Adis Nurković

Adis Nurković
Personal information
Full name Adis Nurković
Date of birth (1986-04-28) 28 April 1986
Place of birth Velika Kladuša, SFR Yugoslavia
Playing position Goalkeeper
Club information
Current team
NK Travnik
Number 1
Youth career
0000–2001 Krajišnik Velika Kladuša
2001–2005 Jedinstvo Bihać
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
2003–2005 Jedinstvo Bihać 1 (0)
2005–2006 Slavonija Požega 23 (0)
2006 Krajina Cazin 13 (0)
2007 Cibalia Vinkovci 0 (0)
2007–2010 Travnik 76 (0)
2010–2011 Slaven Belupo 1 (0)
2011–2014 Čelik Zenica 37 (0)
2014– Travnik 41 (0)
National team
Bosnia and Herzegovina U21
2009 Bosnia and Herzegovina 1 (0)

* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only.


Adis Nurković (born 28 April 1986) is a Bosnian-born naturalized Kosovan footballer who plays as a goalkeeper. He played in many football teams in Bosnia and Herzegovina and in Croatia, currently playing for Bosnian club NK Travnik and the Kosovo national team.

International career

Bosnia and Herzegovia

Nurković was a standard member of Bosnia and Herzegovina national under-21 football team, but he also debuted for the Bosnia and Herzegovina national football team in a friendly match on 2009.

Kosovo

Nurković was invited by Albert Bunjaki, to play for Kosovo, cause of good appearance of Nurković in NK Travnik lately. As his wife holds Kosovo citizenship he was eligible to change citizenship. Moreover, according to FIFA, as Nurković was born before the breakup of SFR Yugoslavia, he is eligible to play for any successive country given he had the citizenship of the country.[1]

On 2 October 2016, he received the call-up in matches against Croatia and Ukraine,[2] and on 5 October 2016, FIFA gives permission Nurković to play for Kosovo and Nurković is the first non-Albanian player of the Kosovo national team. Nurković was a unused bench in the two matches.

References

  1. Eligibility to play for representative teams, "FIFA STATUTES (2016)" (PDF). FIFA. 27 April 2016. Retrieved 5 October 2016.
  2. "Bunjaki announces the list of players for the matches with Croatia and Ukraine". Football Federation of Kosovo. 2 October 2016.

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