Asmir Begovic was born in 1987 on June 20. This is a fairly famous football player, goalkeeper, who today defends the colors of his national team (the team of Bosnia and Herzegovina) and the London “Chelsea”. He has a rather interesting career, so it’s worth talking about her in more detail.
FC Portsmouth
Asmir Begovic concluded his first youth contract with the English team Portsmouth, and two years later he signed a full-fledged adult agreement. However, after this happened, the player began to be leased to other teams, and to those that do not occupy the most prestigious place in the list of clubs. But Portsmouth executives say this was done for a specific purpose. Asmir was sent there so that he gained experience.
The first time he was rented by “La Louviere”. It was a team from Belgium. Asmir Begovic entered the field only twice as part of this club. Then he returned to his homeland and was immediately sent to the “Macclesfield Town”. In theory, the football player was supposed to spend a whole season there, however, having gone out onto the field only three times, he received serious knee damage.
Further career
In 2007, Asmir Begovic moved to Bournemouth - and again as a rental player. Moreover, the contract term was six months. But there he did not stay long. At the time of the “window” he even got into the application of FC “Portsmouth” for the Premier League match against FC “Aston Villa”.
In 2008, he signed a contract with a team such as Yeovil Town. And only on May 18, in 2009, he made his debut as part of his club. He went out with the composition of “Portsmouth” on the field and defended the gate. The score was 3: 1. It was a match held in the Premier League against Sunderland. After that, Ipswich Town rented it once more, and then, upon his return, he finally consolidated his position in the main team of Portsmouth. Before moving to Stoke City, he had 15 matches with the team.
But then Asmir Begovic, whose photo is provided in the article, left. “Stoke City” gave him 3.25 million pounds. Offers came from Tottenham Hotspur, but the goalkeeper refused.
Asmir Begovic was particularly famous in 2013, when in the match against Southampton, only 12 seconds after the start of the game (!) He knocked the ball out of his own penalty ... and just hit them in the opponent’s net. It was phenomenal. Goal recorded in the Guinness Book of Records. After all, he is really the farthest in the history of football (as much as 91.9 meters).
International career
Asmir Begovic in the mid-2000s was an advertising model of the famous company “Adidas”. After that he was noticed and invited to play for the youth team of the Canadian team. He agreed and appeared at the 2007 World Youth Championships. On August 14, he was called up to the first Canadian national team. Then there was a game against the Irish team. However, in that meeting, Asmir was not called to the field.
The same thing happened in November. He was in the composition, however, he did not receive playing time. This could not continue any longer, so in 2009, Asmir Begovic decided to agree to the proposal of the head coach of the Bosnian team. He was not opposed to defending the honor of the team of the country in which he was born.
But only in the first two meetings he was not given playing time. But then for the third time he entered the field - he replaced Kenan Khasagich at the end of the match. Asmir kept the goal “dry”, which earned him confidence, and then they began to call him for full matches.
Personal life
What else can be interesting to say about such a football player as Asmir Begovic? His religion is Christianity, the main activity, of course, is sport. The father of the footballer was also a goalkeeper and played for FC Leotar and subsequently Iskra. When Yugoslavia began to fall apart, Asmir moved with his family to Germany, and then to Canada. But in 2004 they returned. Not to Yugoslavia - to Germany. In order for Begovic Jr. to start studying at the youth school. By the way, today he defends the colors of a very famous club - London Chelsea.
Asmir has a wife. She is a simple but pretty American who, after some time after the wedding, gave birth to his daughter Taylor.