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unusual facts about NK Čelik Zenica



Edin Hadžialagić

On the club level, he played for Sarajevo, Čelik Zenica, Željezničar Sarajevo, Maribor and Olimpija Ljubljana.

Elmir Kuduzović

In 2008 he became a member of FK Sloboda Tuzla moving in 2010 to another Bosnian top flight club, NK Čelik Zenica.

Emir Spahić

Over the course of his career, Spahić played for NK Čelik Zenica in Bosnian Premier League, Russian clubs Torpedo Moscow, Shinnik Yaroslavl and Lokomotiv Moscow as well as Croatian sides NK GOŠK Dubrovnik and NK Zagreb, Montpellier, as well as Spanish side Sevilla FC.

Goran Peleš

He successfully managed the youth teams of NK Čelik Zenica, where he coached some of the biggest club's prospects, including Jasmin Burić, Fenan Salčinović and Eldin Adilović.

He started his career in his hometown, where he played for FK Modriča, from where he joined NK Čelik Zenica in 1971, where he won the Mitropa Cup in the following two years with his new club.

Kemal Hafizović

However, Hafizović would get his fair share of chances as the manager of his favorite club in the later years where he was the on-and-off manager for several times with the best period at the turn of the century where NK Čelik Zenica had some notable performances in the UEFA Intertoto Cup under his leadership.

Kemal Hafizović (born May 12, 1950 in Zenica, SFR Yugoslavia) is a former Bosnian football player and now a manager best known for his playing and coaching career with NK Čelik Zenica.

He continued improving the club's status what eventually led to him being picked-up by his childhood club NK Čelik Zenica in the middle of 1989/90 season.

Born and raised in Zenica, Kemal Hafizović started his career in the youth teams of NK Čelik Zenica.

Sabahudin Bujak

He eventually found his way back to NK Čelik Zenica and was an integral part of their successes in the first few seasons of the independent Bosnia & Herzegovina.

The following year he continued with his good form when Čelik celebrated their second double in a row.

Bujak has been a loyal servant to NK Čelik Zenica coaching the senior and youth teams at the club since the second part of the 1997/98 season.

Svetislav Perduv

Born in Zenica, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, Perduv played club football for NK Olimpija Ljubljana and NK Čelik Zenica in the Yugoslav First League.


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