About Bojan Krkić
Bojan Krkić Pérez (born 28 August 1990), also known as simply Bojan, is a Spanish former professional footballer who played as a forward or winger. Bojan began his career at Barcelona after progressing through the youth ranks at La Masia. His early promise saw him make his first-team debut at the age of 17 years and 19 days, breaking the record set by Lionel Messi. In his debut season, he scored 12 goals in 48 matches. In total, he spent four seasons at the Camp Nou, scoring 41 goals in 162 games before he was sold in July 2011 to Italian team Roma for a fee of €12 million. While in Rome, he scored seven goals in 37 appearances in the 2011–12 season, and then spent the 2012–13 season on loan at AC Milan, where he scored three goals in 27 games. Roma did not exercise their option of an additional €28 million to sign Bojan definitively, and so Barcelona re-signed him for €13 million. He spent the 2013–14 season on loan at Dutch club Ajax with whom he helped win the Eredivisie title. In July 2014, Bojan joined the English club Stoke City for €1.8 million. After subsequent loans to play on the European continent, once for Mainz 05 in 2017 and in Spain for Alavés in 2018, Krkić then played in North America for a season for the Montreal Impact. His final club was Vissel Kobe in Japan, where he played for two seasons, before being released by the club in January 2023; he retired from professional football two months later. As a Spanish youth international, he won European Championships with the Under-17 team in 2007 and the Under-21 team in 2011, as well as earning his only cap for the senior team in 2008. He has also represented the Catalan national team eight times since 2007. A quick striker with quite notable dribbling skills, it was reported that he scored over 900 goals for various youth teams since joining the club as an eight-year-old, breaking Lionel Messi's record. Bojan played his first match with Barcelona on 24 April 2007, scoring a goal in a friendly match against Egyptian club Al Ahly.
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