Adnan Gabeljić

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Adnan Gabeljić
Personnel
birthday April 13, 1992
place of birth Zagreb ,  SFR Yugoslavia
size 190 cm
position striker
Juniors
Years station
St. Louis Scott Gallagher Soccer Club
2006-2009 Mehlville High School
2010-2013 Saint Louis University
Men's
Years station Games (goals) 1
2014 Oklahoma City Energy 2 (0)
2014 NK Rudeš 4 (0)
2015-2016 Sacramento Republic 10 (2)
2016 San Francisco City FC
Indoor
Years station Games (goals) 1
2014-2015 St. Louis Ambush 8 (9)
1 Only league games are given.

Adnan Gabeljić (born April 13, 1992 in Zagreb , SFR Yugoslavia (now Croatia )) is a former Bosnian-Herzegovinian - American football player on the position of a striker .

Athletic career

Career start and high school time

Adnan Gabeljić was born on April 13, 1992, almost two weeks before the final dissolution of the SFR Yugoslavia , in what would later become the Croatian capital, Zagreb, to Bosnian-Herzegovinian parents. Only a week before he was born, the father fled to Croatia with the heavily pregnant mother from Srebrenica , who gained worldwide fame around three years later due to the Srebrenica massacre . He spent the first years of his life with his family mainly in Stuttgart and came with them at the age of seven in 1999 to the United States, where the family settled in Mehlville in the US state of Missouri , a suburb of St. Louis . As a child, he was a member of the St. Louis Scott Gallagher Soccer Club , a local training club, to which he remained loyal during his high school years, which he spent at Mehlville High School . At Mehlville High School , Gabeljić already showed his class, which is confirmed by honorable mentions at the end of every four years, as well as various other individual awards. After he contributed 14 goals and eight assists in his junior year at high school, he was able to increase this performance in the following senior year 2009 when he scored 23 goals and submitted eight goals for his teammates. In the end he was named Missouri Class 3 Offensive Player of the Year , NSCAA All-American , Missouri Class 3 Offensive Player of the Year or Gatorade Missouri Boys Soccer Player of the Year , as well as being elected to the All-State First Team .

Saint Louis University

In the spring of 2010, he enrolled at Saint Louis University , where he chose civil engineering as a major , while also playing for the men's soccer team at the Saint Louis Billikens university sports department . In his freshman year at college, Gabeljić still appeared as a substitute, but was already used in all 19 championship games, of which he was on the lawn from the start in only one. He got three goals and one assist by the end of the season. At the end of the season or during the current season, the A-10 Preseason All-Rookie selection was made and TopDrawerSoccer.com voted it into the list of the 100 best freshmen of the 2010 game year. CollegeSoccerNews.com made roughly the same choice when it was voted one of the Top 100 Freshman to Keep an Eye On . In the following game year 2011, Adnan Gabeljić's stats decreased slightly, where he was used in 13 games, including three starts, and contributed one goal for his team.

After the humble freshman and sophomore years, his offensive performance increased significantly in the junior year 2012. After the team emerged victorious in the interconference played from the beginning of October to the beginning of November , this culminated in participation in the subsequent final tournament , which was held in knockout mode , which allowed the winner to participate in the subsequent NCAA Division I Men's Soccer Championship , the so-called College Cup . As the winner of the final tournament held in November, the team managed to participate in the College Cup, but was eliminated from the current competition in the first game, the second round encounter against the Fairleigh Dickinson Knights . By the end of the season, the striker had made seven hits and five assists in 21 championship appearances, only one of which he was on the field from the start. He ranked behind the strong offensive Robbie Kristo , who had also come to the USA with his parents in 1998 and previously fled Yugoslavia with them, in second place on the team's internal scorer and goalscorer list. In 2012, the 1.90 m tall attacking player was elected to the A-10 All Academic Squad and the Academic All District .

Under Mike McGinty he was used in his senior year 2013 in a further 17 championship games, but was never able to make the breakthrough as a regular force except for the early days when he was used in the first four games from the start. During these 17 games, Gabeljić, who also spent training sessions in Bosnia during his free time at Saint Louis University, had three goals and one assist. In the final for the championship title in Atlantic 10 Conference, the team was defeated by the opponents from George Mason University with 0: 1 and thus did not take part in the subsequent NCAA Division I Men's Soccer Championship 2013 . Gabeljić has been described by many as one of the fastest players in the entire NCAA during his college days . As in the previous year, he was elected to the A-10 All Academic Squad and the Academic All District . When he graduated from Saint Louis University, he also ended his volunteer work as a child and youth coach with the Special Needs Soccer Association ( SPENSA ), a football association for the mentally impaired, which he has supported since it was founded in 2007. Before he left, he worked as a volunteer at Project Downtown Saint Louis , a Muslim project for the homeless and impoverished in St. Louis, from May 2013 up to and including May 2014 .

Professional debut at Oklahoma City Energy

Via the MLS SuperDraft 2014 , Gabeljić was drafted in the second round and as the 38th pick for the MLS franchise Sporting Kansas City at the beginning of 2014 , but was subsequently not signed by the club. After completing a trial training session with the MLS franchise Montreal Impact in March 2014 , but not being offered a contract, he then signed a short-term contract with Oklahoma City Energy in the third-tier North American United Soccer League on May 1, 2014 . In the franchise, which had started its first season in its young history less than two months earlier, he subsequently made two league appearances under coach and ex-professional Jimmy Nielsen . He made his professional debut on May 5, 2014 in a 3-1 away defeat by Orlando City when he came on for Steven Perry in the 63rd minute of the game . After another brief assignment a week later, he was then no longer used in any other competitive game of the cooperation club of Sporting Kansas City and was released on June 26, 2014.

Then he tried his luck in Europe and was signed by the Croatian second division club NK Rudeš after a successful trial session . Here he was used in four league games from August to September 2014, but could not be satisfied with life in Croatia compared to his previous life in the United States and therefore returned to the USA. There he completed games for the Major Arena Soccer League team St. Louis Ambush from the end of December 2014 , making his debut on December 28, 2014 in an 8: 3 win over the San Diego Sockers when he was for the last quarter came on the field and contributed a hit and an assist. Before he left the team at the end of the season at the beginning of March 2015, he had scored nine goals and two assists in eight league games as a midfielder, but was nowhere near as dangerous as the leader of the team's internal goalscorer and scorer list Elvir Kafedžić .

After practicing with the USL franchise Sacramento Republic as a trial from February 2015 , the following March he was signed by the franchise with by far the largest audience in the entire league. He made his competitive debut for Republic FC as a substitute in the 2-4 home defeat against Seattle Sounders 2 on March 21, 2015. But even in the US third division Adnan Gabeljić did not find the breakthrough he had hoped for and was in ten by the end of the season League games used, where he brought it to only 165 minutes and scored two goals. About a month after his signing to Sacramento Republic, where he often played in front of more than 10,000 spectators, the indoor soccer franchise St. Louis Ambush announced a further signing for Gabeljić for the upcoming 2015/16 season . In this season, which took place from the end of October 2015 to the end of February 2016, it was not used in any game and was given the title Inactive . In the United Soccer League 2016 , which started in March 2016 , the striker continued to belong to the franchise initially trained by Preki and then by Paul Buckle . Without having made an official league appearance for Sacramento Republic this game year, Gabeljić was released from his duties in April 2016 by mutual agreement with the club and at the same time announced his career as a professional footballer.

At the amateur level, however, he should continue to appear at San Francisco City FC in parallel to his professional career from the 2016 game year . At the end of the game year - the franchise took third place in the Central Pacific Conference - Gabeljić also largely withdrew from amateur football in order to concentrate on his professional career.

Professional career

Parallel to his football career, while he was already a professional in Sacramento , from July to October 2015 he worked as a bridge construction engineer at ADKO Engineering Inc. , a construction company based in Folsom near Sacramento. During this same time, he also began his work as a project engineer at Teichert in September 2015 , which he ended again after another four months. From February 2016, parallel to his sports career, he also worked as a project engineer for Ranger Pipelines Inc. , based in San Francisco . In June 2016 he joined the Liechtenstein tool manufacturer Hilti, where he worked as a field engineer in the San Francisco area until May 2017 . In the same month he switched to the German competitor Bosch as Product and Channel Marketing Manager and has been working for it since (as of June 2019) in the Chicago area , where he himself lives in Arlington Heights . Since 2018 he has been a board member of the Bosnian-American Professionals Association , or BAPA for short .

In addition to the languages English and Bosnian , which he speaks as his mother tongue or at a mother tongue level, he has also mastered the basics of German from his childhood .

Web links

Footnotes & individual references

  1. ↑ Bosnian National Soccer Team Brings Community Together In St. Louis , accessed February 22, 2016
  2. ↑ a b c Bosnian pair are keys for SLU soccer team (English), accessed on February 22, 2016
  3. ↑ Gabeljic looking to lead Mehlville soccer team to success , accessed June 21, 2019
  4. ↑ Sporting KC selects Saint Louis University forward Adnan Gabeljic in 2014 MLS SuperDraft , accessed February 23, 2016
  5. ↑ Gabeljic to Montreal on Trial - Former SKC Wizards Update , accessed on February 23, 2016
  6. ↑ Energy FC signs Adnan Gabeljic ( Memento from February 23, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) (English), accessed on February 23, 2016
  7. ↑ Gabeljic Waived By Okc - Former Skc Wizards Update ( Memento from July 7, 2014 in the Internet Archive ), accessed on February 23, 2016
  8. ↑ Striker Adnan Gabeljic hopes he's found a home with Republic FC , accessed on February 23, 2016
  9. ↑ AMBUSH STUN SOCKERS 8-3 ( Memento from February 23, 2016 in the Internet Archive ), accessed on February 23, 2016
  10. ↑ Statistics from St. Louis Ambush (2014/15) (English), accessed on February 23, 2016
  11. ↑ Republic FC signs four new players , accessed February 23, 2016
  12. ↑ Sacramento Republic FC - Seattle Sounders FC 2 (2: 4) ( Memento from April 2, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) (English), accessed on February 23, 2016
  13. ↑ 2015 USL Statistics - SAC Republic FC ( Memento from February 23, 2016 in the Internet Archive ), accessed on February 23, 2016
  14. ↑ AMBUSH ANNOUNCE TEN RETURNING PLAYERS FOR NEXT SEASON ( Memento from February 23, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) (English), accessed on February 23, 2016
  15. ↑ Statistics from St. Louis Ambush (2015/16) (English), accessed on February 23, 2016
  16. ↑ Sacramento Republic FC Release Forward Adnan Gabeljic ( Memento from May 31, 2016 in the Internet Archive ), accessed on June 21, 2019
  17. ↑ Adnan Gabeljic to San Francisco City FC (English), accessed on June 21, 2019
personal data
SURNAME Gabeljić, Adnan
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Bosnian-Herzegovinian American soccer player
DATE OF BIRTH April 13, 1992
PLACE OF BIRTH Zagreb , Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia