“When I started to play well for a club, then I started to believe that I can reach the level to play for my country too. When they called me up for the first time, I was so excited. I was so nervous when I met the players and the coach. For two years before, I watched them, how they play and all these things. When I went there to train with them, and I saw them, it was great, you are soon like friends, you are teammate now, so my first day in training, it was an incredible moment for me.

“Then I made my debut, that was unbelievable, especially when I scored my first goal! We played at home, and I knew it would be my first start, my first time in the starting XI, and we won 4-0 against Gibraltar. I scored two goals, the first one and the third one. It was very special, especially because we were at home. It’s still unbelievable! My family were there, they support me and I think as a footballer, the best feeling you can have is when you score for the national team and your family is there.

“International football starts again very soon. We have a very hard group for the European Championship, we didn’t expect that it would be this hard. We have England, we have Italy, Ukraine, Malta. It will be very tough, especially because we won against Italy last time and basically, we knocked them out of the World Cup. We won the play-off 1-0, so now they know it is not easy to play against us, they will give us a lot of respect and they will want revenge. I think we play England in Old Trafford, not Wembley, but that is still exciting.

“We have a very good generation of players in the national team now, I think we are rated something like 45 or 50 in the world. We played in the European Championships for the first time when we tried to go to Euro 2020 and with just two million people, it is very difficult for us in qualification.

“But we were very close to the World Cup in Qatar, we were just one game away. Imagine, we beat Italy in the play-off and then had to play Portugal five days later in the final. That was very hard – you know sometimes you have to be lucky with this draw. It was very hard, but we have improved a lot and I think we will do something big in the future.”

Playing for the Dons certainly won’t hurt Bojan’s international ambitions. He seems very much at home here, on and off the pitch.

“I like Aberdeen very much. It’s not so big like Budapest – I was two years in Budapest. Here it is quiet, it’s green, it’s bliss, I like it like this. I’m here with my girlfriend, with my dog and we are very chilled!”

As the season has worn on, Bojan’s partnership with Duk up front has been a feature of Aberdeen’s play. Certainly Bojan enjoys being part of a front two.

“Duk is unbelievable, first as a person but also as a player. We help each other very much on the pitch. I think the hardest part of football is to score the goals. If you don’t score goals, you cannot be winning the games so I think we did well as a team until now and I hope that the two of us will continue like this. But this is true of all the players. When we play together like a team, we will always have success, so this is most important. I always say that if we play like a team it is difficult to beat us.

With 17 goals in the bag so far, just what does it actually feel like to score for Aberdeen?

“When you score a goal, the feeling is from the adrenaline, so it’s an unbelievable feeling and you always want to feel this in every game! You train and you work just for this and when you score, when you see everyone celebrate, especially at home with all the fans, you know that everyone is feeling this. I cannot explain this feeling, it doesn’t matter if you score from one yard or from outside the box, it’s the same.

“My favourite goal so far is in the semi-final of the League Cup at Hampden. The atmosphere on the day was unbelievable. The fans were brilliant. It was a great game and we were very unlucky that we lost in the end. It was very hard, a tough game. We played really good, but at the end, we conceded those two goals. But it gives you a taste for it, we want to get back there and hopefully we can do that next season.

“Before that, there is a lot to play for this season. The first thing we have to do is to get into the top six and stay there for when the league is split. Then we will see where we are and if we can achieve the top four. But why not? We have shown we can win games his season, now we need to start to do it again consistently.”

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