Aleksandar Linta

Aleksandar Linta (Serbian Cyrilic: Александар Линта); born 22 October 1975 is a Serbian professional football manager and former player. He is the current manager of Serbian First League club FK Radnički 1923.
== Biography ==
Linta started training football when he was 11 years old and came through the youth system of FK Zemun. During this period, FK Zemun had a youth training system that was one of the best in Serbia and provided football with several outstanding players like Nenad Džodić, Milan Milijaš, Ivan Litera and Predrag Ristović who were also team mates with Linta. Aleksandar Linta, Dzodic and Milijas also played together in former Yugoslavia Youth National teams (U15, U16, U17, U18).
When he was only 16 years old, Linta signed his first professional contract with FK Zemun. At the age of 21, Aleksandar Linta moved to Iceland to play for Íþróttabandalag Akraness was a consecutive five-time champion. Playing for Íþróttabandalag Akraness, he made it to the qualifying round of the UEFA Champions League with the team, however, they were defeated by Košice (1-0 and 3-0). During his time in Iceland, where he played for five different clubs in the period from 1997-2011 he scored 28 goals in 227 games. During this timeframe he laso played for different clubs in Serbia (FK Mladost Apatin and FK Zemun) and Montenegro (FK Zeta).
Aleksandar Linta began his career as a coach in Iceland with FC Grundarfjördur, where he was also a player, after which he continued his career as an assistant in the following clubs: FK Voždovac, Serbia National Team U16 and U17 and FK Vojvodina.
In 2018, Linta was the assistent to Ilija Stolica in NK Olimpija Ljubljana and even took the team over as head coach after Stolica left the team during the same year. He had noticeable results in UEFA Europa League - in the second qualification round NK Olimpija won against Crusaders (5-1, 1-1) and in the third qualification round they won against HJK (3-0, 4-1). However, they were eliminated in the Play-off round, when FC Spartak Trnava (0-2, 1-1). This was the best achievement of NK Olimpija in UEFA Cups so far.
Linta is moving to Kazakhstan in 2019 where he was assistant coach in FC Irtysh Pavlodar. Due to financial issues and bankruptcy, the club had to step down from the League and at that point Linta left the team.
Since 2020, he is the manager of FK Radnički 1923 in Serbian First League.
== Sports Biography ==
Current team
Club information	Club information
Team 	Radnički 1923 (manager)
=== Sports career ===
Youth career 	Youth career 	Youth career 	Youth career
FC Zemun 	FC Zemun 	FC Zemun 	FC Zemun
Senior career	Senior career 	Senior career	Senior career
Years 	Team 	Apps 	Gls
1994-1996 	FK Balkan Mirijevo 	 	
1996-1997 	FK Beograd 	 	
1997-1999 	IA Akranes 	12 	0
1999-2000 	Skallagrimur Futbolti	28 	2
2000-2001 	FK Zeta 	 	
2001-2002 	FK Mladost Apatin 	 	
2002-2003 	FK Zemun 	 	
2003-2004 	IA Akranes 	3 	0
2004-2006 	Vikingur Olafsvik 	45 	6
2006-2008 	KA Akureyri 	32 	3
2008-2011 	Þór Akureyri 	81 	16
2011-2013 	FC Grundarfjördur 	26 	1
Teams managed
Years 	Teams
2011-2013	FC Grundarfjördur
2014-2016	FK Voždovac U19
2016-2017	FK Voždovac (assistant)
2016 	Serbia U16 (assistant)
2016 	Serbia U17 (assistant)
2017-2018	FK Vojvodina (assistant)
2018 	NK Olimpija Ljubljana (assistant)
2019-2020	FC Irtysh Pavlodar
2020 	FK Radnički 1923
Category:1975 births
Category:Serbian football managers
Category:Serbian footballers