Branislav Ivanović

Branislav Ivanović was born in Sremska Mitrovica, then Yugoslavia, on February 22, 1984. He began his career in Serbian football, passing through OFK Belgrado and excelling at Lokomotiv Moscow before being signed by Chelsea in 2008. At the English club, he played for almost a decade, primarily as a right-back and center-back, and made 377 appearances, scoring 34 goals. With Chelsea, he was English champion in 2009-10 and 2014-15, won the FA Cup in 2009, 2010 and 2012, was League Cup champion in 2015, won the Champions League in 2012 and the Europa League in 2013. In the 2013 Europa League final, he headed in the winning goal in a 2-1 victory over Benfica, in stoppage time. After leaving Chelsea in 2017, he played for Zenit and Antalyaspor. For the Serbia national team, he earned 105 caps, scored 13 goals, played in the 2010 and 2018 World Cups, and left the national team after the Russia World Cup.