Weekly on Bosnian football


The articles in this website is the translation of the ones which are published in www.haberbosnak.com, the web portal of the Bosniak community in Turkey. There is a population of around 2 million living in Turkey who has a Bosnian/Bosniak descent. Haber Boşnak (Bosniak News) claims to carry news from Bosnia and Sandzak region (of partly in Serbia and partly in Montenegro) to the Bosniak community in Turkey.

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28 Ekim 2012 Pazar

BOSNIAN CUP SECOND ROUND SECOND LEG MATCHES PLAYED


The second leg matches of the Bosnian Cup, where the teams ahead to quarter finals were determined were played by October 24, 2012 where the first leg matches were played on October 3, 2012.

Sarajevo had a 2-1 home victory by two goals of Emir Hadziç, which was not enough for the revenge of the 3-1 first match result. İgor Aniçiç, who was star of the previous match with hat-trick, had scored the only crucial goal of his team when the score was 1-0 for Sarajevo.
(Photo: Sarajevo captain Sedin Torlak struggling in the match against Zrinjski on Wednesday night, Oslobodjenje)

Zeljo had an easy 3-0 home victory against Slavija, with two goals from Vernes Selimoviç and an own goal by Slavija’s young defender right Jovan Svitlica. The first leg was 3-1 away victory for railroaders.

Şiroki Brijeg, who had a spectacular 6-0 away victory against Hajduk Orasje, had disappointed the fans with a modest 1-0 victory, which had an expectation of watching half dozen of goals.

Olimpik Sarajevo, who had a shameful 0-0 home draw against First League of BiH team Çapljina, could pass the stage only after penalty shoots.

The results of the second leg matches of the second round of Bosnian Cup are as follow:
(The scores in parenthesis are the first leg scores and the bold written teams are those who qualified to quarter finals)

Velez Mostar: 0 - ZVİJEZDA GRADAÇAC: 3 (2-1)
FK Sarajevo: 2 HŞK ZRİNJSKİ: 1 (1-3)
ŞİROKİ BRİJEG: 1 - Hajduk Oraşje: 0 (6-0)
Radnik Bijeljina: 0 - GOŞK GABELA: 0 – (0-1)
SLOGA DOBOJ: 2 - Sutjeska Foça: 1(1-1)
Rijeka Vitez: 0 - ÇELİK ZENİCA: 1 (0–2)
ZELJEZNİCAR: 3 - FK Slavija: 0 – (3-1)
Çapljina: 0 - OLİMPİK SARAJEVO: 2 (0-0)

24 Ekim 2012 Çarşamba

BOSNIAN PREMIJER LEAGUE 10th WEEK


It seems that FK Sarajevo is the one who have benefitted the most from the break which was given due to matches of Bosnian national football team. Just before the break, Sarajevo had two defeats, the first one was 3-1 away defeat in Bosnian Cup against Zrinjski, and the second one was 1-0 away match against Travnik. Those two defeats decreased the point difference between Zeljo and Sarajevo into two. It seems, Sarajevo players, who were demoralized by those results had an effective therapy during the break. They had a nice 2-0 home victory against Borac Banja Luka, where they scored the two goals by defence players. On the other side, Borac felt behind the struggle for championship after losing the three points

Zeljo took three points from the 2-1 away match in Srebrenik. The three goals of the match were scored by railroaders. Defender Jadranko Bogiçeviç scored the first goal for Zeljo at 22nd minute, and he scored the last goal of the match at 90+4, but into his own net this time. It is a not bad that a defender player scores two goals in a match, but would have been better if both were scored in the same net, most preferably in the net of the rival team.

The most spectacular result came from Mostar. Velez scored six goals against Travnik! Mirza Çemaloviç, son of Mostar aged 19 had a hat-trick in the match where nobody expected that kind of a result.

(19 years old Velez striker Cemalovic, kissing the grass of Vrapcici after hat-trick. Photo: sporsport.ba)
Çelik was the team, who finally cut off the path of Zrinjski on her silence but sure way to championship struggle. Prisoners (Robijaşi – the nick name of Çelik football fans) had a 2-0 home victory against Zrinjski and they caused the point between Zrinjski and the leader to increase up to 6 points again.

The results of the matches played in the Bosnian Premier League in the 10th week are as follow:
FK Sarajevo: 2 – Borac Banja Luka: 0
Gradina Srebrenik: 1 – Zeljeznicar: 2
Çelik Zenica: 2 – HŞK Zrinjski: 0
Olimpik Sarajevo: 2 – Zvijezda Gradaçac: 1
Rudar Prijedor: 0 – FK Slavija: 1
Velez Mostar: 6 – NK Travnik: 0
Leotar Trebinje: 1 – Şiroki Brijeg: 3
GOŞK Gabela: 0 – Radnik Bijeljina: 0

Standings of the teams by the end of 10th week:
(Table: rezultati.com)
Next week’s schedule:
Zvijezda - Sarajevo
Slavija - Gradina
Şiroki Brijeg – GOŞK
Travnik – Leotar
Zeljeznicar – Olimpik
Zrinjski – Prijedor
Radnik - Çelik

FK SLOBODA TUZLA
Sloboda does not pass through easier day in First League of Federation of Bosnia-Herzegovina, who was relegated from Premijer League last year after unlucky games at last weeks. It seems Sloboda still goes ahead with black clouds over them. Sloboda Tuzla had a 3-1 home victory against NK Jedinstvo Bihaç and increased to 8th rank. Next week, they will have another home match against NK Iskro Bugojno and a probable victory may increase Sloboda to upper positions in the league table.

FK NOVI PAZAR

Novi Pazar missed chance this week against OFK Beograd, who had easy defeats against Novi Pazar’s struggle to stay in the league last season. However, Novi Pazar not only could not take the revenge and but also lost the opportunity to have three easy points at home and had a home 0-0 draw. In case of a victory, they would increase to fifth rank, however they stayed at sixth.

This weekend, Pazarci will play against Partizan in away match, the leader of Serbian Super Liga and shall not be surprise if they will drop down to 10th rank.

Standings of the teams by the end of 9th week in Serbian Super Liga:
(Table: utakmice.rs)


(Fotoğraf: Sportsport.ba)


23 Ekim 2012 Salı

DRAGONS AHEAD TO BRAZIL


Bosnian Dragons, taking attentions with reliable performance in three recent tournaments, goes ahead for Brazil 2014. Thanks to good performance points, Bosnia is in a relatively easy group and is currently the leader of the group.

Bosnia had a good start on September 7 by a superb 8-1 start against Liechtenstein where Vedad İbiseviç and Edin Dzeko had hat-tricked. Since then, thanks to the goal surplus, Bosnia has been the leader of the group, beyond Greece. In the second match, played in Biljino Polje Stadium in Zenica, Bosnia was victorious against Latvia with 4-1. The third match was with Greece and a 0-0 draw can be identified as a success against the runner up team. After four days, again in Biljino Polje against Lithuania, İbişeviç at 29th, Dzeko at 35th, and Pjaniç at 41st minutes, within a period of 12 minutes, did the good job and continues leadership.

(Table: Fifa.com)
Dzeko, who scored one goal and assisted another, reaching 26 goals in 49 matches, began to hold the title of most goal scorer of Bosnian national team, which was held by Zvijezdan Misimoviç by 25 goals in 71 matches. Mirelam Pjaniç, the striker of AS Roma, scoring one goal and assisting two others is modest by stating that Ognjen Vranjeş, playing in Krasnodar in Russian League, and originally from Banja Luka was the man of the match with his superb game by cutting off the attacks of Lithuania.
Mirelam Pjanjic (Photo: Oslobodjenje)

Trainer Safet Susiç supported Pjaniç by saying that especially at the second half Vranjeş’s performance was excellent keeping in mind that Lithuania played her best match in the group until now and if they could not score more, it is by the help of Vranjeş.

7 Ekim 2012 Pazar

BOSNIAN CUP SECOND ROUND FIRST LEG MATCHES PLAYED


Second round first leg matches of Bosnian Cup are played in October 3, 2012, Wednesday.

The leader of Premijer League, Sarajevo had an unexpected 3-1 away defeat by Zrinjski. The Serbian player of Zrinjski, Igor Anicic, undoubtedly the man of the match, scored three goals of his team, of which the last one was from a penalty kick. The capital city team found the single goal by Samir Nuhanovic at 82th minute, which made Sarajevo to have a little hop efor the second leg.   

(Photo: Aniçiç is celebrated by his teammmates after his hat-trick against Sarajevo, Dnevni Avaz)
Slavija had a good start by a goal at seventh minute against Zeljeznicar. However, railroaders found the equlizer goal by Eldin Adiloviç at 17th minute. Zeljo’s second goal came by Adiloviç again at 43th minute and the score of the match was determined by Elvir Çoliç at 75th minute: 3-1.

Another team who was victorous in away match was Şiroki Brijeg. Hajduk Orasje, playing in the Northern League of Federation of Bosnia and Hercegovina, the third level league in Bosnia, which should not be confused with HNK Oraşje, the other football team of the town, could not resist against Şiroki Brijeg. Şiroki Brijeg had an away 6-0 victory by three goals in each half.

Not only succesfull in avoiding goals against, but also succesful in scoring goals for, Olimpik had a home draw against First League of FBiH team Çapljina and made it difficult to succeed to quarter finals.

The results of the first leg matches of the third round of Bosnian Cup are as follow:
Zvijezda Gradaçac: 1 – Velez Mostar: 2
HŞK Zrinjski: 3 – FK Sarajevo: 1
Hajduk Oraşje: 0 – Şiroki Brijeg: 6
GOŞK Gabela: 1 – Radnik Bijeljina: 0
Sutjeska Foça: 1 – Sloga Doboj: 1
Çelik Zenica: 2 – Rijeka Vitez: 0
FK Slavija: 1 – Zeljeznicar: 3
Olimpik Sarajevo: 0 – Çapljina: 0

The second leg matches will be played on October 17, 2012.

(Photo: Aniçiç is celebrated by his teammmates after his hat-trick against Sarajevo, Dnevni Avaz)

2 Ekim 2012 Salı

SECOND ROUND MATCHES IN CUP BiH


The second round matches for the Cup Bosnia and Herzegovina will be played tomorrow (October, 3, 2012). The match Schedule including the place of the matches and the previous qualification matches of the rival teams are listed below:

Zvijezda Gradaçac  – Velez Mostar
15:30, Gradaçac
Zvijezda Gradaçac: 5 – Rudar Ugrljevik: 0
Velez Mostar: 3 - Mladost Donji Svilaj: 0

HŞK Zrinjski – FK Sarajevo
17:00, Mostar
Rudar Prijedor: 0 – HŞK Zrinjski: 1
FK Sarajevo: 1 – Gradina Srebrenik: 0

Hajduk Oraşje – Şiroki Brijeg
15:30, Oraşje
Modrica Maxima: 0 – Hajduk Oraşje: 1
Branitelj Mostar: 0 – Şiroki Birjeg: 2

GOŞK Gabela – Radnik Bijeljina
15:30, Gabela
NK Travnik: 1 – GOŞK Gabela: 3
Radnik Bijeljina: 6 – Rudar Zenica: 0

Sutjeska Foça – Sloga Doboj
18:30, Foça
Sloga Doboj: 4 – Tomislav: 0
Sutjeska Foça: 1 – Famos Napredak: 0

Çelik Zenica – Rijeka Vitez
15:30, Zenica
Çelik Zenica: 2 – Podgremec: 1
Rijeka Vitez: 2 – Drina Vişegrad: 1

FK Slavija – Zeljeznicar
Lukavica, 15:30
Leotar Trebinje: 0 – FK Slavija: 1
Mrkonjic Grad: 0 – Zeljeznicar: 3

Olimpik Sarajevo – Çapljina
Otoka, 15:30
Olimpik Sarajevo: 1 – ECOS Vitez: 0
Çapljina: 2 – Borac Banja Luka: 1

The second leg matches will be played at October 17, 2012.

BOSNIAN PREMIER LEAGUE 8th WEEK



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Despite they fell five points behind the leader Sarajevo, Zeljeznicar passed Çelik away match with three very valuable points with a result of 2-1 and preserved his runner-up position. Zenica team had a quick start of the game and scored the first goal at seventh minute by Coviç. However, could not preserve the score. Adiloviç scored Zeljo’s first goal at 35th, and just at the end of the second half, Brkoviç scored the victory goal at 86th minute.

Furious Sarajevo added three more points by an easy home victory against Şiroki Brijeg. Husejinoviç scored the first goal of his team at 44th minute, and the experienced libero Torlak scored the second goal of his team at 66th minute. Şiroki could find their single goal at 90+4, which was not enough fort hem to claim for one more goal for a draw.

With the excellent performance, Sarajevo is five points in front of the runner-up Zeljeznicar in Premijer League.
 Zrinjski, which is just following the leader and runner-up silently but surely passed GOŞK Gabela in away match with a single goal.
(Photo: Dnevni Avaz)

Olimpik Sarajevo, had a 2-0 home victory against Travnik by two goals from Smajic. Since the beginning of the season, it is the first time that Olimpik managed to score 2 goals in the same match. Next week, they will play away match against Borac, who currently holds the fourth position in the Premijer League and Olimpik holds the fifth.

The recent spectacular team of Premijer League; Borac had a clear 3-1 away victory against Gradina Srebrenik.

The results of the matches played in the Bosnian Premier League in the 8th week are as follow:
FK Sarajevo: 2 – Şiroki Brijeg: 1
Çelik Zenica: 1 – Zeljeznicar: 2
GOŞK Gabela: 0 – HŞK Zrinjski
Gradina Srebrenik: 1 – Borac Banja Luka: 3
Olimpik Sarajevo: 2 – NK Travnik: 0
Radnik Bijeljina: 2 – FK Slavija: 0
Velez Mostar: 1 – Leotar Trebinje: 1
Rudar Prijedor: 2 – Zvijezda Gradaçac: 0

Standings of the teams by the end of 8th week:
 (Source: www.nfsbih.ba)

Next Week’s Schedule (Week 9)
Leotar – GOŞK
Şiroki Brijeg – Velez
Travnik – Sarajevo
Borac – Olimpik
Zvijezda – Gradina
Slavija – Çelik
Zeljo – Rudar
Zrinjski - Radnik

FK NOVI PAZAR

Pazar had an easy home 2-0 victory against Donji Srem.

Miloş Bogunoviç, who were quite act,ive in Novi Pazar’s struggle to succeed to play in Prva Liga, who also played in Cadiz in Spain and in Partizan Beograd previously, with a moderate career, scored Pazar’s first goal in the beginning of the second half at 48th minute. Damjanoviç was able to make a goal from the penalty kick at 73rd minute and Novi Pazar became at 5th position in Prva Liga after this match.

Pazarci are confident with Pazar’a current standing.

Next week, Pazar will have an important away match with Jagodina who holds the fourth position in the table an deven one single point would be good enough for Novi Pazar.

Standings of the teams in Serbian Prva Liga by the end of 7th week:

(Source: www. utakmica.rs)