 Born in Banja Luka, Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, to Bosnian Serb parents, father Željko from the village of and mother Svjetlana from Brestovo, Subotić spent his early childhood in Prnjavor.In 1990, when Subotić was two years old, his father went to Germany in search of work.In 1994, with the Bosnian War raging, the rest of the family including five-year-old Neven, his sister and their mother joined their father in Germany, settling in Schömberg.