Antonio Rukavina
Rukavina in training, 2011
Antonio Rukavina ( Serbian Cyrillic Антонио Рукавина, born January 26, 1984 in Belgrade ) is a Serbian international footballer who is under contract at Real Valladolid and plays for the Serbian national team.
Career
Clubs
Antonio Rukavina began his career at FK Bežanija, for which he in the first and second Serbian League 55 games played until the end of 2006 and scored two goals.
In January 2007 he moved to FK Partizan Belgrade, who also belonged to the Super League. He was captain of the team. He played for Partizan 45 games in which he was able to achieve three goals. In addition, it was used twice in qualifying for the Champions League. He had a contract with Partizan until 2011.
However, in January 2008, he joined the German Bundesliga club Borussia Dortmund, where he signed a contract dated to 2012. His first competitive game for Borussia, he played on 29 January 2008 at the DFB Cup second round against Werder Bremen, his Bundesliga debut came four days later in a 3-3 draw in Duisburg. With Borussia Dortmund Rukavina was on 19 April 2008 at the DFB Cup Final in Berlin, which lost 1:2 with the team against Bayern Munich. In the first half of the season 2008/ 09 he was only in the first five games to use. Rukavina was a total of 19 times used in Dortmund in the league, he played five times in the DFB Cup and once in the UEFA Cup.
In February 2009, he was first hired until season's end to the second division club TSV 1860 Munich, where he came to the summer of 2009 15 times for use and scoring one goal. For the season 2009/10 Rukavina was finally obliged by the Sechzger and received a contract until summer 2012. Coached by Ewald Lienen he was this season regulars on the position of right-back. In return, Sven Bender moved to Dortmund. In the following season 2010/11 Rukavina was the only player in the squad who played in all 34 games over the full length under new coach Reiner Maurer.
In summer 2011, Rukavina, who was one of the most deserving players of 1860, should be sold due to the tight financial situation. As the successor to the right back position Dennis Malura was obliged to subsequently become the first two match days also in the starting XI. The third competitive match of the season, the Cup Erstrundenbegegnung in Osnabrück Rukavina came in to replace Malura at halftime and was henceforth put back in the right defense. After he had found a new club at the end of the summer transfer window, he played up to the end of the season all mandatory games, only once he was missing through injury. An offer to extend the contract at a reduced salary leaned Rukavina from the spring of 2012, he left the 1860 thus after the conclusion of the season 2011 /12. Overall he had 112 league and cup games seven contested for the "Münchner Löwen ".
For the 2012/13 season Rukavina joined in the Spanish La Liga to Real Valladolid.
National
Rukavina belonged to the levy of the Serbian team at the U -21 Football Championship in 2007, where they lost in the final of the Netherlands with 1:4. He played a total of seven times for the U21. His debut as a Serbian national team was Rukavina in June 2007 in a 2-0 away win against Finland. In 2010 he was part of the Serbian squad at the World Cup in South Africa, but did not play. He completed a total of 22 matches.
Private
Antonio Rukavina has been married since 2010 and, since October 26, 2010 Father of a son.