Branislav Jovanović 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...

 footballer playing for FC Rad

FK Rad

FK Rad is a football club from Belgrade, Serbia. It plays at Stadion Kralj Petar I, which is located in the southern part of the city's Banjica neighbourhood....

 (Belgrade).

Career

Branislav began his youth career playing for lower league Belgrade team Radnički Jugopetrol

FK Radnicki Jugopetrol

FK Radnički Beograd is a football club from Novi Beograd, Serbia.The club was until recently know by its sponsor name of FK Radnički Jugopetrol, and is also often named as FK Radnički Novi Beograd, although the club is officially named simply as Beograd because it was initially formed in Belgrade...

. He continued his professional career playing mostly for local Belgrade clubs, such as Radnički Jugopetrol

FK Radnicki Jugopetrol

FK Radnički Beograd is a football club from Novi Beograd, Serbia.The club was until recently know by its sponsor name of FK Radnički Jugopetrol, and is also often named as FK Radnički Novi Beograd, although the club is officially named simply as Beograd because it was initially formed in Belgrade...

(Beograd), Jedinstvo Surčin, and Beograd

FK Beograd

FK Beograd is a football club based in Belgrade, Serbia.-History:Until the mid 1990s they competed mostly in lower leagues. In the season 1996-97 they arcived promotion into the Second League of FR Yugoslavia...

, before moving to Cypriot

Cyprus

Cyprus , officially the Republic of Cyprus , is a Eurasian island country, member of the European Union, in the Eastern Mediterranean, east of Greece, south of Turkey, west of Syria and north of Egypt. It is the third largest island in the Mediterranean Sea.The earliest known human activity on the...

 Ethnikos Achnas. During the spring of 2009 he scored five goals playing 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...

 Napredak Kruševac

FK Napredak Kruševac

FK Napredak is a football club based in the city of Kruševac, Serbia. The club was founded on December 8, 1946, through a fusion of three local area clubs: Zakić, Badža and 14. Oktobar...

, which was a reason enough to find himself wedlocked to Serbian champion FK Partizan on a four year contract deal. Interestingly enough, six month earlier he was ready to sign for Partizan's fiercest rival Crvena Zvezda, but luckily for Grobari

Grobari

Grobari are supporters of the Belgrade football club Partizan Belgrade. They are one of two major football fan groups in Serbia...

, the deal fell through.

External sources

• Branislav Jovanović Stats at Utakmica.rs