Elver Rahimich is a former Bosnian footballer and midfielder who is best known for playing at the CSKA Moscow club and the national team of Bosnia and Herzegovina. Since 2013 in a coaching position.
Dossier
Elver Rahimich was born on April 4, 1976 in the city of Zivinice (SFRY). Citizen of Bosnia and Herzegovina. The playing position on the football field is a midfielder. Height 190 cm, weight 81 kg. Years of performance in big football - 1993-2014. He currently works as a trainer at the CSKA children's and youth sports school. Married. Has a spouse Marcikha and two sons.
Performance Statistics
Elver Rahimich played in the championships of four European countries (Bosnia, Slovenia, Austria, Russia) for 6 different clubs. During the period of performances, he played 438 matches, in which he scored 11 goals.
- 1993/94 - “Glorious” (Bosnia);
- 1994/96 - “Bosna” (Bosnia);
- 1997 - The Factor (Slovenia);
- 1998 - Forverts (Austria);
- 1999/01 - “Anji” (Makhachkala);
- 2001/14 - “CSKA” (Moscow).
Elver Rahimich began to be involved in the national team of Bosnia and Herzegovina since 2007. From 2007 to 2013, he wore a T-shirt of his country's top team in forty international matches.
Stages of football and coaching career
He has been playing football since childhood. He began his football career at the Bosnian club Slaven, after which he played for the Bosna team for 36 seasons (36 matches, 3 goals). In 1997, Rakhimich tried himself in the championship of Slovenia (33 games, 6 goals), but after the end of the annual contract he did not renew the agreement. The next short stage of the player’s performance was the Austrian championship. Here, in the modest Forverts club, he played only 6 fights.
It is not known how the future football fate of the player would have developed if he had not once been in sight of the scouts of the Makhachkala “Anji”. At this time, the Russian club was actively looking for players who could strengthen the middle line of the team. Elver seemed a midfielder tenacious, persistent and hardy, just the one who could ideally fit the Anji team.
It so happened that since 1999, Elver Rahimich, whose biography was written in dull colors, became a football player, whose playing career began to go only up. From an ordinary average player, there are plenty of them in Bosnia and Herzegovina, he turned into a soccer player of the national team of his country. Being a player of the Moscow “CSKA”, Elver became involved in the main domestic and international successes of the capital's club. But it will be later. In the meantime, Rakhimich concluded his labor agreement with the Anji team, the representative of the first division of the championship of Russia.
He played for the Makhachkala club for two seasons. During this period, Elver played 84 matches for Anji, helped the team win a ticket to the Premier League, become the main and irreplaceable player in the club’s main team. Naturally, such a football player became the object of attention of teams that had (at that time) a tighter wallet than the modest Anji. Many clubs of the championship of Russia undertook to offer more weighty arguments to the player. More convincing were the financial terms of the personal contract of the football player, received from the capital “CSKA”. With this team (in 2001) Rakhimich signed a long-term agreement.
He spent his debut match for the new club on July 18, 2001 against Spartak. Over 14 seasons of playing for the army team, Elver played 240 matches. Naturally, during this time he experienced both ups and downs. There were periods when a football player lost his place at the base, unable to compete with younger players, sometimes injuries interfered. Rakhimich played his last match on January 22, 2015. It was a friendly match, in which CSKA and German Frankfurt met. In this meeting, he played his last four minutes at the highest football level.
And what did the football player Elver Rahimich remember for the fans? Goals to score not his element, technical equipment is not his destiny, was not seen in high-speed actions. But the player possessed a quality that other, more, at first glance, sophisticated footballers did not have. He was a master of “tactical foul”, knew how to break the rules (rudely stop the attacking player) so that his foul was not punished with a yellow card. Thanks to this method of struggle, he did not need to perform certain high-speed actions. The main thing is to skillfully and in time apply the prohibited method.
Elver Rahimich started his coaching career as an assistant coach, being a CSKA footballer. At one time, he seemed to announce the end of active performances, then continued to play. Before the 2014 World Cup, Elver, being confident in his participation in the world championship, began to gain physical form through matches of the Russian Championship, play a lot, improve speed conditions. But having learned that his place in the national team of Bosnia and Herzegovina was taken, he calmed down by switching to coaching.
Many are interested in the future fate of the former CSKA player, who was Elver Rakhimich: where he lives now, what he does. According to the latest data, he lives in Moscow, works with young players of the CSKA youth school.
Trophies
In conclusion, we list the main awards and achievements of a football player. All of them were obtained as part of the army club. Together with CSKA, Rakhimich became the five-time champion of Russia, the seven-time Cup winner and the five-time winner of the country's Super Cup. But the main sports trophy in the player’s career is the European prize won in 2005: the UEFA Cup.
By the way, Elver Rakhimich is the first foreign footballer to play 250 Russian championship matches.