Luka Kerin

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Luka Kerin
Personnel
birthday March 23, 1999
place of birth Brežice ,  Slovenia
size 180 cm
position striker
Juniors
Years station
2007-2015 NK Krško
2015-2018 Inter Milan
2017 → NK Krško (loan)
Men's
Years station Games (goals) 1
2017 → NK Krško (loan) 2 (0)
2018– NK Celje 41 (6)
National team
Years selection Games (goals)
2014 Slovenia U-16 4 (1)
2015-2016 Slovenia U17 17 (6)
2017 Slovenia U18 2 (0)
2017 Slovenia U-19 4 (0)
1 Only league games are given.
As of April 26, 2020

Luka Kerin (born March 23, 1999 in Brežice ) is a Slovenian football player on the position of a striker . Since February 2018 he has been under contract with NK Celje with games in the highest Slovenian football league .

Club career

Career start at home

Luka Kerin was born on March 23, 1999 in the town of Brežice, not far from the border with Croatia , and began his club career as a football player shortly before his eighth birthday when he was registered with NK Krško . At the club from the neighboring town of Krško, he went through all the junior league classes and appeared at a young age as extremely dangerous for goals. In the 2012/13 season he completed 26 of 30 possible championship games in the U-14 league and scored 40 goals. With two goals behind Kevin Žižek from NK Maribor , he was the second best goalscorer in the league and finished this with his team in third place in the final table. In 2013/14 he was able to improve his performance again and, under the leadership of Rok Zorko, scored 51 goals in 24 appearances in the U-15 league. Among other things, he scored ten goals in a 15-1 win over the age colleagues of Rudar Velenje . With his 51 goals he was the top scorer this season. He also made 14 league appearances and ten goals for the U-17 team in the 2nd Slovenska Kadetska League .

Due to his performance, he was courted by various international top clubs, but spent the 2014/15 season at NK Krško. In 28 games for the U-17 team in the 1st Slovenska Kadetska League , he scored 15 goals and finished the season with the team in seventh place. After the Slovenian U-13 and U-15 champions were about to move abroad during the winter break of the 2014/15 season, after the end of the season he switched to the offspring of the Italian top club Inter Milan . Kerin had already signed a contract with the men's team of NK Krško, at that time in the Slovenian second division, which in turn had an impact on the transfer fee that Inter Milan had to pay for the young offensive player.

Young player at Inter Milan

Kerin made his debut in the Campionato Nazionale Under-17 B in the first game of the season when he came on a brief assignment. Subsequently, he was mostly used as a left winger , but also played a few games as a center forward. After appearing in 19 of 26 possible championship games, in which he scored seven goals, the young Slovenian and his team ranked first in the regular season. In the final round of the season he was only used in the first group game, in the remaining games up to the final he was either sitting on the bench without being used or was not part of the squad at all. Inter Milan only lost the final against Atalanta Bergamo's age colleagues in extra time with 1: 2.

In the following season Kerin was alternately Nazionale in Campionato Under-17 B and in the Campionato Primavera Girone C used. With the Primavera team, the left foot made it into the final round and was also able to prevail against the competition in this. In the end, the youngsters from Inter Milan emerged as the winners of the Campionato Primavera. At the end of August 2017, the Slovenian was sent back to his home country on loan until the end of the year, where he found accommodation with his former club NK Krško. Here he mostly acted for the U-19 junior team in the 1st Slovenska Mladinska League and was used for this until the end of the loan period in eight championship games, where he scored four times. He also made his breakthrough into professional football and made his debut on September 10, 2017 in the Slovenska Nogometna Liga , the highest Slovenian football league. Under coach Stipe Balajić he came in the 2-4 home defeat against NK Olimpija Ljubljana , he came from the 90th minute of play for the Croat Nikola Mandić .

Fixed return to Slovenia

After that, he alternately sat unused on the bench or was not part of the squad before he came to another brief assignment on October 28. Subsequently, he was no longer part of the professional squad of NK Krško until the winter break and spent the rest of the time in the youth, for whose U-19 team he scored four goals in eight games. Only a few weeks after his return to Italy, his engagement there ended and he moved back home, where he was signed by the first division club NK Celje . Here he signed a contract with a term until the end of the 2019/20 season. For the club from the third largest city in Slovenia, he made his competitive debut in the first game of the spring when he was on the field in return for Dario Vizinger in a 2-1 away defeat against NK Olimpija Ljubljana by coach Dušan Kosič from the 81st minute of the game came. After the next game was postponed due to the weather conditions, Kerin came in the 21st championship round in a 2-0 home win over ND Gorica from the start as left winger, scored the 1-0 opening goal in the fourth minute and was out Replaced in the 39th minute by Bian Paul Šauperl . After that he was not part of the squad for three games and was then used regularly from late March to early May, but mostly as a substitute player. With eight appearances (1 goal + 1 assist) for NK Celje, he finished the 2017/18 season with the team in fifth place in the table and barely missed an international starting position.

In the following 2018/19 season , too, Kerin found it difficult to find a place in the professional team for a long time, rarely sat on the bench and usually did not even belong to the professional squad. After he had only had two missions up to the winter break, Kosič let him go more often from spring onwards. By the end of the season, when he again finished fifth with the team, the 20-year-old had made twelve league appearances, one goal and two assists. He also played two games for the team in the 2018/19 Slovenian Cup and was eliminated with NK Celje in the round of 16 against NK Krško. In the following 2019/20 season , Kerin started as a substitute but was soon converted into a regular by his coach Dušan Kosič . With the exception of four consecutive games between the end of September and the beginning of October 2019, Kerin was then in all the championship games played so far (as of April 26, 2020) and scored four goals and six assists in his 21 appearances. Furthermore, Kerin, who was mainly used as a left winger, was used in all four games of his team in the Pokal Slovenije 2019/20 , contributed a total of three goals and was eliminated with the team in the quarter-finals against NK Radomlje .

National team career

Kerin gained his first experience in a Slovenian youth team when he first appeared in the U-16 team in his home country in September 2014 . After his debut match against his senior colleagues from Austria on September 9, he was used two days later in another international match against Austria. About a month later, two more friendly U-16 internationals against Serbia followed , and he also scored one goal.

Between the beginning of March and the end of August 2015, Kerin then played in ten friendly international matches of the Slovenian U-17 team. For this he then appeared in two of the three group games of the first qualifying round for the U-17 European Football Championship in 2016 . After the team had qualified for the subsequent elite round of qualification, Kerin played two friendly games in preparation and then appeared in all three games of the elite round in March 2016. With the Slovenes, however, he missed the qualification for the final round to be held in Azerbaijan in May 2016 . In his 17 U-17 internationals, which he had completed up to this point, he contributed six goals.

After two appearances in friendly matches for the Slovenian U-18 team in March 2017, Kerin made his debut for the U-19 team in his home country on August 29, 2017 . After another U-19 friendly match that took place two days later, the left-footed player played two qualifying matches for the 2018 U-19 European Football Championship in October of the same year . As third in Group 4, however, the team already failed to make it into the elite round of qualification.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Iz Krškega v Inter (Slovenian), accessed on March 18, 2018
  2. ↑ a b Še en Slovenec pri Interju (Slovenian), accessed on March 18, 2018
  3. ↑ Under 17 A e B. L'Atalanta è campione d'Italia. Oggi diretta streaming della finale scudetto Lega Pro (Italian), accessed on March 18, 2018
personal data
SURNAME Kerin, Luka
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Slovenian soccer player
DATE OF BIRTH March 23, 1999
PLACE OF BIRTH Brežice , Slovenia