Full name Kristijan Boskovski 1997–1998 FK Metalurg Skopje Height 1.77 m | Playing position 2001–2002 FK Skopje Current team Great Yarmouth Town F.C. | |
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Date of birth (1987-06-14) 14 June 1987 (age 29) Place of birth Skopje, Macedonia SFR Yugoslavia | ||
Kristijan Boskovski (mac. Кристијан Бошковски ([kriˈstijan boʃˈkofski] born 14 June 1987 in Skopje) – is a Macedonian footballer with Polish origin who plays as a striker for English club Great Yarmouth Town FC. Boskovski is known to have the skills and ability to play with both feet perfectly. A fast dribbling striker with a large overview of the field, creativity, ability to improvise and high efficiency allowed him to gain recognition in the eyes of leading teams in Europe. Boskovski attracted the attention of clubs such as FC Bayern Munich, Manchester City and Aston Villa In August 2009 Boskovski officially declared that he wanted to play for Poland under charge of Leo Beenhakker
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Early life
Boskovski comes from a sporting family. Before turning to football Boskovski learnt to play tennis alongside his sister as a young child. His father Dicho Boskovski is a former athlete who competed in Yugoslavia as a marathon and sprint runner,also a former chairman of a Macedonian handball team RK Zelezarka where his mother played handball for the Opole University, recognised that his sons talents and skills were more suited to football as Kristijan Boskovski had immense skills handling the tennis ball with his feet and head. His younger brother Mario played as a promising goalkeeper for the local rival FK Vardar taking part in Macedonian youth international games.
Club career
Boskovski started his career at FK Metalurg Skopje, later also played in the adjoining club FK Skopje winning the junior Macedonian Football Cup. In 2002, He played for FK Madžari Solidarnost and then was loaned to FK Skopje.
On 1 July 2003, Boskovski moved to Macedonian football giant FK Rabotnicki and later scoring an impressive 21 goals in 18 games.
A year later, Jerzy Engel invited him to Polonia Warsaw which was approved by FK Rabotnicki. After a short time under agreement with Jerzy Engel Boskovski decided to return to his homeland and played for FK Rabotnicki where he developed into a young player with high level skills.
In June 2008 Boskovski went for pre-season with Polish Ekstraklasa GKS Belchatow but the two sides did not reach an agreement. In 2008 he briefly played at Znicz Pruszkow alongside the well known Robert Lewandowski and also sharing the same football agent Cezary Kucharski. In September 2009 Boskovski suffered a severe knee injury, and in 2010 officially unveiled the information about the end of his career. In 2010 Boskovski underwent successful knee operations. In 2011 Boskovski returned to professional football,making a full recovery and trained with National Conference team Kettering Town FC before making a reappearance for FK Sloga Jugomagnat. After leaving the club his name was linked to Polonia Warsaw In 2013-2014 he trained with several professional teams Baltyk Gdynia and CD Tenerife from Spanish Segunda División. He received invitations and attended open trials sponsored by BT Sport and Budweiser to rebuild his career and to create further opportunities post injury where he impressed top football association coaches i.e. Ray Houghton, Graeme Le Saux, Ray Parlour, Peter Shilton and David Ginola with his commitment, attitude and talent.
In 2014 Boskovski became an athlete for Nike Football, and joined the Leicester City Futsal to improve his technical performance which he successfully achieved.
In 2015-2016 he signed up for Great Yarmouth Town FC as a Striker and appeared in 9 games scoring 4 goals.
Personal life
In July 2016 Boskovski got married to Aneesa Boskovski and has a son named Adam.