Marko Ljubinković ( sr-Cyrl, Марко Љубинковић; born 7 December 1981) is a

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Career

He started his career at

Red Star Belgrade Fudbalski klub Crvena zvezda ( sr-Cyrl, Фудбалски клуб Црвена звезда, lit=Red Star Football Club, ), commonly known as Red Star Belgrade in English-language media, is a Serbian professional football club based in Bel ...

youth, but he did not play for the team. In 2001, he joined Radnički Kragujevac. In 2006, he was bought by

FC Vaslui CS Sporting Juniorul Vaslui (), commonly known as Sporting Vaslui, Juniorul Vaslui or simply as Vaslui, is a Romanian professional football club based in Vaslui, Vaslui County, founded in 2002 and re-founded in 2014. The club is currently playin ...

. At first, he played as a defensive midfielder, and he scored only 2 goals in the 2006–07 season. However,

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wanted him on his team, offering 1.5 million dollars for Ljubinković and Ștefan Mardare, but Adrian Porumboiu declined the offer. In the next season, Dorinel Munteanu took Ljubinković's role in the field, letting him a free role. He scored in the opening match, a 2–2 draw against

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. He was also, the first player who scored in the new championship. In the second game of the season, he failed to score, but he was one of the most dangerous Vaslui player in the 2–0 win against the current champions

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. From the 3rd until the 11th game, he scored each game, being able to be in the front of the goalscorers. In the first game of the 2008, he scored again against

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, in a 3–0 win. He scored the 100th goal for Vaslui in

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, in a 3–0 victory against

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. He finished on the 3rd position of the top-scorers, with 16 goals. In the new season, he scored at the first game, against Steaua București, in a 1–0 win. On 21 March 2009, he scored a goal from almost 35 m against Farul. He has scored, at the moment, only 6 goals, in the new season. In the 2009–10, after a conflict with Marius Lăcătuș, he was sent to the second team, but he did not play. In the summer, 2010 he managed to release his contract with Vaslui. After brief spells with Serbian side Sloboda Point Sevojno and Cypriots Αnorthosis, at the end of August 2011 he signed a two-year deal with another Serbian SuperLiga side

FK Vojvodina Fudbalski klub Vojvodina ( sr-Cyrl, Фудбалски клуб Војводина), commonly known as Vojvodina and colloquially as Voša ( sr-Cyrl, Воша), is a Serbian professional football club based in Novi Sad, Vojvodina, the second la ...

Statistics

Honours

Vaslui

UEFA Intertoto Cup The UEFA Intertoto Cup (from la, Inter, 'between' + german: toto, 'betting pool'),Most precisely, from (football pool); cf. often abbreviated and more known in the German-speaking world as UI Cup and originally called the International Foot ...

**Winner:

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Individual

* Scored the 100th goal for Vaslui in

, 20 March 2008 vs

* Vaslui top scorer: 2007–08 * Vaslui player of the season: 2007–08

External links

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at Playerhistory.com {{DEFAULTSORT:Ljubinkovic, Marko 1981 births Living people Footballers from Belgrade Serbian men's footballers Serbian expatriate men's footballers Men's association football midfielders Red Star Belgrade footballers FK Radnički 1923 players FK Rad players FK Sloboda Užice players FK Vojvodina players FK Radnički Niš players Serbian SuperLiga players CS Sporting Vaslui players Liga I players Expatriate men's footballers in Romania Serbian expatriate sportspeople in Romania Anorthosis Famagusta FC players Cypriot First Division players Expatriate men's footballers in Cyprus Serbian expatriate sportspeople in Cyprus Changchun Yatai F.C. players Chinese Super League players Expatriate men's footballers in China Serbian expatriate sportspeople in China