Juventus player Dejan Kulusevski is Swedish but has Macedonian origin. His father is Swedish-Macedonian, and his mother is Macedonian.
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Why is Kulusevski called DEKI?
Dejan Kulusevski is called Deki, because it’s a common nickname for Dejan.
Who Is Dejan Kulusevski?
Dejan Kulusevski is a football winger/ midfielder for the Serie A club Juventus, but is currently playing on loan for Premier League club Tottenham Hotspur.
Born on April 25, 2000, in Stockholm, Sweden, to “a Swedish-Macedonian father and a Macedonian mother.”

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Dejan began playing football at age six with IF Brommapojkarna.
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He joined in 2016, and made his senior debut for the club in 2018.
In 2019, Dejan was loaned to Parma and was later transferred to Juventus for a fee of €35 million.
In January 2022, Tottenham Hotspur in England loaned Dejan for €10 million, with an option of purchase for an additional €35 million fee.
On the international front, Dejan represents the Sweden and Macedonia national teams in international matches. He had previously played with the Under-17, Under-19 and Under-21 teams.
In 2019, he played with the team during the UEFA Euro 2020, against Romania and the Faroe Islands.


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