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Neven Subotic

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Born
1988 (35 years old)

Birth Place

Banja Luka, Bosnia

Position
Centre-Back

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Ethnicity
White

Team Number
3

Height
193 cm

Weight
86 kg

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Player Manager ID
35013755

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Sport

Soccer

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_Retired Soccer

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League
_No League Soccer

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Neven Subotić (Serbian Cyrillic: Heвeн Cубoтић, pronounced ; born 10 December 1988) is a Serbian former professional footballer who played as a centre-back.

Subotić made his professional debut in 2007 for 1. FSV Mainz 05. In the following year, he signed with Borussia Dortmund, where he spent the majority of his career, winning two Bundesliga titles. After leaving Dortmund in 2017, he had a series of spells at clubs in Germany, France, and Turkey, before signing for SC Rheindorf Altach in January 2021.

Born to Bosnian Serb parents, Subotić lived in Germany and the United States during his youth and played for the latter nation at under-17 and under-20 levels. At the senior level, he elected to represent Serbia, making his full international debut in 2009 and appearing at the 2010 FIFA World Cup.

Born in Banja Luka, Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (present-day Bosnia and Herzegovina), to Bosnian Serb parents, father Željko from the village of Kulaši and mother Svjetlana from Brestovo, Subotić spent his early childhood in Prnjavor. In 1990, when Subotić was two years old, his father went to Germany in search of work. In 1994, with the Bosnian War raging, the rest of the family including five-year-old Neven, his sister and their mother joined their father in Germany, settling in Schömberg. Neven took up football at the age of seven with the local outfit TSV Schwarzenberg.

In the late 1990s, the Subotić family's residence authorisation in Germany expired, and in order to avoid being deported back to Bosnia, they opted to move to the United States in 1999. They settled in Salt Lake City, Utah, where Subotić's father had a cousin. Subotić played football with Sparta Gold and Impact Black youth clubs.

Within two years, the family was on the move again, this time to Bradenton, Florida, so that Subotić's sister Natalija could pursue a tennis career at the Nick Bollettieri Tennis Academy. The city also happens to be the base for the United States under-17 national team. Subotić trained on his own in G.T. Bray Park, where he got spotted by Keith Fulk, one of the American team's assistant coaches who then informed the team's head coach, John Ellinger, about Subotić. After arranging a tryout, they offered Subotić a spot in the residency camp. At the time, he was not attached to any club sides, but eventually started playing with the University of South Florida soccer team.

While playing with the under-17 team in the Netherlands, Subotić was approached by player agent Steve Kelly, who inquired about his career plans and offered the possibility of playing in Europe. After impressing at the tryout for 1. FSV Mainz 05, young Subotić was on his way there, initially playing for the club's youth and fourth-division teams (1. FSV Mainz 05 II). Subotić holds a German, American, Bosnian, and a Serbian passport.

Career Honours

German DFL-Supercup 2014 Dortmund	German DFL-Supercup 2013 Dortmund	German Bundesliga 2011-2012 Dortmund	German DFB-Pokal 2011-2012 Dortmund
German Bundesliga 2010-2011 Dortmund