Nemanja Supić

Nemanja Supić (Serbian Cyrillic: Немања Супић ; born 12 January 1982) is a Bosnian goalkeeper who currently plays for Red Star in the Jelen SuperLiga. He also played for the Bosnia and Herzegovina national team.

Career

Nemanja Supić is among the top five goalkeepers in all of Bosnia and Herzegovina. Currently, he plays for FK Crvena Zvezda, Serbia. He won Serbian Super League title in 2015-2016, and achieved silver medal as Serbian Cup finalist in 2012-2013. His career record against FK Red Star is 6 wins, 1 draw and 3 losses. He has played over 230 official games. Following his 10th season in the Serbian Premier League, he is looking for an international club to crown his rich and successful career.

National Team Highlights

Supic earned his first cap with the Bosnian national side against Belgium in Genk on 28 March 2009. Bosnia and Herzegovina won the game 4-2. He appeared five times in the World Cup 2010 Qualifiers. His best career game was against Turkey in Zenica. The official UEFA journalist reporting the game highlights said: ” Supic was an imperial on the Bosnian goal”. Bosina and Herzegovina thanks to his saves (against Turkey, Belgium, Armenia)^[1] and really great effort of his teammates Dzeko, Spahic, Ibisevic, Misimovic, Rahimic, made to the World Cup 2010 play-offs for the first time its history. He played 8 games for the national team including the friendlies. He saved a penalty kick against Oman. At that time he was one of the key players on the Bosnian and Hercegovinian team. Unfortunately, knee injury prevented Nemanja to continue his very successful national team career.^[2]

Serbian League Highlights

2013/2014:In this season Supic played for two teams, FK Novi Pazar and FK Vozdovac. In the fall 2013 his saves helped FK Novi Pazar to make historical half season record of 24 points in the Serbian League. Supic performance was very often confirmed and praised from his opponents. We quote here words of Vlada Milojevic, FC Cukaricki coach, saying that Supic was ”absolute match winner in the game between these two teams”. After very successful fall half season Nemanja moved to FK Vozdovac to help his previous club to stay in Serbian Premier League, and after 8 games FK Vozdovac ensured its Premier League Status and Supic’s contribution was very noticeable. 2012/2013: One of his best seasons... He played for FK Vojvodina. They made all the way to the final Serbian Cup game. In a couple very important games Supic confirmed his extraordinary talent. He played the key role in the Vojvodina wins against FK Red Star (the club with the greatest history in Eastern Europe and former European Champions League winner ) and FK Partizan (The last Serbian Champion), allowing only one goal in these there games and being match winner in one of the games against Red Star. In 2012 fall half season Supic definitely was the best goalkeeper in Serbia allowing only nine goals and in Serbian Sports media he was top rated Vojvodina player for that period. It is also worthy to mention his performance against FK Hajduk for this period. On the official team website and in sports media he was titled as ”man with one hundred hands”. He saved the penalty kick against OFK Beograd. 2011/2012:His first season in FK Vojvodina, a well known club in this part of Europe. After great come back from knee injury and amazing performance in FK Javor he signed a contract with FK Vojvodina. Great season for Supic. In the fall for nine games he didn’t allow any single goal. Two great wins against Red Star. Supic allowed only one goal in one of these games. At the second one he was match winner and in that crucial game FK Vojvodina qualified for European UEFA League. Five times he was elected in the team of the week. 2010/2011:Great come back after knee injury. In May 2011 Supic had one of his best career performances against FK Partizan ( Serbian Champion that year). He saved penalty kick and had five extraordinary saves which put him on the front page of all Serbian sports media and helped spur his team onto a 1-1 draw against the champion. 2009/2010:Short international experience in the Romania soccer team Timisoara and team from Cyprus Anothosis, but unfortunately knee problem started and financial problems for Romania club. Timisoara was moved to second Romanian league because of the problems and Nemanja left the club. 2008/2009: The crucial season in his career. Nemanja confirmed all his talent and potential on the great scene. At the beginning of the season he signed a contract with new Serbian Premier League member, FK Javor. FK Javor had the best season in its history, ending the season in fourth place. Nemanja allowed the second least number of goals in the league. His performance was extraordinary. Having amazing season he made to the national team of Bosnia and Herzegovina. His saves against FK Red Star and FK Partizan, two major team in the Serbian league, were epical. He established himself as a big game player. His record against Red Star is 6 - 3 - 1. There are only a few players in the Serbian League history having a similar winning record against Red Star.

Honours

Club

Red Star Belgrade

• Serbian SuperLiga (1): 2015–16

References

External links

• Nemanja Supić at National-Football-Teams.com
• Profile at Kicker.de
• Nemanja Supić Stats at Utakmica.rs