Branko Baković (; born 31 August 1981) is a
Serbia
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footballer
A football player or footballer is a sportsperson who plays one of the different types of football. The main types of football are association football, American football, Canadian football, Australian rules football, Gaelic football, rugby lea ...
who played as an
attacking midfielder
In the sport of association football, a midfielder takes an outfield position primarily in the middle of the pitch. Midfielders may play an exclusively defensive role, breaking up attacks, and are in that case known as defensive midfielders. ...
.
Career
After starting out at his hometown club
Radnički Kragujevac, Baković was transferred to ambitious
OFK Beograd
OFK Beograd ( sr-Cyrl, ОФК Београд – Омладински фудбалски клуб Београд, English language, English: ''Belgrade Youth Football Club''), also known in English as OFK Belgrade and currently referred to as OFK ...
in the summer of 2002. He spent the following five seasons at
Stara Karaburma, scoring 20 goals in 93 league games. He also made a string of appearances in
European competitions, reaching the semi-finals of the
2004 UEFA Intertoto Cup
The 2004 UEFA Intertoto Cup football finals (the summer football competition for European clubs that had not qualified for one of the two major UEFA competitions) were won by Lille, Schalke 04, and Villarreal.
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.
In 2007, Baković moved abroad to Chinese club
Shandong Luneng
Shandong Taishan Football Club () is a Chinese professional football club based in Jinan, Shandong, that competes in . Shandong Taishan plays its home matches at the Jinan Olympic Sports Center Stadium, located within Lixia District. Their c ...
, but failed to make an impact. He also briefly played for Romania's
Politehnica Iași and Ukraine's
Naftovyk-Ukrnafta Okhtyrka, before returning to his parent club
Radnički Kragujevac in early 2009.
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1981 births
Living people
Footballers from Kragujevac
Men's association football midfielders
Serbia and Montenegro men's footballers
Serbia and Montenegro men's under-21 international footballers
Serbian men's footballers
FK Radnički 1923 players
OFK Beograd players
Shandong Taishan F.C. players
FC Politehnica Iași (1945) players
FC Naftovyk Okhtyrka players
FK Slavija Sarajevo players
OFK Grbalj players
OFK Mladenovac players
FC Black Stars Basel players
First League of Serbia and Montenegro players
Chinese Super League players
Liga I players
Montenegrin First League players
Ukrainian Premier League players
Ukrainian First League players
Premier League of Bosnia and Herzegovina players
Serbian First League players
Serbian SuperLiga players
Swiss 1. Liga (football) players
Serbian expatriate men's footballers
Expatriate men's footballers in China
Serbian expatriate sportspeople in China
Expatriate men's footballers in Romania
Serbian expatriate sportspeople in Romania
Expatriate men's footballers in Ukraine
Serbian expatriate sportspeople in Ukraine
Expatriate men's footballers in Bosnia and Herzegovina
Serbian expatriate sportspeople in Bosnia and Herzegovina
Expatriate men's footballers in Montenegro
Serbian expatriate sportspeople in Montenegro
Expatriate men's footballers in Switzerland
Serbian expatriate sportspeople in Switzerland
21st-century Serbian sportsmen