Dejan Joveljic

Dejan Joveljic born 7 August 1999 is a Serbian professional footballer who plays as a striker for Major League Soccer club LA Galaxy and the Serbia national team.

Club Career

Red Star Belgrade

2016–17 season

Born in Bijeljina, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Joveljic played with the local club Sloga Junajted, before he joined Serbian top tier club Red Star Belgrade in his early years. After almost 7 years with the club, passing the whole youth categories, Joveljic signed his first professional contract on 16 March 2016, along with several teammates. Joveljic has joined the first team under coach Miodrag Bozovic in 2016, but failed to play official matches during the 2016–17 Serbian SuperLiga campaign due to mononucleosis he was diagnosed with in August 2016. In the meantime, he was listed in top 60 youth footballers by The Guardian. After he missed the rest of 2016 without training, Joveljic returned to the field in early 2017, playing with youth team until the end of a season. He was also nominated as one of the competitors for the Golden Boy award in 2017.

2017–18 season

In summer 2017, Joveljic presented as one of the club's top 10 youth prospects and passed the whole pre-season training with the first squad. He became a regular member of the first team since the beginning of September 2017, after a furious period in the Serbian youth league. He has been named as the third choice striker behind Richmond Boakye and Aleksandar Pesic. Later, on 19 September same year, Joveljic extended his contract with the club until 2021. He spent his first time in protocol for a senior game sitting on the bench as an unused substitution for a match against Mladost Lucani on 22 October 2017.

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