Boban Georgiev (; born 26 January 1997) is a Macedonian professional

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who plays as a

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for Voska Sport.

Club career

Born in

Štip Štip ( mk, Штип ) is the largest urban agglomeration in the eastern part of North Macedonia, serving as the economic, industrial, entertainment and educational focal point for the surrounding municipalities. As of the 2002 census, the city ...

, Georgiev made his senior debut with

Metalurg Skopje FK Metalurg ( mk, ФК Металург) is a football club from Skopje, North Macedonia. They are currently not playing in any of the four highest tiers of Macedonian football. History The club was founded in 1964. Metalurg has entered the Mace ...

in the 2014–15 Macedonian First Football League season but at time was still mostly used in the youth championship. In 2016, he signed with hometown club

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, where his patience of being mostly a reserve during the first season (two appearances only), paid off, as in the 2016–17 season he became a standard first-team player and scored 6 goals in 29 appearances. However, the Macedonian league is formed of just 10 teams, and Bregalnica was relegated as it finished 9th, so Georgiev's boost during the season made it highly improbable for the young talent to play in the second league. In the summer of 2017, he signed with Sileks, a mid-table team. Despite interest of bigger clubs, those were giving priority to experienced players, while Sileks granted him playtime since the very beginning. After another mid-table season, Georgiev enjoyed being a regular and making another consecutive season with 29 league appearances. His position in Sileks grew even stronger in the second season in the club by making 34 league appearances crowned with 8 goals. His performance didn't passed unnoticed, and, despite Sileks avoided relegation at the play-offs, Georgiev felt it was time for new greater challenges, and by end of June 2019, he signed with Serbian side Radnik Surdulica. Georgiev's signing was soon followed by his compatriot Nikola Bogdanovski, and the joined the already well established

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. Georgiev made his debut for Radnik in a 4–0 home victory against Spartak Subotica, scoring two goals. On 2 September 2020, he signed a two-year contract with

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club

Borac Banja Luka Fudbalski klub Borac Banja Luka (Serbian Cyrillic: Фудбалски клуб Бopaц Бања Лука, ) is a Bosnian professional association football club, based in the city of Banja Luka, Bosnia and Herzegovina, and is the major part of th ...

. Georgiev made his official debut for Borac nine days later, on 11 September, in a league game against

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. He scored his first goal for Borac in a

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game against

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on 30 September 2020. Georgiev won his only trophy with Borac on 23 May 2021, getting crowned Bosnian Premier League champions one game before the end of the

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season. He left Borac after his contract with the club expired in June 2021.

International career

Georgiev made his international debut in 2013 for the Macedonia U17 national team at the

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qualifiers.Boban Georgiev
at

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.com At the time he hadn't even made his senior debut at club level, but his talent stood up. Afterwards, an option to choose mid-table Macedonian clubs such as

or Sileks to gain more playing time, cost Georgiev to sacrifice to fight for the national team spots, which inevitably coaches gave preference to either foreign-based, or big clubs reserves talents. However, his performance in 2017 was impossible to be ignored and he returned to the national team, this time the U21 national team in their

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qualifiers.

Career statistics

Club

Honours

Borac Banja Luka *

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Georgiev, Boban 1997 births Living people Sportspeople from Štip Men's association football wingers Macedonian men's footballers North Macedonia men's youth international footballers FK Metalurg Skopje players FK Bregalnica Štip players FK Sileks players FK Radnik Surdulica players FK Borac Banja Luka players Macedonian First Football League players Serbian SuperLiga players Premier League of Bosnia and Herzegovina players Macedonian expatriate men's footballers Expatriate men's footballers in Serbia Macedonian expatriate sportspeople in Serbia Expatriate men's footballers in Bosnia and Herzegovina Macedonian expatriate sportspeople in Bosnia and Herzegovina