The head coach of the national football team of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Sergej Barbarez, announced the list of players for the 2026 World Cup qualifiers against Romania and Austria.
The best BH football players will play next month two games within Group H qualification for the World Cup.
The first match will be played November 15 on Bilina polje in Zenica against the Romanian national team, and three days later BH. football players will be at the Ernst-Happel Stadium in Vienna visit the Austrian national team.
Barbarez told the official portal of NS BiH that important matches await his chosen ones, which could bring the final epilogue of the qualifications.
We are very motivated before the gathering and the matches that can bring us a lot. We have an opportunity to do something big – an opportunity that we ourselves created and deserved. We are happy to return Seada Kolasinac after the long break he had. I believe he will be ready because he is a very important player for our team. After the injury, he returns and Arjan Malićwho has already shown that we can rely on him, and we decided to return Amir Hadžiahmetović to the national team as wellsaid the selector.
He added that there is also a debutant on the list Emir Karicwho was followed by the expert staff for a long time.
All in all, I expect these 24 players to answer the task in the best wayand I’m sure that they also welcome the important matches with Romania and Austria with great ambitions and confidenceBarbarez concluded.
Sergej Barbarez Player List:
- Goalkeepers: Nikola Vasilj, Marin Zlomislić, Osman Hadžikić.
- Defense: Sead Kolašinac, Emir Karić, Amar Dedić, Arjan Malić, Nihad Mujakić, Tarik Muharemović, Nikola Katic, Dennis Hadžikadunić, Stjepan Radeljić.
- Midfield: Benjamin Tahirović, Ivan Bašić, Dženis Burnić, Armin Gigović, Amar Memic, Kerim Alajbegović, Esmir Bajraktarević, Amir Hadžiahmetović, Ivan Šunjić.
- Attack: Samed Baždar, Edin Džeko, Haris Tabakovic.
Coach Barbarez will hold a press conference on November 10 at 1:00 p.m. in the premises of NS/FS BiH in Sarajevo.
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