Dušan Basta

Dušan Basta

Personal information
Date of birth	18 August 1984 (1984-08-18) (age 27)
Place of birth	Belgrade, Yugoslavia
Height	1.84 m (6 ft  1⁄2 in)
Playing position	Right Back, Right Midfielder
Club information
Current club	Udinese
Number	8
Youth career
	PKB Padinska Skela
	Red Star Belgrade
Senior career*
Years	Team	Apps†	(Gls)†
2002–2008	Red Star Belgrade	97	(3)
2003–2004	→ Jedinstvo Ub (loan)	26	(7)
2008–	Udinese	24	(2)
2008–2009	→ Lecce (loan)	7	(0)
National team
2005–2006	Serbia and Montenegro	2	(0)
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and correct as of 16:14, 6 November 2011 (UTC). † Appearances (Goals).

Dušan Basta (Serbian Cyrillic: Душан Баста) (born 18 August 1984) is a Serbian footballer who plays for Udinese.

He has been in the under 21's selection of Serbia and has been named captain. He was a non-playing member of the Serbia & Montenegro squad at the 2006 FIFA World Cup.

Career

Early years

The first football steps Basta made, occurred when he was eight in local football club PKB from Padinska Skela, the suburb where he lived and where he was born. He came in Red Star at his thirteen and in time he became the part one of the most talented generation in history of Red Star's youth academy.

Red Star

First professional contract he signed with 17 years, when he together with few teammates from youth team came in first team. For first team he debuted on his 18th birthday, August 2002 in defeat from Sutjeska in Nikšić(1:0). In the second season, he played on loan in Jedinstvo Ub (along with Aleksandar Luković). He emphasized himself with great technique skills and accuracy for long throws and very soon he became one of the most important players for Red Star Belgrade. In April 2005 he injured his left hand, the injury was so bad that he was not playing for five months. 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. But Udinese did not wish to use its one of the two non-EU registration quota on Basta, and Basta went to Lecce on loan from Red Star Belgrade,^[1] in order to borrow the quota from Lecce, likes his team-mate and countryman Aleksandar Luković.

Returned to Udinese in summer 2009, he became the starting right-wingback since the 6th matches instead of midfielder. He made his debut on 23 September 2009 (the 5th matches), he substituted Mauricio Isla in 27 minutes for same position. The match Udinese won A.C. Milan 1–0. After injuries of Simone Pepe, he played as a right midfielder in their 3–5–2 formation, for a few matches.

He then injured and missed whole 2010-11 Serie A season.

Basta made his return after 1½seasons, on 11 September, the round 1 of 2011–12 Serie A, that match the coach rested Mauricio Isla (ailing, but in fact due to team tactic and back from international duty) and Basta was the right wing-back in 3–5–2 formation. He scored a goal, winning Lecce 2–0. In the next match, the first group stage match of 2011–12 UEFA Europa League, Basta returned to bench as Isla started (who secured the right wing-back place for recent seasons since Basta injury). On 6 November 2011, Basta scored the first goal in a 2-1 victory against A.C. Siena.

International career

For A team of Serbia he played two times. He debuted for his country against Spain on 31 March 2005.^[2] He substituted Ognjen Koroman in 77 minutes. He collected his second cap in Tunisia.^[3]

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 injury as well. Ćurčić called-up Nemanja Tomić, Adem Ljajić and Andrija Kaluđerović instead.

Career statistics

Club statistics

As of 6 November 2011

Club performance			League		Cup		Continental		Total
Season	Club	League	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals
Serbia			League		Serbian Cup		Europe		Total
2002–03	Red Star Belgrade	First League	12	0	0	0	1	0	13	0
2003–04			1	0	0	0	0	0	1	0
2003–04	Jedinstvo Ub (loan)	Second League	26	7	0	0	0	0	26	7
2004–05	Red Star Belgrade	First League	23	2	0	0	5	0	28	2
2005–06		Superliga	25	0	0	0	6	1	31	1
2006–07			16	0	0	0	4	0	20	0
2007–08			20	1	0	0	9	1	29	2
Italy			League		Coppa Italia		Europe		Total
2008–09	Lecce (loan)	Serie A	7	0	0	0	0	0	7	0
2009–10	Udinese		16	0	0	0	0	0	16	0
2010–11			0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
2011–12			8	2	0	0	3	0	11	2
			League		Cup		Continental		Total
Total	Serbia		123	10	0	0	25	2	148	12
	Italy		31	2	0	0	3	0	34	2
Career total			154	12	0	0	28	2	182	14

International statistics

International appearances and goals
#	Date	Venue	Opponent	Result	Goal	Competition
	8 October 2004	Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina	Bosnia and Herzegovina	3–1	0	2006 UEFA European Under-21 Football Championship qualification
	12 October 2004	Novi Sad, Serbia and Montenegro	San Marino	9–0	0	2006 UEFA European Under-21 Football Championship qualification
	16 November 2004	Lokeren, Belgium	Belgium	0–4	0	2006 UEFA European Under-21 Football Championship qualification
1.	30 March 2005	Belgrade, Serbia and Montenegro	Spain	0–0	0	2006 FIFA World Cup qualification
	7 October 2005	Kaunas, Lithuania	Lithuania	2–0	0	2006 UEFA European Under-21 Football Championship qualification
	12 November 2005	Belgrade, Serbia and Montenegro	Croatia	3–1	0	2006 UEFA European Under-21 Football Championship qualification
	16 November 2005	Velika Gorica, Croatia	Croatia	2–1	0	2006 UEFA European Under-21 Football Championship qualification
2.	1 March 2006	Rades, Tunisia	Tunisia	1–0	0	Friendly
	23 May 2006	Barcelos, Portugal	Germany	0–1	0	2006 UEFA European Under-21 Football Championship
	25 May 2006		Portugal	2–0	0
	28 May 2006	Braga, Portugal	France	0–2	0
	1 June 2006	Aveiro, Portugal	Ukraine	0–0 (AET) 4–5 (PSO)	0
	14 June 2007	Nijmegen, The Netherlands	Czech Republic	1–0	0	2007 UEFA European Under-21 Football Championship
	17 June 2007		England	0–2	0
	20 June 2007	Arnhem, The Netherlands	Belgium	2–0	0
	23 Junee 2007	Groningen, The Netherlands	Netherlands	1–4	0

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References

1. ^ "Lecce lure Basta from Udinese". skysports. 2008-09-01. http://www.skysports.com/story/0,19528,11854_4083015,00.html. Retrieved 2009-12-02. 
2. ^ "Petkovic puts faith in new faces". UEFA.com. 2005-03-20. http://www.uefa.com/competitions/worldcup/news/kind=1/newsid=289601.html. Retrieved 2009-12-02. 
3. ^ "Petković names squad for Tunisia test". UEFA.com. 2006-02-24. http://www.uefa.com/competitions/worldcup/news/kind=1/newsid=398507.html. Retrieved 2009-12-02. 

External links

• BastaDusan.com
• Profile at La Gazzetta dello Sport 2009–10 (Italian)
• Profile at Football.it (Italian)
• Dušan Basta at National-Football-Teams.com
• Profile at reprezentacija.rs (Serbian) (English)

Persondata
Name	Basta, Dušan
Alternative names
Short description	Serbian footballer
Date of birth	1984-8-18
Place of birth	Belgrade, Serbia
Date of death
Place of death