Suad Gruda (born 27 July 1991) is a

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and Montenegrin retired

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who last played for

Nyköpings BIS Nyköpings BIS is a Swedish football club located in Nyköping. The club started out as a merger in 1966 between Nyköpings SK and Nyköpings AIK. Since their foundation Nyköpings BIS has participated mainly in the middle divisions of the Swedi ...

as a

midfielder A midfielder is an outfield position in association football. Midfielders may play an exclusively defensive role, breaking up attacks, and are in that case known as defensive midfielders. As central midfielders often go across boundarie ...

Club career

Gruda was born in

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but his family relocated to Sweden and Luleå the year after his birth. There he spent his youth years at

IFK Luleå IFK Luleå is a Swedish football club formed in 1900, located in Luleå. The club merged with Luleå FF and played under the name Luleå FF/IFK from 1986 to 1989. History IFK Luleå was originally founded in the year 1900, but went dormant after ...

before moving to Degerfors IF and then

Allsvenskan Allsvenskan (; en, the All-Swedish, also known as Fotbollsallsvenskan, en, the Football All-Swedish) is a Swedish professional league for men's association football clubs. It was founded in 1924 and is the top tier of the Swedish football le ...

club Gefle IF in 2010 after having spent a year playing first team football with his original club. After leaving Gefle two years later he played for second tier

JIPPO JIPPO is a Finnish football club, based in Joensuu. It plays in the Kakkonen, the third highest level of Finnish football. Jippo plays its home matches at Mehtimäki, Joensuu. JIPPO was formed in 2001 after the merger of JiiPee and Ratanat&nbs ...

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before signing with

in March 2013. On August 11, 2013, Gruda left

for Umeå FC, but returned to his old club the next season. In November 2019, he retired from playing, citing persistent knee problems.

International career

Gruda represented the

Montenegro national under-21 football team The Montenegro national under-21 football team is the national under-21 football team of Montenegro and is controlled by the Football Association of Montenegro. The team competes in the European Under-21 Football Championship, held every two years ...

during one game against

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in the

2013 UEFA European Under-21 Football Championship qualification The 2013 UEFA European Under-21 Championship qualification was a series of parallel association football competitions held over 2011 and 2012 to decide the qualifiers for 2013 UEFA European Under-21 Championship, to be held in Israel. The draw fo ...

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at Nyköpings BIS official website 1991 births Living people Macedonian people of Montenegrin descent Association football midfielders Montenegrin footballers Montenegro under-21 international footballers IFK Luleå players Gefle IF players JIPPO players Nyköpings BIS players Umeå FC players Allsvenskan players Ykkönen players Ettan Fotboll players Montenegrin expatriate footballers Expatriate footballers in Sweden Montenegrin expatriate sportspeople in Sweden Expatriate footballers in Finland Montenegrin expatriate sportspeople in Finland {{Montenegro-footy-bio-stub