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Biography
Aleksandar Mitrović was born 16 September 1994 in Smederevo, Serbia to the family of Ivica Mitrovic and Natasha Mitrovic. He is currently Twenty-eight years old. Aleksandar Mitrovic is a Serbian professional footballer. He plays the role of a striker for Premier League club Fulham and the Serbia national team.
In 2012-2013, Mitrovic joined Partizan, and became professional footballer.
In 2011-2012, Mitrovic was loaned to Teleoptik, he made his first appearance in the Serbian first league. he stayed with Teleoptik for a period of one year and scored a total number of seven goals in his Twenty-six appearances.
He was with club and plays constantly which made them to win the Serbian Super Liga in their first season.
By the time, he was eighteen (18), Mitrović was named among the top 10 talents under the age of 19 in Europe by a selection of UEFA reporters.
He later joined Anderlecht for a rumored amount of €5 million and scored forty-four (44) goals in ninety (90) games across all competitions in a two-season spell.
Mitrovic also won the Belgian Pro League in his first campaign at the club and was the league’s top scorer in his second.
In 2015, he moved to Newcastle United for a rumored amount of £13 million.
In 2018, he was loaned to Fulham, and joined them permanently after helping them achieve promotion to the Premier League.
In 2013, Mitrović helped Serbia to win the European Under-19 Championship, Mitrovic was voted the best player of the tournament.
In same year, he played his first game for the senior national team and has since earned over 70 caps, representing Serbia at the 2018 and 2022 FIFA World Cup. He is Serbia’s highest goalscorer.
Aleksandar Mitrović is currently playing for Fulham F.C, Serbia national football team. So far, he has made one hundred and sixty-nine (169) appearances for Fulham and scored a total number of Ninety-three (93) goals.
| Full Name: | Aleksandar Mitrović |
| Current club: | Fulham F.C, Serbia national team. |
| Born: | September 16, 1994 |
| Place of Birth: | Smederevo, Serbia |
| Nationality: | Serbian |
| Height: | 6 feet 2 inches |
| Parents: | Ivica Mitrovic (father) Natasha Mitrovic (mother) |
| Siblings: | Milan Mitrovic. |
| Wife • Spouse: | Kristina Mitrovic |
| Achieve- ments: Founder one of the first music recording studios in Serbia (1988). He opened a radio station in 1993. He opened a TV Pink station in 1994. He founded the music publishing house CITY Records, that has more than 500 performers under its label. | |
| Children: | Nadja Mitrovic and Luka Mitrovic |
| Occupation: | Football player |
| Net Worth: | $10 million. |
Early Life & Education
Aleksandar Mitrović was born 16 September 1994 in Smederevo, Serbia to the family of Ivica Mitrovic and Natasha Mitrovic. He is currently Twenty-eight years old.
Aleksandar Mitrovic started his football career at Serbian club, Partizan Belgrade.
Mitrovic grew up with his brother Milan Mitrovic, he is an agent in the city of Smederevo, Serbia.
Mitrovic schooled at Mount Olive College and graduated in 2011.
His parents were a strong fan of Newcastle, and they admire Alan Shearer.
Right from time, Mitrovic has always wanted to be a footballer. he feels in love with Newcastle by buying more of their jerseys.
According to him “Newcastle has been my favorite club since I was a small boy in Serbia. I have followed Newcastle my whole life. I had two Newcastle shirts when I was little. it was unusual, most people choose a team like Manchester united or Barcelona, but for me, it has always been Newcastle”.
Personal Life
Aleksandar Mitrović was born 16 September 1994 in Smederevo, Serbia to the family of Ivica Mitrovic and Natasha Mitrovic. He is currently Twenty-eight years old.
Aleksandar Mitrovic started his foootball career at Serbian club, Partizan Belgrade.
Mitrović got married to Kristina Janjić Mitrovic in 2021, and they both gave birth to two children named Nadja Mitrovic and Luka Mitrovic. Mitrovic is a lifelong supporter of both Partizan and Newcastle.
After playing for the youth team of Partizan club, he played at the senior team of Teleoptik in 2011 and later on rejoined his former club, Partizan.
On 27 June 2012, He signed a four-year contract with the club and made his appearance and scored his first goal against Valletta during Champions League Qualifiers.
Mitrovic was an influential player in Partizan team and won the Serbian Superliga in 2012-2013. He signed with Belgian professional club, Anderlecht for transfer rumored amount of €5 million in 2013.
On 1 September 2011, Mitrovic made his debut against Zulte Waregem.
Mitrovic became extremely successful with the Belgian club as his side won Belgian Pro League and Super Cup in 2014.
In 2015, Mitrovic signed a five year deal with English Premier League club Newcastle United for a rumored amount of £13 million and made his debut against Southampton on 9 August 2015.
He scored his first goal for the Newcastle United against Manchester City on 3 October 2015.
The Serbian striker created history when he becomes the sixth player to score a goal, assisting a goal and also being sent off in the same match in the Premier League history.
Career
In 2011-2012, Mitrovic was loaned to Teleoptik, he made his first appearance in the Serbian first league. he stayed with Teleoptik for a period of one year and scored a total number of seven goals in his Twenty-six appearances.
Mitrović was recruited first to the Serbian senior national team by coach Siniša Mihajlović for a 2014 FIFA World Cup qualifier against Belgium.
On 7 June 2013, He played 69 minutes on his debut and earned a yellow card after stepping on Axel Witsel’s foot, before being substituted for Marko Šćepović. On 6 September, Mitrović scored his first goal for the senior side in a 1–1 home draw against Croatia in another World Cup qualifier. Two years and a day later, he scored his next international goal, the consolation in a 2–1 friendly defeat to France at the Nouveau Stade de Bordeaux, Serbia’s 100th match as an independent nation.
In the 2018 FIFA World Cup qualifiers, Mitrović scored three goals in two matches, ensuring Serbia were still in contention to qualify from their group.
On 9 October 2016, he scored a brace in a 3–2 win against Austria, and on 12 November, he scored the equaliser against Wales in a 1–1 draw. He continued this scoring run in 2017, with goals against Georgia, Wales, and Moldova, putting him ahead of teammate Dušan Tadić as the group’s top goalscorer.
In May 2018, he was named in Serbia’s preliminary squad for the 2018 FIFA World Cup in Russia.
On 1 June, made the final 23-man squad. Prior to the tournament, Mitrović scored a hat-trick in a 5–1 win over Bolivia. On 22 June, he scored the opening goal in an eventual 2–1 loss to Switzerland. He was also involved in a penalty claim when Swiss defenders Stephan Lichtsteiner and Fabian Schär dragged him to the ground in the box, but referee Felix Brych turned down the appeal. He played all three group stage matches.
On 11 October, he scored a brace in a 2–0 UEFA Nations League victory over neighbouring nation Montenegro in the first match between the two countries since their split in 2006.
The following month against the same opposition, he repudiate the chance to score another brace, but missed a penalty, by attempting a panenka kick (coincidentally in the same stadium that Antonín Panenka scored the winning penalty for Czechoslovakia in the UEFA Euro 1976 Final).
Between June to November 2019, he started a scoring run, with eleven goals in seven matches. The majority of these came during Serbia’s qualifying group for UEFA Euro 2020, including braces both home and away against Lithuania and Luxembourg.
On 12 November 2020, in a Euro 2020 qualifying play-off against Scotland that ended in a 1–1 draw after extra time, Mitrović went on to take Serbia’s fifth penalty and missed it as the penalty shoot-out ended 5–4 in Scotland’s favour, thus denying his national team qualification for the tournament. On 27 March 2021, he scored Serbia’s first goal in a 2–2 draw with Portugal, thereby surpassing the previous record of 38 goals by Stjepan Bobek, and becoming the highest goalscorer in the history of the national side.
On 14 November 2021, Mitrović scored a last minute winner against Portugal, sending Serbia to the 2022 FIFA World Cup with a 2–1 win.
In November, 2022 he was selected in Serbia’s squad for the 2022 FIFA World Cup in Qatar. He played in all three group stage matches, against Brazil, Cameroon, and Switzerland.
He scored a goal in a group stage match against Cameroon, on assist from Andrija Živković. He also scored against Switzerland, on assist from Dušan Tadić. Serbia finished fourth in the group.
On 6 August 2022, in Fulham’s first match of the 2022–2023 Premier League season, Mitrović scored both goals in a 2–2 home draw against Liverpool. Mitrović scored a 90th minute winner in a 3–2 home win over Brentford on 20 August. On 27 August, He scored in a 2–1 defeat to Arsenal, which was his 100th goal for Fulham while also beating his goal tally from the entire 2020–2021 season in just four games. Mitrović scored his fifth goal of the season in a 2–1 home win over Brighton & Hove Albion, and four days later scored his sixth goal in six Premier League games in a 2–1 away defeat at Tottenham Hotspur. After picking up an injury on international duty with Serbia, Mitrović was only able to manage 37 minutes before being substituted for Carlos Vincius. Mitrović returned to the Fulham team after missing one game; a 3–1 away loss at West Ham United, and scored a penalty to equalise in a 2–2 draw with fellow newly promoted AFC Bournemouth, and scored in the next two consecutive games, a 3–0 and 3–2 wins over Aston Villa and Leeds United respectively. Mitrović missed the last two Premier League games before the World Cup break, which Fulham lost 2–1 in both games, to the two Manchester clubs.
Following the World Cup break, Mitrović continued his extraordinary way of goalscoring form, scoring in a 3–0 away win at Crystal Palace, before missing a 96th minute penalty in a 2–1 over Southampton. Mitrović ended 2022 scoring a total number Thirty-one (31) goals in Thirty-five (35) games across the EFL Championship and Premier League.
Mitrović started 2023 in the same Ex ordinary way, scoring the only goal in a 1–0 away win at Leicester City, helping Fulham to their third consecutive Premier League win for the first time since 2009.
Net Worth
Aleksandar Mitrović has worked as a Footballer at Fulham F.C, Serbia national team for years now. he has accumulated a satisfactory fortune from playing football. Aleksandar Mitrović has an astonished net worth of $10 million.
Social Media
Aleksandar Mitrović as humble and hardworking as he is discovered that he also has some social media platforms where he can be connected.
- @Aleksandar Mitrović (@aleksandar_mitrovic_45) is his Instagram handle.
- @Aleksandar Mitrović (@aleksandar_mitrovic_45) is his Twitter handle.
- @Aleksandar Mitrović (@Aleksandar Mitrovic) is his Facebook handle.
