Edin Dzeko

Edin Dzeko is a Bosnian professional footballer

Edin Džeko (born 17 March 1986) is a Bosnian professional footballer who plays as a forward for Serie A club Roma and the Bosnia and Herzegovina national team, for which he is captain.

Džeko started his third season at the Roman club with six goals in first five league games. He scored his first goal of the season against Internazionale on 26 August 2017, which Roma lost 1–3. In the next two games, he scored two braces, against Verona and Benevento. He continued his goalscoring form by opening the score against Milan on 1 October, in a 2–0 win away at San Siro.

On 9 October Džeko was one of 30 players to be nominated for the Ballon D'Or 2017 prize by French newspaper France Football.

Džeko then scored a brace against Chelsea at Stamford Bridge on 19 October. The game ended in a 3–3 draw.[89] His next big game of the season came against Napoli, in which he scored a brace and helped his team to a 4–2 victory.

Džeko also helped Roma reach UEFA Champions League quarter-finals by scoring the winning goal against Shakhtar Donetsk. Džeko was instrumental in Roma's qualification to UEFA Champions League semi-finals, their first in over 30 years. He scored in both quarter-final legs against Barcelona, which Roma won on away goals. In the semi-finals, Džeko scored in both legs, but it wasn't enough, as Roma were eventually eliminated by Liverpool 6–7 on aggregate.

2018–19 season

Džeko started his fourth season with Roma by scoring a winning goal away at Torino on 19 August.

On 13 November 2016, Džeko had an altercation in a 2018 FIFA World Cup qualifier against Greece with Greek player Kyriakos Papadopoulos, in which he pulled down Sokratis Papastathopoulos' shorts while trying to obtain the ball. The subsequent fight between the two teams saw both Džeko and Papadopoulos sent off.

On 28 March 2017, Džeko became the first Bosnian player to score 50 international goals.

Džeko is multilingual, speaking five languages fluently: Bosnian, Czech, German, English and Italian. He is a Muslim.Džeko stated that Milan has always been his favourite club and Andriy Shevchenko his favourite player.

He has been in a relationship with model and actress, Amra Silajdžić since 2011. In February 2016, he became a father of a girl named Una. His second child, a boy named Dani, was born in September 2017.