David Zec

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David Zec
Personnel
birthday January 5, 2000
size 185 cm
position Defender ( central defender )
Juniors
Years station
2007-2018 NK Triglav Kranj
2018– Benfica Lisbon
Men's
Years station Games (goals) 1
2017-2018 NK Triglav Kranj 31 (2)
2018– Benfica Lisbon 0 (0)
2018– Benfica Lisbon B 9 (0)
National team
Years selection Games (goals) 2
2016 Slovenia U-16 6 (0)
2016-2017 Slovenia U17 12 (1)
2017-2018 Slovenia U18 4 (1)
2017-2019 Slovenia U-19 12 (1)
2019– Slovenia U-21 6 (0)
1 Only league games are given.
As of December 12, 2019

2 As of December 12, 2019

David Zec (born January 5, 2000 ) is a Slovenian football player on the position of defender . The central defender moved to Benfica Lisbon in the summer of 2018 to play in the Primeira Liga , the highest Portuguese football league, but is primarily used in the second team and in the club's own youth team.

Club career

Career at home

David Zec was born on January 5, 2000 and was registered as a football player with NK Triglav Kranj at the age of seven . Over the years he went through all game classes, in which he mostly quickly became a regular. After playing exclusively for the club's U-15 team in 2013/14, he was also a regular on the defensive in the following season and made his debut in the 1st Slovenska Kadetska League in spring 2015 as a 15-year-old . He scored just as often in two league appearances this season before he was firmly anchored in this team from 2015/16 on and scored two goals in 25 league appearances. Due to his rapid breakthrough in the respective age groups, he appeared in the 1st Slovenska Mladinska League , the Slovenian junior league , in the 2016/17 season and was able to assert himself against the mostly older competition and establish himself as a regular. Since he was able to attract the attention of the people in charge of the men's team represented in the Druga Slovenska Nogometna Liga , he made his debut in the same towards the end of the game year.

Under coach Siniša Brkić , he sat on the bench for the first time on April 30, 2017 in a 3-3 home draw against NK Drava Ptuj , but has not yet been used. He made his debut in the following round, when he played in the 3-2 away win over NK Krka from the start and for the full duration of the game and scored his team's 3-2 winning goal in the 93rd minute of the game. Brkić also trusted him in the subsequent final championship round of the 2nd SNL 2016/17 and let him play through again for the full 90 minutes in the 4-0 home win over NK Brežice in 1919 . As the champion of the second highest Slovenian league, Triglav Kranj managed direct promotion to the Slovenska Nogometna League , in which he was also able to establish himself immediately. In 29 of 36 possible league appearances, he and the team ranked ninth in the table at the end of the season and had to go into relegation against NK Drava Ptuj, the runner-up in the 2nd SNL. The club from Kranj won it and thus remained in the Slovenian first class.

Change to Portugal

Through his performances, other European clubs became aware of the young Slovenian. As the Portuguese first division club Benfica Lisbon announced on May 31, 2018, the 18-year-old moved to the traditional club in Portugal on July 1, 2018. The transfer was completed in January of the same year, but it was agreed that Zec should continue to play for NK Triglav Kranj until the end of the season. In addition, a payment was made in the rumored amount of 250,000 euros . With the Portuguese, he is initially introduced to the professional squad via the U-19 team and the B-team , which is represented in the Portuguese second division . Initially, he was only part of the regular squad of the club's U-19 team and on November 3, 2018, he sat on the bench of the second division team for the first time without being used. He then took his place on the bench at irregular intervals, but did not make his debut in the second highest Portuguese football league until mid-February 2019. Before that, Bruno Lage , who was appointed coach of the first team at the beginning of the year, and his interim coach Nélson Veríssimo, who followed him, had hardly been considered. In the 1-0 away win over Varzim SC on February 16, 2019, the central defender was replaced by coach Renato Paiva , under whom he had played in the U-19s until January and who had meanwhile been promoted to coach of the B-team used for the full duration. Also in the three subsequent league games he acted as a regular on the defensive, before he had to clear the place for another teammate after three defeats in these games. After two games on the bench, he played two more full-distance league games in April before he was back on the bench unused at the end of the season. In the last championship game, a 1: 5 away defeat against SC Braga B , he was sent off early in the 59th minute after yellow-red . He finished the LigaPro 2018/19 with the B team in fourth place in the table and came second with the Benfica Juniors , the nickname of the club's U-19 team.

In the following 2019/20 season , the 1.90 m tall central defender was also hardly taken into account and has only made two championship appearances to date (as of December 12, 2019).

National team career

Zec gained his first experience in a Slovenian junior national team between May and June 2016 when he played in six friendly international matches for the Slovenian U-16 national team . A little later, in August 2016, he made his debut for the Slovenian U-17 juniors and played for them in twelve international matches until the end of March 2017, where he contributed one goal. In addition to eight friendly matches, he also played one game in the first qualifying round for the 2017 U-17 European Football Championship in October 2016 , and all three games in the elite qualification round in March 2017. The Slovenes took third place in Group 7 and thus could not qualify for the finals in Croatia . Between August 2017 and April 2018, he was then used in four U-18 internationals , where he also scored one goal, and was also used in the U-19 team of Slovenia at the same time .

For this he made his debut on August 15, 2017 in a friendly against his age colleagues from the United Arab Emirates . After two more friendly international appearances in August, he played two qualifying games for the U-19 European Championship 2018 in October . Then it took eleven months before Zec was considered again for a U-17 international match. In September 2018 he played two friendly matches for his home country and one month later he qualified for the U-19 European Championship in 2019 with the team . He played all three group games of the first qualifying phase and rose to the subsequent elite round of qualification with the Slovenes, who finished group 7 in second place behind their colleagues from Hungary . After he had not been considered for any further international matches in the meantime, he started with the team in the said elite round in March 2019. Here he was used in two of the three group games of his team and in the end finished with the team in third place in Group 4, whereby one failed to participate in the finals.

In June 2019, the Portugal legionnaire made his debut in the Slovenian U-21 national team when coach Primoz Gliha used him as a central defender against Switzerland on June 7th . Three days later he was also used against Georgia for the full duration of the match. Zec was also involved in the four subsequent international matches of the Slovenian U-21 national team against France , England , Hungary and Portugal from September to November 2019.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Benfica contrata jovem central e na Eslovénia já falam dos valores (Portuguese), accessed on June 27, 2018
personal data
SURNAME Zec, David
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Slovenian soccer player
DATE OF BIRTH January 5, 2000