Bali United have completed the signing of Ilija Spasojevic from the Indonesia Liga 1 champions Bhayangkara FC on Wednesday.<\/p>\n
The 30-year-old striker reportedly has has signed a one-year contract with Laskar Serdadu Tridatu ahead of the team’s debut in AFC Champions League next year.<\/p>\n
“Bali United have officialy signed Indonesia national team striker Ilija Spasojevic,” read a statement on the club’s official website.<\/p>\n
It will be the second time for the Montenego-born to play in Bali island, a place where he made his Indonesian football debut in 2011 by playing for the defunct club Bali Devata in Indonesian Premier league.<\/p>\n
Bali United, who finished as runners-up in Liga 1 this year, replaced Bhayangkara to play in Asia after the title holders failed to meet AFC club licensing regulations.<\/p>\n
Widodo Cahyono Putro’s men will face Singapore S-League outfit Tampines Rovers in the preliminary round 1 on January 16.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Bali United have completed the signing of Ilija Spasojevic from the Indonesia Liga 1 champions Bhayangkara FC on Wednesday. The 30-year-old striker reportedly has has signed a one-year contract with Laskar Serdadu Tridatu ahead of the team’s debut in AFC Champions League next year. “Bali United have officialy signed Indonesia national team striker Ilija Spasojevic,” read a statement on the club’s official website. It will be the second time for the Montenego-born to play in Bali island, a place where he made his Indonesian football debut in 2011 by playing for the defunct club Bali Devata in Indonesian Premier league. Bali United, who finished as runners-up in Liga 1 this … Continue reading “Bali United sign Ilija Spasojevic ahead of AFC Champions League debut”<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":90,"featured_media":9617,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[130,77,952,91,512],"class_list":["post-9616","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-indonesia","tag-afc-champions-league","tag-bali-united","tag-ilija-spasojevic","tag-indonesia","tag-liga-1"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9616","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/90"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9616"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9616\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9617"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9616"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9616"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9616"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}