Petar Jelić

Infobox Football biography
playername = Petar Jelić
fullname = Petar Jelić
dateofbirth = birth date and age|1986|10|18
cityofbirth = Modriča
countryofbirth = Yugoslavia
height = Height|m=1.87
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currentclub = OFK Beograd
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years = 2005-2006
2006-2007
2006
2007-
clubs = FK Modriča Maxima
FC Nürnberg
→ Carl Zeiss Jena (loan)
OFK Beograd
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nationalteam = fb|Bosnia and Herzegovina
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Petar Jelić (born in Modriča, Republika Srpska, Bosnia and Herzegovina, then Yugoslavia) is a Serbian football striker from Bosnia, he currently plays for OFK Beograd.

Petar played for FK Modriča Maxima in the Premier League of Bosnia and Herzegovina until he signed with FC Nürnberg of the German Bundesliga. FC Nürnberg had loaned Jelić to Second Division side Carl Zeiss Jena, but he could not gain a place in the first team. After his return to Nürnberg, he was sold to OFK Beograd.

Petar Jelić's father is the Bosnian Serb politician Milan Jelić. Many fans of the national team believe that Petar's father used his political power to influence U21 manager Ibrahim Zukanović into making Petar captain of the side at 18Fact|date=August 2008. Recently, Zukanović demoted Jelić to the bench in favor of a striker partnership consisting of Teplice target man Edin Džeko and Alemannia Aachen forward Vedad Ibišević. Petar responded to this by making himself unavailable to selection on grounds that he was descriminated against because he is an ethnic Serb, while coach Zukanović, Džeko and Ibisević are all Bosnian Muslims. However, it should be noted that this row is really over nepotism and not ethnic differencesFact|date=August 2008, because other Bosnian Serbs such as Damir Memišević, Marko Maksimović and Jelić's former teammate at FK Modriča Maxima Nemanja Stjepanović are all important member's of Zukanović's squad.