Andrej Mrkela
Encyclopedia
Andrej Mrkela is a Serbian
football
attacking midfielder, currently playing for FK Rad
.
He is the son of former footballer Mitar Mrkela
and actress and politician Lidija Vukićević
. He was born in Enschede
, Netherlands
, where his father played for FC Twente
at the time.
Serbs
The Serbs are a South Slavic ethnic group of the Balkans and southern Central Europe. Serbs are located mainly in Serbia, Montenegro and Bosnia and Herzegovina, and form a sizable minority in Croatia, the Republic of Macedonia and Slovenia. Likewise, Serbs are an officially recognized minority in...
football
Football (soccer)
Association football, more commonly known as football or soccer, is a sport played between two teams of eleven players with a spherical ball...
attacking midfielder, currently playing for FK Rad
FK Rad
FK Rad is a football club from Belgrade, Serbia. It plays at Stadion Kralj Petar I, which is located in the southern part of the city's Banjica neighbourhood....
.
He is the son of former footballer Mitar Mrkela
Mitar Mrkela
Mitar Mrkela is a retired Serbian football player, who was a member of the Yugoslavian team that won the bronze medal at the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles, California.-Career:...
and actress and politician Lidija Vukićević
Lidija Vukicevic
Lidija Vukićević is a Serbian film and TV actress. Since 2004, she is also politically involved with Serbian Radical Party and is currently their MP in the Serbian parliament.-Acting:Best known for playing Violeta, daughter of the central Popadić family on hugely popular Bolji život TV...
. He was born in Enschede
Enschede
Enschede , also known as Eanske in the local dialect of Twents, is a municipality and a city in the eastern Netherlands in the province of Overijssel and in the Twente region...
, Netherlands
Netherlands
The Netherlands is a constituent country of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, located mainly in North-West Europe and with several islands in the Caribbean. Mainland Netherlands borders the North Sea to the north and west, Belgium to the south, and Germany to the east, and shares maritime borders...
, where his father played for FC Twente
FC Twente
FC Twente is a Dutch professional football club from the city of Enschede, playing in the Eredivisie. The club was formed in 1965 by the merger of 1926 Eredivisie Champions, Sportclub Enschede and Enschedese Boys...
at the time.
External sources
- Profile at Srbijafudbal.
- Profile at Transfermarkt.
- Andrej Mrkela Stats at Utakmica.rs