Nikola Damjanac

Nikola Damjanac
Personal information
Full name	Nikola Damjanac
Date of birth	21 October 1971 (age 53)
Place of birth	Mostar, SFR Yugoslavia
Height	1.90 m (6 ft 3 in)
Position(s)	Goalkeeper
Youth career
	Velež Mostar
Senior career*
Years	Team
1991–1997	Partizan
1993–1994	→ OFK Beograd (loan)
1997–1998	Roda JC
1998–2000	Partizan
2000–2001	Antalyaspor
2001	Fluminense
2002	OFK Beograd
2002	Saturn Ramenskoye
2004–2005	OFK Beograd
Total
International career
1991	Yugoslavia U21
	*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Nikola Damjanac (Serbian Cyrillic: Никола Дамјанац; born 21 October 1971) is a Serbian former professional footballer who played as a goalkeeper.

Playing career

Club career

After starting out at his hometown club Velež Mostar, Damjanac joined Partizan. He was loaned to OFK Beograd in the 1993–94 season, before returning to Stadion JNA. In the summer of 1997, Damjanac moved to the Netherlands and signed with Roda JC. He subsequently returned to Partizan in 1998. In the summer of 2000, Damjanac again moved abroad and joined Turkish side Antalyaspor. He left Turkey after one season and moved to Brazilian club Fluminense, alongside Miodrag Anđelković. Consequently, Damjanac briefly returned to OFK Beograd, before moving to Russian club Saturn Ramenskoye in the summer of 2002. He again returned to OFK Beograd in the 2004–05 season.

International career

In 1991, Damjanac made one appearance for the Yugoslavia U21s during the 1992 UEFA Under-21 Championship.^[1]

Post-playing career

After retiring as a player in 2005, Damjanac became a sports agent, being a co-owner of Lian Sports, alongside Fali Ramadani.^[2]

Personal life

His son is footballer Aleksa Damjanac.^[3]

Honours

Partizan

First League of FR Yugoslavia: 1992–93, 1995–96, 1996–97, 1998–99

References

^ Nikola Damjanac at 11v11.com
^ "On je ipak posebna priča" (in Serbian). mozzartsport.com. 11 October 2013. Retrieved 7 April 2016.
^ Mozzart Sport (2016-11-24). "Novi Srbin u Majorci, igra štopera i ima 18 godina" (in Serbian). Retrieved 2019-02-09.

External links

Nikola Damjanac at the Turkish Football Federation

[1] Nikola Damjanac at 11v11.com

[2] "On je ipak posebna priča" (in Serbian). mozzartsport.com. 11 October 2013. Retrieved 7 April 2016.

[Aleksa_Damjanac_Mozzart_Sport-3] Mozzart Sport (2016-11-24). "Novi Srbin u Majorci, igra štopera i ima 18 godina" (in Serbian). Retrieved 2019-02-09.

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