Dejan Kulusevski

Dejan Kulusevski
Kulusevski playing for Sweden in 2022
Personal information
Full name Dejan Kulusevski[1]
Date of birth (2000-04-25) 25 April 2000 (age 24)[2]
Place of birth Stockholm, Sweden
Height 1.86 m (6 ft 1 in)[2]
Position(s) Midfielder, Winger, Forward
Team information
Current team
Tottenham Hotspur
Number 21
Youth career
2006–2016 IF Brommapojkarna
2016–2019 Atalanta
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
2019–2020 Atalanta 3 (0)
2019–2020Parma (loan) 17 (4)
2020–2023 Juventus 55 (5)
2020Parma (loan) 19 (6)
2022–2023Tottenham Hotspur (loan) 48 (7)
2023– Tottenham Hotspur 46 (10)
International career
2015–2016 Macedonia U17 5 (6)
2015–2017 Sweden U17 19 (6)
2017–2018 Sweden U19 13 (2)
2019 Sweden U21 5 (2)
2019– Sweden 43 (3)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 19:56, 3 November 2024 (UTC)
‡ National team caps and goals, correct as of 22:33, 14 October 2024 (UTC)

Dejan Kulusevski (Macedonian: Дејан Кулушевски, romanizedDejan Kuluševski; born 25 April 2000) is a Swedish professional footballer who plays as a midfielder or winger for Premier League club Tottenham Hotspur and the Sweden national team.

Coming through from the youth system, Kulusevski made his senior debut for Atalanta in 2019, before joining Parma on loan at the beginning of the 2019–20 season. He joined Juventus during the winter transfer window for €35 million, and was sent back to Parma on loan for the rest of the season. In January 2022, Kulusevski was sent on loan to Tottenham Hotspur in England. In June 2023, Tottenham signed Kulusevski permanently on a deal until 2028.[3]

Kulusevski was born in Sweden to a Swedish Macedonian father and a Macedonian mother.[4] He represented both Sweden and Macedonia internationally at youth level, before opting to play for his birth country at senior level, making his full debut in 2019.

  1. ^ "Updated squad lists for 2021/22 Premier League". Premier League. 4 February 2022. Archived from the original on 5 February 2022. Retrieved 6 February 2022.
  2. ^ a b "Dejan Kulusevski: Overview". Premier League. Archived from the original on 11 August 2022. Retrieved 11 August 2022.
  3. ^ "Tottenham: Dejan Kulusevski completes permanent move from Juventus on five-year deal". BBC Sport. 17 June 2023. Retrieved 14 October 2024.
  4. ^ Hjorter/TT, David (2 January 2020). "Från BP till Juventus – Kulusevskis resa". Svenska Dagbladet (in Swedish). Archived from the original on 24 June 2022. Retrieved 24 June 2022.