Ivan Šaponjić

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Ivan Šaponjić
Personal information
Full name Ivan Šaponjić
Date of birth (1997-08-02) 2 August 1997 (age 27)
Place of birth Nova Varoš, FR Yugoslavia
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Position(s) Striker
Team information
Current team
 Benfica B
Number 26
Youth career
Zlatar Nova Varoš
Sloboda Užice
2013–2015 Partizan
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
2013–2015 Partizan 32 (7)
2016– Benfica B 19 (5)
International career‡
2013–2014 Serbia U17 6 (5)
2014– Serbia U19 10 (9)
2015– Serbia U20 7 (2)
2015– Serbia U21 2 (0)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 14 May 2016
‡ National team caps and goals, correct as of 30 March 2016

Ivan Šaponjić (Serbian Cyrillic: Иван Шапоњић; born 2 August 1997) is a Serbian professional footballer who plays as a striker for Benfica B in Portugal.

He won the gold medal with the Serbian youth national team at the 2015 FIFA U-20 World Cup.

Club career

Partizan

Šaponjić made his first football steps at local clubs Zlatar Nova Varoš and Sloboda Užice, before joining the youth academy of Partizan. He made his senior debut for the club in a league game on 30 November 2013, coming on as a 76th-minute substitute in a 2–0 home win against Spartak Subotica.[1] Šaponjić eventually failed to make any other competitive appearance in the 2013–14 season.

2014–15 season

On 30 May 2014, Šaponjić signed his first professional contract with Partizan, penning a three-year deal.[2] He scored his first competitive goal for the club in a 2–0 away victory over Jagodina in the second leg of the Serbian Cup semi-final on 8 April 2015. Five days later, on 13 April 2015, Šaponjić scored his first league goal in a 3–1 away win over OFK Beograd. He scored a total of five goals from 16 appearances in all competitions during the 2014–15 season.

2015–16 season

On 25 July 2015, Šaponjić scored a brace in a 6–0 home league victory over Jagodina.[3] He scored his first international goal for Partizan with an overhead kick in a 2–1 home win over BATE Borisov in the return leg of the Champions League play-off round on 26 August 2015.[4] This was the club's 100th victory in European football.[5] Šaponjić also scored both goals for Partizan in their 2–0 Serbian Cup win over Sinđelić Beograd on 28 October 2015.[6]

On 12 January 2016, Šaponjić signed a five-and-a-half-year contract with Portuguese champions S.L. Benfica.[7]

International career

Internationally, Šaponjić represented his homeland at various youth levels. He was the team's joint top scorer (alongside Luka Jović) with five goals in their unsuccessful qualification campaign for the 2014 UEFA Under-17 Championship.[8] With three goals, Šaponjić was the team's joint top scorer (again with Jović) in their unsuccessful qualification campaign for the 2015 UEFA Under-19 Championship.

Šaponjić was included in the final 21-man squad for the 2015 FIFA U-20 World Cup. He scored an injury time equalizer against Hungary in the round of 16 on 10 June 2015. Serbia eventually won the game 2–1 after extra time.[9] On 17 June 2015, Šaponjić scored an extra time winning goal in the semi-final against Mali.[10] He was the team's joint top scorer (alongside Nemanja Maksimović, Staniša Mandić and Andrija Živković) with two goals, as Serbia eventually won the tournament.[11]

Statistics

As of 10 January 2016
Club Season League Cup Continental Total
Apps Goals Apps Goals Apps Goals Apps Goals
Partizan 2013–14 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 0
2014–15 14 4 2 1 0 0 16 5
2015–16 17 3 1 2 7 1 25 6
Total 32 7 3 3 7 1 42 11

Honours

Club

Partizan

Country

Serbia

References

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