Dejan Peković (; born 4 April 1973) is a Montenegrin former

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who played as a striker.

Career

In his homeland, Peković played for Budućnost Podgorica (

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1995 1995 was designated as: * United Nations Year for Tolerance * World Year of Peoples' Commemoration of the Victims of the Second World War This was the first year that the Internet was entirely privatized, with the United States government ...

) and Partizan (

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1996 1996 was designated as: * International Year for the Eradication of Poverty Events January * January 8 – A Zairean cargo plane crashes into a crowded market in the center of the capital city of the Democratic Republic of the Congo ...

) in the

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, before moving abroad to Belgian club

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(

1997 Events January * January 1 – The Emergency Alert System is introduced in the United States. * January 11 – Turkey threatens Cyprus on account of a deal to buy Russian S-300 missiles, prompting the Cypriot Missile Crisis. * January 1 ...

). He subsequently returned to Budućnost Podgorica ( 1997–98), before moving abroad for the second time and joining Mexican club

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(

1998 1998 was designated as the ''International Year of the Ocean''. Events January * January 6 – The ''Lunar Prospector'' spacecraft is launched into orbit around the Moon, and later finds evidence for Lunar water, frozen water, in soil i ...

). Over the following years, Peković also played for Cypriot club

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( 1999–2000), as well as for Hungarian clubs

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(

2001 The year's most prominent event was the September 11 attacks against the United States by al-Qaeda, which Casualties of the September 11 attacks, killed 2,977 people and instigated the global war on terror. The United States led a Participan ...

) and Haladás (

2004 2004 was designated as an International Year of Rice by the United Nations, and the International Year to Commemorate the Struggle Against Slavery and Its Abolition (by UNESCO). Events January * January 3 – Flash Airlines Flight 60 ...

Personal life

Peković is the younger brother of basketball player Stevan Peković.

Honours

Partizan *

: 1995–96

References

External links

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Pekovic, Dejan 1973 births Living people Footballers from Podgorica Serbia and Montenegro men's footballers Montenegrin men's footballers Men's association football forwards FK Budućnost Podgorica players FK Partizan players Standard Liège players Club Puebla players Apollon Limassol FC players Tatabányai SC players Szombathelyi Haladás footballers First League of Serbia and Montenegro players Belgian Pro League players Liga MX players Cypriot First Division players Nemzeti Bajnokság I players Serbia and Montenegro expatriate men's footballers Expatriate men's footballers in Belgium Expatriate men's footballers in Mexico Expatriate men's footballers in Cyprus Expatriate men's footballers in Hungary Serbia and Montenegro expatriate sportspeople in Belgium Serbia and Montenegro expatriate sportspeople in Mexico Serbia and Montenegro expatriate sportspeople in Cyprus Serbia and Montenegro expatriate sportspeople in Hungary