Lukic was recruited to play with Partizan when he was just 11-year's old. Lukic spent nine of his eleven years at Partizan as captain of the club's various age-group sides.[1] As a youth player, Lukic was linked to top European teams[2] and was close to joining Everton,[1] but the deal collapsed.[3]
College & Amateur
In 2017, Lukic moved to the United States to play college soccer at Oklahoma Wesleyan University. During his five seasons with the Eagles, including a truncated 2020 season due to the COVID-19 pandemic, Lukic went on appear in 112 matches, scoring 62 goals and tallying 93 assists as one of the Eagles' best all-time scorers. Lukic helped the Eagles reach the NAIA national tournament Final Four in multiple years, earned NAIA First-Team All-America honors every year between 2018 and 2021, the Kansas Collegiate Athletic Conference MVP four times, and was the 2019 NAIA Men's Soccer National Player of the Year.[4][5][6][7]
In both 2018 and 2019, Lukic played in the USL League Two with Corpus Christi FC, scoring nine goals in 21 regular season appearances over two seasons.[8][9]
