Danijel Aleksic

Danijel Aleksic (Serbian Cyrillic: Дaниjeл Aлeкcић; born 30 April 1991) is a Serbian professional footballer who plays for Turkish club Istanbul Basaksehir.

Club Career

Aleksic started playing football at seven years of age in local club FK Veternik. By the age 11, he transferred to FK Vojvodina where he made it through every age group. Simultaneous to football he attended Jovan Vukanovic streamlined technical high school.

Vojvodina

On 5 May 2007, he made his senior debut for Vojvodina under head coach Milovan Rajevac in a league match away at Red Star Belgrade. Being only 16 years and five days old, Aleksic became the second youngest player ever to appear in a Serbian SuperLiga match (behind Slavko Perovic). By the end of the 2006–07 season, he recorded one more league appearance.

He scored his first league goal on 2 April 2008, in a 4–1 home win versus Hajduk Kula.

During Vojvodina's 2008–09 season opening league match, a derby versus Red Star Belgrade, Aleksic scored a 90th-minute goal to put the game beyond reach and ensure a famous 2–0 win for his team. In November 2008, Aleksic started to figure as a transfer target for Serbia's biggest clubs – Red Star and Partizan – however, Vojvodina officials at the time were adamant that they would never sell him to league competitors. In late March 2009, he reportedly also started getting attention form abroad with scouts from Real Madrid and Villarreal coming to watch him play for the Serbian U19 national squad. For his part, in mid May 2009, Aleksic said that he would prefer his first transfer abroad to be to Holland's Eredivisie or Germany's Bundesliga.

Genoa

On 19 January 2010, the highly rated youngster was signed by Genoa CFC.

He became the club's second Serbian signing of the season, after Nenad Tomovic. Playing under head coach Gian Piero Gasperini, Aleksic made his Serie A debut against Juventus on 14 February 2010, coming on as the 88th-minute substitute for Dome

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