Predrag Pažin

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Predrag Pažin
Personal information
Full name Predrag Pažin
Date of birth (1973-03-14) 14 March 1973 (age 48)
Place of birth Nevesinje, SR Bosnia and Herzegovina,
SFR Yugoslavia
Height 1.87 m (6 ft 1+1⁄2 in)[1]
Position(s) Centre back
Youth career
1987—1991
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
1991–1993 Sutjeska Nikšić 36 (2)
1993–1995 Rudar Pljevlja 40 (4)
1995–1999 Partizan 63 (7)
1999–2000 Levski Sofia 34 (2)
2001 Kocaelispor 31 (6)
2002 Spartak Pleven 9 (0)
2002 Beijing Guoan 26 (4)
2003–2005 Shakhtar Donetsk 22 (1)
2005–2007 Shandong Luneng 62 (5)
2008–2010 Lokomotiv Mezdra 46 (4)
Total 369 (35)
National team
2000–2004 Bulgaria 31 (0)
Teams managed
2011 Botev Kozloduy
2015 Lokomotiv 2012 Mezdra
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only

Predrag Pažin (Bulgarian and Serbian Cyrillic: Предраг Пажин; born 14 March 1973) is a naturalized Bulgarian former football player of Herzegovinian Serb descent who played as a defender.

Club career[]

Pažin had a decent spell at FK Partizan, before moving on to Levski Sofia in 1999. He spent two seasons in Bulgaria during which he was offered citizenship and a chance to play for the country's national team - both of which he took.

International career[]

Pažin made his debut for Bulgaria in an August 2000 friendly match against Belgium in Sofia and has earned a total of 31 caps, scoring no goals.[2] He was part of the Bulgarian 2004 European Football Championship team, which was eliminated in the first round, finishing bottom of Group C, having finished top of Qualifying Group 8 in the pre-tournament phase. His final international was against Italy at that tournament in Portugal.[3] Pažin is the most capped non-Bulgarian-born player to appear for the national side.[4]

Honours[]

FK Partizan

Levski Sofia

FC Shakhtar Donetsk

Shandong Luneng[5]

References[]

  1. ^ "Профил на Предраг Пажин" (in Bulgarian). sportal.bg. Retrieved 21 August 2016.
  2. ^ Mamrud, Roberto (9 December 2020). "Bosnia and Herzegovina – Record International Players". RSSSF. Retrieved 25 April 2021.
  3. ^ "Player Database". eu-football.info. Retrieved 2021-04-25.
  4. ^ "Иван Чворович стана 4-и сърбин в националния отбор" (in Bulgarian). 7sport.net. 4 June 2012. Archived from the original on 29 May 2015. Retrieved 29 May 2015.
  5. ^ "Pažin, Predrag". National-football-teams.com. 2019-08-22. Retrieved 2019-08-22.

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