Filip Kostic

Filip Kostic (Serbian Cyrillic: Филип Костић, pronounced [filip kostitɕ]; born 1 November 1992) is a Serbian professional footballer who most frequently plays on the left wing for Bundesliga club Eintracht Frankfurt and the Serbia national team.

Club Career

Radnicki Kragujevac

Kostic made his senior debut with Radnicki Kragujevac in 2010 at the age of 17. This was after the club was promoted to the Serbian SuperLiga from the Serbian First League. He began attracting the interest of several clubs including Red Star Belgrade, Anderlecht, Udinese, and Tottenham Hotspur. On 15 April 2012, he was named starting left winger in Sportal's ideal team of round 24 in the SuperLiga.

Groningen

On 4 April 2012, he signed a contract with Eredivisie side Groningen and moved to the Netherlands in June 2012 after the end of the season. He made his debut for Groningen on 21 October 2012. After getting little playing time, Kostic finally began showing promising potential from the beginning of the 2013–14 Eredivisie; he attracted media attention after playing a brilliant game in which he had one assist against NEC, and then on 25 August he added to his reputation of play-making by assisting twice against Go Ahead Eagles. Finally, on 20 October 2013, Kostic scored his first ever goal for Groningen in a 1–0 win against PSV Eindhoven. Kostic received criticism for a media interview after drawing 0–0 with Aberdeen F.C. in the second round of the Europa League qualifiers. He went on record after the match saying, “We go home happy, we have done 80% of what we need to go through”.Groningen went on to lose the tie with the Scottish club 1–2 at the Euroborg.Aberdeen winger Jonny Hayes was later quoted as saying "I was quite happy ramming their words down their throats".

VfB Stuttgart

On 9 August 2014 Filip Kostic moved to German side VfB Stuttgart for €6 million and a possible bonus of €1 million. Groningen also would get 15% of a

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