On January 26, Beijing time, FC Junior Belgrade officially announced the retirement of 36-year-old Guoan veteran Andrija Kaludrovic due to injury. Throughout his career, Kaludrovic played for 25 clubs. During this time, he won the Serbian Super Golden Boot award and the Serbian national team coached by Čurčić.
Andrija Kaludrovic
The 36-year-old Karudlovic made his name at Red Star Belgrade, sharing the league's Golden Boot with veteran international Ivica Iliev after scoring 13 goals in the 2010/11 season.At the beginning of 2012, the Serbian shot-stopper joined Chinese Super League giants Beijing Guoan for a transfer fee of almost 800,000 euros. At the time, Kaludrovic was highly expected and even compared to Branko Jelic (who won the Chinese Super League Golden Boot).
However, then-coach Pacheco did not value Kaludrovic. In the first half of the season, the Serbian made 8 appearances and scored 1 goal. When Kanoute joined him along with Gron, he couldn't find a chance to play. Subsequently, Kaludrovic was loaned to Atlético Santander FC in the Liga B.
I had expected a new life for Kaludrovic in Spain. The turbulent internal environment made the Serbian miserable: "Atlético Santander was in the top flight for 20 years and then got relegated. At the time, I was told that Atlético Santander would soon be back in La Liga and that the team had changed its manager and bought a lot of new reinforcements. I was persuaded to sign a contract at a reduced salary and signed a "small contract" with them. But soon I realized that this was not the case. The manager was fired before the start of the league and that season was very unsuccessful. Atletico Santander ended up in the third division."
After that, Kaludrovic was loaned out to play for Vojvodina and Limassol. In his opinion, if he hadn't chosen Beijing Guoan in the first place, his career wouldn't have taken a sharp turn for the worse: "Joining Guoan was a bad decision. I made that choice purely for the money, not for the joy of playing soccer. After joining Guoan, I was often rented out to change clubs, which made me very unhappy. But I had no choice at that time."
Andrija Kaludrovic
