Veljko Simić (born 17 February 1995) is a Serbian professional footballer who plays for Vojvodina as an attacking midfielder.
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Personal information | |||
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Full name | Veljko Simić | ||
Date of birth | (1995-02-17) 17 February 1995 (age 27) | ||
Place of birth | Lazarevac, FR Yugoslavia | ||
Height | 1.80 m (5 ft 11 in) | ||
Position(s) | Midfielder | ||
Club information | |||
Current team | Vojvodina | ||
Number | 21 | ||
Youth career | |||
0000–2013 | Red Star Belgrade | ||
2013–2014 | Basel | ||
Senior career* | |||
Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
2014–2017 | Basel | 0 | (0) |
2014–2015 | → Domžale (loan) | 17 | (0) |
2016 | → Schaffhausen (loan) | 10 | (0) |
2016–2017 | → Chiasso (loan) | 33 | (4) |
2017 | Winterthur | 3 | (0) |
2018 | Zemun | 16 | (5) |
2018–2021 | Red Star Belgrade | 44 | (9) |
2021– | Vojvodina | 73 | (20) |
National team | |||
2011–2012 | Serbia U17 | 6 | (3) |
2013–2014 | Serbia U19 | 7 | (5) |
2014 | Serbia U20 | 1 | (0) |
2015 | Serbia U23 | 1 | (0) |
*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 12 November 2022 |
A product of the Red Star Belgrade, Simić and Filip Janković were considered the two most talented players from Red Star's youth team of players born in 1995.[1] However, he never transitioned into the first team, and instead signed a professional contract with Basel in 2014. Technical problems made him ineligible and was consequently loaned to Slovenian outfit Domžale.[2] He made his first team debut against Radomlje where he started the match only to be substituted off in the 70th minute.[3]
On 7 January 2016, he joined Schaffhausen on loan until the end of the 2015-16 season.[4] For the season 2016-17 he was loaned to Chiasso. On 1 September 2017 Basel announced that the contract with Simić had been dissolved by mutual consent.[5]
Simić joined Serbian side Zemun as a free agent[6] during the 2017–18 winter transfer window. In his last game for Zemun, he scored a last-minute goal in a 1–1 tie against Vojvodina on July 28, 2018.[7]
Simić signed a four-year contract with Red Star Belgrade in the summer of 2018.[1] In a promotional event, he told journalists that his early departure from Red Star to Basel had been "a mistake from which young players can learn".[8] His contract was terminated after two and a half seasons on 11 January 2021. [9]
Simic signed a two and a half year contract with Vojvodina on 13 January 2021.[10]
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