Dejan Ranković is a Serbian

Serbs

The Serbs are a South Slavic ethnic group of the Balkans and southern Central Europe. Serbs are located mainly in Serbia, Montenegro and Bosnia and Herzegovina, and form a sizable minority in Croatia, the Republic of Macedonia and Slovenia. Likewise, Serbs are an officially recognized minority in...

 football goalkeeper who plays for Serbian SuperLiga

Serbian Superliga

Serbian SuperLiga is a Serbian professional league for football clubs. At the top of the Serbian football league system, it is the country's primary football competition. It is contested by 16 clubs, operating a system of promotion and relegation with the Serbian First League...

 club FK Smederevo

FK Smederevo

Fudbalski klub Smederevo is a Serbian professional football club based in the city of Smederevo.-History:...

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Playing career

Born in Smederevo

Smederevo

Smederevo is a city and municipality in Serbia, on the right bank of the Danube, about 40 km downstream of the capital Belgrade. According to official results of the 2011 census, the city has a population of 107,528...

, Ranković passed through the youth system of, then called FK Sartid 1913

FK Smederevo

Fudbalski klub Smederevo is a Serbian professional football club based in the city of Smederevo.-History:...

. After a loan spell at Železničar Smederevo

FK Železnicar Smederevo

FK Železničar is a football club based in Smederevo, Serbia.-History:FK Železničar Smederevo was formed in 1930. The stadium of Železničar has about 300 blue and white seats...

, his return to Sartid coincided with the club's promotion to the Serbian major league. Faced with competition from more experienced goalkeepers, he was forced to wait for a chance. In 2000 due to army obligations he went to Leskovac

Leskovac

Leskovac is a city and municipality in southern Serbia. It is the administrative center of the Jablanica District of Serbia...

, and played for FK Dubočica

FK Dubocica

FK Dubočica is a football club based in Leskovac, Serbia.-Notable players:*Aleksandar Kocić*Predrag Stanković*Bratislav Živković*Bojan Mihajlović*Radivoje Manić*Ibrahim Salim Saad*Miloš Kočić*Zvonimir Stanković...

. When he returned to his home club, he was a replacement for national team player Dragan Žilić

Dragan Žilic

Dragan Žilić is a retired Serbian football goalkeeper.-Rijeka:During the summer of 2005, Žilić's transfer from FK Smederevo to HNK Rijeka caused a minor sensation as it marked the first occasion in a very long time that a player of Serbian ethnicity moved to a Croatian club...

. In 2001 Ranković moved on a half-season loan to Sarajevo side Slavija. After Žilić's departure from FK Smederevo in 2005 Ranković became the main goalkeeper of Oklopnici

FK Smederevo

Fudbalski klub Smederevo is a Serbian professional football club based in the city of Smederevo.-History:...

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Trivia

Ranković has a rare hobby, he is a car mechanic, owning and maintaining an oldsmobile from 1968.

External sources

• Profile at Transfermarkt.
• Profile at Srbijafudbal.
• Dejan Ranković Stats at Utakmica.rs