Matija Rome

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Matija Rome
Personnel
birthday November 1, 1998
place of birth Ljubljana ,  Slovenia
size 184 cm
position Defender
Juniors
Years station
2008-2017 NK Domžale
Men's
Years station Games (goals) 1
2016-2020 NK Domžale 48 (1)
2020– Inter Zaprešić 6 (0)
National team
Years selection Games (goals) 2
2013 Slovenia U-15 1 (0)
2013 Slovenia U-16 2 (0)
2014-2015 Slovenia U17 16 (0)
2015-2016 Slovenia U18 16 (0)
2016 Slovenia U-19 6 (0)
2017– Slovenia U-21 7 (0)
1 Only league games are given.
As of April 26, 2020

2 As of April 26, 2020

Matija Rome (born November 1, 1998 in Ljubljana ) is a Slovenian football player on the position of a defender . Since January 2020 he has been under contract with Inter Zaprešić with games in the highest Croatian football league .

Club career

Career start at NK Domžale and professional debut

Matija Rom was born on November 1, 1998 and played at a young age, at least since summer 2008, in the junior division of the Slovenian first division club NK Domžale. After he appeared for the U-15 team in the 2012/13 season and still acted relatively offensively when he contributed nine goals in 28 championship games, he was subsequently increasingly used on the defensive. In the 1st Slovenska Kadetska Liga he was then used in the 2013/14 season in 25 games and remained goalless himself. In 2014/15 he was also used in this league and again did not score a goal in 26 appearances. In the 2015/16 season, Rome was used for the first time in the 1st Slovenska Mladinska Liga , the Slovenian junior league. As a regular player on the defensive of his team, he made 29 championship appearances and one goal. In 2015/16 as well as in the following season , Rome completed all the players on their team in the UEFA Youth League .

In 2016/17 the young defensive player continued to work as a regular in the junior league, making 21 appearances and four hits, but also made the advance into the professional team, for which he played three league games this season. He made his professional debut on December 10, 2016 in a 3-2 home win over eventual champions NK Maribor , when coach Simon Rožman let him play through the full 90 minutes. After he sat on the substitute bench in the next round of the game in the spring, he only returned to the men's team shortly before the end of the season. He finished the championship with his team in 2016/17 in fourth place in the table, which meant the team secured a place in the first qualifying round for the 2017/18 UEFA Europa League . In the 2016/17 Slovenian Cup , NK Domžale made it to the final and was crowned cup winner after a goal by Gaber Dobrovoljc and a resulting 1-0 victory. Matija Rom was not involved in any game of the cup competition and was unused on the bench in the final.

Slow rise to become a regular player

In the 2017/18 season Rome was already increasingly used in the professional team by coach Simon Rožman. In the Europa League qualification, he made it with the team to the play-offs and defeated the teams of FC Flora Tallinn , Valur Reykjavík and SC Freiburg on the way there . After a 1-1 draw in the first leg, the play-offs in the second leg against Olympique Marseille ended ; after a 3-0 defeat the Slovenes were eliminated. The team also came to an abrupt end in the 2017/18 Slovenian Cup . Already in the first game, the round of 16 against NŠ Mura , who had just been promoted from the third division, the first division lost 3-1. Especially at the start of the season, Rožman's right-back was regularly used as a regular. However, these missions went back largely from the end of August, so that he could only record three more league appearances by the end of the year. After that, he was no longer considered until April 2018 and always sat on the substitute bench of the professional team without commitment. Only then was he able to record a few appearances again - some over the full length of the game, but mostly as a substitute player. By the end of the season, when he was third in the table with NK Domžale, Rome was used in 14 league games, scored one goal and made two assists.

The following season 2018/19 began for the right-back as the previous one had ended. He missed the qualifiers for the Europa League 2018/19 of his team, which were eliminated in the second qualifying round after four consecutive draws , and was then only used very irregularly. By the end of November 2018, he had only made six league appearances, but became a regular on the defensive of his home club on December 1, 2018, when he contributed a goal assist in a 2-1 defeat against the dominant NK Maribor . Then the 20-year-old defender was used in all remaining league games until the end of the season and came up with a record of 25 league appearances and three assists. With the team he once again reached third place in the final ranking and had thus secured an international starting place again. In the Slovenian Cup 2018/19 , Rome was used in two games and lost with his team in the quarter-finals to NK Maribor.

Change to Croatia

In the 2019/20 season , Rome was increasingly on the bench and was rarely used until the winter break. In the Pokal Slovenije 2019/20 , in which he had made two appearances, he and his team were eliminated in the quarter-finals against the NŠ Mura . After he had only made six championship appearances this season, his move to the Croatian first division club Inter Zaprešić was announced in early January 2020 . At the club from the town of Zaprešić , not far from the Slovenian border, he signed a contract until June 2021. With the Slovenes, he had an equally long contract at that time; It was agreed not to disclose the transfer fee. With the start of the spring he was used by Željko Petrović in a 2-0 home win over NK Istra in 1961 for the first time over the full 90 minutes as a right-back. Even after that - with the exception of one game - he acted as a regular on the defensive and was used in six championship games, in which he contributed one assist , until the game was interrupted due to the COVID-19 pandemic in Croatia .

National team career

Rome gained his first experience in a Slovenian youth national team in May 2013 when he played in a U-15 international match against his colleagues from the United States . In September of the same year, the defensive player was used in two international matches of the Slovenian U-16 youth against Macedonia . After first appearances for Slovenia's U-17 team in early April 2014, he took part in the Turnir Gradiška , a youth football tournament in the Bosnian-Herzegovinian town of Gradiška , in late April and early May 2014 . He also played three international matches in June 2014 at a youth development tournament organized by UEFA . Subsequently, he played all three games of the qualifying round for the 2015 U-17 European Championship with his home country in September 2014 . Through this, the team qualified for the subsequent elite round of qualification, at which Rome was also used in all three games of his team in March 2015.

In the end, the Slovenes were able to qualify for the finals in Bulgaria ; the defender was also used at the tournament itself. However, the Slovenian Football Association evaluates these games for its U-18 national selection . For these, Rome was used in a total of 16 international matches between 2015 and 2016; apart from the three games in the European Championship, these were exclusively friendly games. On January 4, 2016, Rome made his debut for the Slovenian U-19 national team , for which he was used in six international matches until October 2016. His last two international matches were in the qualification for the U-19 European Championship 2017 , for which the Slovenes could not qualify. The remaining games were exclusively international friendlies. On the occasion of qualifying for the U-21 European Championship 2019 , Rome made his debut for the Slovenian U-21 national team on September 1, 2017 , when he was used for the full game by coach Primož Gliha in the match against Luxembourg .

After that, it took over a year and a half before Rome was brought back into the Slovenian U-21 squad. In March 2019 he played a friendly match against Georgia's U-21s and in June 2019 another friendly against Switzerland's U-21 national team . Rome was also used 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 Matija Rom i Oussama Zamouri prva pojačanja zaprešićkog Intera (Croatian), accessed on April 26, 2020
personal data
SURNAME Rome, Matija
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Slovenian soccer player
DATE OF BIRTH November 1, 1998
PLACE OF BIRTH Ljubljana , Slovenia