Personal information | |||
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Date of birth | 11 July 2005 | ||
Place of birth | Belgrade, Serbia and Montenegro | ||
Height | 1.79 m (5 ft 10 in) | ||
Position(s) | Forward [1] | ||
Team information | |||
Current team | New York City | ||
Number | 7 | ||
Youth career | |||
Red Star Belgrade | |||
Senior career* | |||
Years | Team | Apps | ( Gls) |
2022–2024 | Red Star Belgrade | 26 | (9) |
2022–2023 | → Grafičar Beograd (loan) | 13 | (5) |
2024– | New York City | 0 | (0) |
International career‡ | |||
2022 | Serbia U17 | 7 | (1) |
2022– | Serbia U19 | 17 | (5) |
*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 18 February 2024 ‡ National team caps and goals, correct as of 21 November 2023 |
Jovan Mijatović ( Serbian Cyrillic: Јован Мијатовић; born 11 July 2005) is a Serbian professional footballer who plays as a forward for Major League Soccer club New York City.
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 took 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 Vilotić Ćele" Memorial Tournament in September 2022. [12]
Club | Season | League | National cup | Continental | Other | Total | ||||||
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Division | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | ||
Red Star Belgrade | 2022–23 | Serbian SuperLiga | 12 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 2 [a] | 0 | 0 | 0 | 17 | 1 |
2023–24 | Serbian SuperLiga | 14 | 8 | 1 | 0 | 3 [b] | 0 | 0 | 0 | 18 | 8 | |
Total | 26 | 9 | 4 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 35 | 9 | ||
Grafičar Beograd (loan) | 2022–23 | Serbian SuperLiga | 8 | 5 | — | — | — | 8 | 5 | |||
2023–24 | Serbian SuperLiga | 5 | 0 | — | — | — | 5 | 0 | ||||
Total | 13 | 8 | — | — | — | 13 | 8 | |||||
Career total | 39 | 17 | 4 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 48 | 17 |
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