Danko Lazovic: biography, rating, football player statistics

Danko Lazovic is a football player who has become one of the brightest players of the national team of Serbia and St. Petersburg Zenit. It is technical, fast, it is celebrated by fans and coaches. It is for this reason that the football player is attracted by the attention of sports media. But what do we know about him in reality? What kind of person is Danko when he is outside the football field? How did he come to this sport? In this article, we will follow the career development of the Serbian striker and present his brief biography.

Childhood

Danko Lazovic (photo below) was born in the city of Kragujevac in 1983. Here the boy spent all his childhood. He began to play football on the advice of his parents. And there was a reason for that. After all, the then economy of Yugoslavia fell into decay. The work was nowhere to be found, so the rate should not be applied to the prestigious institute and good education.

That's Danko and took up football professionally. And now we can say with confidence that he did it for good reason. In the nineties footballers from Yugoslavia were very quoted in Europe. Davor Shuker, Predrag Mijatovic became almost the main stars of the teams of the Old World. Therefore, the best education in a perishing country was considered football. Very many Yugoslav teenagers then tied their destiny with this sport. Danko Lazovic was no exception. Before Zenit, the young man managed to change a significant number of teams.

Carier start

Lazovic's first club was Radnichki, which was in his hometown of Kragujevac. There he performed for a year and proved himself to be a bright and active striker. The young athlete did not go unnoticed. Soon representatives of FC "Teleoptik" offered him a full-fledged contract. From that moment the professional career of Lazovic began. In this club, Danko played only one season. But the athlete failed to realize his potential. The reason for this was the teammates. Most of the match players "Teleoptika" stood in defense. Therefore, it was simply not necessary to count on any successes in the attack.

New club

To declare himself truly Danko Lazovic was able only after the transition to FC Partizan. It was one of the strongest clubs in Serbia. Not surprisingly, the hero of this article immediately came to the fore and significantly increased the number of goals scored. As a result, in just a couple of years the football player became the leading player of the team and helped her win the Cup and the Championship of Yugoslavia.

Career in Europe

Soon, Danko Lazovic, whose rating grew with each match, was invited by the Dutch "Feyenoord". The amount of transfer was very impressive - $ 7 million. It is understandable that, having paid such money, the leadership of Feyenoord placed great hopes on Lazovic.

But at some point everything went downhill. Danko lost the fight for a place in the main team and for a very long period got on the bench. On the field, the athlete appeared occasionally. 40 - this is the number of matches that Danko Lazovic played in three years. Statistics athlete was disappointing. This was the reason for the fact that the club's management began to look for options for the footballer. So the young man got into the Leverkusen "Bayer". But even there the game at Lazovich did not work out. Six months later, the player returned to Serbia.

The sportsman spent the remaining six months of the season, speaking for FC Partizan (Belgrade). Danko scored a lot, but he did not remember the fans. Media and fans were very actively discussing his quarrel with Nisha Savelich (team-mate), which ended in a fight.

New contracts

After Danko Lazovic returned to the Dutch Championship, he was offered a cooperation by a local middle-class team called "Vitesse". In this collective, the hero of this article spent his best season in his career. Footballer often pushed the team to active action and scored a lot. It is noteworthy that for a long time Lazovic's name appeared in the list of the main contenders for the prize "Golden Boot", which is awarded to the best scorer of the championship.

Also, the athlete was invited to play for the national team. Lazovic successfully performed in its main lineup until 2011. Then Danko sent a letter to the Serbian Football Association, in which he announced a decision to stop cooperation. The player motivated this by his desire to focus on performances for his native club.

Soon the resultant Serbian striker was noticed by scouts of the Dutch FC "PSV". He was considered one of the best football clubs in the country. In 2007, Danko moved to Eindehoven. "PSV" paid for the bombardier 6.6 million euros.

In the new team, Lazovic became the brightest player. But at some point Danko lost his place in the main team. This was due to his conflict with Hub Stevens - the club's main coach. Only after making him an official apology, the hero of this article was able to return to the main staff.

Careers in Russia

After Danko Lazovic won with the "PSV" championship in Holland, he received an offer from St. Petersburg FC "Zenith". The contract was signed in 2010, and the Serbian player joined the club. For this team Lazovic played more than fifty matches, scoring seventeen goals. The career of the striker was very successful before the famous meeting with the Nizhny Novgorod "Volga".

Electric shock

Scandalous incident occurred immediately after the game. Lazovic ran to the fans to thank them for their support. Unexpectedly standing next to a Russian riot policeman hit the player with an electric shock. After that, Danko quickly jumped from him. Lawyer FC "Zenith" immediately wrote a statement to the prosecutor's office about the actions of the law enforcement officer at this meeting. But Andrei Shmonin (deputy head of the Public Security Police of the Central Internal Affairs Directorate) said: "Omonovets stood between fans and football players with outstretched hands, in one of which he held an electric shocker, but did not use it." After the medical examination it was found out that the electric shock Lazovic still got. The official diagnosis of a football player is "1st degree burn of the right subscapular region and electric injury".

For this reason, and also because of hamstrings of the muscles of the thigh, Danko left the main squad of Zenit. Prolonged simple impact on his athletic form. As a result, Lazovic was sent to a half-year lease in FC Rostov. There, the player actively got the practice game. In mid-2013, the hero of this article returned to Zenit. But I could not play at the same level. Six months later, Danko became a free agent and returned to the Belgrade Partizan. And in 2015, moved to FC Beijing Peking (Chinese League).

Personal life

Danko Lazovic, whose biography was presented above, is married. At the moment he brings up with his wife three children - a daughter and two sons.