Original name: Горан Пандев
Passport version: Goran Pandev
IPA: ˈɡɔran ˈpandɛf
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Nicknames: Goche, Kung-Fu Pandev, Il Pandemonio
Club shirt name: Pandev
Position: forward / attacking midfielder
Born on 27.07.1983 in Strumica, Macedonia
Club: retired
Former clubs: FK Belasica Strumica , SpA Spezia Calcio 1906
, A.C. Ancona SpA
, S.S. Lazio SpA
, FC Internazionale Milano SpA
, SSC Napoli SpA
, Galatasaray SK
, Genoa CFC SpA
, Parma Calcio 1913 S.r.l.
App/Gls: 122/38
First appearance: 06.06.2001, Bursa, Turkey – Macedonia 3:3 (WC 2002 qual.)
100th appearance: 21.03.2019, Skopje, Macedonia – Latvia 3:1 (EURO 2020 qual.)
Last appearance: 21.06.2021, Amsterdam, Macedonia – Netherlands 0:3 (EURO 2020)
First goal: 21.08.2002, Skopje, Macedonia – Malta 5:0 (friendly)
Other goals:
20.08.2003, Prilep, Macedonia – Albania 3:1 (friendly)
18.02.2004, Skopje, Macedonia – Bosnia-Herzegovina 1:0 (friendly)
11.06.2004, Tallinn, Estonia – Macedonia 2:4 (friendly)
18.08.2004, Skopje, Macedonia – Armenia 3:0 (WC 2006 qual.)
09.10.2004, Skopje, Macedonia – Netherlands 2:2 (WC 2006 qual.)
04.06.2005, Yerevan, Armenia – Macedonia 1:2 (WC 2006 qual.)
04.06.2005, Yerevan, Armenia – Macedonia 1:2 (WC 2006 qual.)
08.06.2005, Teplice, Czechia – Macedonia 6:1 (WC 2006 qual.)
11.10.2006, Andorra La Vella, Andorra – Macedonia 0:3 (EURO 2008 qual.)
17.10.2007, Skopje, Macedonia – Andorra 3:0 (EURO 2008 qual.)
20.08.2008, Luxembourg, Luxembourg – Macedonia 1:4 (friendly)
20.08.2008, Luxembourg, Luxembourg – Macedonia 1:4 (friendly)
10.09.2008, Skopje, Macedonia – Netherlands 1:2 (WC 2010 qual.)
11.02.2009, Antalya, Moldova – Macedonia 1:1 (friendly)
12.08.2009, Skopje, Macedonia – Spain 2:3 (friendly)
12.08.2009, Skopje, Macedonia – Spain 2:3 (friendly)
11.10.2009, Skopje, Macedonia – Qatar 2:1 (friendly)
11.10.2009, Skopje, Macedonia – Qatar 2:1 (friendly)
14.11.2009, Strumica, Macedonia – Canada 3:0 (friendly)
14.11.2009, Strumica, Macedonia – Canada 3:0 (friendly)
18.11.2009, Tehran, Iran – Macedonia 1:1 (friendly)
03.03.2010, Skopje, Macedonia – Montenegro 2:1 (friendly)
10.08.2011, Baku, Azerbaijan – Macedonia 0:1 (friendly)
15.08.2012, Skopje, Macedonia – Lithuania 1:0 (friendly)
06.02.2013, Skopje, Macedonia – Denmark 3:0 (friendly)
29.05.2016, Bad Erlach, Azerbaijan – Macedonia 1:3 (friendly)
28.03.2017, Skopje, Macedonia – Belarus 3:0 (friendly)
28.03.2017, Skopje, Macedonia – Belarus 3:0 (friendly)
02.09.2017, Haifa, Israel – Macedonia 0:1 (WC 2018 qual.)
11.11.2017, Skopje, Macedonia – Norway 2:0 (friendly)
09.09.2018, Skopje, Macedonia – Armenia 2:0 (NL 18/19)
13.10.2018, Skopje, Macedonia – Liechtenstein 4:1 (NL 18/19)
09.09.2019, Riga, Latvia – Macedonia 0:2 (EURO 2020 qual.)
11.10.2020, Tallinn, Estonia – Macedonia 3:3 (NL 20/21)
12.11.2020, Tbilisi, Georgia – Macedonia 0:1 (PO)
31.03.2021, Duisburg, Germany – Macedonia 1:2 (WC 2022 qual.)
13.06.2021, Bucharest, Austria – Macedonia 3:1 (2020 EURO)
Awards:
UEFA Champions League: 2009/10 (Inter)
FIFA Club World Cup: 2010 (Inter)
Italian League: 2009/10 (Inter)
Italian Cup: 2008/09 (Lazio), 2009/10, 2010/11 (Inter), 2011/12, 2013/14 (Napoli)
Italian Super Cup: 2010 (Inter)
Turkish League: 2014/15 (Galatasaray)
Turkish Cup: 2014/15 (Galatasaray)
Other facts:
– he is the all time best scorer in the national team.
– when he scored his first national team goal against Malta he became the youngest scorer with 19 years, 1 month and 25 days at the moment, a record still unbroken.
– winning 5 trophies in the year 2010, he became the only Macedonian to achieve that.
– he shares the 2nd place at the all-time table of players with most Italian Cup trophies. Pandev has 5, same as Romeo Benetti, Bruno Conti, Giuseppe Favalli, Fausto Salsano, Dejan Stanković and Francesco Toldo, while Roberto Mancini is topping the list with 6 trophies.
– he is the only player that managed to win the Italian Cup for 4 consecutive times (from 2009 to 2012).
– on 21 April 2021 he reached 100 goals in the Serie A.