Asmir Begović

Asmir Begović
Asmir Begović, 2015
Personnel
birthday	June 20, 1987
place of birth	Trebinje ,  SFR Yugoslavia
size	198 cm
position	goal
Juniors
Years	station
0000-2003	FC Kirchhausen
2003-2005	Portsmouth FC
Men's
Years	station	Games (goals) 1
2005-2010	Portsmouth FC	11 (0)
2005	→  RAA La Louvière  (loan)	2 (0)
2006	→  Macclesfield Town  (loan)	3 (0)
2007	→  AFC Bournemouth  (loan)	8 (0)
2008	→  Yeovil Town  (loan)	2 (0)
2008	→ Yeovil Town (loan)	14 (0)
2009	→  Ipswich Town  (loan)	6 (0)
2010-2015	Stoke City	160 (1)
2015-2017	Chelsea FC	19 (0)
2017–	Bournemouth AFC	62 (0)
2019-2020	→  Qarabağ Agdam  (loan)	10 (0)
2020	→  AC Milan  (loan)	2 (0)
National team
Years	selection	Games (goals) 2
2004-2007	Canada U20	11 (0)
2009–	Bosnia Herzegovina	62 (0)
1 Only league games are given. Status: end of season 2019/20 2 As of September 16, 2019

Asmir Begović (born June 20, 1987 in Trebinje , SFR Yugoslavia , today Bosnia and Herzegovina ) is a Bosnian - Canadian football player . The goalkeeper plays on loan from AFC Bournemouth to AC Milan and is a Bosnian-Herzegovinian international .

Career

society

Begović came to Germany as a refugee. At the age of ten he went on to Canada with his family before returning to Germany as an athlete. In 2003 he moved from FC Kirchhausen to England in the youth department of FC Portsmouth . After two years he moved to the club's professional squad. In order to give him match practice, the club loaned him to RAA La Louvière in Belgium . During the second half of the 2006/07 season he was given in another loan deal to Macclesfield Town . There he made his league debut against Stockport County on November 25, 2006 . After starting goalkeeper Jonny Brain was injured, Begović was substituted on in the 80th minute. After two more games for Macclesfield, Begović also suffered an injury. He returned to Portsmouth before the winter break. At the beginning of the 2007/08 season, the goalkeeper was loaned to AFC Bournemouth , where he was to remain until January 2008. He was called back to Portsmouth in October of the current season. In March 2008, the club gave Begović again from. At Yeovil Town , the goalkeeper signed a four-week contract. After two missions he was ordered back. In August 2008 it came back to Yeovil Town. Begović signed for three months.

On February 1, 2010 he signed a contract with the English first division club Stoke City until 2014. After he was there for some time only number two behind goalkeeper Thomas Sørensen , he replaced this on the tenth day of the 2010/11 season and got the trust of coach Tony Pulis . On November 2, 2013 Begović scored in the match against Southampton FC after 13 seconds from his own penalty area. With a shooting distance of 91.9 m, this goal was officially included in the Guinness Book of Records on September 4, 2014 as the hit from the greatest distance.

For the season 2015/16 Begovic moved to Chelsea . He was given a four-year contract until June 30, 2019 and will take the post of substitute goalkeeper behind Thibaut Courtois . On the 1st matchday (2-2 against Swansea City ) Begović completed his first league appearance for the Blues when he came in the second half for the sent off Courtois in goal.

Begović moved to AFC Bournemouth in the summer of 2017 . He spent two years there and played 62 Premier League games before falling behind Aaron Ramsdale , Artur Boruc and Mark Travers in the pecking order . He then moved to Azerbaijan on loan to Qarabağ Ağdam in September 2019 .

National team

Begović played for the U-20 national team of Canada between 2004 and 2007 . With her he took part in the U-20 World Cup in the Netherlands in 2005 and in his own country in 2007 . After being number two behind Josh Wagenaar in 2005 , he played the 2007 World Cup as a regular goalkeeper. The team was eliminated from the tournament after three games without a goal or a win. After a deliberate handball outside the penalty area, Begović was sent off with red in the third round match.

In 2007 he received his first nomination for the senior national team of Canada , but was not used in the friendly against Iceland on August 14th that year . In the same year he was voted U-20 player of the year in Canada. So he replaced David Edgar . In June 2009 Begović decided to play for the national team of Bosnia-Herzegovina . He made his international debut on October 10, 2009 in the World Cup qualifier against Estonia when he came on for Kenan Hasagić in stoppage time. He was part of the Bosnia-Herzegovina squad at the 2014 World Cup in Brazil . There he was used in all three preliminary round games. Then Bosnia-Herzegovina was eliminated.

Achievements and Awards

• Canadian U-20 Player of the Year : 2007

useful information

• His father Amir Begović was a goalkeeper for FK Leotar Trebinje and NK Iskra Bugojno . Since 2009 he has been training young goalkeepers on the field of SV Schluchtern .
• His family fled to Canada during the civil war in Bosnia-Herzegovina in the early 1990s . There Begović received the Canadian citizenship .
• Team supplier Adidas shot a commercial with Begović that deals with the circumstances of his childhood. In addition, the goalkeeper was involved in the Adidas campaign “Impossible is nothing!”.
• Begović has also been President of the English amateur club Clayton Bells FC from Stoke-on-Trent since 2012 . The club currently plays in the Coors Sunday League and consists partly of former Football League Two players.
• Begović is married to the US dressage rider Nicolle Howard . Together with him, she heads the non-profit association Asmir Begovic Foundation , which u. a. works for poor children in England and Bosnia. The couple also have a daughter together.

Web links

Commons : Asmir Begović  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Asmir Begović in the database of weltfussball.de
• Asmir Begović in the database of transfermarkt.de
• Asmir Begović in the canadasoccer.com database
• Asmir Begović in the database of soccerbase.com (English)
• Asmir Begović in the database of National-Football-Teams.com (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Begovic joins Stoke ( Memento of February 4, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) (English)
2. ↑ Pompey stopper Begovic joins Stoke City (English)
3. ↑ Keeper honored for goal against Southampton (English)
4. ↑ Chelsea FC: Begovic transfer completed , July 13, 2015, accessed on July 13, 2015.
5. ↑ SPOX: United: opening win without a goal of their own , accessed on August 9, 2015
6. ↑ Asmir Begovic joins Qarabag on loan from Bournemouth (BBC Sport)
7. ↑ The other side of the Asmir Begovic story from November 10, 2009 on cbc.ca (English)
8. ↑ Canada U20: U20 World Cup 2005 in the Netherlands on weltfussball.de
9. ↑ Canada U20: Squad U20 World Cup 2007 in Canada on weltfussball.de
10. ↑ Mitchell and Canada to face Iceland ( Memento from September 29, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) from August 14, 2007 on tsn.ca (English)
11. ↑ Match report Estonia - Bosnia-Herzegovina 0: 2 on weltfussball.de
12. ↑ Attakora, Stewart named Canadian U-20 Players of the Year from November 16, 2009 on canadasoccer.com (English)
13. ↑ Goalkeeper training ( memento from March 3, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) accessed on May 21, 2014
14. ↑ Commercial with Begović on youtube.com
15. ↑ More than 400 internships available on prinz.de
16. ↑ chairman Asmir Begovic is expectant after the busy summer of transfer dealings
17. ↑ Stoke City: Asmir Begovic hands over first check from his Foundation  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
18. ↑ Nicolle Begovic- aspiring International Dressage rider, wife of professional goalkeeper Asmir Begovic and mother ( Memento from October 6, 2014 in the Internet Archive )
19. ↑ Asmir Begovic Foundation
20. ↑ Asmir Begovic set to kick-off husband and wife sporting double at the World Cup