Josip Knežević

Josip Knežević
Personal information
Date of birth (1988-10-03) 3 October 1988
Place of birth Osijek, SFR Yugoslavia
Height 1.83 m (6 ft 0 in)
Playing position Midfielder
Club information
Current team
Osijek
Number TBA
Youth career
1999–2006 NK Osijek
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
2006–2009 NK Osijek[1] 69 (12)
2010–2013 Amkar Perm 20 (1)
2012Kairat (loan) 16 (6)
2013-2014 Kairat 47 (16)
2015 Kaisar 11 (1)
2016- NK Osijek 4 (0)
National team
2006 Croatia U18 2 (0)
2006–2007 Croatia U19 8 (0)
2008–2009 Croatia U20 4 (1)
2009 Croatia U21 3 (0)

* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and correct as of 18:22, 8 February 2016 (UTC).

† Appearances (goals)

Josip Knežević (born 3 October 1988 in Osijek[2]) is a Croatian international footballer, who plays for NK Osijek in the Prva HNL.

Career

Club

Knežević has started his career in senior professional team of NK Osijek on 2005/2006 at the age of 17. He has regularly played for Croatian national team U-18, U-19, U-20 and U-21, has total 13 caps in Croatian national team for young players. Now, Josip Knežević is an active member of the Croatian national under-21 team. This season 2008/2009 he is actually second on the list of assists of Croatian Championship Prva HNL with 7 assists.

On 12 February 2010 Knežević moved to Russian side Amkar Perm in a deal initially worth 500,000.[3] Two years later, in January 2012, Knežević signed a season-long loan deal with Kazakhstan Premier League outfit FC Kairat.[4] After an impressive start, in which he scored 3 goals in 5 appearances, Knežević suffered a mid-season injury, but still ended up as the teams topscorer with 6 goals (3 - pen.). At the end of Kneževićs loan deal he reutrned to Amkar Perm, before signing a permanent three-year contract with FC Kairat in February 2013.[5]

After six-months without a team, Knežević signed a six-month contract with FC Kaisar.[6]

International Career

Knežević is former youth international player for the Croatian U21,[7] U19 and U17 sides.[8]

Career statistics

Club

As of 30 October 2015[9]
Club Season League National Cup Continental Other Total
DivisionAppsGoalsAppsGoalsAppsGoalsAppsGoalsAppsGoals
Kairat (loan) 2012 Kazakhstan Premier League 166 --166
Kairat 2013 301010--3110
2014 1761141-228
Total 63222041006924
Kaisar 2015 Kazakhstan Premier League 11100--111
Career total 74232041008025

References


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