Zlatan Muslimović

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Zlatan Muslimović
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Personal information
Full name Zlatan Muslimović
Date of birth March 6, 1981 (1981-03-06) (age 27)
Place of birth    Banja Luka, SFR Yugoslavia
Height 1.89 m (6 ft 2+12 in)
Playing position Striker
Club information
Current club Atalanta
Number 11
Youth clubs
Habo IF
Husqvarna FF
IFK Göteborg
Udinese
Senior clubs1
Years Club App (Gls)*
2000-01
2001
2002
2002-03
2003-04
2004-05
2005-06
2006-07
2007-
Udinese
Perugia (on loan)
Pistoiese (on loan)
Ascoli (on loan)
Padova (on loan)
Rimini (co-ownership)
Messina (on loan)
Parma (on loan)
Atalanta
2 (0)
0 (0)
8 (1)
11 (0)
30 (6)
32 (15)
25 (4)
29 (3)
4 (5)   
National team2
2006- Bosnia and Herzegovina 12 (9)

1 Senior club appearances and goals
counted for the domestic league only and
correct as of 24 June 2007.
2 National team caps and goals correct
as of 27 March 2008.
* Appearances (Goals)

Zlatan Muslimović, (born 6 March 1981, Banja Luka, Bosnia-Herzegovina, SFR Yugoslavia) is a Bosnian professional football player who holds both Bosnian and Swedish citizenships.

As a child and teenager, he played for the Swedish teams Habo IF and Husqvarna FF. He went on to play for the Swedish team IFK Göteborg youth team in 1998 and 1999, before coming to Italy in the year 2000.

He has previously played for the Bosnian U-21 national team. During the 2004/2005 he was the top scorer of Serie C1/A side Rimini, with 15 goals in 32 matches, helping his team in winning the league and being promoted to Serie B. In the 2006/2007 he was loaned to Parma F.C.. From 2007 he will play for Atalanta.

Zlatan Muslimović made his debut for the Bosnia and Herzegovina national football team in 2006 in a friendly match against France as a second half substitute. He also played for the team in their Euro 2008 qualifying matches against Malta (x2), Hungary, Norway and Turkey. Against Croatia, he scored a hat-trick.

One of Muslimović's most memorable current games was the encounter with the Norwegian National Football team in Oslo. He along with middle fielder Zvjezdan Misimović scored two early goals in the first half giving Bosnia-Herzegovina a night to remember on the 24th of March 2007 with a 2-1 victory. He turned in another solid performance in the match against Turkey by calmly slotting a cheeky ball from Zvjezdan Misimović past Rüştü Reçber to level the score at 1-1. Bosnia went on to win the game 3-2 via a header off a corner in the 89th minute from substitute Adnan Čustović.

Another great feat from Muslimovic was a hattrick during the friendly match with Croatia. Muslimovic is currently the only player with Elvir Bolić to ever score a hattrick.


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