Žarko Grabovač is a Serbia

Serbia

Serbia , officially the Republic of Serbia , is a landlocked country located at the crossroads of Central and Southeast Europe, covering the southern part of the Carpathian basin and the central part of the Balkans...

n professional footballer who plays for Dutch club Helmond Sport

Helmond Sport

Helmond Sport is a Dutch football club, playing in the Dutch Eerste Divisie and located in Helmond, Noord-Brabant. The club was founded on July 27, 1967, as a breakaway from the local professional club Helmondia '55, which had gone bankrupt.-History:...

, as a defender

Defender (association football)

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.

Career

Born in Ruma

Ruma

Ruma is a town and municipality located in Vojvodina, Serbia at . In 2002 the town had a total population of 34,229, while Ruma municipality had a population of 60,006.-History:...

, SFR Yugoslavia

Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia

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, Grabovač came to the Netherlands at early age and also holds Dutch citizenship.

Career

Grabovač spent ten years with JVC Cuijk

JVC Cuijk

JVC Cuijk is a Dutch association football club from Cuijk.The club was founded on April 1, 1931 as JVC'31, JVC being the initials of Jan van Cuyck, a local historical hero who lived during the 13th century. The club was renamed JVC Cuijk in May 2000...

, before later playing as an amateur for TOP Oss, Ronse

K.S.K. Ronse

K.S.K. Ronse is a Belgian association football club from Ronse in East Flanders born in 1987 from the fusion between Assa Ronse and R.F.C. Renaisien.- History :A.S. Renaisienne was founded in 1906 and received later the matricule n° 38...

 and Geldrop/AEK, before moving to England to play for Blackpool

Blackpool F.C.

Blackpool Football Club are an English football club founded in 1887 from the Lancashire seaside town of Blackpool. They are competing in the 2011–12 season of the The Championship, the second tier of professional football in England, having been relegated from the Premier League at the end of the...

 in January 2005. Grabovač made three appearances in the Football League

The Football League

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 for Blackpool, his only first-team appearances for the club, before being released at the end of the 2004–05 campaign. Grabovač returned to the Netherlands, signing with Fortuna Sittard

Fortuna Sittard

Fortuna Sittard is a football club in Sittard, Netherlands. The club currently plays its football in the 12,500 capacity Trendwork Arena and features in the Dutch Eerste Divisie. The club was a merger of former clubs 'Fortuna 54' and 'Sittardia' to merge as the Fortuna Sittard Combinatie on July 1,...

 for the 2005-06 season. In 2011 he moved to Helmond Sport

Helmond Sport

Helmond Sport is a Dutch football club, playing in the Dutch Eerste Divisie and located in Helmond, Noord-Brabant. The club was founded on July 27, 1967, as a breakaway from the local professional club Helmondia '55, which had gone bankrupt.-History:...