Srđan Lakić
Personal information
Full name	Srđan Lakić
Date of birth	October 2, 1983 (1983-10-02) (age 26)
Place of birth	Dubrovnik, SFR Yugoslavia
Height	1.88 m (6 ft 2 in)
Playing position	Striker
Club information
Current club	1. FC Kaiserslautern
Number	9
Youth career
	Hajduk Split
Senior career1
Years	Club	App (Gls)*
2000-2002 2002-2004 2004-2005 2005-2006 2006-2008 2007-2008 2008-	Hajduk Split GOŠK Dubrovnik Hrvatski Dragovoljac Kamen Ingrad Hertha BSC → Heracles Almelo (loan) Kaiserslautern	28 (24) 30 (13) 12 0(0) 28 0(7) 25 (12)
National team
2005	Croatia U-21	03 0(0)
1 Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and correct as of 4 July 2009. * Appearances (Goals)

Srđan Lakić (born 2 October 1983 in Dubrovnik) is a Croatian football striker who is currently playing for 1. FC Kaiserslautern in the German 2nd Bundesliga. His name is commonly spelled Srdjan Lakic in languages where Đ and Ć are not available.

[edit] Club career

Lakić started his professional career with Croatian teams GOŠK Dubrovnik, Hrvatski Dragovoljac and Kamen Ingrad, before moving to Hertha BSC in the summer of 2006. He made his Hertha debut on 10 August 2006 in their UEFA Cup qualifier against Georgian side Ameri Tbilisi and went on to make his Bundesliga debut three days later against Wolfsburg. He scored his first and only goal for Hertha in their 2-2 away draw against Ameri Tbilisi in the second leg of the UEFA Cup second qualifying round. However, he never managed to find his place as a regular for Hertha and finished his first season with the club with only 11 Bundesliga appearances.

Although he started the 2007-2008 season with Hertha, the club decided to send him out on a season-long loan to Dutch side Heracles Almelo on 29 August 2007.^[1] He made his Eredivisie debut for the club on 15 September 2007 against Ajax and scored his first league goal on 22 January 2008 against Excelsior Rotterdam. He went on to finish the season with 7 goals in 28 Eredivisie appearances and was Heracles' second-best goalscorer.

He then returned to Hertha for pre-season training, but went on to sign a three-year contract with 2nd Bundesliga side Kaiserslautern on 6 August 2008. He was given the shirt number 9 at the club.^[2] He made his Kaiserslautern debut on 9 August 2008, scoring the team's only goal in their 2-1 defeat to Carl Zeiss Jena in the first round of the DFB-Pokal. In his first league match for the club, a 3-3 away draw at Mainz 05 on 15 August 2008, he was substituted at half-time after the team went 3-0 down in the first half. On 29 August 2008, he scored his first league goal for Kaiserslautern, netting the final goal in their 3-1 away win at Ingolstadt.

[edit] International career

In 2005, Lakić won three international caps for the Croatian national under-21 team.^[3]

[edit] References

1. ^ "Hertha leiht Lakic aus", Kicker, 29 August 2007 (in German)
2. ^ "Lakic landet am Betzenberg", Kicker, 6 August 2008 (in German)
3. ^ Croatian Football Federation

[edit] External links

• Weltfussball.de profile (German)
• Footballdatabase.com profile