Nenad Bjeković Jr. (born 17 February 1974) is a

Serbia Serbia (, ; Serbian: , , ), officially the Republic of Serbia (Serbian: , , ), is a landlocked country in Southeastern and Central Europe, situated at the crossroads of the Pannonian Basin and the Balkans. It shares land borders with Hungar ...

n retired

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who played mainly as a striker.

Club career

After starting his career with

Partizan Partizan may refer to: Sport * JSD Partizan, a sports society from Belgrade, Serbia, which includes the following clubs: **AK Partizan, athletics ** Biciklistički Klub Partizan, cycling ** Džudo Klub Partizan, judo **FK Partizan, association fo ...

, Bjeković made a move to French giants

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in 1995, but failed to make an impression and he left the club after only one season. Over the next two seasons, Bjeković had short spells with Nantes and

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, before returning to Partizan in the 1998–99 season. In the summer of 1999, Bjeković moved to Greece by joining his former head coach and compatriot

Ljubiša Tumbaković Ljubiša Tumbaković (, ; born 2 September 1952) is a Serbian professional football manager. He is the most successful coach in the history of Serbian powerhouse Partizan which he led to six national championship titles and three national cup w ...

AEK Athens A.E.K ( el, AEK , formally Αθλητική Ένωσις Κωνσταντινουπόλεως; Athlitikí Énosis Konstantinoupόleos, ''Athletic Union of Constantinople''), known as A.E.K, is a major Greek multi-sport club based in Nea Filadel ...

, but he stayed in the Greek capital only one season. Bjeković also played in the Dutch

Eredivisie The Eredivisie (; ''"Honour Division"'' or ''"Premier Division"'') is the highest level of professional football in the Netherlands. The league was founded in 1956, two years after the start of professional football in the Netherlands. It is c ...

with

Fortuna Sittard Fortuna Sittard (; li, Fortuna Zitterd ) is a football club in Sittard, Netherlands. The club currently plays its football in the 12,500 capacity Fortuna Sittard Stadion and features in the Eredivisie. The club was established through a merger ...

and in the

Belgian First Division The Belgian Pro League,(officially the Jupiler Pro League due to sponsorship reasons with Jupiler), is the top league competition for association football clubs in Belgium. Contested by 18 clubs since the 2020–21 season and reduced to 16 te ...

with

Lommel Lommel () is a municipality and a city in the Belgian province of Limburg. The Kempen city has about 34,000 inhabitants and is part of the electoral district and the judicial district Lommel Neerpelt. Besides residential town of Lommel also ha ...

Personal life

His father Nenad was a renowned footballer who played for Partizan and

Nice Nice ( , ; Niçard dialect, Niçard: , classical norm, or , nonstandard, ; it, Nizza ; lij, Nissa; grc, Νίκαια; la, Nicaea) is the prefecture of the Alpes-Maritimes departments of France, department in France. The Nice urban unit, agg ...

in the 1970s.

Honours

;Partizan * FR Yugoslavia First League:

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1993–94 1998–99 *

FR Yugoslavia Cup The Serbia and Montenegro Cup was an association football knockout cup tournament of Serbia and Montenegro played between 1992 and 2006, after which Serbia and Montenegro became separate nations. The competition was the continuation of the old ...

: 1991–92 1993–94 ;AEK Athens *

Greek Cup The Greek Football Cup ( el, Κύπελλο Ελλάδος Ποδοσφαίρου), commonly known as the Greek Cup or Kypello Elladas is a Greek football competition, run by the Hellenic Football Federation. The Greek Cup is the second most ...

: 1999–00

References

External links

LFP.fr profile
* 1974 births Living people Footballers from Belgrade Men's association football forwards Yugoslav men's footballers Serbia and Montenegro men's footballers FK Partizan players Olympique de Marseille players FC Nantes players LB Châteauroux players AEK Athens F.C. players Fortuna Sittard players K.F.C. Lommel S.K. players Yugoslav First League players First League of Serbia and Montenegro players Ligue 1 players Ligue 2 players Super League Greece players Eredivisie players Belgian Pro League players Serbia and Montenegro expatriate men's footballers Expatriate men's footballers in France Serbia and Montenegro expatriate sportspeople in France Expatriate men's footballers in Greece Serbia and Montenegro expatriate sportspeople in Greece Expatriate men's footballers in the Netherlands Serbia and Montenegro expatriate sportspeople in the Netherlands Expatriate men's footballers in Belgium Serbia and Montenegro expatriate sportspeople in Belgium {{Serbia-footy-forward-stub