Miha Zajc (soccer player)

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Miha Zajc
Personnel
birthday July 1, 1994
place of birth Šempeter pri Gorici ( GO ),  Slovenia
size 178 cm
position midfield
Juniors
Years station
2007-2009 ŠD Bilje
2009-2011 Interblock Ljubljana
Men's
Years station Games (goals) 1
2011–2012 Interblock Ljubljana / NK Bravo 5 0(0)
2012 → NK Olimpija Ljubljana (loan) 1 0(2)
2013-2014 →  NK Celje  (loan) 51 0(2)
2014-2016 NK Olimpija Ljubljana 60 (16)
2017-2019 FC Empoli 66 (12)
2019– Fenerbahçe Istanbul 0 0(0)
National team
Years selection Games (goals) 2
2009 Slovenia U-16 2 0(0)
2010 Slovenia U17 4 0(0)
2011–2012 Slovenia U18 13 0(2)
2012 Slovenia U-19 7 0(0)
2013 Slovenia U-20 1 0(0)
2013-2016 Slovenia U-21 10 0(1)
2016– Slovenia 11 0(3)
2017 Slovenia B 2 0(0)
1 Only league games are given.
As of January 31, 2019

2 As of January 31, 2019

Miha Zajc (born July 1, 1994 in Šempeter pri Gorici , Goriška region ) is a Slovenian football player who has been under contract with Fenerbahçe Istanbul since the end of January 2019 .

Career

society

The beginnings of the football career

Zajc was born in the village of Šempeter pri Gorici in the west of the Slovenian region of Goriška . In the neighboring town of Bilje pri Novi Gorici , he began in the youth department of the local ŠD Bilje with club football. The Slovenian then moved to the Slovenian capital in Ljubljana to join the youth department at Interblock Ljubljana .

Zajc began his professional football career at Interblock Ljubljana in the 2011/12 season of the Slovenian second-highest division 2. SNL .

For the 2012/13 season , the talented 18-year-old Slovenian was loaned to the Slovenian first division team for the first half of the season to NK Olimpija Ljubljana , from the second half of the season and the next one and a half years to NK Celje . Where he made his first division debut with two goals at the age of 18 at NK Olimpija on October 6, 2012 and reached the 2013 Slovenian Cup final with NK Celje's team , which they lost 1-0 to the double and record cup winners NK Maribor . In the following season ( 2013/14 ), the 19-year-old Slovene made his European debut in July 2014 in the first leg of the first qualifying round of the UEFA Europa League in a 2-1 away win against Norwegian first division side Tromsø IL .

During the 2014/15 season , the 20-year-old Zajc moved again to NK Olimpija Ljubljana in August 2014, but this time for a transfer fee of 400,000 euros . In the 2015/16 season , the 21-year-old Slovene became a regular in the team on 36 league match days, played 32 games, 24 of which were in the starting line-up and scored five goals. Thus, Zajc helped his team with the long-awaited Slovenian championship (2016) after 21 years of abstinence and after five runner -up titles in front of record champions NK Maribor.

Change abroad

FC Empoli

In January 2017, the 22-year-old Slovenian national and midfielder moved to Tuscany for the first time abroad to the Italian first division club FC Empoli for a transfer fee of 1.7 million euros and signed a contract with the Tuscans until the summer of 2021. At the end of the In the 2016/17 season , he and his team were relegated to Serie B , Italy's second-highest division, by just one place in the table .

In the following 2017/18 season , the Tuscans achieved immediate resurgence with a successful and strong offensive game, scoring 88 goals in 42 matchdays and becoming champions of Serie B with a thirteen point lead . Zajc was one of the key players and had a significant share in the championship with his eight goals and with his over ten assists and over twenty scorer points was one of the ten best goal preparers and scorers in the league.

The Slovenian played 68 competitive games for the Tuscans in two years, scored twelve goals and twenty assists.

Fenerbahçe Istanbul

On the last day of the 2018/19 winter transfer period, January 31, 2019, the 24-year-old Zajc moved to the Bosporus to the Turkish first division club Fenerbahçe Istanbul . In return, Fenerbahçe Istanbul left the 100% transfer rights of the Turkish soccer player Salih Uçan to FC Empoli, which had already been loaned to the Tuscans. The Slovenian midfielder signed a four-and-a-half-year contract with the yellow-dark blues until summer 2023.

National team

Miha Zajc played in the Slovenian youth national teams from U-16 to U-21 from 2009 to 2016, played a total of 37 games and scored three goals.

Due to his performance with the reigning leader of the Slovenska Nogometna Liga NK Olimpija Ljubljana, the 21-year-old Zajc was appointed by national coach Srečko Katanec to the Slovenian national team in spring 2016 , where he then won a 1-0 friendly game on March 23, 2016 against the Macedonian national team made its A international debut.

Over two years later in June 2018, the Slovenian celebrated his international goal debut in the friendly against Montenegro in Podgorica , where he made it 2-0 away.

In the UEFA Nations League of the 2018/19 season , Zajc played in League C (Group 3) in all six group matches and scored two goals each in the games against Bulgaria , but with his performances and goals could not be relegated to the bottom League, league D, prevent his team.

successes

NK Olimpija Ljubljana (2014-2016)

FC Empoli (2017-2019)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d Fenerbahçe SK announces the engagement of Miha Zajc (Turkish) on January 31, 2019 (accessed on February 2, 2019.)
  2. ↑ a b c d e f Miha Zajc in the PrvaLiga.si database (Slovenian) - (accessed on February 2, 2019.)
  3. ↑ a b c d e Skor.Sozcu.com.tr: Miha Zajc hangi mevkide oynuyor? Miha Zajc kimdir? (Turkish) from January 31, 2019 (accessed February 2, 2019.)
  4. ↑ Miha Zajc in the UEFA .com database (accessed on February 2, 2019.)
  5. ↑ Empoli FC announces the engagement of Miha Zajc (Italian) ( Memento of the original from October 22, 2018 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. dated January 25, 2017 (accessed February 2, 2019.) @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.empolicalcio.net
  6. ↑ a b c Transfermarkt.de : Of returnees, marches and curiosities: Europe's first division promoters from June 9, 2018 (accessed on February 2, 2019.)
  7. ↑ a b c d e Empoli FC says goodbye and thanks for the sporting services of Miha Zajc (Italian) on January 31, 2019 (accessed on February 2, 2019.)
  8. ↑ a b c Miha Zajc in the database of EU-Football.info (English) - (accessed on February 2, 2019.)
personal data
SURNAME Zajc, Miha
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Slovenian soccer player
DATE OF BIRTH July 1, 1994
PLACE OF BIRTH Šempeter pri Gorici , Slovenia