{"id":161369,"date":"2025-06-03T07:57:11","date_gmt":"2025-06-03T07:57:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/de\/161369\/"},"modified":"2025-06-03T07:57:11","modified_gmt":"2025-06-03T07:57:11","slug":"official-union-berlin-sign-striker-andrej-ilic-on-a-permanent-basis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/de\/161369\/","title":{"rendered":"Official | Union Berlin sign striker Andrej Ilic on a permanent basis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Union Berlin officially confirmed <a href=\"https:\/\/www.getfootballnewsgermany.com\/2025\/union-berlin-set-to-complete-double-striker-signing-of-andrej-ilic-and-ilyas-ansah\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\">one of their two rumored striker signings<\/a> yesterday. Serbian youth international <a href=\"https:\/\/onefootball.com\/de\/spieler\/andrej-ilic-272122\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Andrej Ilic<\/a> signed a four-year-deal with the Bundesliga club recently gained traction with this spring. Terms of the deal with Ilic\u2019s now former Ligue 1 parent club of Lille OSC were not divulged.<\/p>\n<p>Once given a chance to play by <a href=\"https:\/\/onefootball.com\/de\/team\/1-fc-union-berlin-174\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">FCU<\/a> head coach Steffen Baumgart, Ilic thrived in K\u00f6penick during the 2024\/25 Bundesliga R\u00fcckrunde. Ilic\u2019s seven league goals left him the second most prolific scorer in the Union squad. The team\u2019s leading scorer, Benedict Hollerbach, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.getfootballnewsgermany.com\/2025\/official-mainz-sign-union-berlin-attacker-benedict-hollerbach\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\">signed with Mainz over the weekend.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cAndrej has integrated excellently into our team in a short period of time,\u201d Union managing director Horst Heldt noted in a statement accompanying the signing. \u201cWith his performances on the pitch, he has proven that he can help us in the long-term. He brings the physical presence, goal-scoring instinct, and mentality that we need in attack. We are delighted that he will continue to wear our tricot in the future.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI felt at home at Union from day one,\u201d the player himself added. \u201cEven though <a href=\"https:\/\/www.getfootballnewsgermany.com\/2025\/union-berlin-striker-andrej-ilic-speaks-on-rift-with-bo-svensson-he-never-talked-to-me\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\">things didn\u2019t go quite as I had hoped in the first few months<\/a>, I could feel the growing confidence in me and my abilities. The fact that I was then able to contribute so well and that we won important games together makes me very happy. I am now all the more delighted to continue to be part of this team and this special club.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Union Berlin officially confirmed one of their two rumored striker signings yesterday. Serbian youth international Andrej Ilic signed&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":161370,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1825],"tags":[1941,1939,296,1937,29,30,1940,1938],"class_list":{"0":"post-161369","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-berlin","8":"tag-aktuelle-nachrichten-aus-berlin","9":"tag-aktuelle-news-aus-berlin","10":"tag-berlin","11":"tag-berlin-news","12":"tag-deutschland","13":"tag-germany","14":"tag-nachrichten-aus-berlin","15":"tag-news-aus-berlin"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@de\/114618370795436133","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161369","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=161369"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161369\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/161370"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=161369"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=161369"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=161369"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}