Full name Nemanja Miletić Years Team Date joined 2014 (FK Borac Čačak) | Number 73 Height 1.87 m | |
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Date of birth (1991-01-16) 16 January 1991 (age 26) Place of birth Kosovska Mitrovica, SFR Yugoslavia Playing position Current team K.V.C. Westerlo (#73 / Defender) | ||
Nemanja Miletić (Serbian Cyrillic: Немања Милетић; born 16 January 1991) is a Serbian footballer who plays as a defender for Westerlo. His trademark is a very high jump. Also, he has great explosive power and can put the ball at the opponent side.
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Sloga Kraljevo
Miletić is a product of Sloga Kraljevo youth school. He started playing for first team as a youngster in the 2009–10 season. Miletić played in friendly matches on winter break against Mladost Oplanići and Jedinstvo Putevi, and made his First League debut against Proleter in Novi Sad. He played in home win against Bežanija on Kraljevo City Stadium, too.
Season 2010–11 was his first full senior season. He made 22 league caps, mostly in the second half of the season, and was a backup for then defensive line which consisted of such players as Jovica Vasilić, Aleksandar Gojković, Momir Desnica, captain Rašo Babić and Radoslav Vlašić. Miletić also played Lav Cup Serbia match against Red Star Belgrade. He scored 2 goals for season.
A season of his full affirmation. He played on 31 First League matches, usually as centre-back, forming a strong pair with the most experienced player in team Boban Dmitrović. On few of the matches he was used as a right-back. He wore number 4 jersey on home matches.
In 2012–13 Miletić took over number 20 jersey, worn by Boban Dmitrović in the previous season. He started season as a first choice along with Zoran Marušić on Centre-back positions. After Marušić's injury, Miletić was paired with Stefan Drašković. He played on 29 First League matches and was one of the most important players in the team. He also played on one Lav Cup game, away against OFK Beograd on Omladinski Stadium, where Sloga lost 5:0.
Tandem Miletić-Drašković continued playing in the new season, but during the winter break Drašković left to join Borac Čačak. In the second half of the season Miletić played in defense first with Danijel Gašić and later with Miloš Nikolić, after Gašić's departure. He was the most standard player in team with 29 league appearances. The only match he missed, because of the yellow cards accumulation, was Sloga's away loss to Metalac in Gornji Milanovac. With result 3:0, it was a confirmation that he was the most important player in Sloga's defense. He also played cup match against Vojvodina, and scored a goal in penalty shootout, but Sloga lost, because of Žakula, Vojvodina's goalkeeper, who saved 3 penalties. Although there were speculations about his transfer to Belgium, he remained in the club, playing the full season. In some matches he wore the armband as a 3rd captain after Aleksandar Božović and Marko Gobeljić.
He was on trial in Vojvodina in summer 2014, and played some friendly matches, against Ceahlăul 2 times, Lokeren, and Borussia Fulda.
Borac Čačak
After he did not sign for Vojvodina, he joined Borac Čačak, on 29 July 2014, joining his former teammates Aleksandar Gojković, Stefan Drašković and Dejan Radosavljević. He played against Sloboda Užice in friendly match the same day. He also played on memorial tournament Živorad Bija Stanković, against Metalac. He made his Jelen SuperLiga debut in home win 2:0 against Donji Srem on 9 August 2014. Miletić colected 17 league appearances and 1 cup match until the end of season.
After Nenad Lalatović took over coach position in Borac, Miletić started season in tandem with Miljan Jablan. After 3 wins in SuperLiga, Miletić was named in the team of the 3rd round, after the match against Čukarički, by Sportski žurnal. He scored his first goal for Borac in the 9th round, against Novi Pazar. Miletić collected 20 league and 1 cup match, and will be remembered as a member of the generation which caused one of the worst defeats of Red Star Belgrade on the Rajko Mitić Stadium. He sued the club, together with Stefan Živković and Dušan Jovančić in November 2015, over unpaid wages. Miletić and Jovančić forgive part of the debt and moved to Vojvodina.
Vojvodina
On 25 January 2016, Miletić signed two-and-a-half year deal with Vojvodina. He scored 2 goals in first friendly match played in Belek, against Oleksandriya. During the spring half of 2015–16 season, coach Nenad Lalatović used him mostly as a right-back. He scored a goal in 34 fixture match against Čukarički. Nemanja was selected in the team of the season by Sportski žurnal. Miletić also started 2016–17 as a right-back. He assisted to Nikola Trujić for one of his goals against Bokelj in 2nd leg of the UEFA Europa League first qualifying round. After Vojvodina failed to qualify for Europa League, Miletić left the club, making 25 apperarances at total. He also renounced the arrears to him for the benefit of youth school.
Westerlo
Miletić signed a two-year contract with Westerlo on 27 August 2016.
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Personal life
Nemanja is also called "Ćola", by his father, Radosav "Laćo" Miletić, known as a popular Serbian singer at Kosovo and Metohia. He was born in Kosovska Mitrovica, but growned up in Lešak, as the neighbour of Milan Biševac.