Jovan Mijatović (Serbian Cyrillic: Јован Мијатовић ; born 11 July 2005) is a Serbian professional footballer who plays as a winger for Red Star Belgrade.
| Personal information | |||
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| Date of birth | (2005-07-11) 11 July 2005 (age 17) | ||
| Place of birth | Belgrade, Serbia and Montenegro | ||
| Height | 1.79 m (5 ft 10 in) | ||
| Position(s) | Winger[1] | ||
| Club information | |||
Current team | Red Star Belgrade | ||
| Number | 9 | ||
| Youth career | |||
| 0000 | Red Star Belgrade | ||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| 2022– | Red Star Belgrade | 3 | (0) |
| 2022 | → Grafičar (loan) | 8 | (5) |
| National team‡ | |||
| 2019 | Serbia U15 | 6 | (1) |
| 2021 | Serbia U16 | 1 | (0) |
| 2022 | Serbia U17 | 8 | (1) |
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*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 13 November 2022 ‡ National team caps and goals, correct as of 2 October 2022 | |||
Mijatović went through the junior selections of Red Star Belgrade. At the beginning of the spring of 2021, he suffered a serious knee injury, which caused him to be absent from the field in the following period.[2] With the cadet team, he participated in winning the title for the 2021/22 season,[3] while occasionally playing for the youth team.[4] At the beginning of the competition 2022/23. Mijatović played for Grafičar, where he scored five goals in eight games in the Serbian First League.[5] At the end of the summer transfer window of the same year, he was returned to his parent club and joined the first team. He take the number 9 jersey previously worn by Milan Pavkov.[6]
In 2019, Mijatović played for the Serbian under-15 national team. He scored a goal at the opening of the Trofej Crna Gora tournament in Podgorica, against the corresponding team of Slovenia.[7] He also made his debut for the under-16 team at a friendly match with his peers from Romania in March 2021.[8] Soon after that, he suffered an injury that kept him off the field for a long time .[1] So he joined the Serbia national under-17 football team a year later, performing at a friendly match with Bosnia and Herzegovina.[9] He participated in the European Championship for cadets,[10] where the selection of Serbia under the leadership of Radovan Krivokapić achieved third place.[11] The selector of the Serbia national under-19 football team, Jovan Damjanović, sent an invitation to Mijatović for the "Stevan Ćele Vilotić" Memorial Tournament in September 2022.[12]
Red Star Belgrade – current squad | |
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