Miodrag Medan ( sr-cyr, Миодраг Медан; born 27 April 1970) is a Bosnian Serb former

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who played as a

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for clubs in Yugoslavia and Greece.

Club career

Born in

Mostar Mostar () is a city and the administrative centre of Herzegovina-Neretva Canton of the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina, an entity of Bosnia and Herzegovina, and the historical capital of Herzegovina. Mostar is situated on the Neretva Riv ...

SR Bosnia and Herzegovina The Socialist Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina ( sh-Latn-Cyrl, separator=" / ", Socijalistička Republika Bosna i Hercegovina, Социјалистичка Pепублика Босна и Херцеговина), commonly referred to as Socia ...

SFR Yugoslavia The Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (commonly abbreviated as SFRY or SFR Yugoslavia), known from 1945 to 1963 as the Federal People's Republic of Yugoslavia, commonly referred to as Socialist Yugoslavia or simply Yugoslavia, was a country ...

, Medan began his career playing for local side FK Lokomotiva Mostar. He would spend the next few seasons in Serbian football with FK Bačka (BP) and

FK Rad FK Rad () is a football club based in Banjica, Belgrade, Serbia. They compete in the Belgrade Zone League, the fourth tier of the national league system. Founded in 1958, the club spent a total of 30 seasons in the top flight between 1987 and 2 ...

. In December 1995, Medan joined Greek first division side

Paniliakos F.C. Paniliakos Football Club () is a Greek association football club based in Pyrgos, Elis, Greece. It plays its home matches at the Pyrgos Stadium. Paniliakos was the team of Serbia and Montenegro international Predrag Đorđević, before moving to ...

for six months, appearing in 19 league matches for the club. He moved to Greek second division side

Panionios F.C. Panionios G.S.S. Football Club (Greek: ΠΑΕ Πανιώνιος Γ.Σ.Σ.), the ''Pan-Ionian Gymnastics Club of Smyrna'' (Πανιώνιος Γυμναστικός Σύλλογος Σμύρνης, ''Panionios Gymnastikos Syllogos Smyrnis''), ...

for the following two seasons, helping the club promote to the first division where he led the team in goal-scoring and won the

Greek Cup The Greek Football Cup (), commonly known as the Greek Cup or Betsson Greek Cup for sponsorship reasons is a Greek football competition, run by the Hellenic Football Federation. The Greek Cup is the second-most important domestic men's footba ...

in his second season. Medan would spend the rest of his playing career in the lower levels of Greek football, leading the second division in goal-scoring while at

PAS Giannina F.C. PAS Giannina Football Club (), or with its full name Panipirotikós Athlitikós Síllogos Giánnina (, ''Panepirotic Athletic Club Giannina'') is a Greek professional football club based in the city of Ioannina, the capital of Epirus region. P ...

in the 1998–99 season. He also played for

Ethnikos Piraeus F.C. Ethnikos Piraeus F.C. () or simply Ethnikos is a Greece, Greek association football, football club based in Piraeus and its parent sports club is Ethnikos Piraeus, Ethnikos OFPF. The club was officially formed on 21 November 1923 as ''Keravnos'' ...

, Panelefsiniakos F.C.,

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and Athinaida Kypseli F.C. before retiring.

Honours

Panionios *

: 1997–98

References

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