Nermin Vazda (born 30 August 1967) is a Bosnian retired professional

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who played as a forward.

Club career

Vazda started off his career at his hometown club Drina HE Višegrad, before moving to

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and signing with the youth team of FK Sarajevo, for who he played until 1985, before getting moved up to the first team in the same year. In 1989, he left Sarajevo and went to Leotar, for who he played one year. After leaving Leotar in 1990, Vazda came back to Sarajevo and signed with Željezničar. He stayed at Željezničar until 1993, making 24 league appearances in the process and scoring 16 goals. With the start of the Bosnian War, Vazda left Željezničar and Bosnia as well, going to

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and signing with

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in July 1993. After two years at Sarıyer, in 1995 he signed with German club Türkiyemspor Berlin. After a great season with Türkiyemspor, scoring 24 goals in 25 league games in the

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(German sixth level), Vazda came back to Bosnia after the war ended and signed a contract with rising club Bosna Visoko. In the summer of 1997, six years after leaving the club, he came back to Željezničar. Vazda won his first trophy with Željezničar in the 1997–98 season, the

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, after beating former club Sarajevo 1–0 in the Play-off final. He scored 19 goals for the club in the 1997–98 season, making him joint-top goalscorer of the league. He was also the 1996–97 and 1998–99 season top goalscorer, scoring 17 and 18 goals respectively. On 25 November 1998, he also won the

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with Željezničar, once again beating Sarajevo, this time 4–0 at the

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. In June 1999, after the end of the 1998–99 season, Vazda decided to end his football career at the age of 31. He played 83 league matches for Željezničar and scored 52 goals with an goal average of 0,64 goals per game, making him one of the best all time goalscorers in the history of Željezničar. In his career, he played 227 league games and scored 107 goals.

International career

Vazda played in four matches for the Bosnia and Herzegovina national team, all of the matches being friendly games at the 1997 Dunhill Cup in

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Personal life

Vazda's son Anes is also a professional footballer who currently plays as a

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for

Bosnian Premier League The m:tel Premier League of Bosnia and Herzegovina ( bs, m:tel Premijer liga Bosne i Hercegovine / м:тел Премијер лига Босне и Херцеговине), also known as Liga 12, is the top tier football league in Bosnia and He ...

club Mladost Doboj Kakanj.

Honours

Player

Željezničar *

: 1997–98 *

: 1998

Individual

Performance * First League of Bosnia and Herzegovina Top Goalscorer: 1996–97 (17 goals), 1997–98 (19 goals), 1998–99 (18 goals)

References

External links

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at Soccerway
Nermin Vazda
at tff.org {{DEFAULTSORT:Vazda, Nermin 1967 births Living people People from Višegrad Association football forwards Yugoslav footballers Bosnia and Herzegovina footballers Bosnia and Herzegovina international footballers FK Sarajevo players FK Leotar players FK Željezničar Sarajevo players Sarıyer S.K. footballers Türkiyemspor Berlin players NK Bosna Visoko players Yugoslav First League players Yugoslav Second League players Süper Lig players TFF First League players Oberliga (football) players Premier League of Bosnia and Herzegovina players Bosnia and Herzegovina expatriate footballers Expatriate footballers in Germany Bosnia and Herzegovina expatriate sportspeople in Germany Expatriate footballers in Turkey Bosnia and Herzegovina expatriate sportspeople in Turkey