Former Singapore national striker Aleksandar Duric is working to shape the country’s sporting future through grassroots youth development. Serving as the head of the ActiveSG Football Academy, the Bosnia-born forward focuses on expanding sports participation, instilling discipline, and teaching core values to young athletes across the island. Drawing on a long professional playing career that spanned well into his forties, Duric aims to establish structured pathways and foster talent to help elevate Singaporean football in the years ahead.
- Aleksandar Duric leads the ActiveSG Football Academy, driving grassroots programs designed to make football accessible to children across Singapore.
- The training curriculum emphasizes character building, physical fitness, discipline, and teamwork alongside core technical skills.
- Duric represented the Singapore national team after gaining citizenship, earning 53 caps and scoring 24 international goals.
- After retiring from professional football in 2014 at age 44, he transitioned into sports administration to help build a sustainable talent pipeline for local sports.
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Alex is a legend in the local game
Honorable citizen !!! 👍👍👍❤❤❤❤
Thankful to have someone like him come and contribute to our nation. Really appreciate it!
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Alex is through and through a model success story of a naturalised Singaporean.
When you give your heart to the community and this country, it's people will love you back three folds and more.
Singaporeans may appear apathetic and reserved on the surface. But beneath that demeanour, lies deep intuition and sentimentality. From experience, rather similar to people from the balkans.
Such long-term cultural integrations are limited these days amongst the globally mobile.
Respect for him. Thanks for being Singaporean
Duric is a Singapore sports legend!! Inspiration of a nation
Alex is one of us 💪🏻