Rade Bogdanović
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Rade Bogdanović is a former Bosnian-born Serbian football player. He was born on May 21, 1970 in Sarajevo, Bosnia-Herzegovina.
Rade began his career in FK Željezničar. His debut for the club, playing at the time in Yugoslav league, came in 1987. This promissing attacker stayed there until 1992. when he went to Korean Pohang Steelers and in 1996 to Japanese JEF United. Next year, he returned to Europe and signed a contract with Spanish Atlético Madrid. In 1997, he was transferred to Dutch NAC Breda, and again after only one season to Werder Bremen for a fee of around 1,350,000 euros. He stayed in German club for four years. In 2002/2003 season, he played for Arminia Bielefeld, and then went to Al-Wahda from United Arab Emirates. He is retired from professional football now.
He also played three times and scored two goals for national team of Federal Republic of Yugoslavia. He was asked to play for national team of Bosnia-Herzegovina, but he chose to play for FR Yugoslavia because of a unstable political situation at the time.