Gordan Vidović is a former football

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 player who played for the Belgium national team.

His first club was FK Igman from Ilidža

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, suburb of Sarajevo. He was spotted there in 1988, by FK Željezničar Sarajevo and soon moved to this top division club. When the War in Bosnia-Herzegovina started, he went to Swiss

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 FC St. Gallen

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. After that, he moved to Belgium

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 and played for KVK Tienen

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 and Royal Capellen FC

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 where he was the club's best goalscorer. In 1995. he signed a contract with R.E. Mouscron

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. He played 156 games and scored 33 goals for the club.

This former striker

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 was reconverted to the role of central defender

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 by coach

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 Georges Leekens when he was at Mouscron. Leekens also offered him to play for Belgium national team. Vidović accepted the offer and he was capped 15 times and was part of the 1998 World Cup squad.