Like FCZ with Mehmedi: Lugano does not want Gavranovic back!

class=”sc-29f61514-0 jbwksb”>

Bundesliga? Series A? For weeks there have been rumors about the departure of Lugano clipper Zan Celar (16 league goals last season). So far there have been numerous interested parties, but a concrete offer for the 24-year-old is not yet on the table. For Lugano it means waiting and twiddling your thumbs.

A departure from the Slovenian was already under discussion in January. Mario Gavranovic (33) was then high on the wish list as successor to Celar. The former Nati striker (16 goals in 41 international matches), born and raised in Lugano, told Blick at the time: “I still have a contract with Kayserispor until the summer. Let’s see what the future brings. What is certain is that I want to keep playing, I feel great. It is also certain that my family and many of my friends live in Lugano. »

Now his contract with Kayserispor has expired. But nothing comes of a return to FC Lugano! Not even if Celar left the club. Blick learned that those responsible for Lugano had decided not to sign the Ticino. They say it doesn’t fit. Apparently they want a younger striker. “I wanted to go home, but I couldn’t,” says Gavranovic.

“I only train and wait”

So he suffers the same fate as his old Nati buddy Admir Mehmedi (32) at FC Zurich. Both wanted to end their careers at their regular clubs, both received a basket.

In June 2021, Gavranovic blasted Switzerland into extra time with his goal to make it 3-3 in the 90th minute of the European Round of 16 against France, paving the way for the quarter-finals and our national team’s greatest triumph in modern times with his goal in the penalty shoot-out. In the quarter-final defeat in the penalty shootout against Spain, he was the only Swiss to score.

Two years later he is back in Lugano with his family. How are you now? “I train alone, stay fit and wait,” Gavranovic told Blick.

Source : Blick