Yksel Osmanovski

Yksel Osmanovski
Personnel
birthday	February 24, 1977
place of birth	Skrävlinge ,  Sweden
size	174 cm
position	striker
Juniors
Years	station
1982-1984	Malmo BI
1985-1986	IFK Malmö
1987-1995	Malmö FF
Men's
Years	station	Games (goals) 1
1995-1998	Malmö FF	52 (16)
1998-2001	AS Bari	85 (14)
2001-2003	Torino Calcio	22 0(1)
2002	→  Girondins Bordeaux  (loan)	7 0(0)
2004-2007	Malmö FF	68 0(6)
National team
Years	selection	Games (goals)
1999-2006	Sweden	15 (2)
1 Only league games are given.

Yksel Osmanovski (born February 24, 1977 in Skrävlinge , Sweden ) is a former Swedish football player of Turkish- Macedonian descent.

career

Osmanovski grew up like Zlatan Ibrahimović in Rosengård . As a child he played for Malmö BI and IFK Malmö , before joining the youth team at Malmö FF in 1987 when he was ten . He made his debut for the club in 1995 in the Allsvenskan .

In 1998 he went to Italy to AS Bari . After three seasons he moved to Torino in 2001 , but could not prevail and was loaned to Girondins Bordeaux during the winter break for the second half of the season. In the summer he returned and came to 13 missions in the following season. After the contract expired, he was without a club for half a year from the summer break. For the 2004 season he returned to Sweden and signed with Malmö FF. His contract, which ran until 2007, was not extended, so that he was without a club.

Osmanovski has played 19 games for the Swedish U21 team. Since his debut against Jamaica on May 27, 1999 , he has made 15 appearances for the senior national team . At the time of his debut, he was the first Muslim in the Swedish senior team . He was in the squad at the 2000 European Championships .

In 2000, Zlatan Ibrahimović named Osmanovski, four years his senior, as his role model in his youth.

In February 2008, Osmanovski surprisingly announced the end of his career.

Web links

• Yksel Osmanovski in the database of weltfussball.de