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Full name | Marko Grujić | ||||||||
Date of birth | 13 April 1996 | ||||||||
Place of birth | Belgrade, FR Yugoslavia | ||||||||
Height | 1.91 m (6 ft 3 in) | ||||||||
Playing position | Midfielder | ||||||||
Club information | |||||||||
Current team
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Liverpool | ||||||||
Number | 16 | ||||||||
Youth career | |||||||||
2005–2013 | Red Star Belgrade | ||||||||
Senior career* | |||||||||
Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) | ||||||
2013–2016 | Red Star Belgrade | 31 | (5) | ||||||
2014 | → Kolubara (loan) | 5 | (2) | ||||||
2016– | Liverpool | 5 | (0) | ||||||
2016 | → Red Star Belgrade (loan) | 8 | (1) | ||||||
National team‡ | |||||||||
2011–2012 | Serbia U16 | 4 | (2) | ||||||
2012 | Serbia U17 | 1 | (1) | ||||||
2014–2015 | Serbia U19 | 3 | (0) | ||||||
2015 | Serbia U20 | 7 | (0) | ||||||
2015– | Serbia U21 | 5 | (0) | ||||||
2016– | Serbia | 3 | (0) | ||||||
Honours
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* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and correct as of 20:10, 14 May 2017 (UTC). ‡ National team caps and goals correct as of 5 June 2016 |
Marko Grujić (Serbian Cyrillic: Марко Грујић, Serbian pronunciation: [mârːko ɡru:jt͡ɕ]; born 13 April 1996) is a Serbian professional footballer who plays as a midfielder for Premier League club Liverpool and the Serbia national team.
A native of Belgrade, Grujić started his career with his hometown club Red Star Belgrade, progressing through their youth system to the first team squad. He made his professional debut in 2013, and won the SuperLiga title in his final season with Red Star before completing a £5.1 million move to Liverpool.
Grujić is a Serbian international, and represented Serbia at every youth level from under-16 upwards before making his full international debut in May 2016. He was part of the Serbian side which won the 2015 U-20 World Cup.
Grujić was born in Belgrade, FR Yugoslavia (now Serbia) and is a product of Red Star Belgrade, where he went through the youth program, passed all categories and was the captain of his generation. He made his professional debut for Red Star on 26 May 2013, in a Serbian SuperLiga match versus Vojvodina.
On May 17, 2015, Grujić signed a three-year contract with Red Star to last until 2018. Grujić scored his first senior goal on 26 September 2015 against Novi Pazar in a 2–0 victory; he also assisted Aleksandar Katai for the second goal. Grujić was a part of an unprecedented run of Red Star victories, as the club set a new record for the number of consecutive victories (19), ending the first half of the season without defeat.