No fazing Faz as City ready for Sligo

FAHRUDIN Kuduzovic has no fears about beginning his Cork City career at former club, Sligo Rovers, tonight (Showgrounds, 8pm). With a past like his, how could anything faze him?

Kuduzovic introduces himself in his midlands English accent as “Faz”. He does it with the knowing smile of an immigrant who grew up in a strange land and, no doubt, spent countless hours explaining to friends he hoped to make how to pronounce this exotic name.

When he was eight, his family fled Bosnia as that awful year of 1992 lurched into 1993, not a new year of hope but of unknown new dangers. Vlasenica, where he was born, was at the forefront of a savage Serbian onslaught, given its proximity to the north-eastern frontier.