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Nenad Grozdić

Serbian football manager and player

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
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Source revisionSep 5, 2026
Entity authorityQ2196325 ↗
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Nenad Grozdić (Serbian Cyrillic: Ненад Гроздић; born 3 February 1974) is a Serbian football manager and former player.

After making a name for himself in his homeland at Obilić, Grozdić went on to play abroad for Vitesse and Lens, among others. He also represented FR Yugoslavia internationally, earning 11 caps between 1998 and 2000.

Club career

After playing in the lower leagues of FR Yugoslavia, Grozdić joined First League club Obilić in the 1996 winter transfer window, spending the next three-and-a-half years with the Vitezovi. He was an integral part of the team that won the national championship in the 1997–98 season. In the summer of 1999, Grozdić moved abroad and signed with Dutch club Vitesse. He made 29 Eredivisie appearances in his sole season at the GelreDome, scoring once. In August 2000, Grozdić was transferred to French side Lens for a reported fee of 7.5 million guilder. He finished his career playing in the lower leagues of Austria.

International career

At international level, Grozdić was capped 11 times for FR Yugoslavia, making his national team debut in a 3–1 friendly loss away to Argentina on 25 February 1998.

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The public source identifies “Nenad Grozdić” as serbian football manager and player. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Nenad, Grozdić and Serbian.

Editorial reviewStrongest as a route into the people, institutions and dated events that shaped the subject’s public record. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1974, 1998, 2000, 1996—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1974-02-03. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Nenad, Grozdić and Serbian providing the first useful test.
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The entry’s evidential value lies in the named roles, institutions and publications that can be tested against primary documentation. The source revision retrieved here is dated Sep 5, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q2196325. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1974, 1998, 2000 and 1996.

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This entry incorporates text from “Nenad Grozdić” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.