Boban Georgiev

He made his senior debut with FK Metalurg Skopje in the 2014–15 Macedonian First Football League[1] but at time was still mostly used in the youth championship. In 2016, he signed to FK Bregalnica Štip, where his patience of being mostly reserve during first season (2 appearances only), paid off, as in 2016–17 Macedonian First Football League he became standard first-team player and scored 6 goals in 29 appearances.[1] However, 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 second league, so in summer 2017 he signed with FK Sileks, a mid-table team.[1] 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.[1] His position in Sileks grew even stronger in the second season in the club by making 34 league appearances crowned with 8 goals.[1] His performance didn't passed unnoticed, and, despite Sileks avoided relegation at the play-off´s, Georgiev felt it was time for new greater challenges, and by end of June 2019, he signed with Serbian side FK Radnik Surdulica.[2] Georgiev signing was soon followed by his compatriot Nikola Bogdanovski, and the two will join the already well established Zoran Danoski. Georgiev made his debut for Radnik in a 4-0 home victory over FK Spartak Subotica, scoring two goals.[3][1]

Georgiev made his international debut in 2013 for the Macedonia under-17 team at the 2013 UEFA European Under-17 Championship qualifiers.[4] At 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 Bregalnica or Sileks to gain more playing time, cost him to sacrifice to fight for national team spots, which inevitably coaches give preference to either foreign-based, or big clubs reserves talents. However, his performance in 2017 was impossible to be ignored and he returns to the national team, this time U-21 in their 2017 UEFA European Under-21 Championship qualifiers.[1]

As of 14 August 2019[5]