Dusan Vlahovic (born 28 January 2000) is a Serbian professional footballer who plays as a striker for Serie A club Juventus and the Serbia national team.
Graduating from Partizan's youth system, Vlahovic made his first-team debut in 2016, winning a league title and two Serbian Cups. He moved to Italian club Fiorentina in 2018. With 21 league goals in the 2020–21 Serie A, Vlahovic was awarded Serie A Best Young Player. After an impressive goalscoring form in the first half of 2021–22, Italian rivals Juventus signed him in January 2022 for a reported fee of €70 million.
Vlahovic is a former Serbia youth international, representing his country at various youth levels, before making his senior international debut in 2020 during the UEFA Nations League. He helped his nation qualify to the 2022 FIFA World Cup.
Vlahovic is a complete striker, known for his physicality, technique and eye for goal. He excels at picking up the ball in central areas or the inside right or left channels and maintaining possession. He has multiple facets to his hold up and link play. His best assets are his strength to hold up the ball, and then his ability to turn and dribble past the first defender. When playing for Fiorentina, he often received the ball under pressure from either a long ball or linking with his midfielders.
Vlahovic is a very efficient ball carrier, and his primary way to retain possession and circulate the ball is to use his strength in the contact and to use his superior dribbling ability to evade his marker. He is able to draw in opposition defenders and create space for his team mates or for himself with dribbling. Vlahovic is a potent and clinical penalty box presence, a devastating finisher in the penalty area, as he is able to hold his position in order to pin the opposition back into their box, before swiftly making a movement into the channels as his team look to locate areas within the final third. His playing style has led him to be compared to Cristiano Ronaldo, Erling Haaland and Jamie Vardy.<\/P>","FA149E2002A43ED77C24C62CDFF094A5":"0","2B5572269355781B0007104B7181FA88":"2000-1-28","82CBDCB828DBDF896209A361CA981BCF":"\u20ac81.60M","0FCC2F07B9D0EBFD":"Juventus","8DC362CCE065919BCF40467C0DE6A7E8":"
CLUB<\/U>
Partizan<\/STRONG>
Serbian SuperLiga: 2016–17
Serbian Cup: 2015–16, 2016–17
Fiorentina Primavera
<\/STRONG>Coppa Italia Primavera: 2018–19
Juventus<\/STRONG>
Coppa Italia runner-up: 2021–22
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Serie A Best Young Player:
<\/STRONG>2020–21
Serie A Player of the Month:
<\/STRONG>December 2021
Coppa Italia top scorer:
<\/STRONG>2021–22 (4 goals)
Serie A Team of the Year:<\/STRONG>
2021–22<\/P>","9EBD0BFF9766B31DEF99430639A2F292":"Fiorentina","4678B5349347B7EB":"78kg","A16D5E6475634BB126EF698FB3550B8C":"60000000.00","18E9F76C307DDD99":"2","A7F9B63E25A659E5":"Dusan Vlahovic","e_index":1};