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Key facts
- 2002
- Kolubara
- 2003
- → Spartak Subotica (loan)
- 2009
- → Racing Santander (loan)
- Full name
- Nikola Žigić
- Date of birth
- ( 1980-09-25 ) 25 September 1980 (age 45)
- Place of birth
- Bačka Topola , SR Serbia, SFR Yugoslavia
- Height
- 2.02 m (6 ft 8 in)
- Position
- Centre forward
- 1991 1998
- AIK Bačka Topola
- Years
- Team
- 1998 2001
- AIK Bačka Topola
- 2001 2002
- Mornar
- 2003 2006
- Red Star Belgrade
- 2006 2007
- Racing Santander
- 2007 2010
- Valencia
- 2010 2014
- Birmingham City
- 2014 2015
- Birmingham City
- 2004 2011
- Serbia and Montenegro / Serbia
via Wikipedia infobox
Sports profile
- Sport
- Soccer
- Position
- Forward
- Nationality
- Serbia
via TheSportsDB
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Nikola
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- Serbia
- Place of birth
- Bačka Topola
- Occupation
- association football player
- Languages spoken
- Serbian
- Participant in
- 2006 FIFA World Cup
- Sport
- association football
- Member of team
- Serbia and Montenegro national football team
- Position played
- forward
- League
- Premier League
- Country for sport
- Serbia
- Mass
- 95
- Image
- Nikola Zigic.jpg
- Height
- 202
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- Nikola Žigić
- date of birth
- 1980-09-25
- start of work period
- 2002-00-00
- name in native language
- Никола Жигић
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Encyclopedic overview
Nikola Žigić (Serbian Cyrillic: Никола Жигић, IPA: [nǐkola ʒǐːɡitɕ]; born 25 September 1980) is a Serbian former professional footballer who played as a centre forward.
Žigić was born in Bačka Topola, in what was then SFR Yugoslavia. He began playing football as a youngster with AIK Bačka Topola, and scored 68 goals from 76 first-team matches over a three-year period in the third tier of Yugoslav football. Military service took him to Bar in 2001, where he was able to continue his goalscoring career with the local second-level club Mornar. A brief spell back in the third tier with Kolubara preceded his turning professional with First League side Red Star Belgrade in January 2003. He spent time on loan at third-tier Spartak Subotica before making his Red Star debut later that year. Despite suggestions that his height, of 2.02 m (6 ft 7+1⁄2 in), made him better suited to sports other than football, Žigić ended the season as First League top scorer, domestic player of the year, league champion and scorer of the winning goal in the cup final. He won a second league–cup double in 2005–06, a second player of the year award, and finished his three-year Red Star career with 70 goals from 109 appearances in all competitions.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Nikola Žigić” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.