Mladen Krstajić
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Serbian football manager and former footballer
Key facts
- 2021
- TSC
- Full name
- Mladen Krstajić
- Date of birth
- ( 1974-03-04 ) 4 March 1974 (age 52)
- Place of birth
- Zenica , SR Bosnia and Herzegovina , Yugoslavia
- Height
- 1.91 m (6 ft 3 in)
- Position
- Centre-back
- 1984 1992
- Čelik Zenica
- Years
- Team
- 1992 1993
- Senta
- 1993 1996
- Kikinda
- 1996 2000
- Partizan
- 2000 2004
- Werder Bremen
- 2004 2009
- Schalke 04
- 2009 2011
- Partizan
- 1999 2008
- Serbia
- 2016 2017
- Serbia (assistant)
- 2017 2019
- Serbia
- 2021 2022
- Maccabi Tel Aviv
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Mladen
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- Serbia
- Place of birth
- Zenica
- Occupation
- association football coach
- Languages spoken
- Serbian
- Participant in
- 2006 FIFA World Cup
- Sport
- association football
- Member of team
- Serbia and Montenegro national football team
- Position played
- defender
- League
- Bundesliga
- Country for sport
- Serbia
- Image
- Ser-Swi (16) (cropped).jpg
- Height
- 191
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Encyclopedic overview
Mladen Krstajić (Serbian Cyrillic: Младен Крстајић, pronounced [mlǎden kr̩stâjitɕ]; born 4 March 1974) is a Serbian professional football manager and former player who played as a centre-back.
He represented Serbia and Montenegro at the 2006 FIFA World Cup. From January 2015 until March 2020, Krstajić served the role of chairman of the board of Bosnian Premier League club Radnik Bijeljina. Krstajić coached Serbia at the 2018 FIFA World Cup and then became head coach of Maccabi Tel Aviv in December 2021. He was manager of the Bulgaria national football team before being sacked in October 2023.
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