Admir Salihovic

Football manager infobox
playername = Admir Salihović


fullname =
height = height|ft=5|in=05
dateofbirth = birth date and age|1988|5|15|df=y
cityofbirth = Tuzla
countryofbirth = Bosnia and Herzegovina, SFR Yugoslavia
dateofdeath =
cityofdeath =
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currentclub = Burnaby Metro
clubnumber = 29
position = Midfielder
youthyears = -2006
2006-2007
youthclubs = Burnaby Royals
Langara College
years = 2006-2008
2008
clubs = Vancouver Whitecaps Residency
→ Vancouver Whitecaps
caps(goals) = 6 (0)
4 (1)
nationalyears =
nationalteam =
nationalcaps(goals) =
pcupdate = 21 August 2008 (UTC)
ntupdate = 7 February 2008

Admir Salihović (born 15 May 1988 in Tuzla, Bosnia and Herzegovina, SFR Yugoslavia) is a Bosnian-born Canadian footballer who currently plays for Burnaby Metro.

He is a talented, young player who can play on the left or right-hand side of midfield, he joins the Whitecaps after signing a one-year amateur contract with the club. He holds dual citizen of Bosnia and Canada, he has received an invite to play for the Bosnia & Herzegovina U-21 side, but the midfielder has so far not taken the opportunity to play for the country of his birth.

In the summer of 2007, Salihovic trained with Bosnian Premijer Liga club FK Željeznicar, which is based in the Bosnian capital of Sarajevo.

He graduated from Burnaby's Cariboo Hill Secondary School in 2006. He was also a student at Edmonds Community School in Burnaby.

He moved from his hometown of Tuzla with his family to the Lower Mainland in 2000. The midfielder has been in the Bachelor of Business Administration (BBA) degree program at Langara College since the fall of 2006. His parents are Fikreta and Osman Salihovic, and he has an older brother named Alen, was a former 400 and 800 meters track & field runner with Bosnian club FK Sloboda Tuzla.

External links

* [http://www.whitecapsfc.com/men/roster/teammember.aspx?id=14840&team=Male Profile at Whitecaps]