Nemanja Motika

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Nemanja Motika
Personal information
Date of birth (2003-03-20) 20 March 2003 (age 19)
Place of birth Berlin, Germany
Height 1.79 m (5 ft 10 in)
Position(s) Winger, forward
Club information
Current team
 Red Star Belgrade
Number 17
Youth career
BFC Preussen
0000–2012 Hertha Zehlendorf
2012–2017 Hertha BSC
2017–2022 Bayern Munich
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
2021–2022 Bayern Munich II 26 (16)
2022– Red Star Belgrade 5 (0)
National team‡
2018 Germany U16 1 (0)
2021– Serbia U19 2 (1)
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and correct as of 20 March 2022
‡ National team caps and goals correct as of 7 June 2021

Nemanja Motika (Serbian Cyrillic: Немања Мотика; born 20 March 2003) is a German-born Serbian professional footballer who plays as a winger or forward for Serbian SuperLiga club Red Star Belgrade. Born in Germany, he has represented both, his birth country and Serbia as well at youth level internationally.

Club career[]

Bayern Munich II[]

Motika made his professional debut for Bayern Munich II in the 3. Liga on 9 May 2021, coming on as a substitute in the 68th minute for Rémy Vita against SpVgg Unterhaching. Four minutes later, he scored his first goal for the club, halving Bayern's deficit to 2–1. The home match finished as a loss with no further goals scored.[1]

Red Star Belgrade[]

After very good half season at Bayern Munich II, where he scored 15 goals and 8 assists for the Martín Demichelis' team, Motika came into the spotlight of big clubs as well as Bayern Munich senior team, for which he was subsequently called up to Julian Nagelsmann's squad for the first match in 2022 against Borussia Monchengladbach, but ultimately he did not enter the game.

During the winter transfer window, he was the target of both Hamburger SV and Fiorentina among others, but Red Star Belgrade was the most persistent and fastest managing to attract the player's interest. He has been a big fan of the club since he was a child, and his brother Nikola also joined him at the club.

On February 2, 2022 Motika signed a four-year contract with the club and took the number 17 on the advice of fellow German footballer Marko Marin.[2] The transfer fee is potentially worth around €2m, including a future buy-back option clause in favor of Bayern Munich.

International career[]

Motika played one match for the Germany national under-16 team in September 2018 against Cyprus.[3] In November 2020, he was called up to train with the Serbia national under-19 team.[4]

Personal life[]

Motika was born in Berlin, and is of Serbian descent.[5] His father hails from the Nišići plateau near Sarajevo, and his mother hails from Vranje.[6]

References[]

  1. ^ "Germany » 3. Liga 2020/2021 » 36. Round » Bayern München II – SpVgg Unterhaching 1:2". WorldFootball.net. 9 May 2021. Retrieved 9 May 2021.
  2. ^ https://sd-crvenazvezda.net/2022/02/02/nemanja-motika-u-zvezdi/
  3. ^ "U16 Friendlies 2018 » September » Cyprus – Germany 2:3". WorldFootball.net. 5 September 2018. Retrieved 9 May 2021.
  4. ^ "U19 | На окупу нова такмичарска генерација омладинаца, селектор Игор Спасић позвао 27 играча на мини - припреме" [U19 | At the gathering of the new competitive generation of youth, the selector Igor Spasić invited 27 players to mini-preparations]. Football Association of Serbia (in Serbian). 30 October 2020. Retrieved 9 May 2021.
  5. ^ Nemanja Motika at WorldFootball.net Edit this at Wikidata
  6. ^ Kostić, Katarina (10 January 2021). "Mladi fudbaler Bajerna za SK: Uskoro ću debitovati za Srbiju". Sportklub (in Serbian). Retrieved 31 July 2021.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)

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