The sun was barely rising over the training pitch when Petar Stojanović was already out, jogging the touchline with his usual quiet determination. His teammates were still in the locker room; he liked it that way. The early calm helped him focus.

“Don’t you ever sleep?” joked the assistant coach, sipping his coffee as he watched the full-back dart past.

Petar only smiled. “I’ll sleep after ninety minutes of sprinting.”

Later, during the scrimmage, his defensive header stopped a certain goal. Moments after, he surged up the pitch, overlapping the winger and delivering a pinpoint cross.

“You never stop, do you?” the coach asked, impressed.

“I can’t,” Petar replied. “The right side is my responsibility. And I don’t like letting it down.”

While others sought the spotlight, Stojanović embraced the hard yards, the unnoticed tackles, and the endless runs. That’s where he belonged—on the edge, always moving.