Spira Grujić
Spira Grujić (Serbian Cyrillic: Спира Грујић, born 7 December 1971) is a retired Serbian football defender.
Personal information | |||
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Full name | Spira Grujić | ||
Date of birth | 7 December 1971 | ||
Place of birth |
Pristina, SAP Kosovo, FR Yugoslavia | ||
Height | 1.89 m (6 ft 2 in) | ||
Position(s) | Defender | ||
Youth career | |||
Red Star Belgrade | |||
Senior career* | |||
Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
1991–1995 | Radnički Niš | 61 | (0) |
1995–1997 | Molenbeek | 64 | (1) |
1997–1998 | Anderlecht | 15 | (1) |
1998–2004 | Twente | 146 | (3) |
2004–2006 | ADO Den Haag | 39 | (0) |
2006–2007 | Rad | 15 | (0) |
National team | |||
2000 | FR Yugoslavia | 1 | (0) |
Teams managed | |||
2013– | Rad (youth) | ||
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only |
Born in Pristina, SR Serbia, SFR Yugoslavia, Grujić passed through a number of youth teams of Red Star Belgrade, but never played in the main squad. The central defender moved in 1991 to FK Radnički Niš, where he made his professional debut during the 1991–92 season. Grujić eventually played 4 seasons for Radnički Niš before leaving in 1995 to Belgium.
In Belgium Grujić played for two seasons for R.W.D. Molenbeek, moving in the summer of 1997 to RSC Anderlecht. In contrast to Molenbeek, he did not receive a consistent place in the squad and Grujić decided to look elsewhere. In 1998 Dutch football club FC Twente bought him for €350,000. Grujić spent 5.5 year in Enschede and won the KNVB Cup in the 2000–01 season. In 2004 Grujić moved as a transfer-free player to ADO Den Haag. After moving to FK Rad in 2006 and playing another season there, he retired.
Now he lives in Belgrade with his wife Jasmina, son Aleksa and daughter Andrea.
References
- Treneri Archived 2013-09-30 at the Wayback Machine at FK Rad official website, retrieved 10-10-2013 (in Serbian)
External links
- Spira Grujić at Reprezentacija.rs (in Serbian)