Edin Džeko

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Edin Džeko
Edin Džeko (2015)
Personnel
birthday	March 17, 1986
place of birth	Sarajevo ,  SFR Yugoslavia
size	193 cm
position	Storm
Juniors
Years	station
1996-2003	FK Željezničar Sarajevo
Men's
Years	station	Games (goals) 1
2003-2005	FK Željezničar Sarajevo	35 0(3)
2005-2007	FK Teplice	43 (16)
2005	→  FK Ústí nad Labem  (loan)	15 0(6)
2007-2010	VfL Wolfsburg	111 (66)
2011-2015	Manchester City	130 (50)
2015–	AS Roma	172 (78)
National team
Years	selection	Games (goals) 2
2005-2006	Bosnia-Herzegovina U19	5 0(0)
2006-2007	Bosnia-Herzegovina U21	5 0(1)
2007–	Bosnia Herzegovina	107 (58)
1 Only league games are given. As of July 29, 2020 2 As of November 18, 2019

Edin Džeko [ ˈɛdin ˈdʒɛkɔ ] (born March 17, 1986 in Sarajevo , SFR Yugoslavia ) is a Bosnian-Herzegovinian football player . The striker moved abroad when he was 19. After two years in the Czech Republic , he came to VfL Wolfsburg , with whom he won the German championship in 2009 . This was followed by four and a half years at Manchester City , during which he was twice English champion and once cup winner . Since 2015 he has been playing for the Italian capital club AS Roma . He is the captain and, with over 100 missions and more than 50 goals, the record player and goal scorer of the Bosnian-Herzegovinian national team , with which he took part in the 2014 World Cup in Brazil .

Career

Career in Bosnia-Herzegovina and the Czech Republic

Edin Džeko played for FK Željezničar Sarajevo from 1996 to 2005 . In the 2004/05 season, Željezničar was coached by the Czech Jiří Plíšek , who recommended Džeko to the Czech first division club FK Teplice , who finally signed the young striker for 80,000 euros. Džeko, who signed a four-year contract, was immediately loaned to the second division club FK Ústí nad Labem , where Plíšek was a coach. In 15 games he scored six goals. He returned to Teplice during the winter break and scored three goals in 13 matches. In the 2006/07 season , Džeko was named the best foreign player in the Czech Republic .

VfL Wolfsburg

For the 2007/08 season Džeko was brought into the Bundesliga for VfL Wolfsburg by Wolfsburg's coach and manager Felix Magath . He received a contract there until 2011. The Bosnian quickly established himself in the first team under coach Magath and made 28 appearances. With eight goals, he was the team's second-best striker in his first year.

The following year he played a good first half of the season, in the second half of the season he only failed to score in four of the 17 games. With two goals in two minutes he gave Wolfsburg a 3-1 lead against Bayern Munich on matchday 26 , the game ended 5-1 and VfL took over the top of the table. On May 2, 2009, Džeko scored his first hat-trick in the Bundesliga within 13 minutes in the game against TSG 1899 Hoffenheim in the second half . On the penultimate matchday he scored three goals again in the game against Hannover 96 . At the end of the season, Džeko became German champions with VfL Wolfsburg and was second in the Bundesliga scorer list with 26 goals behind his strike partner Grafite . The storm duo was the most successful of the past 35 years and broke the old goalscorer record (53 goals) of Gerd Müller and Uli Hoeneß from the 1971/72 season with a total of 54 goals .

On August 1, 2009 Džeko signed a new contract with VfL Wolfsburg until 2013. In the 2009/10 season he was the top scorer in the Bundesliga with 22 goals.

With his 1-0 goal against 1. FSV Mainz 05 on matchday two of the 2010/11 season , he replaced Diego Klimowicz as the record scorer of VfL Wolfsburg and scored ten goals by the end of the first half of the season , more than any other player in the Team throughout the season.

Manchester City

Džeko in the Manchester City shirt (2014)

During the winter break of the 2010/11 season , Džeko signed a contract with Manchester City until the end of June 2015. He received jersey number 10. He made his Premier League debut on January 15, 2011 (23rd match day) in a 4-3 home win on the Wolverhampton Wanderers . Džeko scored his first goal for Manchester City in the FA Cup against Notts County . He scored his first goal in the Premier League on April 25, 2011 in a 1-0 win at Blackburn Rovers . In the end there were four goals in 17 league and cup games, the FA Cup victory and third place in the table with the team on the balance sheet of its first season in Manchester .

At the beginning of the 2011/12 season, Džeko scored a goal in the Community Shield game against Manchester United , but had to admit defeat with his team 2: 3. He also scored once in the first two Premier League games. On the 3rd matchday he scored four goals in the game against Tottenham Hotspur . Džeko was the first player in the history of Manchester City to score four goals in a Premier League game. Džeko then scored two goals in City's 6-1 derby win over Manchester United at Old Trafford .

On May 13, 2012 he scored for Manchester City in the last game of the season against Queens Park Rangers to equalize 2-2 in the second minute of stoppage time and brought the team on the way to the third title win in the club's history. Sergio Agüero scored the goal to make it 3-2 in the fourth minute of stoppage time.

Džeko played 130 league games for Manchester City until the summer of 2015, in which he scored 50 goals.

AS Roma

For the 2015/16 season , Džeko initially moved to the Italian Serie A at AS Roma for one year . A purchase option for eleven million euros for the 2016/17 season was also agreed . This was used a short time later and Džeko was firmly tied to the club.

National team

Džeko played in the U15, U17 , U19 and U21 teams of Bosnia and Herzegovina . He made his senior national team debut on June 2, 2007 against Turkey . He is the record scorer for his country's national team (as of October 2013). In his association's greatest success to date, qualifying for the 2014 World Cup in Brazil, he was involved with ten goals, making him the second best goalscorer of the European associations after Robin van Persie .

On May 7, 2014 he was coach Safet Sušić in the squad of the national team for the World Cup in 2014 appointed to Brazil. Bosnia started with a 2-1 loss to Argentina . The 1-0 defeat against Nigeria in the second group game meant Bosnia-Herzegovina was eliminated. Džeko had scored a goal when the score was 0-0, which the referee did not recognize. In the last group game against Iran , he scored his first goal at a World Cup . After the game, he was voted Man of the Match . After the resignation of Emir Spahic , he became captain of the national team.

In qualifying for the Euro 2016 , he scored eight goals as the fifth best goalscorer, including one in the 1-1 playoff first leg against Ireland. Due to a 2-0 defeat in the second leg, he missed the European Championship finals with his team.

In qualifying for the 2018 World Cup , he scored three goals in the first four games, but then received the yellow-red card in the fourth game , so that for the fifth game on March 25, 2017, which his teammates beat 5-0 Gibraltar won, was banned. Three days later he scored his 50th international goal in the friendly against Albania . He is the first player born in the former Yugoslavia to do so.

titles and achievements

Džeko after winning the German championship with Wolfsburg (2009)

title

• German champion : 2009
• English champion : 2012 , 2014
• FA Cup : 2011
• FA Community Shield : 2012
• League Cup : 2014

Awards

• Bosnian-Herzegovinian Footballer of the Year : 2009, 2010, 2011
• Top scorer in the Bundesliga 2009/10 with 22 goals
• Top scorer in Serie A 2016/17 with 29 goals
• Sportsman of the year 2009 in Bosnia-Herzegovina
• Member of VDV 11 : 2009/10
• Best field player in the Bundesliga as well as climber of the year 2008/09 (according to survey of Bundesliga professionals)
• Footballer of the year 2010 in Lower Saxony
• Elected best foreign player in the Czech Republic in 2006/07
• Best striker of the football players' union VDV 2010
• England's Footballer of the Month : August 2011
• Classification as world class in the ranking of German football : summer 2009 , summer 2010

Others

Edin Džeko is fluent in Bosnian and speaks German , Czech , English and Italian . He has also been the national UNICEF ambassador for Bosnia and Herzegovina since 2009 .

Season statistics

society	league	season	league		Nat. Cup		League Cup		European Cup		Other		total
			Games	Gates	Games	Gates	Games	Gates	Games	Gates	Games	Gates	Games	Gates
FK Željezničar Sarajevo	Premier League	2003/04	15th	2	-	-	-	-	1	0	-	-	16	2
		2004/05	20th	1	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	20th	1
total			35	3	-	-	-	-	1	0	-	-	36	3
FK Ústí nad Labem	2nd league	2005/06	15th	6th	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	15th	6th
total			15th	6th	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	15th	6th
FK Teplice	1st League	2005/06	13	3	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	13	3
		2006/07	30th	13	-	-	-	-	2	0	-	-	32	13
total			43	16	-	-	-	-	2	0	-	-	45	16
VfL Wolfsburg	Bundesliga	2007/08	28	8th	5	1	-	-	-	-	-	-	33	9
		2008/09	32	26th	2	6th	-	-	8th	4th	-	-	42	36
		2009/10	34	22nd	2	2	-	-	12	5	-	-	48	29
		2010/11	17th	10	2	1	-	-	-	-	-	-	19th	11
total			111	66	11	10	-	-	20th	9	-	-	142	85
Manchester City	Premier League	2010/11	15th	2	2	2	-	-	4th	2	-	-	21st	6th
		2011/12	30th	14th	-	-	4th	3	8th	1	1	1	43	19th
		2012/13	32	14th	5	0	1	0	6th	1	1	0	45	15th
		2013/14	31	16	5	2	5	6th	7th	2	-	-	48	26th
		2014/15	22nd	4th	1	0	2	2	6th	0	1	0	32	6th
total			130	50	13	4th	12	11	31	6th	3	1	189	72
AS Roma	Series A	2015/16	31	8th	1	0	-	-	7th	2	-	-	39	10
		2016/17	28	20th	3	2	-	-	9	8th	-	-	40	30th
total			59	28	4th	2	-	-	16	10	-	-	79	40
Career total			393	169	28	16	12	11	70	25th	3	1	494	218

* As of March 16, 2017 (Sources: footballdatabase.eu)

Web links

Commons : Edin Džeko  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Edin Džeko in the database of weltfussball.de
• Edin Džeko in the database of fussballdaten.de
• Edin Džeko in the soccerbase.com database (English)
• Edin Džeko in the database of National-Football-Teams.com (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ wolfsburger-nachrichten.de: VfL brings Bosnian young star ... (June 27, 2007)
2. ↑ kicker.de: VfL sign Džeko (June 26, 2007) (accessed on December 13, 2007)
3. ↑ bild.de: Edin Dzeko: New contract, 5 × more salary (accessed on August 9, 2009)
4. ↑ spox.com
5. ↑ Manchester City: Star striker Dzeko signs for City , January 7, 2011.
6. ↑ Dzeko is City's new number 10
7. ↑ How brilliant is Roma striker Edin Džeko? , January 10, 2017, accessed February 8, 2017
8. ↑ L'AS Roma perfeziona l'acquisto di Edin Džeko asroma.it, accessed on August 13, 2015 (Italian)
9. ↑ OPERAZIONI DI MERCATO Edin Džeko official communication from AS Roma SpA , accessed on August 13, 2015 (pdf, Italian)
10. ↑ See the annual financial statements of AS Roma as of June 30, 2015, p. 17 (PDF; 563 KB)
11. ↑ de.fifa.com
12. ↑ Susic relies on seven "Germans" , kicker.de (May 5, 2014)
13. ↑ fifa.com , fifa.com, accessed June 30, 2014.
14. ↑ focus.de
15. ↑ Dzeko voted best field player
16. ↑ Clear thing for Dzeko: Footballer of the year
17. ↑ Northeimer gives Dzeko a cup
18. ↑ Manchester City striker Edin Dzeko
19. ↑ Edin Dzeko ( English ) footballdatabase.eu. Retrieved March 20, 2019.