Žan Celar

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Žan Celar
Personnel
birthday March 14, 1999
place of birth Kranj ,  Slovenia
size 187 cm
position striker
Juniors
Years station
2004-20 ?? NK Šenčur
20 ?? - 2012 NK Velesovo
2012-2014 NK Triglav Kranj
2014-2017 NK Maribor
2017– AS Roma
Men's
Years station Games (goals) 1
2016-2017 NK Maribor 1 (0)
2018– AS Roma 1 (0)
2019-2020 →  AS Cittadella  (loan) 10 (1)
2020– →  US Cremonese  (loan) 2 (0)
National team
Years selection Games (goals) 2
2014 Slovenia U-16 4 (1)
2015-2016 Slovenia U17 16 (6)
2016-2017 Slovenia U18 11 (4)
2017 Slovenia U-19 5 (5)
2019– Slovenia U-21 4 (1)
1 Only league games are given.
As of April 26, 2020

2 As of April 26, 2020

Žan Celar (born March 14, 1999 in Kranj ) is a Slovenian football player on the position of a striker . Since the 2018/19 season, the multiple Slovenian junior national player has been under contract with AS Roma with Serie A play , but is still regularly used in the club's own youngsters or is loaned out to other clubs.

Club career

Career start at home

Žan Celar was born on March 14, 1999 in the town of Kranj in northern Slovenia and began his football career in May 2004 at NK Šenčur, a few kilometers east of his hometown . From this time on, the then five-year-old went through all of the junior league classes at the club and over time also came to NK Velesovo , which is also only about three kilometers east of Šenčur . Here he appeared at times as a cooperation player, since the two clubs that were close to each other had a cooperation, in appearance and played games for joint youth teams of the two clubs. In the 2011/12 season he played for a U-15 cooperation team of the two clubs in 29 league games and contributed eight goals. By the winter break of the 2012/13 season, he completed a further 17 championship games for said U-15 team and had a record of eight goals.

Due to his offensive strength, the largest football club in the city of Kranj, NK Triglav Kranj , became aware of the young talent and guided him into his own youth during the winter break. For the U-15 team of the Slovenian first division club Celar completed a further eleven league games by the end of the season, but was only successful as a goalscorer in his last two championship games (both in a double pack). In the following season Celars goal danger only became clear; in 19 missions for the club's U-15 team, he came to 27 goals, where he mostly scored in a double pack, but also contributed a hat trick and a four-pack. Due to his offensive strength, he was also used for the first time in the 1st Slovenska Kadetska League , the U-17 team of the Slovenian first division, from the spring . In his debut game on March 15, 2014, he scored two goals in a 4-0 home win over the offspring of ND Ilirija 1911 . By the end of the season he had scored three goals in six league games and was lured away by an even larger Slovenian football club during the summer break.

Debut in the top division

The NK Maribor had put out its feelers and signed the 15-year-old striker for his own youth department. From the 2014/15 season he acted as a regular player in the club's U-17 team, for which he scored 29 goals in 30 league games, as well as assisting in a number of other hits. In the following 2015/16 season, Celar regular was on the offensive of the U-17 team and scored 25 goals in 23 missions. There were also three missions and just as many goals in the U-17 football cup. Due to his strong offensive performance in the youth, he was appointed to the professional team by coach Darko Milanič for the last game of the season 2015/16 . In the insignificant 2: 3 defeat of Maribor against ND Gorica , Celar played from the start and was replaced in the 59th minute by the Brazilian goalkeeper Marcos Tavares . When he made his debut, Celar was 17 years, two months and seven days old, making him the youngest player to play in the 2015/16 Slovenska Nogometna Liga. In the 2016/17 season he rose from the U-17 team to the U-19 team of the club and represented it in the 1st Slovenska Mladinska League . As a regular player, he scored 13 goals in 23 league appearances and also played three games in the Junior Cup, where he scored twice. For the 26th championship round of the Slovenska Nogometna Liga 2016/17 , Celar was brought into the men's team once during this season, but was on the substitute bench for the full game when NK Maribor won 1-0 at home over NK Radomlje .

Change to Rome

During the summer break before the start of the 2017/18 season, the now 18-year-old Slovenian moved to Italy . The Roma had paid one million euros for the prolific right-footer, the NK Maribor will also receive 10% of the transfer fee to a possible later resale. At the Italian capital club, he then joined the Primavera team and made his competitive debut for the junior team in the first championship game against the U-19s from Hellas Verona on September 8, 2017, with the center forward in the 2-1 success of his team the 1 : 0 lead succeeded. Just a few days later, he made his first appearance under Alberto De Rossi , Daniele De Rossi's father , in the 2017/18 UEFA Youth League . After appearances in five of Rome's six games in the group stage of the Youth League, Celar, who had contributed three goals himself, retired with the team as third-placed group C early from the tournament. In the league, the Slovenian made a total of 24 out of 30 possible league appearances and a record of eleven goals and three assists. In the final standings, the Primavera team ranked third in the table and was eliminated in the final round of the season in the qualifying round consisting of two legs against the youngsters from Juventus Turin . Celar played in both games and scored a goal in the 1-1 draw in the first leg. He made four more appearances this season in the Coppa Italia Primavera , as well as in the defeat against the youth of Inter Milan in the Supercoppa of the Primavera teams.

In the following season 2018/19, the 19-year-old Slovene acted extremely dangerous from the start. After he was sent off with a red card in his first game of the season, a 3-5 home defeat against US Sassuolo Calcio , in which he scored a goal, shortly before the end of the game , he scored after serving a two-game red suspension , running gates for the young Romans. In the fourth and ninth rounds of the game, the young Slovenian scored 13 goals and one assist in six league appearances, which did not go unnoticed by the coach of the professional team, the former Italian international Eusebio Di Francesco . He was brought into the professional squad for the first time for the Serie A game of the 14th championship round against Inter Milan , but spent the 2-2 home draw against Inter Milan unused on the bench. After that, Celar returned to the Primavera team and acted for them, albeit not as extremely dangerous as in the previous games, as a regular player who still managed to score regular goals. After a series of successful games in Primavera 1, he made it to the professional squad again in mid-February 2019, but was again without a job for the time being.

Serie A debut of the goal-scoring Primavera player

However, he made his professional debut a few weeks later when he came on as a substitute in the 86th minute for the injured Patrik Schick in a 2-1 home win over FC Empoli three days before his 20th birthday and as a center forward until the end of the game acted. In the following round he sat for the last time in a competitive game on the substitute bench of the professionals and ended the season in Primavera 1 after 27 league games, 28 goals and four assists with the Romans in third place in the table. In the subsequent and final round of the season, the team lost 3-0 in the semi-finals to the youngsters from Inter Milan. Celar was not only the team's top scorer this season, but also topped the list of goalscorers in Primavera 1. The next top scorer was Vincenzo Millico from Turin FC , who had scored 24 goals in 22 appearances. In the Coppa Italia Primavera, AS Roma was already in the quarter-finals this season; Celar made a stake in this competition. Together with Edoardo Vergani , coming from Inter Milan in the summer of 2019 , Celar is seen as a contender for the 9th position among the professionals. In order to gain match practice, his regular club is looking for a Serie B club for the 2019/20 season , where the Slovenian will initially be accommodated in order to then be introduced to the professional team of AS Roma.

Change to AS Cittadella and US Cremonese on loan

After it was announced on July 11, 2019 that Celar had officially extended his contract with AS Roma until June 30, 2023, it was confirmed on the same day that the young Slovenian would play the 2019/20 season as a loaner at AS Cittadella in the series B will contest. On August 24, 2019, he made his debut in the second-highest Italian football league in the first round match of Serie B 2019/20 , a 3-0 home defeat against Spezia Calcio , when he came on the pitch for Mario Gargiulo in the 56th minute of play . After he sat unused on the bench in the following game, he scored in the third round, in a 2-0 home win over Trapani Calcio after presentation by Davide Luppi in minute 46, the goal for the 1-0 lead. Subsequently, he was often used from the start, but also sat on the bench again and again without being used. From the end of October Celar was again less taken into account by his coach Roberto Venturato and had made ten appearances in Serie B by the 20th championship round . In the Coppa Italia 2019/20 , in which he was eliminated with the team after the fourth round, the goal-threatening right foot was used in all three games of his team and scored two goals.

Shortly before the end of the winter transfer period, the Italian capital club brought its loaned player back prematurely, but immediately loaned him to the US Cremonese , also playing in Italy's second division. On January 31, 2020, he was on the bench of Cremonese for the first time in a 3: 4 defeat against AC Pisa , but was not yet taken into account by coach Massimo Rastelli . It was only in the third league game since his move that he was used for the full 90 minutes in the attacking midfield in the 3-2 away defeat against Spezia Calcio. Subsequently, until the game was interrupted due to the COVID-19 pandemic in Italy , he was on the bench in a few other games of the Lombard club and so far (as of April 26, 2020) has only played a short time again when he was brought into play in a 0-0 draw against AS Cittadella of all places.

National team career

Celar gained his first experience in a junior national team of the Slovenian Football Association in 2014, when he made his debut on 9 September in a 6-1 defeat of the Slovenian U-16 juniors against his colleagues from Austria . After another 6-0 defeat against Austria two days later, he played about a month later in two more U-16 internationals against Serbia , where he scored a goal in the last game. After that, he was not used again in the U-16 national team, but started his career in the Slovenian U-17 national team six months later . After three appearances in friendly matches at the beginning of March 2015, Celar played five more international matches at the Tournament of Nations , which took place from the end of April to the beginning of May , in which he scored three goals. The tournament is viewed by some nations, such as the Austrians, as an U-16 tournament. After that, it took until the end of August 2015 before Celar returned to the U-17 team in his home country. Used in two friendly international appearances against Northern Ireland , the center forward scored one goal and started a month later with the Slovenians in the qualification for the U-17 European Championship 2016 . After the group phase, he and the Slovenes were third in group 10 and made it to second place in the ranking of third-placed teams, thus securing participation in the elite qualification round that followed in March 2016. In this, the team failed after three draws against the competition and did not make it to the final round in Azerbaijan in May 2016 as third in Group 4 . Celar was the only Slovenian goalscorer in this elite round; he had also contributed a goal in the previous qualifying round.

After being used for the last time two days after his 17th birthday, Celar completed a series of assignments for the U-18 team in his home country from August 2016 . On his debut on August 11 against his colleagues from Italy , he scored the only goal of his team in the 1: 5 defeat and then had to wait until January of the following year for further international appearances in the U-18 squad. By the end of the month he had made seven more U-18 internationals, but was only successful as a goal scorer in the last one with two goals against Bulgaria . After two friendly international appearances against Serbia at the end of March 2017, the attacking player completed his last international match in the Slovenian U-18 national team on June 7, 2017 in a 1-1 draw against the Czech Republic , in which he also contributed the goal from his home country. In twelve games he had five goals for the team and just two months later he played his first games for the Slovenian U-19 juniors . Two preparatory games against Kazakhstan at the end of August - Celar scored twice in the first leg - the Slovenians qualified for the U-19 European Championship 2018 in October . After three completed games, in which he was able to register as a goal scorer in each, it was already over for the Slovenes around the goal-scoring center forward. Third place in Group 4 failed early on and did not even make it into the subsequent elite round of qualification.

Nearly one and a half years after his last international appearance for Slovenia debuted Celar on 22 March 2019 a friendly against Georgia for the U-21 national team of Slovenia . In his second U-21 international match against Switzerland on June 7, 2019, Celar was able to register for the first time as a goalscorer of the U-21 national team in his team's 2-1 victory. He then played one U-21 international match against England (October 11) and Portugal (November 14) that year.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Žan Celar odhaja k italijanskemu velikanu! Kakšno odškodnino bo dobil Maribor? (Slovenian), accessed June 26, 2019
  2. ↑ Calciomercato Roma, preso anche Zan Celar dal Maribor (Italian), accessed on June 26, 2019
  3. ↑ a b Grifo in partita per arrivare al super bomber della Roma Primavera (Italian), accessed on June 29, 2019
  4. ↑ Report: Inter and Roma Near € 10 Million Deal for Dzeko , accessed June 29, 2019
  5. ↑ UFFICIALE: Roma, rinnovato fino al 2023 il contratto di Zan Celar (Italian), accessed on December 9, 2019
  6. ↑ UFFICIALE: Cittadella, arriva il centravanti Celar dalla Roma (Italian), accessed on December 9, 2019
  7. ↑ CELAR NUOVO ATTACCANTE GRIGIOROSSO (Italian), accessed on February 3, 2020
  8. ↑ U16 ACHIEVES FINALS AT THE TOURNAMENT OF NATIONS , accessed on June 29, 2019
personal data
SURNAME Celar, Žan
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Slovenian soccer player
DATE OF BIRTH March 14, 1999
PLACE OF BIRTH Kranj , Slovenia