Full name Vedad Ibisevic Name Vedad Ibisevic Education Saint Louis University 2000–2001 FC Baden Spouse Zerina Medic | Number 19 Height 1.88 m Playing position Role Footballer | |
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Date of birth (1984-08-06) 6 August 1984 (age 31) Place of birth Vlasenica, SFR Yugoslavia Current teams Hertha BSC (#19 / Forward), Bosnia and Herzegovina national football team (Forward) Parents Saban Ibisevic, Mirsada Ibisevic Similar People Miralem Pjanic, Edin Dzeko, Senad Lulic, Asmir Begovic Profiles | ||
Bosna grcka safet susic miralem pjanic i vedad ibisevic konferencija utakmice vedator
Vedad Ibišević (born 6 August 1984) is a Bosnian professional footballer who plays as a forward for German club Hertha BSC as captain and for the Bosnia and Herzegovina national team.
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- Bosna grcka safet susic miralem pjanic i vedad ibisevic konferencija utakmice vedator
- Vedad ibi evi interview with crs
- Early career
- 1899 Hoffenheim
- VfB Stuttgart
- Hertha BSC
- International career
- Personal life
- Club
- International
- International goals
- Individual
- References
He has also played in Switzerland, the United States and France. In 2008, he was awarded the Idol Nacije award for Bosnian Footballer of the Year.
A full international since 2007, Ibišević has earned over 70 caps for Bosnia and Herzegovina. He was selected for the 2014 FIFA World Cup, where he scored Bosnia's first goal in a major tournament.
Vedad ibi evi interview with crs
Early career
Ibišević was born in Vlasenica, SR Bosnia and Herzegovina, then a republic within SFR Yugoslavia. He and his family left Bosnia and Herzegovina in 2000 to move to Switzerland, where Ibišević was signed by FC Baden in Canton Aargau. His family, however, left Switzerland after only ten months, moving to St. Louis, Missouri, in the United States. In St. Louis, Ibišević flourished as one of the region's most promising football players, and after his senior season in 2002, was named by Soccer America as one of the nation's top 25 recruits. He played his high school career at Roosevelt High School in St. Louis.
Ibišević signed to play college soccer in his adopted hometown at one of the nation's most respected football establishments, Saint Louis University. He quickly established himself in his freshman year, registering 18 goals and four assists in 22 games for the Billikens, while leading a strong SLU team deep into the NCAA Tournament. For his achievements, Ibišević was named the NCAA Freshman of the Year, as well as a first team All-American. During his college years, he also played in the USL Premier Development League with both the St. Louis Strikers and Chicago Fire Premier.
During training with the team, Ibišević was spotted by Paris Saint-Germain's Bosnian manager Vahid Halilhodžić, who quickly signed him to play for the renowned French team for the coming season. Ibišević, however, initially saw little action, and was loaned to French second division club Dijon.
1899 Hoffenheim
In May 2006, Ibišević signed a three-year deal with Alemannia Aachen, and on 12 July 2007, he moved to another German club, 1899 Hoffeneheim.
Ibišević kicked off the 2008–09 Bundesliga season in good fashion, scoring two goals in Hoffenheim's first ever appearance in the Bundesliga against Energie Cottbus with the game ending 3–0 in Hoffenheim's favour. He scored another goal on his second game against Borussia Mönchengladbach. In his third Bundesliga match for the club, he scored his fourth goal of the season against Bayer Leverkusen, although his side lost 5–2. He scored another two goals in Hoffenheim's 4–1 win over Borussia Dortmund. During the first half of Hoffenheim's debut season in the top flight, Ibišević recorded 18 goals and seven assists in 17 games, making him the league's top scorer before he was injured. He was voted Bundesliga Player of the Month for October 2008.
On 14 January 2009, during the Bundesliga's winter break, Ibišević was injured in a training match against Hamburger SV in Spain. The final examination confirmed an anterior right cruciate ligament rupture, which took him out of action for the rest of the 2008–09 season. He returned at the beginning of the 2009–10 season. He was scoreless until Hoffenheim's seventh Bundesliga match, when he scored a hat-trick against Hertha BSC in a remarkable comeback. This became the second-fastest hat-trick in Bundesliga history and the fastest goal scored this season, scored 47 seconds into the match. After the season, he signed a contract extension that would have kept him at Hoffenheim until the end of the 2012–13 season.
VfB Stuttgart
On 25 January 2012, Ibišević moved to VfB Stuttgart. He scored his first goal for VfB on 11 February 2012 with the opening goal in a 5–0 home victory against Hertha BSC. He also provided an assist in that match. He scored two more goals in a 2–1 derby victory over former club Hoffenheim on 16 March. His good form continued as he netted a brace in his side's emphatic 4–1 victory over Mainz 05, bringing Stuttgart ever closer to securing European football for next season.
Ibišević's first goal of the 2012–13 Bundesliga season came on 29 September 2012, scoring within the opening minute as Stuttgart defeated 1. FC Nürnberg 2–0. On 8 December, Ibišević scored his first hat-trick for Stuttgart, netting all three goals as the home side moved into fifth spot in the league with a 3–1 defeat of Schalke 04.
On 1 September 2013, Ibišević netted a hat-trick against former club Hoffenheim, powering his side to a 6–2 Bundesliga victory at the Mercedes-Benz Arena. He was given a five-match ban on 9 February for appearing to strike FC Augsburg's Jan-Ingwer Callsen-Bracker in a home defeat to Augsburg. The German Football Association's decision was reached as Ibišević was labelled as a "repeat offender", having been sent off for a similar offence at the start of the previous season. The suspension would cause him to miss a game against his former team, Hoffenheim, and bottom team Eintracht Braunschweig. Ibišević apologised for his actions.
On 6 August 2014, Ibišević extended his contract with VfB Stuttgart until June 2017.
Hertha BSC
Ibišević moved to Hertha BSC on 30 August 2015. On 22 September 2015, he scored twice in a 2–0 home win over 1. FC Köln, ending a 25-game goal drought. On 3 October 2015, Ibišević scored two goals in three minutes in a 3–0 win over Hamburger SV. On 17 October, Ibišević received a straight red card in the 18th minute against Schalke 04 for a challenge on Max Meyer in an eventual 2–1 loss. Ibišević scored his third brace of the season against Darmstadt 98 on 12 December to take his tally up to six for the season, with all his goals coming in pairs.
On 18 August 2016, Ibišević was named Hertha's club captain by head coach Pál Dárdai, replacing the captain of three years, Fabian Lustenberger.
International career
On 24 March 2007, Ibišević debuted – and started – for Bosnia and Herzegovina in a UEFA Euro 2008 qualifying match against Norway. On 13 October 2007, he was called up for the Euro 2008 qualifier against Greece in Athens, where he scored his first international goal, Bosnia's second in a 3–2 loss.
On 7 September 2012, Ibišević scored his first hat-trick for the national team away to Liechtenstein national football team during qualifiers for 2014 FIFA World Cup. He has also set up Edin Džeko for a goal during the match. He opened the scoring for Bosnia in a 3–0 win over Lithuania in a World Cup qualifier on 16 October 2012. After scoring the only goal of the match against the same opposition almost a year later, Ibišević ensured Bosnia would make its first ever appearance at a World Cup. On 15 June 2014, he scored the first ever Bosnian goal at the World Cup finals in a 2–1 loss against Argentina at the Maracanã.
In Bosnia's penultimate Euro 2016 qualifier, in the absence of Edin Džeko, Ibišević started against Wales and scored a crucial goal in the 90th minute to keep Bosnia's qualification hopes alive.
Personal life
Ibišević is from a Bosniak family. At an early age, his family moved to Switzerland, and ten months later to St. Louis, Missouri in the United States where he grew up. While he has spoken some about his experiences during the Bosnian War that forced his family to leave Bosnia, he is not known to have ever revealed all of the details. According to a profile on Ibišević by American writer Wright Thompson in 2014,
No one in Germany knows the whole story about his escape from the war. During his three years in St. Louis, he never told a single person at school, not a friend, teacher or coach. The most common answers he gives to any question about the war is "It's OK" or "We were lucky."
Even his wife Zerina, who lost her father in the war, believes her husband has not told her the whole story; in the Thompson piece, she said, "I still have a feeling that I know maybe 20 percent. I swear."
At the time of the Thompson story, Ibišević and his wife lived near Stuttgart with their young son Ismail. Thompson noted that when Ibišević looked for a house when he transferred to Stuttgart, he "found himself drawn" to one that reminded him of the family home in Bosnia that they were forced to abandon during the war. He also bought a home for his father Šaban in Tuzla that had previously been owned by his father's employer, which according to Thompson was "a symbol of what the war had taken". The home is more a spiritual balm for Šaban, since he continues to live in St. Louis, where he manages apartment buildings that his son owns. Ibišević also rebuilt his father's boyhood home in their former village of Gerovi, and has built several war memorials in the area.
Ibišević is a Sunni Muslim. During the 2014 World Cup, he, along with Bosnia teammates Muhamed Bešić and Edin Višća, visited a mosque in Cuiabá.