Subotica (
Serbian Cyrillic: Суботица, pronounced[sǔbotitsa]ⓘ;
Hungarian: Szabadka,
Rusyn: Суботица) is a
city and the administrative center of the
North Bačka District in the autonomous province of
Vojvodina,
Serbia. Formerly the largest city of Vojvodina region, contemporary Subotica is now the second largest city in the province, following the city of
Novi Sad. According to the 2022 census, the city itself has a population of 94,228, and the population of metro area (the administrative area of the city) stands at 123,952 people. (Full article...)
Žigić was born in
Bačka Topola, in what was then
SFR Yugoslavia. He began playing football as a youngster with
AIK Bačka Topola, and scored 68 goals from 76 first-team matches over a three-year period in the third tier of Yugoslav football. Military service took him to
Bar in 2001, where he was able to continue his goalscoring career with the local second-level club
Mornar. A brief spell back in the third tier with
Kolubara preceded his turning professional with
First League side
Red Star Belgrade in January 2003. He spent time on loan at third-tier
Spartak Subotica before making his Red Star debut later that year. Despite suggestions that his height, of 2.02 m (6 ft 7+1⁄2 in), made him better suited to sports other than football, Žigić ended the season as First League top scorer, domestic player of the year,
league champion and scorer of the winning goal in the
cup final. He won a second
league–cup double in 2005–06, a second player of the year award, and finished his three-year Red Star career with 70 goals from 109 appearances in all competitions. (Full article...)
Subotica (
Serbian Cyrillic: Суботица, pronounced[sǔbotitsa]ⓘ;
Hungarian: Szabadka,
Rusyn: Суботица) is a
city and the administrative center of the
North Bačka District in the autonomous province of
Vojvodina,
Serbia. Formerly the largest city of Vojvodina region, contemporary Subotica is now the second largest city in the province, following the city of
Novi Sad. According to the 2022 census, the city itself has a population of 94,228, and the population of metro area (the administrative area of the city) stands at 123,952 people. (Full article...)
Žigić was born in
Bačka Topola, in what was then
SFR Yugoslavia. He began playing football as a youngster with
AIK Bačka Topola, and scored 68 goals from 76 first-team matches over a three-year period in the third tier of Yugoslav football. Military service took him to
Bar in 2001, where he was able to continue his goalscoring career with the local second-level club
Mornar. A brief spell back in the third tier with
Kolubara preceded his turning professional with
First League side
Red Star Belgrade in January 2003. He spent time on loan at third-tier
Spartak Subotica before making his Red Star debut later that year. Despite suggestions that his height, of 2.02 m (6 ft 7+1⁄2 in), made him better suited to sports other than football, Žigić ended the season as First League top scorer, domestic player of the year,
league champion and scorer of the winning goal in the
cup final. He won a second
league–cup double in 2005–06, a second player of the year award, and finished his three-year Red Star career with 70 goals from 109 appearances in all competitions. (Full article...)