Aleksandar Katai

Aleksandar Katai (Serbian Cyrillic: Александар Катаи; born 6 February 1991) is a Serbian professional footballer who plays as a winger for Red Star Belgrade and the Serbia national team.

Club Career

Vojvodina

Katai started playing football for his hometown club FK Vojvodina youth squad. After 6 months loan to lower league team FK Palic at the start of 2009–10 season he was promoted to Vojvodina's first team. His debut in Serbian SuperLiga was on 14 March 2010, when he came in as substitute against FK Cukaricki, and he scored his first goal just seven days later in a match against Mladi Radnik. On 28 June 2011, he left FK Vojvodina and went to Athens to join Olympiacos.

Olympiacos

On 24 June 2011, Olympiacos agreed to sign Katai on a four-year contract. At his first trainings with the club, coach Ernesto Valverde told Katai that he did not defend enough and that he needed to improve as a player. Katai did not play a single match for Olympiacos, but was instead sent on loan four times.

He was first loaned to OFI Crete, with whom he made his debut on 5 November 2011, against Panionios. The loan spell to Crete was unsuccessful, and so Olympiacos loaned him back to his hometown club FK Vojvodina. While on loan at Vojvodina, in 2012 after one game with Spartak Subotica, he fell very ill and was admitted to the hospital, where he was diagnosed with thrombopenia. He had to have some blood removed, and stayed in the hospital for two weeks, before he was allowed to finish his recovery from home. During his recovery, he gained over 20 pounds, and he did not return to play football until the end of the year. He remained a loaned player for Vojvodina until the club president Ratko Butorovic died unexpectedly on 8 June 2013, which led to a period of instability in the club during which Katai left.

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