Igor Sekić

Igor Sekić
Personnel
birthday	February 15, 1981
place of birth	SFR Yugoslavia
size	184 cm
position	midfield
Juniors
Years	station
1992-1995	WSV Eisenerz
1995-1998	DSV Leoben
Men's
Years	station	Games (goals) 1
1998-2001	DSV Leoben	50 (3)
2002-2003	SV Austria Salzburg	4 (0)
2003-2004	→  FC St. Veit  (loan)
2004-2009	DSV Leoben	143 (6)
2009	1. FC Vöcklabruck	11 (3)
2009–	TSV Hartberg	18 (0)
1 Only league games are given. Status: October 22, 2010

Igor Sekić (born February 15, 1981 in the SFR Yugoslavia ) is an Austrian football player with both Croatian and Austrian citizenship .

Career

youth

Sekić, who was born in the SFR Yugoslavia, immigrated to Austria with his parents as a child. There he began his active career as a soccer player in 1992 in Eisenerz in the Leoben district in Styria . From 1992 to 1995 he was active in the youth of the WSV Eisenerz , which is based there , and then moved to the youth department of the traditional Austrian club DSV Leoben . In Leoben , just under 25 kilometers away , he played his way through various youth leagues before he was brought into the professional squad of the Donawitzer for the first time in the 1997/98 season , who had their game operations in the second-rate first division.

Club career

Sekić in action (July 2009)

Sekić finally made his professional debut at the age of 17 on June 6, 1998 in the 2-1 away defeat against FC Kufstein . In the game he was substituted on for René Mitteregger in the 64th minute . In the following season he came in 15 league appearances just three games in which he was on the field for the full length of the game. At the end of the season, the team reached eighth place in the table. During the 1999/2000 season , Sekić made 10 championship appearances and secured the second place in the table with the team, eleven points behind Vfb Admira Wacker Mödling . Also in the following season 2000/01 he didn't really make it to fight his way into the regular squad and so only made eight appearances during the season.

After years without scoring, the central midfielder finally managed to score his first goals in the 2001/02 season . In particular, the days from August 4th to August 10th 2001 were among the greatest successes of his career so far, along with the runner-up title with the Donawitzers. After he scored his first professional igator in a 5-0 home win over FC Lustenau 07 on August 4th and won the away game against SV Wörgl 3-1 on August 7th, he scored two goals in the 4th on August 10th : 1 home win over SV Mattersburg . During the winter break of the same season he moved to the Austrian Bundesliga after playing a total of 50 championship games for SV Austria Salzburg . There he made his Bundesliga debut on April 28, 2002, when he came into play in the 76th minute of the game for long-term Salzburg Roman Szewczyk in a 6-1 home win over SK Rapid Wien . After three more missions for the Mozartstädter followed a loan transfer to the third-rate regional league middle to FC St. Veit , with which he would have relegated to the fourth-rate Carinthian league in the 2003/04 season .

But before that, the young midfielder moved back to his home club in Leoben in January 2004. So he came to 14 missions and one goal for the Montanstädter in the same season. From 2004/05 , Sekić became a regular player in the Donawitzer midfield, but had to be replaced in 19 of 26 games due to physical problems. As in the previous season, he scored a single goal this time. After 25 league appearances in the 2005/06 season, another 30 appearances and one goal followed in 2006/07 .

During the second division season 2007/08 , physical problems again made themselves felt in the central midfielder. In 30 games he had just played seven games in which he was on the field for the full length of the game. The 2008/09 season was also characterized by the midfield player's stamina problems, with 18 games played for Leobner on six games in which he was on the field for the entire duration of the game. After the club from Leoben-Donawitz had been having financial problems for a long time, Sekić moved to 1. FC Vöcklabruck in Upper Austria just a few days before his club went bankrupt . For the professional team of the club, which also had their game operations in the first division, he was used in eleven championship games and scored three goals.

But even with this club it should not last long, because at the end of the season the club, whose combat team only reached twelfth and thus last place in the table despite the help of Sekić, was dissolved. Here, too, as with DSV Leoben, the reason was a financial problem, as the main sponsor had resigned and the club was mostly only financed by him.

Before the start of the 2009/10 season , Sekić signed a contract with the promoted team from the Regionalliga Mitte, TSV Hartberg . Although he was used in 18 games, his contract was not renewed in the summer of 2010. Since then he has been playing at SC Marchtrenk in the 2nd regional league east.

successes

• 1 × first division runner-up: 2000

Web links

• Igor Sekic in the database of transfermarkt.de
• Player profile at fussballoesterreich.at