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Asmir Begović is a male soccer player from Bosnia and Herzegovina. He plays as a goalkeeper for Leicester City and wears the number 31. His professional career began in 2005. Begović stands 198 centimeters tall and has a mass of 101 kilograms.
He is also associated with the turbo-folk genre. Begović has 291,798 social media followers.
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Key facts
- 2005
- → La Louvière (loan)
- 2006
- → Macclesfield Town (loan)
- 2007
- → AFC Bournemouth (loan)
- 2008
- → Yeovil Town (loan)
- 2009
- → Ipswich Town (loan)
- 2020
- → AC Milan (loan)
- 2025
- Leicester City
- Full name
- Asmir Begović
- Date of birth
- ( 1987-06-20 ) 20 June 1987 (age 38)
- Place of birth
- Trebinje , SR Bosnia and Herzegovina, Yugoslavia
- Height
- 2.00 m (6 ft 7 in)
- Position
- Goalkeeper
- Current team
- Leicester City
- 1994 1997
- FC Kirchhausen
- 1998 2003
- Southwest Sting Edmonton
- 2003 2005
- Portsmouth
- Years
- Team
- 2005 2010
- Portsmouth
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- Bosnia and Herzegovina
- Place of birth
- Trebinje
- Occupation
- association football player
- Languages spoken
- Bosnian
- Religion
- Islam
- Participant in
- 2014 FIFA World Cup
- Sport
- association football
- Member of team
- Yeovil Town F.C.
- Position played
- goalkeeper
- League
- Premier League
- Country for sport
- Bosnia and Herzegovina
- Mass
- 101
- Image
- 20150331 2026 AUT BIH 2176.jpg
- Height
- 198
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- Commons category
- Asmir Begović
- date of birth
- 1987-06-20
- sport number
- 31
- name in native language
- Asmir Begović
- start of work period
- 2005-00-00
- social media followers
- 289661
- ethnic group
- Bosniaks
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Encyclopedic overview
Asmir Begović ( Bosnian pronunciation: [âsmir bêːɡoʋitɕ]; born 20 June 1987) is a Bosnian professional footballer who plays as a goalkeeper for EFL League One club Leicester City.
Begović started his senior career at Portsmouth, signing for them in the summer of 2003. After a sequence of loans, he made his Premier League debut in May 2009 and was sold to Stoke City for £3.25 million in February 2010. In the 2012–13 season, he played every league match and won the club's Player of the Year award. In November 2013, Begović became the fifth goalkeeper to score a goal in the Premier League, scoring from 97.5 yards (89.15 meters) against Southampton after 13 seconds, also getting the World Record for "longest goal scored in football". In July 2015, he joined Premier League champions Chelsea for a fee of £8 million, remaining second-choice until his move to AFC Bournemouth two years later. After losing his place to Artur Boruc early in 2019, he was loaned to Qarabağ and AC Milan before signing for Everton.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Asmir Begović” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.