Vedad Ibisevic

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Birth Name: Vedad Ibišević

Age: 39, born 6 August 1984

Country of origin: Bosnia and Herzegovina

Currently Residing In: Bosnia and Herzegovina

Height: 6' 2"

Relationship Status: Married

Partner: Zerina Ibišević

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Description: Vedad Ibišević (Bosnian (Cyrillic): Ведад Ибишевић; born 6 August 1984) is a Bosnian footballer who plays as striker for VfB Stuttgart in the German Bundesliga and the Bosnian national team. He has also played in Switzerland, the United States, and France. In 2008, he was awarded the Idol Nacije award for the Bosnian Footballer of the Year in 2008. A full international since 2007, Ibišević has gained over 50 caps for Bosnia. He was selected for the 2014 FIFA World Cup, where he scored the country's first goal in a major tournament. Ibišević is from a Bosniak family. At an early age his family moved to Sw Vedad Ibišević (Bosnian (Cyrillic): Ведад Ибишевић; born 6 August 1984) is a Bosnian footballer who plays as striker for VfB Stuttgart in the German Bundesliga and the Bosnian national team. He has also played in Switzerland, the United States, and France. In 2008, he was awarded the Idol Nacije award for the Bosnian Footballer of the Year in 2008.

A full international since 2007, Ibišević has gained over 50 caps for Bosnia. He was selected for the 2014 FIFA World Cup, where he scored the country's first goal in a major tournament.

Ibišević is from a Bosniak family. At an early age his family moved to Switzerland, and ten months later to St. Louis where he grew up. While he has spoken some about his experiences during the war that forced his family to leave Bosnia, he is not known to have ever revealed all of the details. According to a profile on Ibišević by American writer Wright Thompson in 2014,

No one in Germany knows the whole story about his escape from the war. During his three years in St. Louis, he never told a single person at school, not a friend, teacher or coach. The most common answers he gives to any question about the war is "It's OK" or "We were lucky."

Even his wife Zerina, who lost her father in the war, believes her husband has not told her the whole story; in the Thompson piece, she said, "I still have a feeling that I know maybe 20 percent. I swear."

Ibišević and his wife currently live near Stuttgart with their young son Ismail. Thompson noted that when Ibišević looked for a house when he transferred to Stuttgart, he "found himself drawn" to one that reminded him of the family home in Bosnia that they were forced to abandon during the war. He also bought a home for his father Šaban in Tuzla that had previously been owned by his father's employer, which according to Thompson was "a symbol of what the war had taken." The home is more a spiritual balm for Šaban, since he continues to live in St. Louis, where he manages apartment buildings that his son owns. Ibišević also rebuilt his father's boyhood home in their former village of Gerovi, and has built several war memorials in the area. ... (more)

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