Filip Mladenović (; born 15 August 1991) is a Serbian professional

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who plays as a

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for

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side Legia Warsaw. Mladenović made his debut for the Serbia national team in 2012.

Club career

Borac Čačak

He became a member of the Borac senior team in the

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season, making 18 league appearances that season. He played as

Red Star Belgrade

Mladenović signed a four-year contract for

Red Star Belgrade Fudbalski klub Crvena zvezda ( sr-Cyrl, Фудбалски клуб Црвена звезда, lit=Red Star Football Club, ), commonly known as Red Star Belgrade in English-language media, is a Serbian professional football club based in Bel ...

on 17 December 2011. During the summer of 2013, Red Star participated in the

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in Switzerland, where they lost the final against

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with a score of 2–1. Mladenović scored for Red Star and was voted best player of the game, for which he was supposed to get a watch as a prize, but he rejected it out of disappointment with the loss. By the end of 2013, Red Star's financial situation became very unstable as players and staff were not getting paid after several months of waiting. In spite of his frequent scoring and lanky frame, Mladenović was played mostly as a left back under coach

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, who said that Mladenović's playing style reminded him of

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. An exodus began when Sá Pinto announced in an emotional press conference when he said that he could no longer work at Red Star due to instabilities in the team's administration. On 5 October 2013, Mladenović filed a request to have his contract terminated with Red Star. The Arbitration Committee in the FSS ruled in Mladenović's favor on 23 November, giving him the status of a

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. After the ruling on Mladenović and Marko Vešović, coach

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took both players off of the first team, but legally were still members of Red Star until the winter 2013–14 transfer window.

BATE Borisov

On 23 February 2014, Serbian news portal ''

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'' reported that Mladenović signed for Belarusian team BATE Borisov with a three-year contract. He made his debut for BATE in the 2014 Belarusian Super Cup final against

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, and went on to score a goal 20 minutes into the game. On 29 September 2015, Mladenović scored two goals for BATE in the 2015–16 UEFA Champions League Group E against Roma. Thanks to his breakthrough game, Mladenović was listed on UEFA.com's Champions League "Team of the Week" on 1 October 2015. Later that month,

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was reported to show interest with their coach

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having known Mladenović from coaching the Serbian national team.

1. FC Köln

On 5 January 2016, Mladenović signed a three and a half-year contract with 1. FC Köln.

International career

Mladenović made his debut for the

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under coach Siniša Mihajlović on 31 May 2012, in a 2–0 loss against

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. In November 2022, he was selected in Serbia's squad for the 2022 FIFA World Cup in Qatar. He played in a group stage match against

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Career statistics

Club

International

International goals

:''Scores and results list Serbia's goal tally first.''

Honours

Club

;Red Star *

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: 2011–12 ;FC BATE Borisov * Belarusian Premier League (2):

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, 2015 *

Belarusian Cup The Belarusian Cup () is an annual association football knock-out cup competition for men's football clubs in Belarus. The tournament is organized by the Football Federation of Belarus. Belarusian Cup was established in 1992. Each year the winnin ...

: 2014–15 *

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(2):

, 2015 ;Lechia Gdańsk *

Polish Cup The Polish Cup in football ( pl, Puchar Polski w piłce nożnej ) is an elimination tournament for Polish football clubs, held continuously from 1950, and is the second most important national title in Polish football after the Ekstraklasa title. ...

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;Legia Warsaw *

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Individual

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: 2011–12 *

Player of the Season:

Defender of the Season:

References

External links

Filip Mladenović
at Utakmica.rs {{DEFAULTSORT:Mladenovic, Filip 1991 births Living people Sportspeople from Čačak Serbian footballers Association football defenders Serbia under-21 international footballers Serbia international footballers Serbian expatriate footballers Expatriate footballers in Belarus Expatriate footballers in Germany Expatriate footballers in Belgium Expatriate footballers in Poland Serbian SuperLiga players Belarusian Premier League players Bundesliga players Belgian Pro League players Ekstraklasa players III liga players FK Borac Čačak players Red Star Belgrade footballers FC BATE Borisov players 1. FC Köln players Standard Liège players Lechia Gdańsk players Legia Warsaw players Legia Warsaw II players 2022 FIFA World Cup players