Živko Živković
Živko Zivkovic ( Serbian Cyrillic Живко Живковић; * 14 April 1989 in Titovo Užice, SR Serbia, SFR Yugoslavia) is a Serbian football goalkeeper. He currently plays for FK Partizan in the Serbian Superliga, the top division of the country.
Career
Youth and club career
Zivkovic began his career as a soccer goalie in childhood when Serbian club Partizan Belgrade bulk. There he went through several youth leagues before he for further training to the farm team Teleoptik Zemun in the Srpska Liga Belgrade, one was issued by the four sections of the third-rate Srpska Liga, 2006.
He was until 2007 in use and then came for the season 2007 /08, back to his original club, where he was active in the U-19 team of the association continues, but got a place in the senior squad for its excellent performance. On 8 December 2007, the then 18 -year-old made his professional debut when he came on as a substitute in the 5-1 home victory over local rivals OFK Belgrade for half-time with the score at 4-1 Darko Božović. After that he came to no other professional use, but trained again with the first team with.
Even during the summer break ahead of the 2008 /09 season Zivkovic was awarded to FK Metalac whose first team was still present at this time in the second-rate Prva liga Srbija. He immediately became a team regular and made it even more in his first season on 25 championship stakes. At the end of the season, the young goalkeeper took his team to fifth place in the table and rose as a result of a new league system at the highest football league in Serbia. After the climb, he remained first-choice goalkeeper and his team studied here are the winter break every 15 league games. Nevertheless, the team managed only on the fifteenth and penultimate place in the table and was thus on a par with several teams and has long been a potential Abstiegskanditat. At the end Championship, Zivkovic acted as master force in the gate of Metalac and was used in 29 of 30 possible gewesenen championship games, the team reached 35 points in ninth place in the table, thus securing the league.
After geschafften whereabouts in Serbia's top football league, the young goalkeeper returned to his original club, the Serbian champion was again in the elapsed time on the back.
Internationally
Zivkovic began his international career already in the Serbian U- 17 team and then came for the U-19 national team in his home country for use. He participated with the team, among others, at the U-19 European Football Championships 2007 in Upper Austria, but still different from during the group phase of the current competition.
Since mid- 2009, he is in the squad of the U-21 national team of Serbia and completed for this to date a game when he was in Sweden was used during qualifying for the U-21 European Championship. He made his team debut on 5 September 2009 in a 1-2 defeat against the Slovak U-21 national team, as the total playing time he guarded the gate. As the team for U -21 Championship qualifying, Zivkovic was during of the competition, although in the Squad, but had the three years older Željko Brkić to defer them, and came together with the other goalkeeper Bojan Šaranov not a single tournament use. Even during the group phase difference the team out of the competition.