Duško Sakan

Duško Sakan
Personal information
Full name	Dušan Sakan
Date of birth	3 March 1989 (age 35)
Place of birth	Šipovo, SFR Yugoslavia
Height	1.86 m (6 ft 1 in)
Position(s)	Midfielder
Team information
Current team	Gorica Šipovo
Senior career*
Years	Team
2006–2007	Borac Banja Luka
2007–2009	Posušje
2009–2011	Borac Banja Luka
2012	Rad
2012	→ Rudar Prijedor (loan)
2013–2014	Sloboda Mrkonjić Grad
2014–2017	Metalleghe BSI
2017	Čelik Zenica
2017	Ängelholms
2017–2018	Sloga Gornje Crnjelovo
2018–2020	St. Johann
2020	Gorica Šipovo
International career
2007	Bosnia and Herzegovina U-19
2009	Bosnia and Herzegovina U-21
2011	Bosnia and Herzegovina XI
	*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 23 December 2017

Duško Sakan (Serbian Cyrillic: Душко Сакан; born 3 March 1989) is a Bosnian-Herzegovinian professional footballer who plays as a midfielder for Gorica Šipovo.

Club career[edit]

Born in Šipovo (SR Bosnia and Herzegovina, SFR Yugoslavia), Sakan begin his career in the season 2006–07 playing with FK Borac Banja Luka. The following season, he joined another Premier League of Bosnia and Herzegovina side, NK Posušje where he stayed two seasons. In summer 2009 he returned to Borac and played with them in the following two and a half seasons. After finishing the 2009–10 season in third, the following year they became champions of the 2010–11 Premier League of Bosnia and Herzegovina. During the winter break of 2011–12, Sakan became one of the acquisitions of FK Rad for the second half of the 2011–12 Serbian SuperLiga.

He played two seasons for Austrian third tier side TSV St. Johann.^[1]

After having been part of the Bosnian-Herzegovinian U-19^[2] and U-21^[3] teams, Sakan made an appearance for an unofficial Bosnia and Herzegovina selection in 2011.^[4] at 16 December 2011, in a friendly match against Poland.^[5]

He was also part of the Republika Srpska national football team (league selection) in September 2013.^[6]

^ Austrian career stats - ÖFB
^ Duško Sakan at Srbijafudbal
^ Duško Sakan at Soccerway
^ "Duško Sakan". National-Football-Teams.com.
^ Match report at Soccerway
^ Selekcija liga FSRS Archived 28 April 2015 at the Wayback Machine at Football Association of Republika Srpska official website, Retrieved 26 May 2015 (in Serbian)