Full name Nikola Milenković Number 31 Height 1.95 m | Playing position Years Team | |
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Date of birth (1997-10-12) 12 October 1997 (age 19) Similar Nemanja Miletić, Miroslav Bogosavac, Bojan Ostojić, Miroslav Vulićević, Marko Jevtović | ||
Nikola Milenković (Serbian Cyrillic: Никола Миленковић; born 12 October 1997) is a Serbian football defender who plays for Partizan.
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2015–16 season
Passing the youth categories of Partizan, Milenković was loaned to Teleoptik for the 2015–16 season. At the Beginning of 2016, he joined the first team of Partizan under coach Ivan Tomić and signed five-year contract, but also stayed with Teleoptik on dual registration until the end of season. Several days after debut for U19 national team, he made his debut for Partizan in the SuperLiga match against Mladost Lučani played on 10 April 2016. Milenković also started match against Čukarički in 32 fixture match of the same season, but he got the red card and suspension for next 4 matches after one brutal foul on Petar Bojić. Milenković scored his first senior goal for Partizan in the last fixture of the 2015–16 Serbian SuperLiga, against Vojvodina, which was the hundredth goal for the season.
2016–17 season
Milenković started new season pairing with Cédric Gogoua for the second qualifying round of the 2016–17 UEFA Europa League against Zagłębie Lubin. He also started SuperLiga competition in the first fixture match against Bačka Bačka Palanka, but later he spent next 2 rounds sitting on the bench. After several bad results and some injuries of the players in defense line, Milenković has started playing continuously from the 4th fixture match against Javor Ivanjica. He scored his first season goal in a match against Rad, played on 27 August 2016. Milenković also made his Serbian Cup debut in the first round match, against Napredak Kruševac, played on 21 September 2016. After Miroslav Vulićević's injury in a cup match against Žarkovo, played on 25 October 2016, Milenković succeeded a captain's armbrand. In February 2017, Milenković took a place on the list of the best thirty youth footballers in the world, created by the Italian newspaper La Gazzetta dello Sport. Milenković scored his third goal for Partizan as a senior in 27 fixture match of the season against Voždovac, played on 18 March 2017.
International Career
Milenković was a member of Serbia U19 in early 2016. He made his international debut for the Serbia national football team in a friendly 3-0 loss to Qatar. Later, same year, Milenković was called in Serbia U20 national squad by coach Nenad Lalatović, and made his debut for the team in a match against Montenegro. As a selector of U21 level, Lalatović also called Milenković into the squad in March 2017.