Admir Cejvanovic (born June 26, 1990) is a Bosnian-born Canadian international

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player.

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Born in

Velika Kladuša Velika Kladuša ( sr-Cyrl, Велика Кладуша, ; literal translation, lit. "Great Kladuša") is a town in the Una-Sana Canton, Bosnia and Herzegovina. It is situated in the far northwest of Bosnia, located on the border with Croatia. As o ...

, Cejvanovic was displaced during the

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and spent time in a

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refugee camp on the border with Croatia, then over the border in the town of

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, before moving to Canada with his mother Rahmana at the age of four, having been sponsored by a church. They settled in

Burnaby Burnaby is a city in the Lower Mainland region of British Columbia, Canada. Located in the centre of the Burrard Peninsula, it neighbours the City of Vancouver to the west, the District of North Vancouver across the confluence of the Burrard In ...

, British Columbia. Cejvanovic began playing rugby aged 13 at his hometown club Burnaby and got his first international call up in 2014 during the

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. He was a gold medalist for Canada in rugby sevens at the

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in Toronto, made possible by his match-winning try in the semi-final against the United States. From 2016 to 2018, Cejvanovic was a member of the Canada XVs, playing mostly as a number eight.

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