Kenan Muslimović

Kenan Muslimović (born 13 February 1997) is an Austrian and Bosnian professional footballer who plays as a forward for Bulgarian First League club Lokomotiv Plovdiv.

Kenan Muslimović
Personal information
Full name Kenan Muslimović
Date of birth (1997-02-13) 13 February 1997
Place of birth Vienna, Austria
Height 1.86 m (6 ft 1 in)
Position(s) Forward
Club information
Current team
 Lokomotiv Plovdiv
Number 11
Youth career
2012–2013 Austria Wien
2013–2014 Admira Wacker
2014 Austria Wien
2014–2015 First Vienna
2015 Novara
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
2014–2015 First Vienna II
2016 Mladost Doboj Kakanj 1 (0)
2016–2017 Novi Pazar 11 (0)
2017 1. FC Kaiserslautern II 11 (0)
2018 Jahn Regensburg II 30 (18)
2019 Mladost Doboj Kakanj 10 (0)
2019 FC Pipinsried 12 (5)
2020– Lokomotiv Plovdiv 12 (1)
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and correct as of 24 December 2020

Career

Born in Vienna,[1] he started playing in the youth teams of Austrian clubs FK Austria Wien and FC Admira Wacker.[2] In the summer 2014, he joined the senior team of First Vienna FC, however, he played for the B team.[3]

Following summer, in 2015, he moved to Italy and signed for the youth team of Novara Calcio[2] During the firs-half of the season, making 3 appearances in the youth league.[4] Novara won the race with FC Red Bull Salzburg in signing him.[5]

During the winter-break of the 2015–16 season, he left Italy and moved to former-Yugoslavia to join Bosnian side FK Mladost Doboj Kakanj.[6] playing in the Premier League of Bosnia and Herzegovina.[1][7] Regarded as a major talent, in summer 2016 he moved to Serbia. Initially, he was about to join FK Partizan's farm-club FK Teleoptik, thus following a family tradition, since his father, who had ended his career prematurely because of illness, had played for the Partizan youth team.[8] However, instead, he ended up joining top-league side FK Novi Pazar.

He failed to debut in the SuperLiga during the first half of the 2016–17 season. In December 2016 and January 2017, he was on trials at German giants Hertha BSC.[9][10] He ended up staying at Novi Pazar, and made his debut in the Serbian SuperLiga on 18 February 2017, in the first round played after winter-break. In August 2017, he left Novi Pazar.

Between Summer 2017 and January 2019, Muslimović played in Germany for the second teams of 1. FC Kaiserslautern and SSV Jahn Regensburg.

On 25 January 2019, he came back and signed with Mladost Doboj Kakanj in the Premier League of Bosnia and Herzegovina.[11] After half a season, on 9 June 2019, Muslimović left Mladost.[12]

Ahead of the 2019-20 season, Muslimović returned to Germany and joined FC Pipinsried.[13]

Personal life

Kenan is the nephew of Bosnian singer Halid Muslimović.[14]

Honours

Club
Lokomotiv Plovdiv

References
  1. Kenan Muslimovic profile at Soccerway
  2. Kenan Muslimovic at Worldfootball
  3. Kenan Muslimovic profile at First Vienna FC official website, retrieved 19-2-2017 (in German)
  4. Kenan Muslimovic at legaseriea.it
  5. Novara, in arrivo il giovane attaccante Kenan Muslimovic at tuttomercatoweb.com, 11-8-2015, retrieved 19-2-2017 (in Italian)
  6. Kenan Muslimović potpisao za FK Mladost, Doboj-Kakanj at mojprijedor.com, 28-1-2016, retrieved 19-2-2017 (in Bosnian)
  7. Kenan Muslimovic at footballdatabase.eu
  8. Talentovani Kenan Muslimović prešao iz Mladosti u Teleoptik at klix.ba, 20-6-2016, retrieved 19-2-2017 (in Bosnian)
  9. Talentovani nogometaš Kenan Muslimović u januaru na probi u Herti at extramagazin.ba, retrieved 19-2-2017 (in Bosnian)
  10. Gegen den Halleschen FC siegen die Blau-Weißen im ersten Testspiel 2017 mit 3:1 (2:0). at Hertha BSC official website, 8-1-2017, retrieved 19-2-2017 (in German)
  11. FK Mladost DK doveo Muslimovića at sportsport.ba, 25 January 2019
  12. A. Lendo (9 June 2019). "Kenan Muslimović i zvanično napustio FK Mladost Doboj Kakanj" (in Bosnian). sportsport.ba. Retrieved 9 June 2019.
  13. Nächster Neuer: FC Pipinsried angelt sich Kenan Muslimovic, fupa.net, 1 July 2019
  14. "Halid Muslimović: Sarajevo je za mene maćeha, a za druge majka". Dnevni avaz (in Bosnian). 30 October 2016. Retrieved 21 February 2017.

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