Milan Đurđević (; born 4 November 1967) is a

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n former professional

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who played as a

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. Nicknamed Kempes, due to physical resemblance to the famous Argentine footballer, Đurđević is best remembered for his stints with

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and PAOK.

Club career

After starting out at

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in the mid-1980s, Đurđević was transferred to

in the late summer of 1989. He spent two seasons at the

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, before moving abroad and signing with the Greek side PAOK in the summer of 1991. Subsequently, Đurđević stayed there for the next two years, scoring 17 league goals in 45 appearances. He also briefly played for Panachaiki, but failed to help them avoid relegation from the top flight of Greek football in the 1993–94 campaign. Afterward, Đurđević spent one

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with Spanish club

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, receiving limited playing time. He then shortly played for Portuguese club Leça and French club

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, before returning to Greece. Finally, Đurđević spent half a season at both

PAS Giannina PAS Giannina Football Club ( el, ΠΑΕ ΠΑΣ Γιάννινα 1966), or with its full name Panepirotikos Athlitikos Syllogos Giannina ( el, Πανηπειρωτικός Αθλητικός Σύλλογος Γιάννινα, ''Panepirotic Athleti ...

and Kastoria, before retiring from the game.

International career

Đurđević made one appearance for the Yugoslavia national under-18 team in March 1986, a 3–1 win over

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, in which Davor Šuker scored a

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Statistics

Post-playing

In January 2012, forty-four-year-old Đurđević got arrested in

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on charges of

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, and loan-sharking that he had allegedly engaged in as part—and one of the leaders—of an organized criminal group operating in the country.

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