Milan Vještica

Milan Vještica
Vještica with Ural in 2013
Personal information
Full name Milan Vještica
Date of birth (1979-11-15) 15 November 1979 (age 45)
Place of birth Novi Sad, SFR Yugoslavia
Height 1.88 m (6 ft 2 in)
Position(s) Defender
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
1997–2001 Novi Sad - (-)
2001 Vojvodina 17 (0)
2002–2006 Zenit Saint Petersburg 66 (1)
2006–2007 Rostov 42 (0)
2008 Partizan 9 (0)
2008–2010 Shinnik Yaroslavl 70 (8)
2011 Zhemchuzhina-Sochi 10 (1)
2012–2013 Ural Yekaterinburg 42 (6)
2014 Dynamo Saint Petersburg 9 (0)
Total 265 (16)
International career
2001 FR Yugoslavia U21 1 (0)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Milan Vještica (Serbian Cyrillic: Милан Вјештица; born 15 November 1979) is a retired Serbian professional footballer who played as a defender.

Club career

Vještica began his professional football career with Novi Sad in the late 1990s. He spent several seasons with the Canaries playing in the lower leagues, before moving to their cross-town rivals Vojvodina in the summer of 2001. Vještica stayed just a half a season there, joining Russian club Zenit Saint Petersburg during the 2002 winter transfer window. He spent five seasons at Petrovsky Stadium between 2002 and 2006. In January 2008, Vještica signed a contract with Partizan.[1] In January 2012, Vještica signed a contract with Ural Yekaterinburg.[2] The following year, he helped Ural to win promotion to the Premier League. After the first part of the 2013–14 season, his contract with the club was terminated by mutual consent.[3] On 14 February 2014, Dynamo Saint Petersburg announced the signing of Vještica on a permanent basis.[4]

International career

Vještica made one appearance for the Yugoslav national under-21 team during the qualification campaign for the 2002 UEFA Under-21 Championship.

Statistics

Season Club Division Apps Goals
Yugoslavia
2001–02 Vojvodina D1 17 0
Russia
2002 Zenit Saint Petersburg D1 7 0
2003 28 0
2004 15 0
2005 12 1
2006 4 0
Rostov 16 0
2007 26 0
Serbia
2007–08 Partizan D1 9 0
Russia
2008 Shinnik Yaroslavl D1 9 0
2009 D2 29 0
2010 32 8
2011–12 Zhemchuzhina-Sochi 10 1
Ural Yekaterinburg 5 2
2012–13 24 4
2013–14 D1 13 0
2013–14 Dynamo Saint Petersburg D2 9 0
Yugoslavia 17 0
Russia 239 16
Serbia 9 0
Total 265 16

Honours

Club

Zenit Saint Petersburg
Partizan
Ural Yekaterinburg

Individual

References

  1. ^ "Vještica predstavljen javnosti!" (in Serbian). partizan.rs. 23 January 2008. Retrieved 23 November 2013.
  2. ^ "Спартак Гогниев и Милан Вьештица стали игроками "Урала"" (in Russian). fc-ural.ru. 26 January 2012. Archived from the original on 2 December 2013. Retrieved 23 November 2013.
  3. ^ "Милан Вьештица покидает "Урал"" (in Russian). fc-ural.ru. 6 February 2014. Archived from the original on 22 February 2014. Retrieved 7 February 2014.
  4. ^ "Милан Вьештица стал динамовцем" (in Russian). fc-dynamospb.ru. 14 February 2014. Retrieved 14 February 2014.