Aleksandar Kosorić

Aleksandar Kosorić (Serbian Cyrillic: Александар Kocopић, born 30 January 1987) is a Bosnian professional footballer who plays as a centre-back for Bosnian Premier League club Željezničar.

Aleksandar Kosorić
Personal information
Full name Aleksandar Kosorić
Date of birth (1987-01-30) 30 January 1987
Place of birth Pale, SFR Yugoslavia
Height 1.91 m (6 ft 3 in)
Playing position(s) Centre-back
Club information
Current team
 Željezničar
Number 5
Youth career
1994–2003 Romanija Pale
2003–2004 Slavija Sarajevo
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
2004–2008 Slavija Sarajevo 48 (1)
2009 Partizan 2 (0)
2010–2011 Rad 20 (0)
2011–2012 Radnički 1923 19 (0)
2013 Erbil 35 (1)
2014 Radnički Niš 6 (0)
2014–2016 Željezničar 68 (1)
2017 Radnik Bijeljina 14 (0)
2017–2018 Spartaks Jūrmala 37 (1)
2019–2020 Balzan 22 (2)
2020– Željezničar 3 (0)
National team
2008 Bosnia and Herzegovina U21 6 (1)
2016 Bosnia and Herzegovina 1 (0)
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and correct as of 8 March 2020

Club career

Kosorić played for Slavija Sarajevo from 2004 to 2008. In January 2009, he moved to Serbian SuperLiga club Partizan after being noticed during a friendly game played between Partizan and Slavija in the summer of 2008.[1][2] After not getting many chances there, he moved in January 2010 to another Belgrade club, Rad.

During the winter break of the 2011–12 season, Kosorić moved to Radnički 1923. A year later he would leave Serbia and move to Iraq to join Erbil playing in the Iraqi Premier League. After Iraq, he returned to Serbia and played the second half of the 2013–14 season with Radnički Niš.

In the summer of 2014, Kosorić joined Bosnian Premier League club Željezničar and played for the next two and half years at the Sarajevo based club. While playing at Željezničar, Kosorić became the team captain and received a call for the national team. He left Željezničar in December 2016.[3]

After Željezničar, Kosorić played for Radnik Bijeljina in 2017 and for Spartaks Jūrmala from 2017 to 2018[4][5] with whom he won the Latvian Championship in 2017.[6] On 10 November 2018, Kosorić left Spartaks.[7]

On 3 January 2019, Kosorić signed with Maltese Premier League club Balzan.[8] He won his first trophy with Balzan on 18 May 2019, the 2018–19 Maltese FA Trophy after beating Valletta in the final.[9] He decided to terminate his contract and leave the club in January 2020.[10]

On 30 January 2020, Kosorić came back to Željezničar, signing a two-and-a-half-year contract with the club.[11]

International career

Kosorić made his Bosnia and Herzegovina national team debut in the final of the 2016 Kirin Cup against Japan as a 90th-minute substitute.[12]

Honours

Partizan[13]

Spartaks Jūrmala[13]

Balzan[13]

Bosnia and Herzegovina[13]

References
  1. "Kosorić nova akvizicija šampiona!" (in Serbian). partizan.rs. 19 January 2009. Retrieved 16 February 2019.
  2. "Predstavljeni Kosorić, Stević i Tomić" (in Serbian). partizan.rs. 20 January 2009. Retrieved 16 February 2019.
  3. Kosorić: Osjetio sam da je pravi trenutak da odem at sportsport.ba, 18-12-2016 (in Bosnian)
  4. Aleksandar Kosorić pronašao novi klub at sportsport.ba, 26 July 2017
  5. Aleksandar Kosorić napustio Spartaks at sportsport.ba, 10 November 2018
  6. Kosorić prvak Latvije sa Spartaksom at sportsport.ba, 28 October 2017
  7. Aleksandar Kosorić napustio Spartaks, sportsport.ba, 10 November 2018
  8. Bivši fudbaler Željezničara pronašao novi klub at sport1.ba, 3 January 2019
  9. "Balzan beat Valletta on penalties". vallettafc.net. 18 May 2019. Retrieved 18 May 2019.
  10. A. Beganović (15 January 2020). "Kosorić i Balzan dogovorili raskid saradnje: Vraća se na Grbavicu" (in Bosnian). sportsport.ba. Retrieved 15 January 2020.
  11. N.K. (30 January 2020). "Aleksandar Kosorić potpisao za Željezničar do ljeta 2022. godine" (in Bosnian). Klix.ba. Retrieved 30 January 2020.
  12. Kirin Cup soccer2016 at jfa.jp
  13. "A. Kosorić: Summary". Soccerway. Perform Group. Retrieved 25 August 2019.
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