Žan Pelko

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Žan Pelko
FC Liefering vs.  SK Austria Klagenfurt (June 1, 2019) 09.jpg
Žan Pelko (2019)
Personnel
birthday September 28, 1990
size 185 cm
position goalkeeper
Juniors
Years station
0000-2009 NK Triglav Kranj
2007 →  NK Sava Kranj  (loan)
2008 →  NK Britof  (loan)
Men's
Years station Games (goals) 1
2009-2014 NK Triglav Kranj 79 (0)
2014 NK Kranj 13 (1)
2015-2016 SC Ulrichsberg 39 (0)
2016-2020 SK Austria Klagenfurt 98 (0)
1 Only league games are given.
As of July 31, 2020

Žan Pelko (born September 28, 1990 ) is a Slovenian football goalkeeper .

Career

Time in Slovenia

In his youth, Pelko played with NK Triglav Kranj from the fourth largest city in Slovenia. After regular appearances in the club's own offspring, he was already on the bench of the men's team as a 16-year-old in the 2016/17 season. Already in 2005/06 the young goalkeeper made regular appearances in the Slovenska kadetska liga and was the regular goalkeeper of this junior team in the 2006/07 season at the latest. For the subsequent 2007/08 season, Pelko was awarded twice. While he spent the autumn at the local club NK Sava Kranj and played in the 2nd Slovenska Mladinska Liga Zahod , he completed the spring in the youth of the NK Britof with play in the 1st Slovenska Mladinska Liga . Subsequently, he returned to his home club and completed the 2008/09 season with the team in the 1st Slovenska Mladinska League , before he made his breakthrough in the men's team in the following year. His debut in the second SNL he gave in September 2009, when he on the sixth day of the 2009/10 season against NK Aluminij in the 54th minute for Miha Gracar came on. At the end of the season he was promoted to the 1st SNL with Triglav Kranj and by then had made two appearances in the second division. In the Slovenian first class he then made his debut in September 2010 when he was in the starting line-up against NK Celje on the eleventh match day of the 2010/11 season . 15 more league games followed by the end of the season, but was only able to establish himself as a regular from mid-March 2011. As a regular goalkeeper in the Cup, he made it with the team to the quarter-finals this season and was used in three of his team's four games.

In the Slovenska Nogometna Liga 2011/12 he made a similar number of competitive appearances and, as in the previous season, had to compete with Miha Gracar for the position of goalkeeper. In addition, there were also some appearances of the new commitment Darjan Curanović . As the team with the worst goal difference, the NK Triglav Kranj finished the season in ninth and penultimate place in the table, whereupon he had to relegation against the runner-up of the Druga Slovenska Nogometna League. After this, Pelko, who guarded the goal of his team in the first leg against NK Dob, had to relegate the team to the Slovenian second division. Since the club from the village of Dob near Domžale was not allowed to rise for financial reasons, the young goalkeeper remained with his club in the country's highest football league. In 2012/13 Pelko was largely able to displace the goalkeeper and was used in a total of 27 league games. There were also five appearances in the Pokal Slovenije 2012/13 , in which the club was only eliminated in the semifinals against eventual cup winners NK Maribor . After the departure of Miha Gracar at the end of the season he struggled 2013/14 with the aforementioned Darjan Curanović the position as goalkeeper, both under coach Siniša Brkić came up with 17 league Uses and youth player Grega Sorcan made his professional debut. After 36 laps, Triglav Kranj was in last place and had to go straight down to the 2nd SNL.

From the 3rd SNL to Austria

Pelko no longer did this with his team, but moved one league lower to the amateur club NK Kranj . When Slovene third division he came under the experienced Janez Zupančič in 13 league and two cup matches are used, where he on 15 November 2014 in his last game, a 6: 0 away win over the NK Britof, after 87 minutes, a penalty scored. In the following winter break he moved over the Loibl Pass to Ulrichsberg, around 80 kilometers away, in Austria . At the club from the village located between Sankt Veit an der Glan and Klagenfurt , he was in the first combat team to play in the Unterliga Ost , the fifth division across Austria. In 13 of 14 possible league appearances in the spring, Pelko acted as a regular and remained loyal to the club in the following season 2015/16. Of 30 championship games, he was in the goal of SC Ulrichsberg in 26 and left the club after a total of 39 league games in the summer break for SK Austria Klagenfurt .

For the 2016/17 season he was immediately number 1 at the regional league team and was in goal for Klagenfurt in 29 of 30 games. Represented at the bottom of the table for the entire season, SK Austria Klagenfurt finished the season in twelfth place. In the 2017/18 ÖFB Cup, he helped his team through to the quarter-finals, where the team lost 7-0 to the eventual finalists FC Red Bull Salzburg . In the following season 2017/18 he again made 29 appearances and made it with his team in fifth place in the table. Due to the league reform and the associated creation of a new 2nd league , for which those responsible at SK Austria Klagenfurt submitted an application for approval, which was subsequently also approved, the Carinthians rose to what is now the second highest division in the country.

Initially used as a regular goalkeeper, Pelko had to give way to Styrian Christoph Nicht for two league games at the end of August and beginning of September . After that, however, he again played four championship games but slipped back in mid-October as number 2 of the Klagenfurt team. When Not tore a cruciate ligament in November and was out for the rest of the season due to injury, Pelko had to give way to the German Michael Zetterer and remained behind him in number 2. In the last two games of the season he made two league appearances and ended the season 2018/19 with the Carinthians in eighth place in the table. In the 2019/20 season he played all 30 games for the Carinthians and was named the best goalkeeper in the league. Nevertheless, his contract with Klagenfurt was not extended and he left the club after the 2019/20 season.

successes

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. Mura 05 - Triglav (1: 0) (Slovenian), accessed on June 26, 2018
  2. Licensing and admission procedure 2018/19: 32 teams interested in 28 places , accessed on June 26, 2018
  3. Bundesliga approval for Austria , accessed on June 26, 2018
  4. Greil extended! Duo will be adopted skaustriaklagenfurt.at, on August 17, 2020, accessed on August 17, 2020