Full name Ivan Kecojevic Years Team Weight 85 kg Number 25 Height 1.91 m | Playing position Role Footballer Name Ivan Kecojevic Career start 2004 | |
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Date of birth (1988-04-10) April 10, 1988 (age 27) Current teams Montenegro national football team (Defender), FC Zurich (#25 / Defender) | ||
Place of birth Bar, SFR Yugoslavia | ||
Ivan Kecojević (Montenegrin Cyrillic: Иван Кецојевић, born 10 April 1988 in Bar) is a Montenegrin footballer, who plays as a defender for Swiss club FC Zürich.
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Early career
He started playing in his hometown club FK Mornar. He made his debut for the senior squad still in the 2004–05 Second League of Serbia and Montenegro. After 2006 when Montenegro separated and formed its own league, Kecojević still played the first 6 months of the 2006–07 season, when, during the winter break he moved to Serbia and signed with FK Teleoptik. Teleoptik is known for being FK Partizan´s satellite club, and most better players end up having good prospects of later earning a chance in Partizan´s main team, or other Serbian top league clubs.
Kecojević played with Teleoptik for two and a half seasons, before getting a chance in the Serbian SuperLiga by being loaned to FK Čukarički Stankom. There he became a regular player making 25 league appearances that season. Unsurprisingly, in the following summer of 2010 he signed a 3-year contract with another SuperLiga club, OFK Beograd.
Gaziantepspor
Kecojević signed for Gaziantepspor in August 2012 on a four-year contract. In a match against Beşiktaş J.K. he attempted to go on the field in only briefs without any shorts on.
Zürich
On January 9, 2013, Kecojević signed for FC Zürich, after which club chairman Ancillo Canepa told journalists that "In Ivan we got an excellent, experienced player, focused one hundred percent on football."
International career
Since 2008 he has been a regular player of the Montenegro national under-21 football team. Under coach Branko Brnović he began appearing for the Montenegrin senior side in the 2014 FIFA World Cup qualification phase.