Radovan Vujanović (born 18 February 1982) is an Austrian-Serbian former professional

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who played as a

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Career

Vujanović was born in

Aranđelovac Aranđelovac ( sr-cyr, Аранђеловац, ) is a town and a municipality located in the Šumadija District of central Serbia. , the municipality has a population of 41,297 inhabitants, while the town has 22,881 inhabitants. It is situated ben ...

, then

Yugoslavia , common_name = Yugoslavia , life_span = 1918–19921941–1945: World War II in Yugoslavia#Axis invasion and dismemberment of Yugoslavia, Axis occupation , p1 = Kingdom of SerbiaSerbia , flag_p ...

. He began his football career at his home town club

FK Šumadija Aranđelovac FK Šumadija Aranđelovac () is a football club based in the town of Aranđelovac, Serbia. It was founded in 1929. The club competed in the East Division of the Yugoslav Second League from 1971–72 to 1979–80 season. On two occasions they h ...

before moving to

Vienna Vienna ( ; ; ) is the capital city, capital, List of largest cities in Austria, most populous city, and one of Federal states of Austria, nine federal states of Austria. It is Austria's primate city, with just over two million inhabitants. ...

. There he played for the amateur team of

Rapid Wien Sportklub Rapid (), commonly known as Rapid Wien or Rapid Vienna in English, is an Austrian professional football club playing in the country's capital city of Vienna. Rapid has won the most Austrian championship titles (32), including the f ...

, then

Favoritner AC The Favoritner Athletik Club, or FavAC for short, is an Austrian football club from the Viennese Favoriten district and currently plays under the sponsored name ''Cashpoint FavAC'' in the fourth tier, the Viennese City League. The club's popul ...

and DSV Fortuna 05, before he joined

Austria Wien Fußballklub Austria Wien AG (), known in English as Austria Vienna, and Austria Wien in German-speaking countries, is an Austrian professional association football club from the capital city of Vienna. It has won the most trophies of any Aust ...

in January 2004, playing 14 matches in the third-tier Regionalliga Ost. His 19 goals for the club aroused interest from German third-tier side

SC Paderborn Sport-Club Paderborn 07 e.V., commonly known as simply SC Paderborn 07 () or SC Paderborn, is a German association football club based in Paderborn, North Rhine-Westphalia. The club has enjoyed its greatest success since the turn of the millenni ...

who signed Vujanović in January 2005. With his new club he won promotion to the 2. Bundesliga and played four matches in Germany's professional second-tier league before joining Regionalliga Süd side

SV Wehen SV Wehen Wiesbaden is a German association football club based in Wiesbaden, Hesse. The club was previously known as ''SV Wehen'' but added ''Wiesbaden'' to its name during the summer of 2007. They left their previous ground, the Taunusstein, t ...

in January 2006. Despite scoring three goals in eleven matches, Vujanović moved on in the summer 2006, joining

Kickers Emden BSV Kickers Emden is a Football in Germany, German association football club, located in Emden, Lower Saxony. History The club first began playing in 1928 as a section of the gymnastics club Emder Turnverein, which was founded in 1861. An inde ...

in the

Regionalliga Nord The Regionalliga Nord () is the fourth tier of the German football league system in the states of Lower Saxony, Schleswig-Holstein, Bremen and Hamburg. It is one of five leagues at this level, together with the Regionalliga Bayern, Regionalliga N ...

. After initial difficulties he established himself as a regular, scoring 22 goals in 60 matches. After his Emden contract ran out, Vujanović joined

1. FC Magdeburg 1. FC Magdeburg is a German Association football Football club (association football), club based in Magdeburg. The club was founded in 1965 from the football department of the Sports club (East Germany), sports club ''SC Magdeburg'' and has bee ...

at the beginning of the 2007–08 season. He became a first team regular and was the only player to appear in all 34 matches in that season, also becoming the club's top scorer with 20 goals. For the 2009–10 season, Vujanović was made captain. When Magdeburg missed out on promotion to the

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, Vujanović dissolved his contract and joined

Hansa Rostock FC Hansa Rostock () is a German association football club based in the city of Rostock, Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania. The club is also called as "the cog" because of its club crest. They have emerged as one of the most successful clubs from ...

for the 2010–11 season. He signed for

Preußen Münster Preußen or Preussen is the German word for Prussia. It also refers to: Ships * Preußen (ship), ''Preußen'' (ship), windjammer built in 1902 * SMS Preußen (1873), SMS ''Preußen'' (1873), armored frigate * SMS Preußen (1903), SMS ''Preußen ...

on loan in August 2011.

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