Luka Jović

Serbian footballer

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Luka Jović (Serbian Cyrillic: Лука Јовић ; born 23 December 1997) is a Serbian professional footballer who plays as a striker for Super League Greece club AEK Athens and the Serbia national team.
He then had stints at Benfica, Eintracht Frankfurt, Real Madrid, Fiorentina, and AC Milan, before signing for AEK Athens in 2025.
Early life Jović was born in Loznica, FR Yugoslavia.
At the age of five, he started playing football in Loznica, where he was spotted in 2004 and offered to play in Mini Maxi, a development league for kids aged between 4 and 12 in Belgrade.
At one of those games he was scouted by Toma Milićević, Red Star's scout who invited him to trial with Red Star Belgrade.

Luka Jović (Serbian Cyrillic: Лука Јовић; born 23 December 1997) is a Serbian professional footballer who plays as a striker for Super League Greece club AEK Athens and the Serbia national team.

He began his youth career at Red Star Belgrade before making his senior debut in May 2014. He then had stints at Benfica, Eintracht Frankfurt, Real Madrid, Fiorentina, and AC Milan, before signing for AEK Athens in 2025. Internationally, Jović has represented Serbia since 2018, earning over 45 caps and scoring 11 goals, and has played in major tournaments including the 2018 and 2022 FIFA World Cups and UEFA Euro 2024.

Early life

Jović was born in Loznica, FR Yugoslavia. He was raised in the small village of Batar near Bijeljina, to Serbian parents Milan and Svetlana Jović. At the age of five, he started playing football in Loznica, where he was spotted in 2004 and offered to play in Mini Maxi, a development league for kids aged between 4 and 12 in Belgrade. After just one game where Jović scored three goals his father was offered €50 for each game he played and 2,000 dinars for travelling costs from Batar to Belgrade. At one of those games he was scouted by Toma Milićević, Red Star's scout who invited him to trial with Red Star Belgrade. His playing style attracted comparisons to Darko Pančev and Radamel Falcao, who is also his idol.