Emra Tahirovic will he end up playing for Sweden or Bosnia?

[Vic]

The young promising striker which currently plays for Halmstads BK in the Swedish league Allsvenskan has played awesome during the first games of the seasons and scored an fantastic goal yesterday.

The headlines in the Swedish news today was if he will end up playing for Sweden in the future.

Emra Tahirovic is born in Sarajevo 1987 but moved to Sweden because of the war 1992.

http://img.aftonbladet.se/sport/0608/14/tahir.jpg

He's 188cm and looks like Ibrahimovic in his gamestyle.

He has double citizenships but theirs no doubt that he wants to play for Sweden.

"Yeah that's my biggest dream to play for the swedish nationalteam but i haven't got any opportunities yet"

He's not strange to play for the bosnian NT if he doesn't get the chance in Sweden.

"No, if i don't get the chance soon i will most certainly chose Bosnia"

Well if this turns out to be another Ibra case of upset Bosnian fans you can now see what this kid really wants.

[AxelFoley]

Never heard of the guy, he looks like he's from Marocko or Egypt though.

[Fenerliyim]

lol

[Vic]

You can't be following the Swedish league Axel ;)

[Pape]

You guys want to steal another one now? get your own damn talent dudes

[AxelFoley]

You can't be following the Swedish league Axel ;)

No not at all. No offence but the Swedish league is as exciting as watching a race between a turtle and a one-legged spider. I only get updates on how well Eguren is doing, as well as Larsson.

[Vic]

You guys want to steal another one now? get your own damn talent dudes

As i've said earlier, his talent developed here in Sweden not in Bosnia. He wants to play for Sweden, so what are you complaining about? Do you guys borrow players to another nation for developing and then you want them back? :yawn:

He played his first game for Sweden for some days ago against Switzerland in U21 and if he gets the call up to Sweden's A-Team he will take it without blinking twice.

[AxelFoley]

You guys want to steal another one now? get your own damn talent dudes

Seriously dude, cool off. No one is forcing him to play for Sweden. As you can see he rather wants to play for Sweden than Bosnia. Why don't you go and think about why that is, instead of accusing us of "stealing another one"

[Centarfor9]

first of all why does he have a girls name? :)

second i have articles hehe just like last time (lest start it when it's fresh lol)

our coach is funny about the situation haha

#383 (http://forums.soccerfansnetwork.com/showpost.php?p=836065&postcount=383)

Na pitanje novinara da li je bio u kontaktu sa Emrom koji je izrazio zelju da zaigra za BiH, slektor Muzurovic je odgovorio ovako:

- Pa to je samo njegova zelja. Ali ja stvarno ne znam ko je on. Znam ima dosta talentovanih mladica sa BeHa korijenima sirom Evrope..

Na pitanje zar ne misli da bi ga gospodin Muzurovic u sluzbi selektora trebao posjetiti i uvjeriti se da je Emra sad zaista trenutno jedan od najvecih talenata u Allsvenskan-u slektor je odgovorio krajnje neozbiljno, uz smijeh:

-NEKA DODJE OVAMO PREKO RASPUSTA DA GA POGLEDAMO! Ili neka nam posalje Dvd sa svojim utakmicama. Mi smo siromasan savez i nemam novca da putujemo po Evropi i da pratimo "talente", odgovorio je Muzurovic.
haha

Emra obviously wants to play for Bosnia but our coach said

that is only his wish...but i don't know who he is ... I know that there are a lot of talented youths with bosnian roots all over the europe

he also said that Emra should come to Bosnia over "summer break" (as in school break haha) so they can se him or he can send in a tape ... they don't have money to follow talents over Europe

it's same case as in Zlatan

last time i was laughing and thinking we didn't need Zlatan and it's same with this guy (there is a catch here :))

[Pape]

As i've said earlier, his talent developed here in Sweden not in Bosnia. He wants to play for Sweden, so what are you complaining about? Do you guys borrow players to another nation for developing and then you want them back? :yawn:

He played his first game for Sweden for some days ago against Switzerland in U21 and if he gets the call up to Sweden's A-Team he will take it without blinking twice.

:redeyes:

Why don't you make us another war and recruit some more immigrants that way?

I swear to god I hope Sweden and BiH make it to the finals and just for the fun of it BiH knocks you out, I know that Zlatan would be too ashamed to step on that pitch.

[Pape]

I have a 1,000 friends here immigrants from BiH, in the same situation as Emra and some just like Zlatan and NONE of them would ever consider playing for another country, and I know that is true wherever I go. I just don't know what you Swedes are putting into their pockets but it must be better than gold.

[Centarfor9]

I think it's wierd that he says he will choose Sweden if he doesn't get a call from Bosnia when our coach never heard of him ... plus we have no room for him (and he probably knows that) (Dzeko, Muslimovic, Custovic and Ibisevic) but if we say we have no room for him, how does Sweden (a better team today 6.6.2007 :)) have room for him?

The fact he is playing and scoring lots of goals in Sweden's league doesn't mean much as if he would be doing it in Bundesliga, EPL etc ... I doubt top 4 teams in Sweden are much better than top 4 teams from Bosnia.

Anyway i don't care if he plays for us or not (just like last time :)) because he is his own man and he can choose.

if he plays for sweden he won't be the first or last to betray his roots :)

this is a minor deal in my books ...if this was a midfielder or a defender it would be a different story

[AxelFoley]

I have a 1,000 friends here immigrants from BiH, in the same situation as Emra and some just like Zlatan and NONE of them would ever consider playing for another country, and I know that is true wherever I go. I just don't know what you Swedes are putting into their pockets but it must be better than gold.

How about the chance of playing in a World Cup/Euro Cup, which is not likely to happen for Bosnia in the near future. Quit acting like a bitch because your own players won't even wear your jersey.

[Centarfor9]

How about the chance of playing in a World Cup/Euro Cup, which is not likely to happen for Bosnia in the near future.
plus in their minds (probably rightfully up to today) playing for foreign teams (any foreign team expect Luxembourg <-- i might be wrong on this one) is better choice for their career i.e. getting to a big name football club

[Pape]

How about the chance of playing in a World Cup/Euro Cup, which is not likely to happen for Bosnia in the near future. Quit acting like a bitch because your own players won't even wear your jersey.

Man up kid and make some real Swedish babies that can play the game. I'm not sad to be losing these guy's talent. Don't worry about that we have enough talent to win, but it makes me mad that these boys will act like they are a proud to be "Swedish" when they have a country, amazing culture that they can't have a reason not to be proud of.

On the other hand it makes me sick to my stomach that my country would ever think of stealing a Swedish talent over my own to play for my NT. Whomever has the strength to pull this off and act proud of it I will for sure always be against.

And you want to bash BiH? BiH has been around for what a decade? and already making great challenges for a place in a major tournament, WC, now Euro. Compare us to you, and even compare our populations and you will be proud and maybe even regret for trying to take foreign players.

Give it another few years and you will see all 3 powers from Ex-Yugoslavia, Croatia, Bosnia, and Serbia making these major competitions and playing as favorites and contendors every match not just to sucky nations but playing as favorites when playing you.

And just another thought, do you really truely believe that these foreigners will play their heart out for "Sweden"? Because I truely believe that they don't have that ability in them, not for Sweden.

[Sarajbahçe]

why dont bosnia just get him and depends how old he is probably under 21
just play him on under 21 bosnia squad few games and if he does kick ass
just call him up
wtf does he want
to play on bosnia or swedish squad right away
he will get a better chance of playing on bosnias squad over swedish
bosnia u-21 squad would suit him for now

[Centarfor9]

dude it depends how he feels if he wants to play for Sweden he should

this is free world

i hope he chooses team that he feels it his home (for example Zlatan Ibrahimovic's home is Sweden and he chose Sweden and Zlatan Muslimovic's home is Bosnia so he chose Bosnia)

At the time this dude is not even on the map ... there are much better players ahead of him ... if you ask me Sweden can have him if he wants to play for them. :)

[AxelFoley]

Man up kid and make some real Swedish babies that can play the game. I'm not sad to be losing these guy's talent. Don't worry about that we have enough talent to win, but it makes me mad that these boys will act like they are a proud to be "Swedish" when they have a country, amazing culture that they can't have a reason not to be proud of.

On the other hand it makes me sick to my stomach that my country would ever think of stealing a Swedish talent over my own to play for my NT. Whomever has the strength to pull this off and act proud of it I will for sure always be against.

And you want to bash BiH? BiH has been around for what a decade? and already making great challenges for a place in a major tournament, WC, now Euro. Compare us to you, and even compare our populations and you will be proud and maybe even regret for trying to take foreign players.

Give it another few years and you will see all 3 powers from Ex-Yugoslavia, Croatia, Bosnia, and Serbia making these major competitions and playing as favorites and contendors every match not just to sucky nations but playing as favorites when playing you.

And just another thought, do you really truely believe that these foreigners will play their heart out for "Sweden"? Because I truely believe that they don't have that ability in them, not for Sweden.

Yes I bash BiH, but only compared to Sweden, who is far superior. And no offence, but I don't think that they are going to any tournament soon (soon as in the next 10-20 years).

And "powers"? Nah, don't see it happening. But I will be the first one congratulating you if I'm wrong.

As for the players feelings for their nationality, I know that Zlatan is a 100% former Yugoslavia type of guy, I don't think for one second he truly loved Sweden and the NT before becoming a part of it. I haven't met one single Bosna/Croat/Serb etc who actually roots for Sweden, praise the country etc. And since he lived in kind of a "ghetto" in Sweden, I know he was even more aware of his past and used to call Swedes "Svenne" or "Svennar." So I understand why you are pissed, but like Sinter said, they have a chance of getting both discovered and playing in a major tournament, so they take it.

[Centarfor9]

Yes I bash BiH, but only compared to Sweden, who is far superior.
there is no such a thing as far superior

if Sweden played Bosnia the score would be close


And no offence, but I don't think that they are going to any tournament soon (soon as in the next 10-20 years).
how bout next year :D


And "powers"? Nah, don't see it happening. But I will be the first one congratulating you if I'm wrong.
i hope you do cuz we are second in our group now and we have the "fate" in our hands (if everything goes as planned we should be there at Euro 2008)


As for the players feelings for their nationality, I know that Zlatan is a 100% former Yugoslavia type of guy, I don't think for one second he truly loved Sweden and the NT before becoming a part of it. I haven't met one single Bosna/Croat/Serb etc who actually roots for Sweden, praise the country etc. And since he lived in kind of a "ghetto" in Sweden, I know he was even more aware of his past and used to call Swedes "Svenne" or "Svennar." So I understand why you are pissed, but like Sinter said, they have a chance of getting both discovered and playing in a major tournament, so they take it.
well said

but i think you way underestimate bosnian football

[Sarajbahçe]

http://bihsoccer.com/galerija/thumb.php?MaxSize=508&src=albums/Reprezentacija BiH/BiH - Turska 3-2/10.jpg&view=y
GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOL LLLLLLL

[Sarajbahçe]

sorry for the long comment
stupid thing wont let me edit lol

[AxelFoley]

there is no such a thing as far superior

if Sweden played Bosnia the score would be close


I don't believe it would, really.


i hope you do cuz we are second in our group now and we have the "fate" in our hands (if everything goes as planned we should be there at Euro 2008)



I did see the group and your position and I was impressed, also I was thrilled that you beat the shit out of Turkey (not a big fan), but I'm not so sure your streak will continue. But I really prefer you guys over Turkey and Norway (bit of rivalry as you may understand)

[Sarajbahçe]

I did see the group and your position and I was impressed, also I was thrilled that you beat the shit out of Turkey (not a big fan), but I'm not so sure your streak will continue. But I really prefer you guys over Turkey and Norway (bit of rivalry as you may understand)
everyone always underestimates us
we are better than we look
we came twice close to qualifying for major events
euro 2004, and world cup 2006
both 3rd place
i believe we have a huge chance here
when this is over i would love to see bosna celebrate

[Sarajbahçe]

i just hope that we get turkey greece and norway lol

[AxelFoley]

Wow, 2 hard games away, that's what I meant. It looks good now, but it will be hard to keep that position. Especially when Turkey have 1 game less played.

[Sarajbahçe]

^yes thats true
but whatever soccer has taught you is that anything can happen my friend
do not underestimate us and just put us out just yet
we have hungary and moldova next and hopefully get 6 points off both teams
while greece plays norway and bosnia
and hopefully norway can beat them or get point off them
and that we can do the same going for win or getting a point would be good too
but win we have to go for
and after that my friend
they play turkey away and i hope turkey beats them so then count us in
see its too early to judge us
3 hard games for greece coming up
turkey will get back on track and will be rolling past malta, hungary, moldova
before playing greece
so i do believe that turkey can kick greece off that first spot and that bosnia can make it to second i hope
i am just upset that greece won 2 games barely by 1 goal
malta and moldova, shittiest teams in our group
so that counts too
if they didnt then it would have been even better for us
the moral of the story is
dont count out anyone just yet
this is a 4 way horse race
Turkey Bosnia Greece Norway

[AxelFoley]

Don't worry dude, Turkey will definitely beat Greece. Greece lost at HOME to them for God's sake :lol:

But I think Greece and Turkey will be the ones advancing from the group, I'm afraid :( But we'll see!


P.S. Didn't you only have like a minimal chance of getting to the EC2004 & WC 2006? Could you fill me in on that?

[Sarajbahçe]

^ why do you always put bosnia down
if we won last game against denmar in ec 2004 we woulda made it and it ended tie
if we beat serbia in wc 2006 we woulda gone through
minimal chance, we are not luxembourg..

[Sarajbahçe]

^ ohh when we pull off great results
i will be expecting an appology for putting us down

[AxelFoley]

Was it really that close? A won aainst both and you would have qualified? Do you have the final group-standings rom both quals?

[Sarajbahçe]

KVALIFIKACIJE ZA EP 2004

1 Danska 8 4 3 1 15 9 15
2 Rumunija 8 4 2 2 21 9 14
3 Norveska 8 4 2 2 9 5 14
4 Bosna i Hercegovina 8 4 1 3 7 8 13
5 Luksemburg

we played denmark 1:1 if we won we would have gone through

KVALIFIKACIJE ZA SP 2006

1 Srbija i Crna Gora 10 6 4 0 16 1 22
2 Spanija 10 5 5 0 19 3 20
3 Bosna i Hercegovina 10 4 4 2 12 9 16
4 Belgija 10 3 3 4 16 11 12
5 Litvanija 10 2 4 4 8 9 10
6 San Marino

we lost last game to serbia
if we won we would have gone through for game to game rule

[Sarajbahçe]

if you cant understand that here is a english version

Qualification For EC 2004

1 Denmark 8 4 3 1 15 9 15
2 Romania 8 4 2 2 21 9 14
3 Norway 8 4 2 2 9 5 14
4 Bosnia & Herzegovina 8 4 1 3 7 8 13
5 Luxembourg

Qualification For WC 2006

1 Serbia & Montenegro 10 6 4 0 16 1 22
2 Spain 10 5 5 0 19 3 20
3 Bosnia & Herzegovina 10 4 4 2 12 9 16
4 Belgium 10 3 3 4 16 11 12
5 Lithuania 10 2 4 4 8 9 10
6 San Marino

[AxelFoley]

:lol:If it is the same numbers and almost the same names I think I can handle the figures ;)

Anyways, it seems there is a lot of "if's". Other teams could also have gotten other results you know.

[Sarajbahçe]

well yeah but they didnt if we just pulled off a win it would have been perfect
we are only getting better and better
dont you worry
we started off
and now we are playing top teams as spain which we tied and stupid ref extends time so they score 1:1, they had nothing on us
we beat turkey another top team
we beat norway
we are only getting better dont you worry
i have a good feeling about this EC 2008

[Sarajbahçe]

http://i146.photobucket.com/albums/r250/l3oSaNaC_Pics/Bosna3-2TurkeyGoal.jpg
GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOALLL!!

[AxelFoley]

Oooooooooooooh! Are you the team that Spain scored against in the 98th minute???

[Vic]

dude it depends how he feels if he wants to play for Sweden he should

this is free world

i hope he chooses team that he feels it his home (for example Zlatan Ibrahimovic's home is Sweden and he chose Sweden and Zlatan Muslimovic's home is Bosnia so he chose Bosnia)

At the time this dude is not even on the map ... there are much better players ahead of him ... if you ask me Sweden can have him if he wants to play for them. :)

Well said

Anyway i don't underestimate Bosnia nowdays, i must admit i did before the qualifiers but you guys have shown class.

Hopefully you can deliver in the upcoming games and for once take the final step to the finals.

Ohh and Pape, yeah it would be nice to see Sweden vs Bosnia for that matter of Zlatan's and trust me he wouldn't mind scoring ;)

[AxelFoley]

I would bet my half nut he wouldn't celebrate openly if he scored against Bosnia OR Croatia.

[Vic]

I would bet my half nut he wouldn't celebrate openly if he scored against Bosnia OR Croatia.

It's hard to say really and that's why it should be interesting to see a Bosnia-Sweden game.

He wouldn't mind score though but he might just like you say respect his roots with not celebrating openly....who knows?

However he had his choice and he chosed Sweden before Bosnia, that says pretty much everything, don't u think?

[Viking_81]

You guys want to steal another one now? get your own damn talent dudes

How retarded is this ?. You guys are having a war so other countries does the right thing and let your refugees come to a stable country, when we do, you start complaining that Bosnians that grew up in Sweden end up playing for the Swedish NT. How about showing some appreciation ?, Muslimovic might very well not be playing football today if it wasn't for him being in the Swedish football school. He gave you 3 points yesterday. Quit your whining.

I think this Tahirovic guy isn't worth getting riled up over right now anyways. Sweden has many young talented players but few will make it all the way to the NT.

[Viking_81]

As for the players feelings for their nationality, I know that Zlatan is a 100% former Yugoslavia type of guy, I don't think for one second he truly loved Sweden and the NT before becoming a part of it. I haven't met one single Bosna/Croat/Serb etc who actually roots for Sweden, praise the country etc. And since he lived in kind of a "ghetto" in Sweden, I know he was even more aware of his past and used to call Swedes "Svenne" or "Svennar." So I understand why you are pissed, but like Sinter said, they have a chance of getting both discovered and playing in a major tournament, so they take it.

Actually you are wrong, before his first match for Sweden. Zlatan stated in interviews that the Swedish NT and also playing in Italy was the goals he had set up for himself as a football player. He stated that he would want to follow in the steps of Yksel Osmanovski (which he did and then some)

P.S How about giving any Bosnian-Swedish threads a rest DaRealest. I'm just saying.

[Vic]

I think this Tahirovic guy isn't worth getting riled up over right now anyways. Sweden has many young talented players but few will make it all the way to the NT.

Yeah that's very true Viking. Tahirovic has potential to be a very good footballer but it's a long way to go.

However the swedish future looks good and i have big expectations in the U21 players, espacially Johan Oremo. PSV has already shown interest in signing him and he's very talanted indeed.

[Vic]

P.S How about giving any Bosnian-Swedish threads a rest DaRealest. I'm just saying.

Yeah i know, just wanted to speak out from what i read in the news about Tahirovic about what he said on playing for Sweden. So i could prevent a future "ibra case" with angry bosnian fans.

You're right, it wasn't the smartest thing to put up a "similar" thread like the one with Ibrahimovic. I will ask a moderator so he can close this one, to prevent ugly comments.

[Centarfor9]

P.S. Didn't you only have like a minimal chance of getting to the EC2004 & WC 2006? Could you fill me in on that?
we needed a win in the last matches of both trails

for Euro 2004 qualifications last game we tied Denmark 1-1 and
for World Cup 2006 last game we lost to Serbia and Montenegro 1-0 (away)

i won't get into the games or the qualifications ...lets just say Uefa sucks! :boo:

[Centarfor9]

I will ask a moderator so he can close this one, to prevent ugly comments.
there won't be such comments

you can have this Tahirovic guy :lol:

:D

[Fenerliyim]

no need for another fight, players choose their countries they want to play for, obviously some will rather chose the country which gave them a home, education, and a life over one that gave nothing.


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