Gašper Koritnik

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Gašper Koritnik
Personnel
birthday January 6, 2001
place of birth Trbovlje ,  Slovenia
size 181 cm
position striker
Juniors
Years station
2008-2018 NK Krško
2018– NK Celje
Men's
Years station Games (goals) 1
2018– NK Celje 10 (2)
National team
Years selection Games (goals) 2
2017 Slovenia U-16 5 (2)
2017-2018 Slovenia U17 14 (5)
2018-2019 Slovenia U18 3 (0)
2019– Slovenia U-19 7 (0)
1 Only league games are given.
As of April 26, 2020

2 As of April 26, 2020

Gašper Koritnik (born January 6, 2001 in Trbovlje ) 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 NK Celje with play in the highest Slovenian football league .

Club career

Career start

Gašper Koritnik was born in the city of Trbovlje on 6 January 2001 and came in August 2008 in the youth department of the NK Krško into some 50 kilometers south-east location Krško . There he went through all the junior game classes and appeared early on as a dangerous offensive player. In the 2014/15 season he scored 25 goals in 23 league games for the U-15 team of his club and made his breakthrough in the following season 2015/16 with the U-17 team playing in the 1st Slovenska Kadetska Liga , the Slovenian U-17 league. However, the young attacker remained primarily part of the U-15 squad, for whom he scored five goals in 16 championship games and only made short appearances in six league games for the U-17 team.

In 2016/17 he became a regular in the U-17 team, for whom he scored nine goals in 24 championship appearances. The 2017/18 season was similarly successful for him, with 23 appearances and eight goals in the 1st SKL. He also made his first two appearances in the U-19 team in the 1st Slovenska Mladinska Liga , the Slovenian U-19 league. Here he scored his first goal in his debut game, a 2-2 away draw against the age colleagues of NK Aluminij , on April 25, 2018.

Change to Celje and first assignments as a professional

After ten years at NK Krško, Koritnik moved to the youth department of the Slovenian first division club NK Celje during the summer break before the 2018/19 season . At the same time, the young offensive player with the professionals was given a three-year contract with a term until May 31, 2021. From this time on, Koritnik began to play more in the U-19 team, for which he has been a regular on the offensive since the end of September 2018 at the latest. Dušan Kosič , the coach of the men's team at NK Celje, brought him into the professional squad early in the season . On the fourth match day (August 11, 2018) Kosič used him as a substitute in a 1-1 away draw against his ex-club NK Krško; in the 90th minute he came on for Tilen Pečnik . Four days later he scored an important goal, again only as a substitute for a few minutes on the field, when he led his team to a 2-0 away win over ND Bilje in the first round match of the Slovenian Football Cup 2018/19 . Due to his performance, he came on as a substitute for Rok Štraus from the 59th minute on in the following league game, a 1: 3 home defeat against NK Triglav Kranj on August 18, 2018 . After that, he was primarily used in the club's own offspring. Until shortly before the end of the season, when he made it to a third short appearance in the league, Koritnik was the youngest player to play in the Slovenska Nogometna Liga 2018/19 , before three younger players made their debut in the final rounds of the championship. In the final standings, he and his team ranked fifth in the table and thus only just missed a starting place in the international competitions of the following season. As a regular on the offensive of the U-19 team, Koritnik scored eleven goals in 20 appearances in the 1st Slovenska Mladinska League .

Also in the following season 2019/20 Koritnik alternated between the U-19 team and the professional team of the club. He played his first competitive game of the season in the seventh round in a 6-0 away win over NK Triglav Kranj, when he came into play for Dario Vizinger in the 67th minute and scored the goals for 5 in minutes 70 and 86: 0 and 6-0 scored. After that, he regularly sat on the substitute bench of the professional team and came from this team again and again. Koritnik also made two short appearances in the Pokal Slovenije 2018/19 , in which he occasionally also contributed a goal. Currently (as of April 26, 2020) the young offensive player and his team are in second place in the table and have so far made eight league appearances and two goals. In the 1st Slovenska Mladinska League , he has already played twelve league games for the club's U-19 team and scored five goals (as of April 26, 2020).

National team career

Koritnik gained his first experience in a youth national team of the Slovenian Football Association in 2017, when he was brought into the Slovenian U-16 squad for the UEFA Development Tournament , a development tournament for U-16 national teams . In the course of the tournament, the young offensive player was used in the three victories of her home country against her colleagues from Luxembourg , the Faroe Islands and Lithuania . About two months later, Koritnik also made two international appearances in friendly matches against neighboring Austria , where he contributed one goal in each of the narrow defeats of the Slovenes.

Again two months later, he took part in the Viktor Bannikov memorial tournament with the Slovenian U-17 team and celebrated a debut when he scored a double in the first group game, a 4-1 win over Israel's U-17s met. After Koritnik also played in the two subsequent group games against Slovakia and Latvia and scored the only goal of his home country in this game in the 3-1 defeat against the Slovaks, he also completed the final game for place for the Slovenes 5 against their peers from Belarus , which Slovenia won 2-0. In this last game, too, the striker contributed another goal.

After two friendly international matches against Croatia in September , when he was also able to register as a goalscorer, he played the first round of qualifying for the U-17 European Championship 2018 with his home country in the following October 2017 and was in the first two group matches against Belarus and Kazakhstan . He missed the game against France ; as second place behind the French, Slovenia then rose to the subsequent elite round of qualification. After having played a number of friendly matches in early February and early March, he represented his home country in the elite round of qualifying for the U-17 European Championship at the end of March 2018.

In the first game, a 1-1 draw against Hungarians of the same age , still unused on the bench, he completed the two subsequent victorious games against Israel and Romania . As the winner of Group 7, Slovenia qualified for the European Championship finals in England in May 2018 . Here, too, he was part of the Slovenian squad, which remained unsuccessful and was eliminated from the tournament in the group stage after three defeats and a goal difference of 8-0. Koritnik only played around 30 minutes in the first group game against the Swedish U-17 team and sat on the bench in the remaining two games without a stake. After scoring five goals in the first five U-17 internationals, Koritnik did not come across a single goal in the following nine games.

About three months after his last international match, he made his debut on August 7, 2018 in a 2-1 defeat in a friendly against Italy in the Slovenian U-18 national team . In April 2019 he also played for said team in two international matches against Montenegro , before making his debut for the U-19 team three months later, on July 26, 2019, in a friendly against the United Arab Emirates Homeland gave. For the Slovenian U-19 juniors, he then played a total of three more appearances in friendly matches in August and October 2019 before he was part of the Slovenian squad in qualifying for the U-19 European Championship 2020 . He was only used in one of the three games in his home country in the first round, finished second with the Slovenians in group 9 and thus made it into the elite round of qualification. At the beginning of February and beginning of March 2020, he was used in two friendly international matches against his colleagues from Turkey and Austria .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Victor Bannikov Memorial U-17 Tournament 2017 (English), accessed December 6, 2018
  2. ↑ Italija - Slovenija (2: 1) (Slovenian), accessed December 6, 2018
  3. ↑ Slovenija - ZAE (3: 1) (Slovenian), accessed on December 11, 2019
personal data
SURNAME Koritnik, Gašper
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Slovenian soccer player
DATE OF BIRTH January 6, 2001
PLACE OF BIRTH Trbovlje , Slovenia