Milivoje Novaković
Novaković in November 2015
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| Personal information | |||
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| Full name | Milivoje Novaković | ||
| Date of birth | 18 May 1979 | ||
| Place of birth | Ljubljana, Slovenia | ||
| Height | 1.93 m (6 ft 4 in) | ||
| Playing position | Striker | ||
| Club information | |||
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Current team
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Maribor | ||
| Number | 11 | ||
| Youth career | |||
| –1998 | Olimpija | ||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| 1999–2000 | DSG Klopeinersee | 20 | (9) |
| 2000–2001 | SAK Klagenfurt | 16 | (7) |
| 2001–2004 | ASK Voitsberg | 14 | (8) |
| 2004 | → SV Mattersburg (loan) | 6 | (2) |
| 2004–2005 | LASK Linz | 21 | (8) |
| 2005–2006 | Litex Lovech | 26 | (18) |
| 2006–2014 | 1. FC Köln | 166 | (74) |
| 2012–2013 | → Omiya Ardija (loan) | 38 | (17) |
| 2014 | Shimizu S-Pulse | 34 | (12) |
| 2015 | Nagoya Grampus | 26 | (5) |
| 2016– | Maribor | 24 | (10) |
| National team‡ | |||
| 2006– | Slovenia | 79 | (31) |
| * Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and correct as of 20 December 2016. ‡ National team caps and goals correct as of 11 November 2016 |
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Milivoje Novaković (Slovene pronunciation: [ˈmiːliʋɔjɛ nɔˈʋaːkɔʋitʃ]; born 18 May 1979) is a Slovenian footballer who plays for NK Maribor in the Slovenian PrvaLiga and the Slovenia national football team.
Novaković spent his youth career at Olimpija where he remained until the age of 19, when he was forced to leave and look for the opportunity to play professional football elsewhere as he was written off by the club officials who considered him unpromising and too skinny for a forward. Many years later, at the height of his playing career, Novaković revealed that people at Olimpija demanded money in order to promote him to the main squad.
He then went to play football for lower tier Austrian clubs where he rose to prominence, eventually signing with professional sides Mattersburg and LASK Linz. In 2005 he signed with the Bulgarian top division side Litex Lovech and immediately established himself as one of their top players scoring 16 goals in 24 appearances during the 2005–06 season, earning the title of the league's top goalscorer. During the same season Litex Lovech qualified to the group stage of the 2005–06 UEFA Cup, where Novaković scored two of the clubs's four goals, helping the Bulgarian side in reaching the Round of 32 where they were eliminated by the French side Strasbourg with the score 0–2 on aggregate.
During the summer of 2006 he was linked with several different clubs (e.g. German team 1. FC Köln,Israeli team Beitar Jerusalem FC and Bulgarian champions Levski Sofia) but despite his wish to continue his career in a different club he started, with three goals on three league appearances, the 2006–07 season with Litex Lovech who faced Koper from Slovenia and AC Omonia from Cyprus in the qualifying rounds of the 2006–07 UEFA Cup. However, Novaković's wish to leave the club was granted in late August 2006 when he joined German side Köln for around €1.5 million.
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