Marko Markovski

Marko Markovski
Personal information
Full name	Marko Markovski
Date of birth	26 May 1986 (age 38)
Place of birth	Belgrade, SFR Yugoslavia
Height	1.91 m (6 ft 3 in)
Position(s)	Forward
Team information
Current team	Kalamata
Number	15
Youth career
1993–2004	FK Zemun
Senior career*
Years	Team
2004–2006	Zemun
2006–2007	Partizan Belgrade
2007	→ Borac Čačak (loan)
2007	→ Banat (loan)
2007–2009	Kallithea
2009–2011	Doxa Drama
2011–2013	Skoda Xanthi
2013–2014	Sheriff Tiraspol
2013	→ Bnei Sakhnin (loan)
2014–2015	Kerkyra
2015–2017	Panetolikos
2018–2019	Levadiakos
2019–2020	Apollon Smyrnis
2020-	Kalamata
International career
2004–2005	Serbia and Montenegro U19
	*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 19:33, 9 February 2020 (UTC)

Marko Markovski (Serbian Cyrillic: Марко Марковски; born 26 May 1986) is a Serbian professional footballer who plays as a forward for Greek Football League club Kalamata.

Club career

Serbia

Markovski began his career in his neighbourhood as a youth for FK Zemun. He also signed his first professional contract and started his senior career in 2004 playing in Serbia with FK Zemun. Marko made his First League of Serbia and Montenegro debut on 15 May 2004, in away match against Fk Sutjeska Niksic, where he managed to score in the 90th minute, sealing a 1–0 victory. In 2006, he signed a four-year contract with Serbian giant FK Partizan, but played only a half season with them. He was mostly loaned to other teams, Serbian Superliga clubs FK Borac Čačak and FK Banat Zrenjanin.

Greece

Last days of January 2008, he moved to Greece where he signed with Beta Ethniki club Kallithea. He made his debut and also scored his first goal in Greece on 10 February 2008,in away victory 2–1 against Egaleo. In August 2009, he signed a two-year contract with newly promoted Beta Ethniki team Doxa Drama. Marko scored 52 goals in the three and a half years and 121 matches in Beta Ethniki. In July 2011, he signed a three-year contract with Super League Greece club Xanthi, becoming the first Serbian player ever who signed for that club. He made his Super League Greece debut in a 1–0 away defeat against PAOK on 28 August 2011. Markovski scored his first Super League Greece goal in a 3–4 defeat at home to AEK on 21 September. After very successful playing for Xanthi, 42 appearances and 12 goals in Super League Greece, the club got very good offer and Markovski moved to Sheriff Tiraspol. ^[1]

Moldova

On 20 February 2013, he signed a three-and-a-half-year contract with Moldovan National Division club FC Sheriff Tiraspol. After playing seven months there, he went to loan to Israel. In August 2014 the player's contract is terminated by mutual consent.

Israel

On 17 September 2013, he signed a loan contract with Bnei Sakhnin. He stayed in Israel for only three and a half months and on 1 January 2014, returned to FC Sheriff Tiraspol

Return to Greece

In August 2014,he returned to Greece and signed a two-year contract with Super League Greece club Kerkyra.

On 18 August 2015, Kerkyra was dismissed by Superleague Greece and automatically got relegated to Football League as they were accused and proved to commit fake transfer of shares. Kerkyra was given the last position on the league table.

Two days later, on 20 August 2015, Marko signed one-year contract with Panetolikos. He made his debut in a 2–1 defeat at home to Panathinaikos on 24 August. On 25 May 2016, he signed a two-year contract extension with Panetolikos. Markovski and Panetolikos parted ways on 27 December 2017. On 28 December 2017, Levadiakos officially announced the capture of experienced striker, who was recently released from Panetolikos.^[2] The 31-year-old Serbian signed contract with the in-form team of French manager José Anigo until the end of 2019–20 season.

In summer 2019 Marko left Levadiakos and joined Greek historic football club Apollon Smyrnis for one-year contract. He managed to score his first goal for the new club on his debut against Ergotelis.

International career

Marko was one of the most important Serbia and Montenegro under-19 player's,scoring 8 goals in 6 UEFA European Under-19 Championship qualifying matches. He scored the winning goal against Poland after which Serbia and Montenegro qualified for the UEFA European Under-19 Championship finals. In 2005, he was selected to represent the Serbia and Montenegro under-19 team in the 2005 UEFA European Under-19 Football Championship. He was one of the scorer's for Serbia and Montenegro national team under-19 in stunning comeback against Germany which ended 4:2.

References

External links

[1] Marko Markovski: "I'm sure we have a good team"

[2] «Αντίο» Μαρκόβσκι στον Παναιτωλικό

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