Bojan KrkiΔ
Spain
28 August 1990
forward
, also known as simply Bojan, is a Spanish former professional footballer who played as a forward or winger.
Bojan began his career at Barcelona after progressing through the youth ranks at La Masia. His early promise saw him make his first-team debut at the age of 17 years and 19 days, breaking the record set by Lionel Messi. In his debut season, he scored 12 goals in 48 matches. In total, he spent four seasons at Camp Nou, scoring 41 goals in 162 games before he was sold in July 2011 to Italian side AS Roma for a fee of β¬12 million. While in Rome, he scored seven goals in 37 appearances in 2011β12 and then spent the 2012β13 on loan at AC Milan, where he scored three goals in 27 games.
AS Roma did not exercise their option of an additional β¬28 million to sign Bojan definitively, and so Barcelona re-signed him for β¬13 million. He spent the 2013β14 season on loan at Dutch club Ajax with whom he helped win the Eredivisie title. In July 2014, Bojan joined the English club Stoke City for β¬1.8 million. After subsequent loans to play on the European continent, once for FC Mainz 05 in 2017, and in Spain for AlavΓ©s in 2018, KrkiΔ then played in North America for a season for the Montreal Impact, and then finally in Japan for Vissel Kobe for two seasons before being released by his club in January 2023, retiring from professional football two months later.
As a Spanish youth international, he won European Championships with the Under-17 team in 2007 and the Under-21 team in 2011, as well as earning his only cap for the senior team in 2008. He has also represented the Catalan national team eight times since 2007.
β€ Read more