Josip Knežević

Template:Use dmy dates Template:Infobox football biography Josip Knežević (born 3 October 1988 in Osijek) is a Croatian international footballer, who plays for NK Osijek in the Prva HNL.

Career

Club

Knežević has started his career in senior professional team of NK Osijek on 2005/2006 at the age of 17. He has regularly played for Croatian national team U-18, U-19, U-20 and U-21, has total 13 caps in Croatian national team for young players. Now, Josip Knežević is an active member of the Croatian national under-21 team. This season 2008/2009 he is actually second on the list of assists of Croatian Championship Prva HNL with 7 assists.

On 12 February 2010 Knežević moved to Russian side Amkar Perm in a deal initially worth €500,000. Two years later, in January 2012, Knežević signed a season-long loan deal with Kazakhstan Premier League outfit FC Kairat. After an impressive start, in which he scored 3 goals in 5 appearances, Knežević suffered a mid-season injury, but still ended up as the teams topscorer with 6 goals (3 - pen.). At the end of Kneževićs loan deal he reutrned to Amkar Perm, before signing a permanent three-year contract with FC Kairat in February 2013.

After six-months without a team, Knežević signed a six-month contract with FC Kaisar.

International career

Knežević is former youth international player for the Croatian U21, U19 and U17 sides.

Career statistics

Club

Club	Season	League			National Cup		Continental		Other		Total
		Division	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals
Kairat (loan)	2012	Kazakhstan Premier League	16	6			-		-		16	6
Kairat	2013		30	10	1	0	-		-		31	10
	2014		17	6	1	1	4	1	-		22	8
	Total		63	22	2	0	4	1	0	0	69	24
Kaisar	2015	Kazakhstan Premier League	11	1	0	0	-		-		11	1
Career total			74	23	2	0	4	1	0	0	80	25

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