Goran Gavrančić

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Personal information
Goran Gavrančić
Full name	Goran Gavrančić
Date of birth	August 2, 1978 (age 28)
Place of birth	Belgrade, Serbia
Height	191 cm
Position	Defender
Club information
Current club	Dynamo Kyiv
Youth clubs
	Red Star Belgrade
Professional clubs*
Years	Club	Apps (goals)
2000-2001 2001-	FC Čukarički Dynamo Kyiv	16 (1) 116 (21)
National team**
2002-	Serbia	28 (0)
* Professional club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and correct as of 28 August 2006. ** National team caps and goals correct as of 21 June 2006.

Goran Gavrančić (Serbian Cyrillic: Горан Гавранчић; born August 2, 1978 in Belgrade, Serbia (then the SFRY)), is a Serbian footballer. He plays for Dynamo Kyiv in the Ukrainian Premier League.

His career began at FC Čukarički Stankom, having played for Red Star Belgrade as a youth. His performances at FC Čukarički caught the eye of Dynamo Kyiv manager Valeri Lobanovsky and the Ukrainian club purchased him in 2002. He has become one of Dynamo's most important players and is noted for his tough tacking and his rocket-like headers. He also has a good strike rate for a defender; 20 goals in 107 matches.

Gavrančić is part of the Serbia and Montenegro national team's "Famous Four" defence, which conceded just one goal during qualifying for the 2006 World Cup, which was their first World Cup appearance under that name (the same country had been in the second round of the 1998 World Cup, then known as FR Yugoslavia). The other members of the famous four are Ivica Dragutinović of Sevilla, Manchester United's Nemanja Vidić, and Mladen Krstajić of Schalke 04.

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Profile on JadranSport.org (English)

	Serbia and Montenegro squad - 2006 FIFA World Cup
1 Jevrić \| 2 Ergić \| 3 Dragutinović \| 4 Duljaj \| 5 Vidić \| 6 Gavrančić \| 7 Koroman \| 8 Kežman \| 9 Milošević \| 10 Stanković \| 11 P. Đorđević \| 12 Kovačević \| 13 Basta \| 14 N. Đorđević \| 15 Dudić \| 16 ~~D. Petković~~ \| 17 Nađ \| 18 Vukić \| 19 Žigić \| 20 Krstajić \| 21 Ljuboja \| 22 Ilić \| 23 Stojković \| Coach: I. Petković