Edin Dzeko

Profile Football Stars | Edin Dzeko | With 13 goals in 30 games, he was the top scorer of the Gambrinus league in the 2006-07 season. Edin Dzeko is a Bosnian footballer plays as a striker WHO for Premier League club Manchester City and the Bosnian national team.  After Wolfsburg acquired fellow Bosnian international Zvjezdan Misimovic, Dzeko's performance was explosive in the second season. In the DFB-Pokal, he scored six goals in two matches, and in the UEFA Cup, four goals and two assists in eight matches. On 28 August 2010, Dzeko Became the leagues top scorer in the club's history with 59 goals in 96 appearances, surpassing WHO Diego Klimowicz scored 57 goals in 149 games.

Dzeko started his second season with City by scoring the team's second goal in a 2-3 defeat against rivals Manchester United in the FA Community Shield. Dzeko started and scored in City's first game of 2011-12 Premier League season, a 4-0 win over Premier League newboys Swansea City. In his third English Premier League game of this season, Dzeko scored four goals, Completing a "perfect hat-trick" and the last goal was a left-footed strike from outside the box, against Tottenham Hotspur. In this game, Dzeko broke another record by Becoming the first Manchester City player to score four goals in one Premier League match. His tally of six goals in three league games won him the Premier League Player of the Month award for August.

Dzeko's first appearance for his home country CAME with the Bosnia and Herzegovina national under-19 football team. Dzeko scored one goal in the tournament. The goal leveled the score at 2-2 and went on to win Bosnia 3-2. He scored nine goals in 2010 FIFA World Cup qualifying and finished as the second best scorer in the UEFA qualification, tied with England's Wayne Rooney, both behind Greek striker Theofanis Gekas' 10 goals. On 28 March 2009, Bosnian sports commentator, Marjan Mijajlović, the Bosnian Dzeko named Diamond during a game versus Belgium in Genk in the which he scored a remarkable goal.

Dzeko was born in Sarajevo, SFR Yugoslavia, into a Bosniak family. Dzeko is multilingual, speaking fluently four languages: Bosnian, Czech, German and English. Dzeko Stated That AC Milan has always been his favorite club and his favorite player Andriy Shevchenko. Dzeko is a first cousin of fellow national team player Emir Spahic.

Personal information
Full name Edin Džeko
Date of birth 17 March 1986 (age 25)
Place of birth of Sarajevo, SFR Yugoslavia
Height 1.93 m (6 ft 4 in)
Playing position Striker

Club information
Current club Manchester City
Number 10

Youth career
1996-2003 Zeljeznicar

Senior career
years Team
2003-2005 Zeljeznicar 40 (5)
Teplice 2005-2007 43 (16)
2005 Usti nad Labem (loan) 15 (6)
VfL Wolfsburg 2007-2011 111 (66)
2011 - Manchester City 37 (15)

National team
2003-2004 Bosnia & Herzegovina U19
2006-2007 Bosnia & Herzegovina U21 5 (1)
2007 - Bosnia & Herzegovina 41 (20)

Honours

Club
Wolfsburg
     Bundesliga: 2008-09

Manchester City
     FA Cup: 2010-11

International
     Bosnian Footballer of the Year (2): 2009, 2010
     Castrol Performance Index (1): EDGE Performance of the Month (August 2011)

Wolfsburg
     Bundesliga players' German Footballer of the Year for 2008-09 season
     Bundesliga top-scorer with 22 Goals 2009-10

Manchester City     Etihad Player of the Month Award (2): January 2011; August 2011
     Premier League Player of the Month (1): August 2011