Manchester City yesterday evening completed the signing of Edin Dzeko from Wolfsburg for a fee believed to be IRO £27million GBP.
Dzeko joins the Barclays Premier League club on a contract of four and a half years, though he was not registered in time to feature for the Eastlands outfit in this weekend’s FA Cup 2011 Third Round tie against Leicester City.
Dzeko scored 66 coals in 111 games for the German Bundesliga outfit, as well as bagging 17 goals in 31 appearances for his native Bosnia.
While he misses the FA Cup game, the 24 year old is thought to be ready to take part in City’s Premier League match at home to Wolverhampton Wanderers, next week.
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The Bundesliga, sometimes referred to as the Fußball-Bundesliga or 1. Bundesliga, is a professional association football league in Germany. At the top of the German football league system, the Bundesliga is Germany’s premier football competition.
Manchester City Football Club is an English football club based in Manchester that competes in the Premier League, the top flight of English football. Founded in 1880 as St. Mark’s, it became Ardwick Association Football Club in 1887 and Manchester City in 1894.
Bosnia and Herzegovina, sometimes called Bosnia–Herzegovina and often known informally as Bosnia, is a country in South and Southeast Europe, located within the Balkans. Sarajevo is the capital and largest city.
Bosnia and Herzegovina is bordered by Serbia to the east, Montenegro to the southeast, and Croatia to the north and southwest. It is not entirely landlocked; to the south it has a narrow coast on the Adriatic Sea, which is about 20 kilometres (12 miles) long and surrounds the town of Neum.
The inland Bosnia region has a moderate continental climate, with hot summers and cold, snowy winters. In the central and eastern interior of the country the geography is mountainous, in the northwest moderately hilly, and in the northeast predominantly flatland. The smaller southern region, Herzegovina, has a Mediterranean climate and mostly mountainous topography.