Danijel Ljuboja

Danijel Ljuboja

With Legia Warsaw in 2011
Personal information
Full name	Danijel Ljuboja
Date of birth	September 4, 1978 (1978-09-04)
Place of birth	Vinkovci, SFR Yugoslavia
Height	1.89 m (6 ft 2 1⁄2 in)
Playing position	Striker
Club information
Current club	Legia Warsaw
Number	28
Youth career
	NK Dinamo Vinkovci
	NK Osijek
	Red Star Belgrade
	Sochaux
Senior career*
Years	Team	Apps†	(Gls)†
1998–2000	Sochaux	62	(20)
2000–2004	Strasbourg	123	(34)
2004–2006	Paris Saint-Germain	42	(7)
2005–2006	→ VfB Stuttgart (loan)	26	(8)
2006–2009	VfB Stuttgart	4	(0)
2006–2007	→ Hamburger SV (loan)	16	(5)
2008	→ VfL Wolfsburg (loan)	8	(1)
2009–2010	Grenoble Foot 38	37	(10)
2010–2011	OGC Nice	30	(5)
2011–	Legia Warsaw	17	(8)
National team‡
2003–2006	Serbia and Montenegro/Serbia	19	(1)
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and correct as of 17:57, 10 December 2011 (UTC). † Appearances (Goals). ‡ National team caps and goals correct as of 15 June 2011

Danijel Ljuboja (Serbian Cyrillic: Данијел Љубоја) (born September 4, 1978 in Vinkovci) is a Serbian football forward currently playing for Legia Warsaw.

Career

Club

Ljuboja was born in Vinkovci, SR Croatia, SFR Yugoslavia, where he played in the youth teams of NK Dinamo Vinkovci, NK Osijek and in FK Crvena zvezda in Belgrade. He moved to France where his professional career started with Sochaux in the 1998/99 season. In his two year stint with the team, he played 62 games scoring 20 goals. Following his stay with Sochaux, Ljuboja moved to Strasbourg in the 2000/01 season where Danijel made 123 league appearances scoring 34 goals, and two appearances in the 2001/02 UEFA Cup Competition scoring twice. During the 2003/4 January transfer window Ljuboja moved from Strasbourg to PSG, where he scored 7 times in 42 league appearances and played 5 games with the team in the 2004–05 Champions League. In 2005, he transferred to German club side Stuttgart, at first on loan, forming a striking partnership with Jon Dahl Tomasson.

He was contracted in April 2006 (through 2009), but by that his income, that was still paid half by PSG, was lowered significantly. Although he had a valid contract, he demanded from Stuttgart the same wages he got before from PSG. Stuttgart in consequence told him to look out for a new club in the summer of 2006 and let him train with their reserve team that plays in the 3rd German league.

In August 2006, Ljuboja was transferred on loan to Champions League participant Hamburger SV for one year with the option to buy the player afterwards. At Hamburger SV he was also demoted to the reserves team, because he did not participate in team briefings. Hamburger SV did not exploit their option to buy him, so he went back to VfB Stuttgart at the end of the season. VfB Stuttgart was looking to offload him to another club. He was part of the reserve team of VfB Stuttgart in the Regionalliga.

In January 2008, Ljuboja was loaned out to VfL Wolfsburg, until the end of the season. Wolfsburg did not use the option to sign the forward permanently.

In July 2008 he was pardoned and returned to the first team of VfB Stuttgart, but was again downgraded to the reserve team VfB Stuttgart II on 5 February 2009 until the end of his contract in June 2009.

After four years in Germany Ljuboja returned back to France on 23 July 2009 signing with Grenoble Foot 38

On 31 August 2010 he then signed with OGC Nice.

After one season in Nice he yet again changed his club by signing with Polish Ekstraklasa club Legia Warsaw.

International

He was a part of Serbia and Montenegro national team. He played 19 times and scored one goal.

External links

• Danijel Ljuboja at 90minut.pl (Polish)
• Kicker Profile (German)
• Footballdatabase.com Stats (English)