Sejad Salihović

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Sejad Salihović
Sejad Salihovic 23.jpg
in the TSG 1899 Hoffenheim jersey (2008)
Personnel
birthday October 8, 1984
place of birth Gornji ŠepakSFR Yugoslavia
size 180 cm
position Midfield / full defense
Juniors
Years station
SC Minerva 1893
0000-2000 Hertha Zehlendorf
2000-2003 Hertha BSC
Men's
Years station Games (goals) 1
2003-2006 Hertha BSC Amateurs / II 88 (35)
2004-2006 Hertha BSC 5 0(0)
2006-2015 TSG 1899 Hoffenheim 227 (62)
2007–2012 TSG 1899 Hoffenheim II 2 0(0)
2015-2017 Guizhou Renhe / Beijing Renhe 28 0(5)
2017 FC St. Gallen 13 0(0)
2017-2018 Hamburger SV 10 0(1)
2019– DJK SC Schwarz-Weiß Frankenthal 08 (12)
National team
Years selection Games (goals) 2
2005-2006 Bosnia-Herzegovina U21 4 0(2)
2007-2015 Bosnia Herzegovina 45 0(4)
1 Only league games are given.
As of October 11, 2019

2 Status: end of career

Sejad Salihović (born October 8, 1984 in Gornji Šepak near Zvornik ) is a former Bosnian-Herzegovinian football player . He was considered a free kick specialist .

Career

Sejad Salihović first grew up in Gornji Šepak in northeastern Bosnia. At the age of seven, he and his Bosnian family fled to Berlin from the Bosnian War .

societies

Salihović began playing football at SC Minerva in 1893 and came to Hertha BSC in 2000 - via the youth department of Hertha 03 Zehlendorf - free of charge. For the 2003/04 season he moved up to the amateur team and for the 2004/05 season in the professional squad. On September 26, 2004 (6th matchday) he made his debut in the Bundesliga when he was substituted on for Christian Müller in the 85th minute in the 1: 2 defeat in the away game against Hamburger SV . In his first season he played five first division games for Berlin.

Before the 2006/07 season Salihović was transferred to TSG 1899 Hoffenheim. He scored two of the five Hoffenheim goals against SpVgg Greuther Fürth on the 34th matchday of the 2007/08 season and thus contributed to TSG's first promotion to the Bundesliga.

After he had scored four goals for TSG 1899 Hoffenheim in the first ten match days of the 2008/09 season , the club extended the end of the season contract early to June 30, 2012 at the beginning of November 2008. On April 20, 2012 he extended his to Season expiring contract until June 30, 2016. On August 24, 2013, Salihovic set a Bundesliga record: Just 14 seconds after his converted penalty against SC Freiburg to 1-0, he was sent off with the red card because he was cheering Freiburg's team captain Julian Schuster had slapped. It was the shortest time between scoring and dismissal; the game ended 3: 3.

In the summer of 2015 Salihović moved to China to Guizhou Renhe (since 2016 Beijing Renhe ). In the 2015 season he rose with the club from the Chinese Super League to the China League One . Before the start of the new season, the club moved to Beijing and was renamed Beijing Renhe. Under a new name, Salihovic's team finished fourth in the final table and narrowly missed promotion.

In February 2017 Salihović moved to the Swiss Super League for FC St. Gallen , where he received a contract until the end of the 2016/17 season . He was used in 13 league games and left the club after his contract expired.

In the summer of 2017 Salihović kept fit first in the second team and then in the first team of TSG 1899 Hoffenheim.

Due to many injury-related failures, Hamburger SV took him under contract on September 13, 2017 until the end of the 2017/18 season . Salihović met coach Markus Gisdol there , with whom he had already worked between 2013 and 2015 in Hoffenheim. Just two days later, he came on for his first appearance in the 2-0 defeat at Hannover 96 on matchday 4, when he was substituted on for Bakery Jatta in the 60th minute of the game . In the 2: 3 away defeat against 1. FSV Mainz 05 on the 8th matchday, Salihović scored his first goal for Hamburg when he hit the final score with a hand penalty in stoppage time in the second half. In total, Salihović made ten Bundesliga appearances (one goal). After the season in which HSV was relegated from the Bundesliga for the first time, he left the club when his contract expired.

At the beginning of April 2019, the Bosnian announced the end of his career.

Salihović has been playing for DJK SC Schwarz-Weiß Frankenthal in 1997 in the B-Class Rhein-Pfalz Nord since the 2019/20 season .

National team

On October 17, 2007 he made his debut for the national team of Bosnia and Herzegovina . In the European Championship qualifier in Greece Salihović came on in the 82nd minute. He scored his first international goal on September 9, 2009 with a free kick to the 1-1 final against Turkey.

On May 7, 2014 he was appointed by Bosnian coach Safet Susic in the squad of the senior national team for the World Cup in 2014 appointed. At the World Cup, he took part in two of the three games. After the World Cup, he only made three appearances.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Horst Bläsig: Career in Time Lapse: Herthas Sejad Salihovic . In: Berliner Morgenpost, April 13, 2005
  2. Salihovic: "The people are much friendlier than in Berlin" . In: sport.t-online.de, November 4, 2008
  3. Salihovic will sign in Hoffenheim until 2012 . In: fussball24.de, November 4, 2008
  4. Sejad Salihovic and Tobias Weis extend until 2016
  5. Salihovic's red card on fussballdaten.de
  6. FC St.Gallen - News - News - FCSG sign Sejad Salihovic. Retrieved February 1, 2017 .
  7. See the player statistics for the 2016/17 season on the FC St. Gallen website, accessed on September 13, 2017.
  8. Secret plan: is Salihovic returning to TSG? , kicker.de, September 5, 2017, accessed on September 13, 2017.
  9. HSV sign Sejad Salihovic. Retrieved September 13, 2017 .
  10. Harnik pokes 96 to win and lead the table , kicker.de, September 15, 2017, accessed on September 15, 2017.
  11. : Hamburger SV: 2: 3 - HSV is subject to 1. FSV Mainz 05 , accessed on March 15, 2017
  12. Hamburger SV: HSV says goodbye to five professionals , May 15, 2018, accessed on May 15, 2018.
  13. Salihovic ends his career despite interest from the 2nd division: “An incredible number of inquiries” , transfermarkt.de, accessed on April 5, 2019
  14. Salihović's profile on fussball.de
  15. Salihovic - from the Bundesliga to the A-Class , rheinpfalz.de, accessed on October 11, 2019
  16. Susic trusts seven "Germans" , kicker.de (May 5, 2014)