Dejan Lovren is a professional footballer from Eastern European country, Croatia, who plays for the country’s national football team, as well as English Premier League club, Liverpool as a centre-back.
Before signing a four-year contract with Liverpool in 2014, Lovren played for Dinamo Zagreb, Olympique Lyonnais and Southampton. He has been playing for the Croatian national team since August 2009 and has so far made 30 appearances and scored two goals. He was part of the squad that represented the country at the 2014 FIFA World Cup in Brazil and the 2018 FIFA World Cup in Russia.
A brief biography
Dejan was born in Zenica, Bosnia and Herzegovina (formerly SFR Yugoslavia) on July 5, 1989 to Croatian parents Silva and Sasa Lovren. His parents left Yugoslavia for Munich in 1992 because of the war in Bosnia. Lovren was then only three years old. The family lived in the German city of Munich for seven years before returning to Croatia, where they settled in Karlovac.
Back in Croatia, Lovren who was about ten years oldAt that time, aged, he found it difficult to adapt to life in his home country and to adjust academically to understanding the Croatian language, but he adapted quickly. Recalling his years in Germany, Lovren said he was a happy boy, had a perfect command of German, went to school and played in a small club.
Lovren has a younger brother, Davor, who also plays professional football. He is currently on loan from Dinamo Zagreb to German club Fortuna Düsseldorf.
Career
Before starting his professional career with Dinamo Zagreb in 2004, Dejan Lovren played for two local clubs; NK Ilovac and NK Karlovac. He made his appearance for Zagreb in May 2006 in a match against NK Varteks Varaždin in the Croatian Premier League.
In July of the same year, he was loaned to NKInter Zaprešić for two seasons. At NK Inter Zaprešić he appeared in 50 league matches with a goal. When his loan expired, Lovren returned to Dinamo. He appeared in 38 matches throughout the 2008-09 season and scored three goals. The following season, he played in all four UEFA Champions League qualifying matches between Dinamo and Pyunik Yerevan and Red Bull Salzburg. He scored a header in the game against Pyunik.
In 2010, Dejan signed a four-and-a-half-year contract with French Ligue 1 club Olympique Lyonnais. The contract amounted to 8 million euros plus 1.5 million euros in incentives. His first appearance for his new club came in January 2010 against AS Monaco in a Coupe de France match which ended in a 2–1 loss.
His Ligue 1 debut was also in the same month in a match against PSG which ended in a 2-1 win. In the first two matches, Dejan Lovren played for 90 minutes. He made a total of 10 appearances in the second half of the season, mostly as a substitute. He was also not present in the UEFA Champions League that season as he had previously played in the league for Dinamo Zagreb.
Following the departure of Jean-Alain Boumsonget Mathieu (both defenders) in the 2010/2011 season, Lovren’s playing time increased and he quickly established himself as the team’s regular starter. He has also proven to be a versatile defender playing at full-back or right-back. At the end of 2010, a Spanish sports weekly Don Balón ranked him among the 100 best young players in the world.
In January 2012, Dejan Lovren extended his contract with Olympique Lyonnais, to stay in France until 2016, but he sadly left Lyon for Southampton the following year, on a four-year contract estimated at 8.5 million. pound sterling. By the end of his first season, his name was on Bloomberg Sports’ Power 50 list. He was also ranked as the fifth highest ranked player in the Premier League, thus ranking 31st.
In July 2014 he left Southampton to join Liverpool, becoming the third Southampton player to join Liverpool in that window, following Adam Lallana and Rickie Lambert. He has remained with Liverpool to this day and in April 2017 Lovren signed a contract extension which will keep him at Liverpool until 2021.
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International career
Lovren made a total of 54 appearances for various Croatian national youth teams, scoring six goals. He started playing for the Croatian senior team since August 2009 and has so far made 30 appearances and scored two goals.
He was part of the squad that represented the country at the 2014 FIFA World Cup in Brazil and the 2018 FIFA World Cup in Russia.
Who is Dejan Lovren’s wife, Anita? Family
Dejan Lovren has been married to Anita Lovren since 2013. The couple have been together since Dejan was sixteen years old and after being together for around eight years, they decided to tie the knot in 2013.
However, in 2015, Anita cheated on Dejan with her old friend, Dario Torbic, whom she met while visiting their hometown of Zagreb. After returning to England, she convinced Dario to come to England and they reunited.
When Lovren finally found out, he felt truly embarrassed and hurt, but because he had pledged to save his marriage and not leave his love of more than ten years, he forgave, despite the fact that Anita had asked for a divorce.
They finally resolved their issues and are still together. Lovren and Anita are the proud parents of two adorable children – Elena and Josip.
Height, weight and body statistics
The professional player and father of two stands at a height of 6 square feet i.e. 1.88 meters and weighs 84 kg. His other body stats are Chest – 105.5 cm or 41.5 inches , Arms/Biceps – 14 inches or 35.5 cm, and Waist – 32.5 inches or 83 cm.
