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Vanja Dragojević
Serbian footballer (born 2006) From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Vanja Dragojević (Serbian Cyrillic: Вања Драгојевић; born 11 January 2006) is a Serbian professional footballer who plays as a defensive midfielder for Partizan.[2]
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Club career
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Dragojević began training at the "FK Altina" football school in Zemun, where Dušan Vlahović also took his first steps in football.[3] Dragojević later went through all the junior levels of Partizan,[4] and also played for the club in the UEFA Youth League.[5] He signed his first professional contract in September 2023, when he was presented to the public with peers including goalkeeper Vanja Radulaški and Ognjen Ugrešić and Zoran Alilović, also midfielders.[6] During the summer of 2024, after playing for the youth team, Dragojević was immediately transferred to Teleoptik, for whom he played his first senior matches in the Serbian League Belgrade.[4] He made 12 appearances and scored 2 goals in that competition,[7] before the sports department decided to terminate his loan.[8]
Dragojević made his debut for the first team in the round of 16 of the Serbian Cup away against Radnik Surdulica, replacing Mihajlo Ilić in the 83rd minute.[9] Ten days later, he played, paired with Aleksandar Filipović in the centre-back positions,[3] against CSKA Moscow in a friendly match.[10] In the following period, he also established himself in the Serbian SuperLiga, and at the end of the 2024/25 season. he appeared as a regular as one of the bonus players.[11][12] He played the entire match against Red Star Belgrade at the Rajko Mitić Stadium as part of the 176th eternal derby.[13]
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Playing style
Standing at 184 centimetres tall,[14] Dragojević primarily plays as a defensive midfielder.[3] Bojan Šaranov, former Partizan goalkeeper and Vanja's agent, described him as a player with a strong character and physical predispositions.[4] Dragojević is characterized by a competitive mentality, impudence and aggressive play, which is why he was often penalized with cards in the younger categories.[5][12] He has a playing style similar to Kristijan Belić,[3] while he singled out Saša Zdjelar as his footballing role model.[11] Upon his transition to senior football, he was often compared to that player.[12] He was occasionally dropped to the last line, in the position of a defender.[3][1][15]
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