Ivan Gvozdenović

Ivan Gvozdenović (Serbian Cyrillic: Иван Гвозденовић; born 19 August 1978 in Bor, Serbia, SFR Yugoslavia) is a Serbian retired football defender who currently works as head coach at Al-Mujazzal Club in Saudi Arabia.

Career

Gvozdenović started his professional career at Yugoslav side FK Bor, the club of his hometown. He went on to play for Radnički Pirot, Napredak Kruševac, FK Milicionar Beograd, Red Star Belgrade, before joining Belgian side Club Brugge in 2003. He spent 2005–2006 season at FC Metz, on loan from Club Brugge. In July 2007, Gvozdenović was released from Brugge and joined Romanian side Dinamo Bucharest in October 2007, initially signing a three-year contract. He left the team after only one month, due to a change of coach. Gvozdenović was told that he did not feature in the new coach's plans. After his short spell for Dinamo, he was transferred to Ukrainian club Metalurh Donetsk, before being released on July of the same year. In January 2009 he joined Red Star Belgrade for a second spell. On 21 August 2009 FK Vojvodina signed the experienced defensive midfielder from Red Star Belgrade for one season. He then spent the second half of the 2009–2010 season at Kavala F.C. from Greece. On 17 May 2010, the New England Revolution of Major League Soccer announced that Gvozdenović had joined the team on trial.^[1] He started for the Revs in their friendly match against Benfica on 19 May 2010.^[2] However, he did not sign with New England Revolution and went to play for KF Tirana. He declared his wish is to finish career in FK Bor, the club where he started to play football. Between 2011 and 2014 he played three seasons for Skënderbeu Korçë who won the Albanian Championship in all of those three seasons. He played for Kukësi for the 2014–2015 season, before retiring from football.

Managerial career

After two seasons in Albanian Superliga as an assistant coach of his two former clubs, Kukësi and Tirana, on the 8 January 2018 he was appointed a coach of Jordan Premier League side Al-Faisaly Amman, in order to join the technical staff led by Montenegrin coach Nebojša Jovović. In July 2018 he signed for Al Mujazzal Saudi Arabia (as a head coach)^[3]

International career

His first and only cap for FR Yugoslavia is against Slovenia in a FIFA World Cup qualifying match in September 2001.^[4]

Style of play

He is a technical, attacking full-back who also plays midfield.

Honours

External links

• Ivan Gvozdenović at National-Football-Teams.com
• clubbrugge.be (in French)
• reprezentacija.rs
• Ivan Gvozdenović – French league stats at LFP
• Profile at Srbijafudbal

References