Aleksandar Ranković (footballer)

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Aleksandar Ranković
Personal information
Full name	Aleksandar Ranković
Date of birth	31 August 1978
Place of birth	Beograd, Yugoslavia
Playing position	Midfielder
Club information
Current club	ADO Den Haag
Senior clubs1
Years	Club	App (Gls)*
2000-2002 2002-2005 2005-Present	FK Rad Vitesse Arnhem ADO Den Haag	27 (2) 72 (4) 28 (2)
National team
	Serbia
1 Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and correct as of 3 September 2006. * Appearances (Goals)

Aleksandar Ranković (born August 31, 1978) is a Serbian footballer who plays for ADO Den Haag. He is a midfielder who plays as a winger on the right side of the pitch.

Ranković's career began when he signed a professional contract with FK Rad, making his first first-team appearance in 2000, at the age of 21. Dutch side Vitesse Arnhem showed interest in the player and brought him into the Eredivisie in 2002, where he played as a first-team regular for three seasons. In 2005 he moved to fellow Eredivisie participants ADO Den Haag where he became one of their key players.

Ranković hit the news in January 2007, when he was sent off in the 3-1 defeat to AZ. He later received a five match ban for shouting, "When I see you in the city, I kill you", to the match referee, Kevin Blom. The incident took place after Blom awarded AZ a penalty, and Ranković pushed Blom whilst shouting the death threat. "The Royal Dutch Football Union (KNVB) will need to confirm this", the Union’s spokesperson Renske Bruinsma said. "You have to have a good reason to disqualify someone for five games", she said.

[edit] References

• adodenhaag.nl
• clubachterdeduinen.nl
• vi.nl

ADO Den Haag - Current Squad
1 Postma | 2 Vreven | 3 Martha | 4 Saavedra | 5 Loumpoutis | 6 Bodde | 7 Delorge | 8 Tininho | 9 Mols | 10 Hakansson | 11 Kolk | 12 Bunjevcevic | 14 Elia | 15 Kum | 16 Verhoek | 17 Knopper | 18 Wagenaar | 19 De Vries | 20 Bosschaart | 21 Rijaard | 22 Roiha | 23 Bakkati | 24 Zwinkels | 25 Riedewald | 26 Schwiebbe | 27 Ranković | 28 El Moussaoui | 29 Hoogendorp | Manager: Schoenmaker

Persondata
NAME	Ranković, Aleksandar
ALTERNATIVE NAMES
SHORT DESCRIPTION	Professional football player
DATE OF BIRTH	August 31, 1978
PLACE OF BIRTH	Beograd
DATE OF DEATH
PLACE OF DEATH