FK Sremcica is a football club based in Sremčica

Sremcica

Sremčica is a suburban settlement of Belgrade, the capital of Serbia. It is located in the municipality of Čukarica.- Location :...

, Serbia

Serbia

Serbia , officially the Republic of Serbia , is a landlocked country located at the crossroads of Central and Southeast Europe, covering the southern part of the Carpathian basin and the central part of the Balkans...

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Football was being played in Sremčica from before the Second World War, but the first football club was only organized in 1957, and named FK Sremčica. It competed in lower leagues, regional Belgrade leagues, and had its greatest success by the end of 20th century when it was promoted to Serbian League Belgrade

Serbian League Belgrade

Srpska Liga Belgrade is a section of the Srpska Liga, Serbia's third football league. Teams from Belgrade are in this section of the league. The other sections are Srpska Liga East, Srpska Liga West, and Srpska Liga Vojvodina.-Srpska Liga Beograd Teams 10/11:...

 (third tier). After that, club fall into crisis and it was relegated two seasons in a row, back to First League of Belgrade

First League of Belgrade

First League of Belgrade is a section of the Serbia's fifth football league.The league is composed of 18 clubs. After playing each other twice in a total of 34 rounds, the top clubs get promotion into the Belgrade Zone League , while the bottom ones get relegated into the Second League of...

. Recently, the club merged with FK Lasta, and the club was renamed into FK Sremčica-Lasta, but popularly begin being called Lasta giving way to its current name.

Two players who were part of the Serbia and Montenegro

Serbia national football team

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 national team in the 2006 World Cup in Germany were members former members of the club: goalkeeper Oliver Kovačević

Oliver Kovacevic

Oliver Kovačević is a former Serbian football goalkeeper. He was a member of the Serbia and Montenegro national football team for the 2006 FIFA World Cup as third goalkeeper...

 and midfielder Ivan Ergić

Ivan Ergic

Ivan Ergić is an international footballer from Serbia. He is a free agent, last playing for Bursaspor in the Turkish Süper Lig, he played as midfielder. He holds Serbian and Australian citizenship.-Club:...

, although tha last only played in the youth team. Branimir Subašić

Branimir Subašic

Branimir Subašić is a Serbian born Azerbaijani international footballer who plays as a striker for FK Khazar Lankaran and Azerbaijan National Football Team.- Career :...

, who later became Azerbaijani

Azerbaijan national football team

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national team player, also played in the club during his early career.

External links

• Club page at FudbalskaZona