2023-11-03 10:17:13
In 2015, Haris Tabakovic scored his goals for the U21 national team.
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Haris Tabakovic has been drawing attention to himself for months with his incredible goal rate. But the 29-year-old didn’t make it into the national team squad. Now he has been called up for the Bosnian national team.
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Haris Tabakovic scored 30 goals in 32 games for Austria Vienna and Hertha BSC in the 2023 calendar year. The striker is not an issue for Nati coach Murat Yakin despite the outstanding goal rate. Now the dual citizen has been called up by the Bosnian Football Association.
“Is goal machine Haris Tabakovic one for the national team?” was the headline in blue News in May of this year. The tall striker had just won the derby between Austria Vienna and Rapid with a hat trick and scored 15 goals in 12 games in the second half of the season.
However, the man from Grenchen waited in vain for a Nati squad. Even following his move to Hertha BSC in the summer and further goals, there was never a call from Murat Yakin. “I have always said that I am open to both associations – and will wait and see who nominates me. “If the Bosnians get serious, I’m ready to play for my parents’ home country,” said the 29-year-old in “Kicker” in September.
Words that might be interpreted as a warning to the SFV. When asked regarding Tabakovic, Yakin said at the last Nati meeting in October: “If we have young players who perform well abroad, they obviously have priority.”
Tabakovic puts Nati strikers in the shade
Well, when you look at the Nati strikers playing abroad, the outside observer shrugs their shoulders. Zeki Amdouni at Burnley: 2 goals this season. Andi Zeqiri in Genk: 4 goals this season. Breel Embolo has been out since August with a torn cruciate ligament. Cedric Itten at least scored 7 goals for YB.
And Haris Tabakovic? He continues to score goals on the running meter. He has scored 14 times in 15 games for Hertha Berlin this season. In 2023, the former YB and GC professional has scored 30 goals in 32 games so far. This makes him by far the most accurate striker who might be considered for the Swiss national team.
In Ballerlaune: Haris Tabakovic.
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You certainly can’t compare the 2nd Bundesliga with the Premier League. But the fact is: the 1.94 meter giant is on fire. Last weekend he scored two goals once more, one of them brilliantly with his backheel. And on Wednesday Tabakovic blasted Bundesliga side Mainz 05 out of the cup with another brace. A striker with so much self-confidence would certainly have been good for the national team ahead of the upcoming crucial games in the European Championship qualification.
Between 2013 and 2016, Tabakovic played 15 games for the U21 national team. These were probably his last appearances in the Switzerland jersey. Because now the Bosnians have actually gotten serious and rewarded Tabakovic with a squad for the upcoming European Championship qualifying games once morest Luxembourg and Slovakia. If Tabakovic is used, the issue of the Swiss national team is finally over.
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