Mirko Poledica

Mirko Poledica

Personal information
Date of birth	11 September 1978 (1978-09-11) (age 33)
Place of birth	Čačak, SFR Yugoslavia
Height	1.90 m (6 ft 3 in)
Playing position	Left defender
Club information
Current club	Mladost Lučani
Number	27
Youth career
1988-1996	Borac Čačak
Senior career*
Years	Team	Apps†	(Gls)†
1996-2000	Borac Čačak
2000-2003	FK Vojvodina	41	(0)
2002-2003	→Lech Poznań(loan)	14	(0)
2003-2004	Sparta Prague
2004-2006	Legia Warszawa	7	(1)
2004-(2005)	→Pogoń Szczecin(loan)	6	(0)
(2006)-2007	Slavia Sofia
2006-(2007)	FK Smederevo	11	(1)
(2007)-2008	Čukarički Stankom	12	(0)
2007-2009	Borac Čačak	11	(0)
2009-	Mladost Lučani
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and correct as of 1 August 2009. † Appearances (Goals).

Mirko Poledica (Serbian Cyrillic: Мирко Поледица ; born 11 September 1978 in Čačak) is a Serbian professional football player and the President of the Sindicate of Professional Footballers in Serbia.

Career

As child, he loved sports, and started playing football in his hometown club Borac Čačak when he was only 10 years old. He passed by all the youth squads and had excellent coaches like Milovan Ćirković, Mića Kovačević and Mihailo Kolarević. The last one, took him to the senior squad, making him debut against the giant Red Star. The list of players that played along him in the youth teams of Borac was one of the best in the club's history, and includes names like Milivoje Vitakić, Ivica Dragutinović, Branko Jelić, Nesko Milovanović among others. After four seasons in the senior team, he moves to one of the greatest Serbian clubs, FK Vojvodina where, in the 2001-02 season, is choused by the First League managers to the ideal 11 of the league and is crowned as the best assistant. In that season he also receives a call to the National team in a friendly match against Mexico, but did not get to play.^[1] The second half of the 2002-03 season, played, on loan, at the Polish club Lech Poznań. His great exhibitions did not passed unnoteced and many clubs disputed over him, winning at the end, the Czech champions Sparta Prague. He played one season there helping the team to reach the last 16 in the Champions League and winning the national Cup. Next, he returns to polish football, this time to play in the capitals Legia Warsaw. The first season there he finishes only third in the league, but in the second year his team wins the championship in a spectacular nack-a-nack finish with Wisla. Because of some financial issues he leaves the club and returns to Serbia after five years abrod signing with FK Smederevo where had played all the clubs matches until the end of the season. In summer 2007 signs with another Serbian Superliga club FK Čukarički, and, since January 2008, plays back in his hometown club Borac Čačak.^[2] In 12 March 2009, he was elected as President of the Sindicate of Professional Footballers in Serbia.^[3] In summer 2009 he moved to the Serbian First League club FK Mladost Lučani.

Honours

• Vojvodina
  • 1 time part of the best squad of the season: 2001-02
• Sparta Praha
  • 1 time Czech Football Cup winner: 2004
• Legia Warsaw
  • 1 time Polish First League Champion: 2005-06

References

1. ^ Eight newcomers in squad, Serbian Government news archive
2. ^ Biography from MirkoPoledica.com
3. ^ SrbijaSport news

External sources

• Mirko Poledica website.
• Profile in Worldfootball.
• Profile and stats in Srbijafudbal.
• Profile and Polish clubs stats in 90minut.

Persondata
Name	Poledica, Mirko
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Date of birth	11 September 1978
Place of birth	Čačak, SFR Yugoslavia
Date of death
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