Marko Kmetec
| Marko Kmetec | ||
| Personnel | ||
|---|---|---|
| birthday | 3rd January 1976 | |
| place of birth | Yugoslavia | |
| position | striker | |
| Men's | ||
| Years | station | Games (goals) 1 |
| 1995-1997 | ND Mura 05 | 47 (5) |
| 1997-1998 | NK Maribor | 33 (15) |
| 1999-2004 | NK Olimpija Ljubljana | 104 (48) |
| 2001-2002 | → NK Korotan (loan) | 29 (5) |
| 2004-2007 | Ethnikos Achnas | 59 (20) |
| 2007-2008 | NK Drava Ptuj | 30 (10) |
| 2009 | ND Mura 05 | 12 (9) |
| 2009–2012 | Aluminij Kidricevo | 86 (29) |
| National team | ||
| Years | selection | Games (goals) |
| 1993 | Slovenia U18 | 1 (0) |
| 1996 | Slovenia U-21 | 1 (0) |
| 2003 | Slovenia B | 2 (0) |
| 1 Only league games are given. | ||
Marko Kmetec (born January 3, 1976 ) is a former Slovenian football player . The striker , who had to serve several months of doping ban in 2008 , won the title of Slovenia's top scorer in the Slovenska Nogometna Liga in the 2002/03 season .
Career
Kmetec began his career at ND Mura 05 , which he had already represented on the football field as a teenager. From there he moved to NK Maribor in 1997 . With his new club he won the championship in 1998. Allegedly, he is said to have received his playing times at the club under coach Bojan Prašnikar due to payments from his player agent to the coach. After another half series, however, he left the club and moved in January 1999 within the league to NK Olimpija Ljubljana . With 16 goals this season he was the top scorer of his club in the 1999/2000 season and finished fourth in the scorers list behind Kliton Bozgo , Oskar Drobne and Uroš Barut . At the end of the season he also reached the cup final against NK Korotan with the club . After the first leg had ended with a 1: 2 defeat, he made a decisive contribution to the cup victory as a goal scorer in the 2: 0 second leg success. Even if he wasn't nearly as dangerous in the following season, he played for the championship title alongside Sebastjan Cimirotič , Ermin Rakovič , Dušan Kosic and Ismet Muniši , but had to be two points behind his old club NK with the team Maribor content with the runner-up. The club loaned Kmetec for the subsequent 2001/02 season to league rivals NK Korotan. There he contributed with five goals this season to keep the league as tenth in the table.
After returning to NK Olimpija, Kmetec re-established itself in the club's storm. At the side of Miran Pavlin , Anton Žlogar and Blaž Puc , he showed his old goal threat again and placed himself at the top of the scorers list with 23 goals this season ahead of Marko Vogric , Ramiz Smajlovic and Dražen Žeželj . Nevertheless, with the third place in the table he was only enough to reach the European Cup. Also in the following year he scored double digits, with his 16 goals this season he finished second behind Žeželj on the top scorer list. Behind ND Gorica it was again only enough for the runner-up.
After NK Olimpija got into financial problems and was unable to pay salaries on time, Kmetec left the club like some other players after the end of the season in summer 2004. The striker's new club was the Cypriot club Ethnikos Achnas , with whom he initially played against relegation. In the 2005/06 season he scored eleven goals and thus contributed to the fact that the team qualified for the UEFA Intertoto Cup . After successes over FK Partizani Tirana , NK Osijek and Maccabi Petach Tikwa , he reached the second qualifying round of the 2006/07 UEFA Cup with her . At the side of Christos Kotsonis , Goran Grkinić and his compatriot Patrik Ipavec , the club prevailed against the Belgian representative KSV Roeselare , but then failed in the first main round at RC Lens .
In the summer of 2007, Kmetec left Cyprus after he returned to the UEFA Intertoto Cup with the club in fourth place, and returned to Slovenia. The first division club NK Drava Ptuj became a new club . As a regular goalscorer, he supported the club in the fight to stay up. In April 2008 he tested positive in a doping test. After the result was announced in mid-May, he was suspended until the end of the year and dismissed from his club.
After the blocking period expired at the beginning of 2009, Kmetec returned to the football field as a striker of the second division club ND Mura 05, with whose predecessor club he had started his career. By the end of the season he ran for the club, with whom he missed promotion as fourth in the table. He then joined the league rivals Aluminij Kidricevo and ended his professional career here in December 2012.
Web links
- Marko Kmetec on the official website of the Slovenian PrvaLiga (Slovenian)
- Marko Kmetec on the official website of the Slovenian Football Association (Slovenian)
Individual evidence
- ↑ bild.de: "Prasnikar in court - journalist revealed: The coach is said to have used players for money in Slovenia" ( Memento of the original from July 5, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (accessed on May 18, 2010)
- ↑ primorska.info: "Nogometaš Drave Marko Kmetec pozitiven na doping testu" (accessed on May 18, 2010)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Kmetec, Marko |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Slovenian soccer player |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 3rd January 1976 |