Dejan Kulusevski
Dejan Kulusevski (Macedonian: Дејан Кулушевски, romanized: Dejan Kuluševski; born 25 April 2000) is a Swedish professional footballer who plays as a winger or midfielder for Premier League club Tottenham Hotspur and the Sweden national team.
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Kulusevski playing for Sweden in 2022 | |||
| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Full name | Dejan Kulusevski | ||
| Date of birth | 25 April 2000 | ||
| Place of birth | Stockholm, Sweden | ||
| Height | 1.86 m (6 ft 1 in) | ||
| Position(s) | Winger, midfielder | ||
| 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) |
| 2019–2020 | → Parma (loan) | 17 | (4) |
| 2020–2023 | Juventus | 55 | (5) |
| 2020 | → Parma (loan) | 19 | (6) |
| 2022–2023 | → Tottenham Hotspur (loan) | 48 | (7) |
| 2023– | Tottenham Hotspur | 30 | (6) |
| 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 | 37 | (3) |
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*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 23:48, 13 April 2024 (UTC) ‡ National team caps and goals, correct as of 20:33, 25 March 2024 (UTC) | |||
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.
Kulusevski was born in Sweden to a Swedish Macedonian father and a Macedonian mother. He represented both Macedonia and Sweden internationally at youth level, before opting to play for his birth country at senior level, making his full debut in 2019.