Darko Kovacevic

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Darko Kovacevic is a Serbian football striker who currently plays for Olympiakos.

Kovacevic was born in Kovin, Serbia, on November 18, 1973. He played for Proleter Zrenjanin and Red Star Belgrade in Serbia before moving in 1996 to Sheffield Wednesday. Later that same season he transferred to Real Sociedad where he established himself as a footballer. In 1999 he had a 2-year unsuccessful spell in Italy with Juventus and later Lazio.

By 2002, Kovacevic returned to Sociedad where he had another successful stint until the summer of 2007 when he moved to Greece to play for Olympiakos.

Kovacevic has been capped by Yugoslavia and was a member of their 1998 World Cup squad.

In 2008, doctors for Kovacevic had detected high blood pressure and a narrowing of the arteries. On January 13, 2009, Darko Kovacevic underwent heart surgery (coronary angioplasty) in San Sebastian, Spain.