Goran Pandev is a Macedonian professional footballer who acts as a striker in the Italian club Genoa. Since 2001, playing for the national team of Macedonia. He is currently the captain of the national team and is considered its top scorer (30 goals). The growth of a football player is 184 centimeters, and weight - 74 kilograms. During his career, he played for many famous Italian clubs, including Lazio, Internazionale and Napoli. Pandev has won many trophies in Italy, including the Serie A championship, four Copa Italy cups and two Italy Supercop cups. The most notable career is celebrated in Milan's Inter, in which Goran won the club world championship cup and the Champions League cup.
Soccer player biography
Goran Pandev was born on July 27 in 1983 in the city of Strumica (Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, Slovak Republic Macedonia). He began to play football at the Belasitsa youth club in 2000, and his professional debut took place in the same year (he played on two fronts - both youth and base). The next season he moved to the Italian “Inter”, in which he played in the same format as in “Belasitsa”, but in official matches he did not play the basis.
The next season, after signing a contract with Internazionale, the player was sent to Spice to lease to enhance gaming practice. On loan, he played 22 matches in Serie B and scored four goals.
In the 2003/2004 season, it was again leased, this time to the Ancona club, which made it to the top division of Italy. Here the Macedonian footballer played in 20 matches and scored one goal.
Career at Lazio
In 2004, the Macedonian joined the club Lazio. At this time, the Serbian player Deyan Stankovic was signed by Inter from Lazio, and Goran Pandev was released from the club as an exchange (with surcharge). In the debut season for the new club (2004/2005), the Macedonian striker played in 29 matches and scored three goals, one of which was unforgettable - in the match against Juventus Pandev defeated Fabio Canavaro, Liliana Turam and Gianluca Zambrotta before shooting the gates of Gianluigi Buffon from an acute angle.
As part of the "eagles" played until 2009. In five seasons in Serie A, he played 159 matches and scored 48 goals. The Italian Cup was won here in 2009.
Return to Inter for one season
In January 2010, Goran Pandev signed a one-year contract with Inter Milan. As part of the “black and blue” he received a game T-shirt with number 27. He made his debut in the match against Chievo on January 6 (victory 1-0). January 16 marked the debut goal for the “Inter” in a duel with the club “Bari”.
In total, he played 46 games for the “snake” and recorded 5 goals in his statistics. Together with the club, he became the champion of Italy, the winner of the Champions League and the triumph of the club world championship.
Going to Napoli
On August 26, 2011 Goran Pandev signed a contract with a Neapolitan club on a leasehold basis. The Macedonian was bought from Inter by Milan, after scoring 7 goals in the debut season and helping the team win the Copa Italy Cup. As part of the "Parthenopeytsev" played until 2014 - spent 92 matches and became the author of 19 goals. A second trophy was also obtained here - in 2014, the team again won the Copa Italy Cup.
Unsuccessful career in the Turkish championship
In September 2014, the Balkan footballer Goran Pandev moved to Galatasaray. Under the terms of the contract, we were talking about the 1 + 1 system (in order to activate the option, Pandev needed to play at least 27 matches in the debut season). The player’s salary was 2.4 million euros per year. The player was not able to play properly in Turkey because of the injury, which took a lot of time to recover. As a result, for the “yellow-red” had 4 fights.
