the rival, being beaten 2–1 on sum by rivals Juventus. He besides played both matches in the Coppa Italia semi-final gain over Udinese and in the final, where his side lost 3–1 to Napoli. [ 15 ] In the 2014–15 season, Savić reached the milestone of 100 appearances for Fiorentina in all competitions. He was a major separate of their run to the semi-finals in the 2014–15 Europa League and the third base consecutive fourth-place finish in Serie A, making 41 appearances in all competitions .

Atlético Madrid [edit ]

On 20 July 2015, Savić moved to Atlético Madrid for € 10 million fee and signed a five-year contract with the baseball club ; midfielder Mario Suárez moving in the diametric direction for exempt as part of the deal, though Suárez belated sold for €4 million in January 2016. [ 16 ] [ 17 ] Savić became the first base Montenegrin football player who played in the Champions League final in the twenty-first hundred, 18 years after Predrag Mijatović, who scored decisive goal in the 1998 final examination for real Madrid against Juventus .

International career [edit ]

Savić playing against Ukraine in 2012 Savić represented Montenegro at every youth level, including under-17, under-19 and under-21 teams. [ 18 ] He made his international introduction for the senior team in a friendly match against Northern Ireland on 11 August 2010, replacing Milan Jovanović for the final 15 minutes at the Stadion Pod Goricom. On 10 August 2011, he scored twice in a 3–2 friendly personnel casualty to neighbours Albania at the Loro Boriçi Stadium in Shkodër. [ 19 ]

personal life [edit ]

Stefan ‘s don Dragan was the president of the united states of the municipal assembly in Mojkovac when he committed suicide on 6 April 2011 when Stefan was 20 years old. [ 20 ] Subsequently, Red Star Belgrade ‘s Delije ultras, who are differently not known for being charitable to people associated with crosstown rivals Partizan, held up a streamer [ clarification needed ] which said “ Support for Stefan Savić ” after the passing of his father. [ 21 ]

career statistics [edit ]

cabaret [edit ]

As of match played 7 November 2021[22]

International [edit ]

As of match played 13 November 2021[23]

National team
Year
Apps
Goals

Montenegro

2010
4
0

2011
8
2

2012
7
0

2013
6
0

2014
4
0

2015
7
1

2016
4
1

2017
6
0

2018
4
1

2019
2
0

2020
3
0

2021
6
0

Total
61
5

International goals [edit ]

As of match played 10 September 2018. Montenegro score listed first, score column indicates score after each Savić goal.[24]

Honours [edit ]

BSK Borča
Partizan [ 22 ]
Manchester City [ 22 ]
Fiorentina [ 22 ]
Atlético Madrid [ 22 ]
Individual

References [edit ]