Haris Medunjanin

Haris Medunjanin ( November 2013 )

Haris Medunjanin ( born March 8, 1985 in Sarajevo ) is a Bosnian - Herzegovinian footballer. At the age of seven years Medunjanin came to the Netherlands, whose nationality he possesses in addition to the Bosnia and Herzegovina.

Career

Association

Medunjanin already went through the youth department of AZ Alkmaar before he should give his professional debut in the 2004/05 season. Overall, he graduated in three games this season. The following season he came to ten inserts and was able to achieve three goals for the Red and Whites. However, the AZ- makers decided in summer 2006 to borrow him for a year to league rivals Sparta Rotterdam, where he should get match practice. In Rotterdam Medunjanin received the shirt number ten and soon became a regular player and performer. He scored seven goals in 32 games and thus contributed to the league. For the season 2007/ 08 he returned to AZ back, but it was only a reserve player and played only once 90 minutes and scored one goal. For other games it was not included by coach Louis van Gaal.

For the following season Medunjanin moved to Spain to Real Valladolid. Although he was able to so far often shine as the Joker, but he did not make the breakthrough in stem formation, which was also due to his behavior off the field. Again and again he was said to have even before important games nocturnal excesses in discos, further he insulted a fan who showed him photos of those same nights as a " son of a bitch ." On 4 April 2010, there was at the home game against Villarreal to a head. So Medunjanin was booed by his own fans every touch, so he allowed himself to indecent gestures towards the audience. The next day he apologized over a local radio station with the fans and protested tearfully that he had not been allowed a Muslim to drink alcohol, and he had never been before games at party tour. He had currently afraid to leave the house, and check legal action against the Spanish media landscape that had suspended him this smear campaign.

In June 2010 he moved after Real Valladolid was relegated to the Israeli first division team Hapoel Tel Aviv. In the season before, he scored five goals for the club, but always as a substitute. His debut for Tel Aviv he gave on July 15, 2010 in the qualifying for the UEFA Europa League against FK Mogren. In this game, he also scored his first goal for his new club.

In the last week of the summer transfer window in 2012, he joined the Turkish Süper Lig Gaziantepspor to.

National

2006 belonged Medunjanin squad of U -21 national team of the Netherlands, which could earn the title at the U-21 Football Championship. The following year he was nominated for the U -21 Football Championship in 2007 by coach Foppe de Haan, where the Oranje managed to defend their title. In October 2009 he was nominated by Miroslav Blazevic for the two play-off games of the Bosnian national team against Portugal. In the return match on November 18, 2009 in Zenica, he played his first international match. His first international goal he scored on 17 November 2010 in a friendly against Slovakia in Bratislava in the 3-2 victory for Bosnia and Herzegovina.