Sead Kolašinac
#3 · Defender · age 32 · (C)
Captain and senior leader; ex-Arsenal and Schalke left-back.
90
WC26 rating
- Recent form
- 45
- Career peak
- 100
- League level
- 90
- Competition pedigree
- 98
- International pedigree
- 92
- Longevity
- 67
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Career by season
Source: transfermarkt · fetched 2026-05-29
Kolašinac is the kind of captain Bosnia has long needed — physically imposing, vocally direct, and able to play either left-back or as a left centre-back in a back three. Gasperini’s high-energy schemes at Atalanta have kept him sharp; he is one of the few defenders in this squad with experience in big European nights, and the dressing-room voice that has held a generation of Bosnian players together through a tense playoff campaign.
Strengths
- Physical defending
- Overlapping bursts
- Set-piece threat
- Leadership
Recent form
Atalanta regular through 2025-26; captain in all qualifying.
Famously fought off armed motorbike robbers who tried to attack him and then-Arsenal teammate Mesut Özil in London in 2019, then played a match the next day.