Boban Georgiev

Boban Georgiev (Macedonian: Бобан Георгиев, born 26 January 1997) is a Macedonian professional footballer who plays as a left winger for Bosnian Premier League club Borac Banja Luka.

Boban Georgiev
Personal information
Full name Boban Georgiev
Date of birth (1997-01-26) 26 January 1997
Place of birth Štip, Macedonia
Height 1.77 m (5 ft 9 1⁄2 in)
Position(s) Left winger
Club information
Current team
 Borac Banja Luka
Number 70
Youth career
Metalurg Skopje
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
2014–2015 Metalurg Skopje 2 (0)
2016–2017 Bregalnica 31 (6)
2017–2019 Sileks 63 (10)
2019–2020 Radnik Surdulica 17 (3)
2020– Borac Banja Luka 11 (0)
National team
2013 Macedonia U17 3 (0)
2017 Macedonia U21 4 (0)
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and correct as of 13 December 2020

Club career

Born in Štip, Georgiev made his senior debut with Metalurg Skopje in the 2014–15 Macedonian First Football League season[1] but at time was still mostly used in the youth championship. In 2016, he signed with hometowcn club Bregalnica, where his patience of being mostly a reserve during the first season (two appearances only), paid off, as in the 2016–17 season he became a standard first-team player and scored 6 goals in 29 appearances.[1] However, the Macedonian league is formed of just 10 teams, and Bregalnica was relegated as it finished 9th, so Georgiev's boost during the season made it highly improbable for the young talent to play in the second league.

In the summer of 2017, he signed with Sileks, a mid-table team.[1] Despite interest of bigger clubs, those were giving priority to experienced players, while Sileks granted him playtime since the very beginning. After another mid-table season, Georgiev enjoyed being a regular and making another consecutive season with 29 league appearances.[1] His position in Sileks grew even stronger in the second season in the club by making 34 league appearances crowned with 8 goals.[1] His performance didn't passed unnoticed, and, despite Sileks avoided relegation at the play-off´s, Georgiev felt it was time for new greater challenges, and by end of June 2019, he signed with Serbian side Radnik Surdulica.[2] Georgiev's signing was soon followed by his compatriot Nikola Bogdanovski, and the joined the already well established Zoran Danoski. Georgiev made his debut for Radnik in a 4–0 home victory against Spartak Subotica, scoring two goals.[3][1]

On 2 September 2020, he signed a two-year contract with Bosnian Premier League club Borac Banja Luka.[4] Georgiev made his official debut for Borac nine days later, on 11 September, in a league game against Sarajevo.[5] He scored his first goal for Borac in a cup game against Travnik on 30 September 2020.[6]

International career

Georgiev made his international debut in 2013 for the Macedonia U17 national team at the 2013 UEFA European Under-17 Championship qualifiers.[7] At the time he hadn't even made his senior debut at club level, but his talent stood up. Afterwards, an option to choose mid-table Macedonian clubs such as Bregalnica or Sileks to gain more playing time, cost Georgiev to sacrifice to fight for the national team spots, which inevitably coaches gave preference to either foreign-based, or big clubs reserves talents. However, his performance in 2017 was impossible to be ignored and he returned to the national team, this time the U21 national team in their 2017 UEFA European Under-21 Championship qualifiers.[1]

Career statistics

Club
As of match played 13 December 2020.[1]
Appearances and goals by club, season and competition
Club Season League Cup Continental Other Total
DivisionAppsGoalsAppsGoalsAppsGoalsAppsGoalsAppsGoals
Metalurg Skopje 2014–15 Macedonian First League 200010—30
Bregalnica 2015–16 Macedonian First League 2000——20
2016–17 Macedonian First League 29631——327
Total 31631——347
Sileks 2017–18 Macedonian First League 29200——292
2018–19 Macedonian First League 34820—1[lower-alpha 1]23710
Total 631020—126612
Radnik Surdulica 2019–20 Serbian SuperLiga 17332——205
Borac Banja Luka 2020–21 Bosnian Premier League 1102110—141
Career total 12419104201213725
  1. Appearances in 2018–19 Macedonian First Football League relegation play-off

References
  1. "B. Georgiev: Soccerway". Soccerway. Retrieved 13 December 2020.
  2. Бобан Георгиев пред трансфер во Радник Сурдулица at makfudbal.mk, 26-6-2019, retrieved 27-7-2019 (in Macedonian)
  3. Boban Georgiev at superliga.rs (in Serbian)
  4. M. Šljivak (2 September 2020). "Pojačao se FK Borac" (in Bosnian). sportsport.ba. Retrieved 2 September 2020.
  5. E.B. (11 September 2020). "Sarajevo u fantastičnom derbiju savladalo Borac i preuzelo lidersku poziciju na tabeli" (in Bosnian). Klix.ba. Retrieved 11 September 2020.
  6. "Borac i Rudar Prijedor u osmini finala Kupa BiH" (in Bosnian). Sport1.ba. 30 September 2020. Retrieved 30 September 2020.
  7. Boban Georgiev at UEFA.com
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