Milan Pecelj

Milan Pecelj
Personal information
Full name Milan Pecelj
Date of birth (1979-04-13) 13 April 1979
Place of birth Mostar, SFR Yugoslavia
Height 1.90 m (6 ft 3 in)
Playing position Forward
Youth career
Velež Mostar
– Red Star Belgrade
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
1995–1997 Lokomotíva Košice 13 (4)
1997–1998 Austria Wien
1998 Galatasaray SK
1999–2000 Radnički Niš
2000–2001 Hajduk Kula
2001–2002 AEL Limassol
2002–2003 Brotnjo
2003–2004 Zrinjski Mostar 2 (0)
2004–2005 Leotar Trebinje 12 (2)
2005–2006 Inter Zaprešić 7 (0)
2006–2007 Leotar Trebinje 17 (4)
2007–2008 Sloboda Tuzla 8 (1)
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only

Milan Pecelj (Serbian Cyrillic: Милан Пецељ, born 13 April 1979) is a professional Bosnian-Herzegovinian football player.

Career

Born in Mostar, SR Bosnia and Herzegovina, his football career started in the youth squad of his home town club FK Velež Mostar. Next, he moved to Belgrade, in Serbia to play in the youth squad of the 1992 European and World Champions Red Star Belgrade. In 1995, he moved to Slovakia to be one of the first foreigners in Lokomotíva Košice, where he stayed two seasons. Then, he moved to Austrian Bundesliga club FK Austria Vienna, but next summer he moved to Turkey to play in the great Galatasaray SK. After only half a season, in January 1999, he was back to Serbia, this time, to play in Radnički Niš, and next in Hajduk Kula. In summer 2001, he moved to Cyprus club AEL Limassol, where he stayed one season. Since 2002, he was back to Bosnia to play in a number of clubs: NK Brotnjo, his home town HŠK Zrinjski, FK Leotar from Trebinje (twice), and Sloboda Tuzla, his last club. In between, he had a spell in Croatia in Prva HNL club Inter Zaprešić, in the season 2005-06. Sometimes, he is named in some internet websites as Miljan instead of Milan.

His brother Srđan is also a footballer.

Honours

External sources

This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.