Edin Bahtić

Edin Bahtić
Personal information
Date of birth	1 May 1956 (age 68)
Place of birth	Sarajevo, FPR Yugoslavia
Position(s)	Midfielder
Youth career
0000–1977	Željezničar
Senior career*
Years	Team
1977–1978	Bosna Sarajevo
1978–1985	Željezničar
1985–1987	Aris Thessaloniki
1987–1989	Željezničar
International career
1984–1985	Yugoslavia
	*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Edin "Fićo" Bahtić (born 1 May 1956) is a Bosnian retired professional footballer who played as a midfielder.

He was nicknamed after the famous Yugoslav car Zastava 750 colloquially known as Fićo (replica of Fiat 500).

Club career

Born in Sarajevo, Bahtić started playing football for hometown club Željezničar's youth team. At the time he was supposed to leave the youth squad, he was considered not to be a quality for Željezničar's first team. He left the club and played in amateur side FK Vraca in Sarajevo. He also played one season for Bosna Sarajevo before he was called to re-join FK Željezničar in 1978. He played almost 250 league games for the club until 1989. He also scored more than 60 league goals, despite he was not actually a striker. He usually played as a right winger. During the 1985–86 and 1986–87 seasons he played for Greek side Aris Thessaloniki.^[1]

He was also a joint top-scorer of 1984–85 UEFA Cup with seven goals alongside QPR's Gary Bannister. FK Željezničar reached the semifinals of UEFA Cup that season.

International career

Good games in FK Željezničar shirt were the reason he was called to play for Yugoslavia national team. He made his debut for them in a September 1984 friendly match away against Scotland and earned a total of two caps.^[2] His final international was a June 1985 FIFA World Cup qualification match against Bulgaria.^[3]

References

^ Mastrogiannopoulos, Alexander (11 May 2005). "Foreign Players in Greece since 1959/60". RSSSF. Archived from the original on 10 December 2008. Retrieved 29 August 2009.
^ Vandenberghe, Luc (12 June 2009). "Yugoslavia National Team Players 1964-1992". RSSSF. Retrieved 29 August 2009.
^ "Player Database". eu-football.info. Retrieved 23 January 2021.

External links

Edin Bahtić at Reprezentacija.rs (in Serbian)
Edin Bahtić at WorldFootball.net
Edin Bahtić at National-Football-Teams.com
Edin Bahtić at EU-Football.info

[1] Mastrogiannopoulos, Alexander (11 May 2005). "Foreign Players in Greece since 1959/60". RSSSF. Archived from the original on 10 December 2008. Retrieved 29 August 2009.

[2] Vandenberghe, Luc (12 June 2009). "Yugoslavia National Team Players 1964-1992". RSSSF. Retrieved 29 August 2009.

[3] "Player Database". eu-football.info. Retrieved 23 January 2021.

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