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🇧🇦EDIN DŽEKO’S STORY WILL LEAVE YOU SPEECHLESS
Edin Džeko was 6 years old when the sirens went off in Sarajevo.
He remembers his mother grabbing him and hiding behind the shoe cabinet. That wasday one, it lasted four years.
The Bosnian War tore through his city like nothing you can imagine. Nearly 14,000 people killed. 35,000 homes destroyed, including his family’s. Snipers surrounded the streets. And somewhere in the middle of all that, a little boy was using rolled-up duct tape as a football, because that was all he had.
One afternoon, like any other, he got ready to go play with his friends in the street.
His mother stopped him.
She had a feeling, she told him no.
Minutes later, a bomb landed exactly where his friends had gathered.
Several were killed.
He said it himself years later, tears in his voice:
“I want to dedicate this to my friends who I used to go play football with in the street every afternoon when I was 6 years old.”
From that rubble, from that grief, from 15 family members crammed into a 35-square-metre apartment listening to gunfire every night, Edin Džeko built one of the most remarkable careers in football history.
Željezničar. Teplice. Wolfsburg. Manchester City. Roma. Inter Milan. And now, at nearly 40 years old, he’s leading Bosnia to the 2026 FIFA World Cup, their second-ever qualification.
Not just a footballer. A survivor. A symbol. A nation’s heartbeat.
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For those who don’t know - He signed for Liverpool from Stoke in May 1898 for a £350 fee.
Made his debut for the club on 3rd September 1898 against Sheffield Wednesday.
He declined his first international cap in his debut season to help Liverpool’s league-and-cup-double push.
Appointed club captain after two seasons, at age 21 and led Liverpool to their first-ever League Championship in 1900–01, won on the final day against West Brom.
Liverpool were relegated in 1903–04. He stayed loyal and helped them win immediate promotion back.
Captained Liverpool to a second League Championship in 1905–06. You’re welcome